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Do big with mini, This slogan was adopted for this product. Samsung galaxy mini is middle class phone but it’s actually fit for people needs this day.

The key for this phone is smart operating system provided by google, code name Android 2.2 (Froyo). Making this phone sold very fast and people hunting for it because the price is actually cheaper than what it offers.

With 3 Megapixel camera you can take a picture or recording video anywhere within good quality result.

The second important key on this phone is this phone already supported HSDPA with 7.2Mbps downstream. This feature was great! but if you’re live in Indonesia or in country with suck internet connection don’t hope to much to gain this rate..

Wifi, bluetooth, and USB cable is the connection you can used to communicate using galaxy mini. I really hate when there is no infrared  device on this phone making me low the score for this phone.

Touchscreen was great. It’s including SWYPE which can detects what words you try to write. When I’m compared galaxy mini with China replica phone there is a lot difference on touchscreen. China phone not response fast as Galaxy mini.

Speaking about the processor, samsung claimed this phone running multi-tasking fast with 600mHz processor. I think this not really good, many motorola phone offers faster processor.

Battery quality was great, when idle galazy mini can life for 7 days, when making a call it can life for 7-9 hours depend on signal quality.

More Samsung Galaxy Images.

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If you’re looking for cheap evdo modem then you should read my short review about this product. Gee Mobile Evdo modem is the cheapest evdo modem available for now.

I buy this modem for only 450 IDR or it’s equivalent with $50 USD. There is 2 model available, First Gee Mobile EVDO Rev.A frequency 800/1900 MHz (this working with Smart-Telecom as evdo provider) Secondly Gee Mobile EVDO rev.0 frequency 800 MHz (cheaper, it’s working with AHA/Bakrie-Telecom as evdo provider).

When I look on gee mobile hardware I don’t see any changes inside it. This modem hardware id and product id are completely same with Venus vt-18 (I will review it soon) mostly all this cheap evdo modem coming from same vendor but when they in the market they change it’s brand.

I have bad experience when using gee mobile. On the first 4 days after I received this modem it’s really hard to find the EVDO signal. After 5 days finally I got evdo signal, but the problem is gee mobile dialers not working when I change it to evdo mode.

Bored, I send it back to seller and he replaced it within new one. And finally this one already 4 months and still working fine. So if you’re want to buy this product make sure their warranty for at least 1 year (I mean replaced warranty) because this modem cheap I think there some bad product and there some good product.

When I try to install this modem on windows XP and Windows 7 there is no problem I meet, only for windows 7 you have to install it with different technique. When I try to install this modem on linux ubuntu I meet problem because this modem couldn’t set to evdo mode, even it detected 1x mode I still can’t connected to internet.

Many people says cheap modem = bad product. Not this one, I try to use this modem for 24 hours non stop and it still working with good performance. Signal is really accurate, if compared with Haier CE100 this one better. I don’t have any tools to check the modem temperature but I fell temperature is almost same with other expensive modem.

Standard dialer for this modem is really bad. Because it’s cheap the dialer is really bad and there is no support for it. I’m searching on google about this vendor website but I didn’t found anything. The problem is when you’re using netbook, dialers will working strange. It will hide some button we needed to used for connecting. Anyway I used reshacker tools to hack dialer resource.

Gee Mobile Spesification

• Technology : CDMA EVDO Rev.A backward compatible with CDMA EVDO Rev.O and CDMA 1X.
• RF Frequency : 800 / 1900MHz (Dual Band)
• Transfer Rate : Download up to 3.1Mbps / Upload up to 1.8Mbps
• SMS : Yes
• Phone call : No
• PC Conection : USB 2.0 Fullspeed
• OS Support : Windows XP, Vista, 7
• Warranty : 1 year warranty

This day CDMA technology are greater than GSM technology in data transfer. That’s the reasons why there so many people are hunting for CDMA modem more than GSM modem (because it’s valuable I think). I already have CE100 for 9 months already, today I decide to write review for CE100 in stability and performance.

Haier CE100 comes in 2 packages, locked with some CDMA operators only and unlocked for all CDMA operators. You can read detailed information about CDMA and EVDO from wikipedia pages.

This USB modem style just standard almost same with another USB modem. I already compared this item with GeeMobile modem (I have 2 EVDO Modem, maybe next articles I should write about GeeMobile) Haier CE100 temperature is more cool than GeeMobile. Usually I used this modem for 18 Hours a day until today it’s stay cool.

Haier CE100 comes with default dialer (autorun from USB stick) you can use this dialer to change your net mode example: CDMA1x RTT or EVDO or HYBRID (modem will try CDMA1x+EVDO  and choose which one the best based on signal quality). Of course for dialing you can choose to use  default dialer or windows standard dialer, it won’t change your downstream rate and upstream rate once you set your modem mode. There is a little bug in this dialer software, Signal sometimes not accurate, it’s always starts 100% and then going lower and stay in (mostly) 60%. For better analyzed for signal I prefer you to use QPST and QXDM software.

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Last week ago I was hunting in some online store to find a new digital camera for myself. I’m looking for digital camera under $100 (just used to write review only, not pro). After research I’m interesting with Samsung ES10 black, It’s looks like an elegant digital camera so I try to buy It.

After 2 days waiting this package coming to my home. I start to open the box to know what inside this package. I got manual book, Samsung ES10 cd driver, warranty card, data cable, 2x AA battery, and of course Samsung ES10 digital camera. Where is my MMC bonus?

When first time I touch this digital camera on my hand an “elegant” idea coming to my mind. Yup, it’s good looking camera with black color, I love it! (don’t know why I love black color gadget haha)

Samsung ES10 is standard digital camera. Since I’m not professional I think this device enough for me to take some pictures around me *lol*. Let’s started to know what inside this digital camera.

On the bottom camera you will find an place to put 2x AA battery and MMC-Card. Battery life is suck, when I tested it 2x new AA Alkaline battery I just can take 500 shoot then camera die. Trust me, go buy an rechargeable NIMH battery this is really recommended.

On the front camera you will find lens and flash. Samsung ES10 using 8.1 megapixel lens. On the top camera you will find power button and shoot button to take pictures or start to capture video. On the left camera there is an mini-USB slot and place to used tail accessories. Nothing really special in here so let’s moving to the next.

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This Motorola might old for some people, Anyway I still not found there is any CDMA phone in market better than this Motorola Q8. This Motorola Q8 are using Windows Mobile 5.0 completed with infrared and blue-tooth. With only 750.000 IDR to 1.100.000 IDR you can have this smart phone! (cheap but really useful).

On the left side you will find Micro-SD slot (up to 4GB), infrared and mini USB. On the right phone there is scroll button and undo button. On the top there is earphone port. Motorola Q8 are fully QWERTY button, battery is li-ion 1,130 mAH you can find extended battery on eBay (recommended).

Inside Motorola Q8 there is standard application, this is included: sms and email, Internet explorer, windows media player for mobile, task scheduler, etc. You can buy and install more application on this Motorola Q8 as long app are compatible with windows mobile 5.0 example facade, java emulator, candlelight, facebook for windows mobile and many more, check the store in here.

When I try this Motorola Q8 performance I’m slightly disappointed I think this phone would be faster. But it was wrong, this phone has delay 1-3 seconds (depend on how much app you’re running in background). Anyway it not really interfere.

Motorola Q8 cdma are ev-do already, you can enjoy the fast speed experience on Internet using this smart phone as modem. Motorola Q8 is ev-do rev.0 mean the maximum downstream is 2.4Mbps.

Camera included in this Motorola Q8 is 1.3 megapixel, included flash. When I tested it inside room the picture quality are little blurry, but when I tested it on sunny day (outside) the picture quality are great! so this camera is just standard, don’t hope to much.

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Fist time I see this phone just “Wow” This is an Amazing phone with Nokia quality. After long time I have never seen Nokiacreated improvement for their product, but after found this one I’m actually interesting and might buy one Nokia x5 for myself.

For me personally this phone is good enough but I’m just curious WHY Nokia NEVER built an high quality phone with all function people need this day! This might caused by market? hehehe.. If this phone built with all function this day I think this phone will be success on market.

Good point about Nokia X5 is this phone combination of CDMA and GSM network. This day many other product from China with similar specification come to the market and success, But if they looking for quality of course Nokia will be recommended to buy. IF Nokia know what their costumer want Nokia will rules cellular phone market. Another point on this phone is “Enough”. What “enough” mean in my opinion? this phone has many function for high class phone this day but still there is some missing! said, TV tuner and Infrared. This day some people (including me hehe) want this function available on 1(one) phone.

Nokia x5 Style is great! qwerty phone this day is trend, no more 12 key phone will be sold this day. Battery performance on Nokia x5 is great also, it’s been designed to standby for 16 days without need to re-charge! just WOW. Music and Internet application already included, the screen is standard 320×240, I think it’s enough. Camera is 5 mega-pixels with flash, I think people already know which phone this day build camera with quality so i will not commenting for this function. Wifi and bluetooth for communication, it’s just enough.

What bad about Nokia x5? after reading this phone full specification I only found 3 bad point.

1. No Tv-Tuner… bye bye for TV mania.
2. No Infrared, This day many way of communication needed! included infrared I think?
3. Not support 3G/3.5G/EVDO/4G.

That’s it good point and bad point about this Nokia x5. Price in the Indonesian market should be around Rp 1.900.000 – Rp 2.300.000 It’s cheap if compared with other phone with quality and specification. Here is Nokia X5 full specification:

System:
WCDMA 900/1900/2100
GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

User Interface: S60 platform 3rd Edition
Dimensions: 74.3 mm x 66.4 mm x 16.8 mm (L x W x T)
Volume: 113,4 cc
Weight: 129 g (including battery)
Display: 2,36” QVGA with up to 262k colors (320×240)
Memory: Up to 200 MB internal memory, support for up to 32 GB microSD memory card
Standby time: Up to 16 days
Talk time: Up to 4 hours (GSM), up to 3,5 hrs (3G)
Music playback: Up to 24 hrs
Colors: Pink, Azure, Graphite Black, Yellow Green, Purple

Social networking and messaging:
• Full QWERTY keyboard for easy typing
• Easy access to social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, MySpace)
• Favorite IM accounts supported (such as Yahoo!® Messenger, Google Talk™, Windows Live™ Messenger, Ovi Chat)
• Log in to multiple email accounts (such as Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™ Hotmail, Ovi Mail)
• Favorite contacts on the home screen
• Square, compact design optimized for social networking and messaging
• Shake the phone to find out the number of unread messages

Music
• Excellent sound quality and loud speakers
• Discover and download tracks from Ovi Music
• Store up to 1.000 tracks to your device
• Comes With Music in select markets
• Quick access to music with dedicated music key
• Music player support MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA
• FM stereo radio
• Spin the phone when playing music to jump to a random track

Additional features
• 5 megapixel camera with 4x digitial zoom, LED flash
• Share photosand videos with Ovi Share
• Games and applications from Ovi Store
• Ovi Suite
• Ovi Contacts

Data Services & Connectivity
• WLAN
• GPRS/EGPRS multislot class 32
• Bluetooth 2.1 with enhanced data rates (EDR)
• Micro-USB connector, USB charging
• 3.5 mm AV connector

Standard Sales Package Includes
• Nokia X5-01 handset
• Nokia Battery BL-5F, 950 mAh
• Nokia Travel Charger AC-6
• Nokia Headset WH-102
• Nokia 2 GB microSD card MU-37
• Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-101D