Nokia N95, Press Release – Shocking New Thunderstorm from the Nokia Stable!

Nokia announced N95, a 5 megapixel camera phone featuring a new and innovative double slide design with the placement of keypad and multimedia keys on opposite ends of the phones. N95 is Nokia's first HSDPA (3.5G) device. It’s a true multimedia phone loaded with many features.The Nokia N95 is expected to release in First Quarter 2007 with an approximate price of €550.

Specifications:-

Dimensions:
99 mm(Length) x 53 mm(Width) x 21 mm(Thickness).

Operating System:
Series 60 3rd Edition

Displays:
Large 2.6" QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT display with ambient light detector and up to 16 million colors.

Operating Frequency:
WCDMA HSDPA 2100 and EGSM850/900/1800/1900 MHz with automatic switching between bands and modes.

Memory:
Up to 160 MB internal dynamic memoryExpandable memory: 128 MB microSD card expandable up to 2 GB.

Connectivity:
Integrated wireless LAN (802.11 b/g) and UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology v.2.0
Infrared
USB 2.0 via Pop-Port™ interface and mass storage class support to support drag and drop functionality
3.5 mm stereo headphone plug and TV out support (PAL/NTSC)

Photography:
Image resolution: up to 5 megapixel: (2592 x 1944 pixels)
Auto focus
Scene: automatic, user, close-up, landscape, night, night portrait
Zoom (optical/digital) 1x / up to 20x (5 megapixel up to 6x)

Video:
Video resolutions: up to VGA (640x480) at 30 fps
Digital video stabilization
Scene: automatic, night
Zoom: (optical / digital) 1x / up to 10 x (VGA up to 4x)

Camera Specifications:
Sensor: CMOS, 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944)
Carl Zeiss Optics: Vario-Tessar lens
Focal length 5.6 mm
Focus range 10 cm ~ infinity
Macro focus distance 10-50 cmShutter
speed: Mechanical shutter: 1/1000~1/3 s
Integrated flash
Digital stereo microphone

Front camera:
CIF (352 x 288) sensor

Others:
Built-in GPS
Stereo FM radio with Visual Radio support
Push to talk
Direct connection to compatible TV via Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-64U, included in box) or wireless LAN/UPnP

Check the Nokia N95 Page for more info.


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A PLACE TO STAY

I wrote sometime back about my role in a short-film / documentary directed by friend, Prayas Abhinav.
The name of the short-film is – “A PLACE TO STAY”.

Tomorrow “A PLACE TO STAY” is going to be screened at the inauguration of “Open Frame 2006”, a film festival and workshop organized by PSBT and UNESCO on 15th September 06, Delhi - India.

Due to some reasons I couldn’t make it to the inauguration.

"A PLACE TO STAY"

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Friendships Do End! Even Best Maintained Friendships End! Losing Friends is pain, but a reality in Life. Everyone faces it!

A person can make many friends in his surroundings, but few best friends. When they leave………….

Things seems to be normal for a week. Daily chats some calls. After a month, communications are reduced to half. After three to four months, rarely a message saying “How are you”, “What are you doing nowadays”. After a year, The End.

Pain and Change are the side-effects of Friendship.


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9/11, Has anything changed?

Schume Rocks! Michael Schumacher won the 2006 Formula One Italian Grand Prix! Three races for the eight Championship Title and his Retirement.

Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from formula one, after the Brazilian Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen will be his replacement for the 2007 Formula One.
Schumacher is trailing by a thin margin of 2 points from the defending World Champion Fernando Alonso.
Now supercharged for the remaining three Chinese / Japanese / Brazilian Grand Prix, no one can stop him from his Eight F1 World Championship Title.

Race Results:
Chequered Flag: Today (Sunday).
1st - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
2nd - Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren-Mercedes
3rd - Robert Kubica, Sauber-BMW
4th - Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault
5th - Jenson Button, Honda

Qualifying Session Results: Saturday.
1st - Kimi Räikkönen, McLaren-Mercedes
(Q1-1:21.994/Q2-1:21.349/Q3-1:21.484)
2nd - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
(Q1-1:21.711/Q2-1:21.353/Q3-1:21.486)
3rd- Nick Heidfeld, Sauber-BMW
(Q1-1:21.764/Q2-1:21.425/Q3-1:21.653)
4th- Felipe Massa, Ferrari
(Q1-1:22.028/Q2-1:21.225/Q3-1:21.704)
5th- Jenson Button, Honda
(Q1-1:22.512/Q2-1:21.572/Q3-1:22.011)

The sad part of this race was the announcement of his retirement from F1……….

Best of Luck for the other three races!

Info. from : http://www.formula1.com/


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Full Moon

Shot taken while returning home, form office.
Lunar Eclipse was on the same day.
I don’t know whether it’s 10.30 am or pm.
I love full moon, especially when I am in village.
We keep roaming till late night with friends, and the whole landscape can be seen clearly, and in villages due to less pollution, the lunar lights are at there best.

"FULL MOON"

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Shocking news: Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter killed by Sting-Ray!

First of all, I was gathering information on Wikipedia the whole day, and this tragic article was there one the English homepage of Wikipedia all day long with Steve Irwin’s photo, but I never bothered to read it, as I was busy and thought that it might be a regular article. When I came home from office by 9.55pm, my mother said: “That man on the discovery channel who use to catch crocodiles and snakes was killed by a sea creature” and that was a real shocking news.

Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22/02/1962 – 04/09/2006) was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming an underwater documentary on the Barrier Reef.

From Wikipedia:
“Shortly after 11:00am local time on 4 September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while diving in Queensland's Batt Reef, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef. The events were caught on camera and the footage is now in the possession of Queensland Police. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, to be called The Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.---------- News of his death prompted a public outpouring expressing shock and loss. Several Australian news websites went down because of high web traffic and talk-back radio experienced a high volume of callers expressing their grief--------His wife Terri was informed of her husband's death while on a walking tour in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania, and returned to the Sunshine Coast with their two children.”

I was always Steve Irwin wannabee, ever since I started watching “The Crocodile Hunter” on the discovery channel. He died doing what he loved, teaching about the animal world.

When at village, sometimes I use to act like him. Although big snakes at very close distance makes me nervous even today. But I can catch small non-poisonous snakes, scorpions (not with bare hands, but I will someday) and small monitor lizards.

Steve’s death was a great loss.
God bless his soul.


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I Love my Nokia 3230