Yesterday, I and the wife bought a couple of low-end Nokia phones for our daily use. While buying a mobile phone has been on our agenda for quite some time now, our high-end Korean smartphones had just breathed their last, we just could not bring ourselves to doing so.
That is, until we saw a wireless retailer selling Nokia phones at the mall -- on a buy-one-take-one basis.
After checking out the mobile retailer's list of value-laden offerings, we settled on the Nokia 1661, a dual-frequency GSM phone. Definitely not a high-end smartphone, it nevertheless has a list of features more than capable of meeting a most discriminating consumer's wishes and whims.
Our next posts will detail how the phone meets our wireless communication requirements.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
End of the world
Way back in the 1970s or early 1980s, in Tagaytay City, a group of men and women and their children was waiting for the world to end. Their leaders told them it was just a matter of days.
The appointed day, and a couple or so of resets, came and went by. But life kept on with its meandering ways. No catastrophic event took place. Tagaytay remained famous for its bulalo, fruits, and retreat houses. Mount Taal did not even bother to belch and show off some of its fiery potential.
The group's leaders, meanwhile, reportedly vanished.
The appointed day, and a couple or so of resets, came and went by. But life kept on with its meandering ways. No catastrophic event took place. Tagaytay remained famous for its bulalo, fruits, and retreat houses. Mount Taal did not even bother to belch and show off some of its fiery potential.
The group's leaders, meanwhile, reportedly vanished.
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The country has just been blessed with another internationally acclaimed hero. This one, as my favorite columnist said, is the best we have had in a long time. Pound for pound, he is way up there on our list.
This hero would never ever be the object of a ticker parade. No celebrities, real and imagined, would be clawing to get as close to him as possible and bask on reflected glory. He would never ever have a huge entourage, nor a long list of Fil-Am groupies. Obviously, no politicians and government officials would be outdoing and outdueling themselves for his attention.
This hero would never ever be the object of a ticker parade. No celebrities, real and imagined, would be clawing to get as close to him as possible and bask on reflected glory. He would never ever have a huge entourage, nor a long list of Fil-Am groupies. Obviously, no politicians and government officials would be outdoing and outdueling themselves for his attention.
Zero-emission cars from Japan: What they mean for IT
What is cool without power?
Even the longest list of features that design engineers could come up with for computers and other IT devices and gadgets will not mean a thing unless scientists can develop a reliable and sustainable energy source. And I do not mean those coal-fired and other polluting and poison-spewing power plants.
Even the longest list of features that design engineers could come up with for computers and other IT devices and gadgets will not mean a thing unless scientists can develop a reliable and sustainable energy source. And I do not mean those coal-fired and other polluting and poison-spewing power plants.
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