Lost my cellphone

I lost my Nokia cellphone last week. The phone was about 2 years old, and the screen cover was already cracked due to the slim phone falling off many times from my shirt pocket. The last time I had lost it, a good samaritan had returned it to me. This time, however, I was not lucky.

It did not take me much time to get the old SIM card blocked, and get a duplicate one. It cost me INR 25.

Instead of a buying a new phone immediately, I thought of using my Nexus S (which till now was being used as an email-checking and gaming device). Luckily, I also had a backup of my contacts / calendar entries which I could import into the Nexus S.

Its quite difficult to handle the Nexus S while commuting (especially in the rains). I plan to buy a plain (sub INR 2K) phone for regular use.

Nexus S : my first Android

Received by first Android phone (a Nexus S) a few days ago. I have been playing with it, and trying to get a hang of whether it is a good competitor to the iPhone. Though I love gadgets, I have been consciously trying to avoid adding to the e-waste. So, while I used my first mobile for about 8 years, the Nokia that I current use is just about a year old. I do not intend to make the Nexus S my daily phone, but more to use it as a developer's phone. It still does not have a SIM card - I use it via the WiFi setting up my Windows 7 as a virtual access point.

From whatever I have read, it has a 1GHz processor, and until now the phone and the apps seems to be quite a pleasure to use. There are few grouses regarding the placement of the home buttons / rocker buttons, but I'll reserve that for a later post.

Until now (like my brief iPad experience outlined in this post), Android seems to have a large number of games / entertainment apps available. So, off I go back to the phone to have some more leisurely Sunday fun.