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Tatasky mobile universal remote is the best option if you want to control multiple devices like tv, dvd and amplifiers etc. If you just have a tv and set top box its not worth the hassle.

There is a few seconds delay which can get annoying after a while. They also need to improve the app ui interface. now you have to fumble 3 screens to get all the set top box controls.

There is not much they can do technology wise, so all we can hope is a iPad app and a better remote interface. I do have to give them credit for thinking forward with such an audacious idea.

Click here for for info on tatasky mobile remote

This site is shutting down, sad to see such a service going down. It will close on may 15th, I wonder how anyone in India will ever find a legitimate music service.

The coupon will add 5 FREE download credits over and above the download credits that come with our three download packages. Eg. if the user provides the coupon code when purchasing the Rs.239 package for 40 download credits, their account will be credited with 45 download credits.

This is what i was asking for the past few years. A service cheap enough that i can afford to pay.

This new service is offering mp3 downloads at 6 Rs per song, no DRM etc 128 bit mp3′s.

This is the cheapest legal way to download music in India that i know of. Unlike itunes your can stream all the songs for free online. If you want to download its 6 Rs per song for their Premium Package. Most of the songs are available for download with some exceptions.

In Premium Package you get 40 downloads for 250 Rs, no time limit. The downloads are yours for life, will play on any device, mp3 players, mobiles etc No DRM pure mp3′s. They have other plans too see here for more.

Now the song catalog they have close to 330000 songs in 45 languages and 200 genres. I have found songs here which don’t appear on musicindiaonline.com or raaga.com

The best part is you can stream all the music for free. Only pay when you want to download. For 6 Rs your get 128 bit mp3 with album art and all the details.

The only downside i can find from the site is even if you pay they are showing advertisements. Which could have been avoided. I guess they have to pay for the streaming service.

Now you have no excuse not to buy music in India. Support such service now and if more people start using the service the rates could go down further.

I am a Premium Package user already.

Go to legally download mp3′s from Manoramic

Hardware

This is a solidly built device which is very small even with a full qwerty keyboard. It also has a touch screen and 5 mega pixel camera. It has all the regular features like bluetooth, wifi, gps and memory card slot etc. The qwerty keyboard is revealed when you push the screen to the side. It has a good clicking mechanism to it.

The keyboard is a quite good to type on, it also backlight which is nice to use during night times. The camera is a 5 mega pixel one with flash, which took good photos up close even in complete darkness. It has up to 8Gb of internal storage and a memory card slot. The speaker on the device is quite loud, which is nice to listen to music. All this in a very small package.

The device on the hardware side didn’t disappoint, it was solidly built and felt very solid while using it. More detailed spec here

Software

This is a touchscreen phone, so i was curious to see how well nokia implemented this. The touch screen on this device is pretty good, but when you compare with the device that are coming out now, it feels kind of slow. It runs symbian series 60 5th edition, which is not well known for its touch screen user interface. But they have made quite a bit of effort and made the icons and buttons big to click. Nokia N97 mini customized the home screen with some widgets. These widgets make the home screen more modern and quite usable. You can put shortcuts to apps, contacts and also display tit bits of  information using these widgets. It come with quite a few apps like calculator, voice recorder and a podcasting app etc, which is nice.

With Ovi store you can get more apps from nokia’s app store. The app store only shows the apps for your device so you can install all the apps that you see in the store. Unlike other phone app stores. It has quite a few apps on the online store, most of the them are free to use.Then there is Ovi music and Ovi maps which are good implementation, but need quite a bit of polish. The Ovi maps was quite slow to use compare with google maps. But these are free services. For Ovi music you can get coupon codes which will allow unlimited amount of music downloads. But my device didn’t work with music store as i didn’t have the coupon codes. Its a nice deal if you can get the unlimited download because it has all the latest indian music.The music and video player work quite well with the device. The music player is just the basic one you see on all nokia devices with a bit bigger buttons for touch screen use. It comes with Real player for video playback which supports quite a few formats. But couldn’t play podcast that i download using the in built podcast app.

The messaging and mailing apps. Its one single app for all your messaging features. You can get free acccess to yahoo mail, gmail, ovi mail etc. It has a setup wizard which will automatically sets up the mail settings which is nice. The email is text only there is no way to see html messages. With the qwerty keyboard this app is quite useful. And the best reason to buy this phone.Camera app is quite fast and with the 5 mega pixel takes quite good photos. Even the video taken by this phone looks very good. Viewing photos on the devices is also quite fast.The browser which i think is what most people will use the device for is painfully slow. Even opera on this device felt slow. I am not sure what the problem was. Even with wifi connection browsing websites was slow on the device.Phone features seem to be the last thing people care about these days. It’s quite good at that and has all the additional features you look for these days. The speaker on this device are quite good and loud.

Conclusion

If you want a touch screen phone with qwerty keyboard this is the only option among Nokia devices. Its priced around 20000 Rs on nokia’s webiste. You can get the device for 17000 Rs in market. Which is quite a good price for a qwerty keyboard touch screen phone. There are not many phones out there with these features.I wish they abandon symbian and go with meego or android. i can only imagine how good this hardware would have been with other mobile OS.

Pamphlet that comes with the order

You can see the chocolate lava already without cutting into the cake. Its a small cup cake size of cake for 60 rupees.

Look at the liquid chocolate goodness

The cheese burst pizza also has liquid cheese. Its coming from between the slice, thats two layers of cheese.

You can see the layer of cheese between the slice.

This is one calories and fat filled meal. The chocolate cake is totally worth it for 60 Rs, you not only get a good chocolate cake but also a some hot chocolate lava inside it. Its something you should definitely taste. This pizza is really cheesy, i finish most of the pizza when i buy one. But this one i couldn’t eat more than two slices too cheesy. Give this a go its totally fulling and different to taste.

Look

Taste Its tasteless, I really didn’t expect that. No salt no nothing it was like eating something that is crisp and that’s it. I was disappointed.

Price 5 Rs but not worth it.