Showing posts with label Technology Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology Review. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Do You Know Your Mobile Can Unlock Your Car?

Have you locked your keys in your car?


If your car has remote keyless entry, this may come in handy someday. If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.


Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the "unlock" button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

Editors Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone

Monday, February 11, 2008

Technology Review - Nokia 5610


I bought this Nokia 5610 a couple of months ago, and I am really loving it. Nokia 5610 XpresMusic is another music branded phone from Nokia (5300 upgrade), an eye-catching slider packed with accessible multimedia technology. Nokia 5610 has a dedicated Music Slider button key for instant access to your music player and FM Radio. The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic device offers dedicated music or gaming keys, expanded memory, large LCD screen and extended battery performance to provide quick and easy access to entertainment content. It is also one of the devices that is compatible with the newly announced Nokia Music Store, though it only supports side-loading of music from a desktop computer.


When it comes to letting you enjoy all of the photos and music that can be packed into 4GB microSD card (not included), the 5610 XpressMusic has you covered. Your photos will look great on the 2.2″, 16 million color QVGA (240×320 pixel) display and music can be enjoyed through wired or wireless stereo headphones, thanks to built-in Bluetooth A2DP support. Sadly, though, the 5610 XpressMusic lacks the 3.5mm headphone jack that its slimmer brother, the 5310, offers.

Right now, I'm using this also to watch movies during the load-shedding hours, and I am really impressed by its battery backup. It is really simple to watch the movie, just convert the movie to .3gp and paste it in the mobile via bluetooth or data cable, and there the movie is. The crystal clear sound quality and 30 fps video quality are the main features that are really impressive.