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My new Blackberry Bold 9700

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:44:11 +0000

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Laptop power usage | s-anand.net 7 Feb 2010 6:13 pm (pingback): […] lesson was that turning off the wireless had no effect whatsoever. (It worked quite well for my Blackberry, though. Increased the battery life quite a bit. I thought the same might apply for laptops, but […]
Anil 16 Feb 2010 7:34 am: Can you see browse Hindi websites on Blackberry Bold 9700. Can you see Hindi/Devanagari fonts being rendered on Blackberry Bold 9700 (Blackberry OS 5.0). The old Blackberry Bold (Blackberry OS 4.6) does not render Hindi.
pradip 2 Sep 2010 12:26 pm: I have also same problem do u have any idea how to read hindi on blackberry bold 9700 .which I am useing now. Pls reply Thanks Pradip

Mobile browsing

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:00:00 +0000

When I analysed my HTTP log last week, I had another motive: are there enough people accessing my site on a mobile device? Or is it too small at this stage for me to care about?

Well, have a look at the numbers.

Windows	98.4%
Mobile	0.6%
Linux	0.5%
OS X	0.5%

Yes, there are more people accessing my site through a mobile device than there are using Linux or OS X. That's shocking!

Now, I'm not saying that this is representative of the rest of the world or anything, but at least it tells me a couple of things.

Firstly, the whole mobile browsing thing is bigger than I thought it was. I started worrying about this a couple of months ago and got myself a HTC s620 phone and a BlackBerry (for free, through some innovative social engineering and smooth talking). It really does get pretty useful on the move... which is frankly anywhere outside of the home and the office, and sometimes even within. (It's handier to read recipes off the HTC than a laptop.) Google had caught on to the whole mobile browsing trend a very long time ago, and are rather well positioned to make use of it.

Secondly, it means that rather than worrying about my site working on Linux or OS X (i.e. worrying about what plugins to use), I should worry more about it working on mobile devices (i.e. small screen, no Javascript / CSS).

That's a fairly big shift in my thinking. Earlier, I had been all for shifting all the processing to client-side Javascript. Now it appears I need to design more towards plain HTML pages generated by Perl / PHP.

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Dinakaran 3 Sep 2008 6:23 am: Nice to see that people visit your site your mobile. Mobile browsing is a very upcoming trend . It’s yet to catch up in India for the telecom infrastructure limitations.If there are better band width’s provided by the service providers , mobile browsing will move up to a new level.

A day when I’m able to play 30 minutes of non-interupted podcast through my mobile while travelling down to the office listening to the latest technology discussion is some thing which I dream to come as a reality in the near future.

Opera works on mobiles

Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Opera works well with mobile phones. I don’t understand how, personally, but Opera has revamped its site focusing on smartphones, and seems to have a good technology here.

mobile plus palm

Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Prototype of the future. A mobile + palm.