Back Home!

Been 2 months now. Landed on March 27th. Was a lil different this time. Dint have the excitement that much compared to my previous vacation landings. May be becoz i dint have the return date on mind, also its a trip after almost 6 months.

Heat and Crowd! OMG dunno how this country gonna survive this two nightmares. It has become difficult to sleep @ home with just a fan during summer. It sweats with the fan blowing the hot air on you. And the crowd makes your life tough wherever you go. Even the company food court (Infy Mcity FC2) is so crowded i hate to have lunch there.

First week after my return was pleasant. Took off, stayed home, watched the cricket world cup quarter, semi and finals. Distribution of purchases, time with my nephew and niece. Moved my parents along with me to MM Nagar in the mid of April. Been buying home appliances and other stuff now and then. Moving on.

Missing company of my wavelength, but still have been spending time with family and family friends. Movies, temples ...though not too often.

Changes? I dont remember a day of feeling hungry after landing. Also never felt loneliness. These two were ofcourse more than often there at Chicago. But have started thinking about bank balance. Which i dint care much there. What wins? Time can only answer!

Dropping Airtel (Story of 98840 25846)

A few days back, i got my outgoing from 9790935846 blocked. Until then it was all great with airtel. Cust Care (50p for every 3 mins) helped me understand that i had to submit address proof docs for the onlline address update i did a couple of days back. Got irritated as i wasnt informed on their website, to add, was neither informed by message or call before blocking my calls.Even my fight with their english speaking supervisor dint help. Was told to submit docs at the nearest airtel showroom, thats the only way. More than calls, irritation was because i was handicapped kind of without the 3G .

Next day at office i sent emails to 121 email id which i used to get prompt response. They did reply with an excel list of Airtel Showrooms all over chennai. I rejected their response and asked for an alternate. Thats it, i got only acknowledgement response for all the emails and reminders after that for the next two days.

Went to the guy at the company airtel kiosk. He gave me 3 options.

1. Change my bank comm address and provide that as address proof or a rental agreement for the address. He cant take my HR address proof lettter :(

2. Fight with the 121 email responder.

3. Change my number to prepaid by visiting an airtel showroom (Nearest @ chromepet). And he will get it back to postpaid after a week.

In my last email to 121, i did inform them of closing my conn if not resolved that day.

Next day, i was at Vodafone kiosk. Found that i cant port my number as my outgoing is blocked. Porting would need me send SMS to specific numbers. Also would take 10 days.

98840 25846

Update (Jun 11 2011): Am back to airtel because of 3G. I was about to get a new connection but got back the same old number. After my email request to cust care for closing the connection, surprisingly found the number alive. To add, got a message that i got 15 day rental discount :D. Love 3G! :-)

just an FYI.

Nexus S

Spent already a week now with my Nexus S.

The Google Nexus from Samsung.

Haven't used a smart phone before but had recently got a latest ipod touch from Apple. So you can consider this review accordingly.

Will go with the '-' first.

Minus:

1. Bulkier (than iphone ofcourse)

2. Display is good but doesnt match the retina display of apple

3. Apps arent yet good enough. You have almost all of them though.

4. Error messages while with the apps. At times irritant.

5. Restarted twice by itself for no reason. not sure if i did something wrong ?

6. So polished and shiny that it got slipped on road and got small scratch (my mistake?)

7. Ear phone - :(

8. Most of them all, takes at the least 3 hrs to charge from 0 - 100% battery. Thats really annoying. Approximately 2 minutes for every 1% if you leave it idle. It displays the % while charging. Drains fast when you watch videos.

Lets see the '+' now

Plus:

1. Amazing touch experience, indeed better than ipod touch. Am so comfortable with gtalk chatting compared to ipod touch. The virtual keypad with auto complete of words (dictionary?) does rock!

2. Faster! youtube, apps or be it anything...i can feel it faster with just my wifi. It is in comparison with my Ipod touch again. I dont have a data plan. no idea hows that.

3. 5 MP Camera - Literally rocks!. Iphone cant stand near this. Flash is a great advantage as well. Dint worry much abt the front camera

4. USB storage. I could copy many gb of songs easily. What this means is , i can connect to any machine instantly to copy stuff from that machine. with ipod touch i can use it with only that machine where i have got my itune installed and synced with ipod already.

5. Gallery loads the picasa albums as well.

6. Contacts: you can join multiple contacts to one in order to group them if you got them imported from different accounts. dunno if it is there in iphone.

Though it has GPS and other things, havent used them much, so no comments. Also i dont see any difference with the music player.

Conclusion: Though i personally have always had an edge for Apple, it is the touch and faster experience that i am enjoying the most and i dont regret for any of the minuses above! :)

Nexus Rocks!