Touch HD-ed

My faithful O2 Atom Life phone which served me almost 2 years died a painful death by falling off my bed’s side table while being charged. Sigh.. RIP. And it happened on April Fools. What a fantastic joke. Just when I thought I can at least cut down on spending for the month of April shit like this happens.

Oh well, that means shopping for a new phone.  A few phones comes to mind. Asus, HTC, Samsung. Asus for the P565 with 800Mhz processor. Samsung for the balance between looks and performance. HTC Touch Diamond, Touch 3G and Touch HD. I didn’t like the Touch 3G because It looked to similar to the Touch dual. Touch Diamond… i didn’t really consider that much and then I straight jumped ship to the Touch HD. Which was touted as HTC’s answer to Apple IPhone. It’s looks very sleek and stylish. Price will cause a hole in your wallet though.

The accessories. Extra stylus, USB charger, carrying pouch, ear-phones.

Oh ya, I got this for free and 2 years warranty on the phone by SiS Malaysia.

Still getting myself familiarized with the touch-flo. Initial thoughts are sometimes it can be bit laggy. Other wise, I’m pretty happy with my purchase although it burned a “big” hole in my wallet. T.T

Anti Algae Sheet

Saw this at the Jusco Home Center when I was in 1 Utama just now.
According to the back, this sheet can supposingly kill water borne bacteria thus making the water clear of algae. One sheet can be applied to 25 litres of water and can be used for 18 months.

 

Here’s what I’m going to test it on.

My water lily  “pond” on the balcony. Will take another photo of it after 1 week to see the “progress”

Eeepc S101

The wife was complaining about the lack of a portable laptop to use when we’re outstation. Me on the other hand was always looking for a lighter notebook to lug around and not to mention that the Dell Inspiron 6400 is creating unnecessary stress on the lowepro’s laptop compartment.

Then we thought heck, let’s go netbook shopping. Brands that came to mind – Asus, HP, Dell Mini 12 and the new Fujitsu netbook. HP’s keyboard keys were bigger and easier to type but it’s running a 60GB 4200rpm hardisk same goes with the Dell and Fujitsu. I have seriously considered the Dell Mini 12, but they only gave a 3 cell battery and the price is RM21xx. The Fujitsu was RM17xx, keyboard keys were too small, 60GB 4200rpm HDD, design was so so.. and most important of all it failed the WAF (wife acceptance factor).

So came the jewel that caught my eye. The Asus Eeepc S101. It has 62GB hybrid storage. 16GB SSD + 16GB SD HC Class 6 card + 30GB online Eee storage, Atom 1.6G processor. Why choose SSD? Start-up and shutdown speeds are incredibly fast. (<30-45 sec) and shock proof. The price was around RM21xx almost the same price as the Dell Mini 12. But performance wins it hands down. I’ve also upgraded the default 1Gb RAM to 2GB by paying an extra RM50

This is the box.

Comes with a carrying pouch.

Nice shinny laptop cover. I likey. (Finger print magnet :( )

Accessories in the box.

The netbook has 3 USBs, LAN, VGA port, WiFi, and bluetooth.

The thickness of the netbook when compared to a AA GP rechargeable battery. All I can say that this netbook here passed the WAF with flying colors.