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Airtel discontinues 1.5GB for Rs.45

Ramesh Thiruchelvam — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:24:12 +0000

Airtel discontinues it’s most popular Rs.45 reload data plan which provides 1.5GB of data per a day. I was wondering if it was due to TRC regulations, but it seems due to the inefficient bandwidth of Aritel with it’s growing customer base. New value for the Rs.40 reload is only 150MB of data & 45 SMS…

Internet in Kayts

Ramesh Thiruchelvam — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:22:32 +0000

We don’t have 3G coverage here in Kayts but good 2G coverage. Internet has to be through the GPRS at 56 Kbps. I checked Airtel, Dialog and Mobitel for coverage and found Dialog to have the best signal strength; other two had only 60% where as Dialog had 100%. So we have to go with Dialog, but we had to also choose a broadband package which suits us. We had the monthly 299/- and the daily 3/- as the best options…

If you take the monthly 299/- connection you get around 1 GB of data and with the tax the price would be 366/- yeah we have around 22% tax on the mobile connections…

In the other hand if you take the daily connection it’s 3/- for 10 MB and with the tax it’s 3.68/- so it would cost around 110/- per month.

Since my sister and mother don’t use much internet and they can’t use much with the GPRS connection, we thought of going with the daily one. To receive a digital photo of 1280 × 720 it’s only 90 Kb in average so even if they receive around 10 – 20 pictures and mail a day it’s not gonna run out of 10 Mb limit, let’s see. if they run out we still have the option of switching to the monthly connection by a simple SMS…

IP67

Ramesh Thiruchelvam — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:30:07 +0000

Now that we hear about IP67 phones like Samsung Galaxy XCover which can stand dust, shock and 30 minutes under 1 meter water. We wonder what does IP67 mean, the IP means Ingress Protection or International Protection and the fist digit rates the protection against solid objects & and the second digit rates the protection against liquids.

solid object protection rations are…
0. No special protection
1. Protection against accidental touch by hands
2. Protection against objects such as fingers
3. Protection against tools and wires
4. Protection against tools, wires, small wires
5. Limited protection against dust
6. Protected from dust

and the liquids protection rations are…
0. No Protection
1. Protection against vertically dropping condensation
2. Protection against direct sprays of water up to 15 degrees from vert.
3. Protection against direct sprays of water up to 60 degrees from vert.
4. Protection from sprays of water in all directions. Limited water ingress permitted
5. Protection from low pressure jets of water in all directions. Limited water ingress permitted
6. Nearly the same as # 5, except for ship decks
7. Protected against the effects of immersion in water to depth between 15 cm and 1 meter

Microsoft makes money with Android

Ramesh Thiruchelvam — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:20:13 +0000

Yeah Microsoft is making $5 with each HTC device shipped with Android for patent violations by Google’s Android OS. Recently Microsoft launched legal actions against Motorola on it’s Android use too! Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, “Android has a patent fee. It’s not like Android’s free”. Which is true as Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and many others sue companies using Android for it’s devices, below is a chart listing lawsuits around Android…

Nokia X1-01

Ramesh Thiruchelvam — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:00:53 +0000

Nokia’s stylish dual SIM phone with an MP3 music player and high battery life is now here in Sri Lanka for just 5,330/-