Here comes beauty and the beast: N73 and N93 soon in India

The launch of N73 and N93 has taken mobile world several notches ahead and you can expect the prices of every other model coming down sharply in a few days(ya that’s true this week, you may have your hand one of these beauties).

N73 is touted as a multimedia computer and for nothing. It has latest symbian 9.1 with Nokia S60 v3, with a 3.2 MP Carl Zeiss Tesslar lens(20x digital zoom) and a 2.4” screen. What else could you ask from a mobile? Its sound quality is as good as other music players, 3G video @ 15fps. Visual radio and FM complete the feature list. N73 is a major upgrade in N series with office, PDF viewers, VPN support, Email, Yahoo go, Synch with outlook, Lotus Notes and also Antivirus packages all coming by default. Battery life is really good with 12.3 hours of music playback.

N93 has all features of N93 and more the video shot using N93 is of DVD quality.

N93 has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens it supports a stunning 3x optical zoom. And having the Nokia twist and shoot design makes it a full camcorder.N93 also boasts of Wireless LAN support. It can connect corporate VPN.

The pricing of N73 is expected to be 23-25k, and N93 35-40k upwards, and both models are expected to be released this week.

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K J Dinesh,kj.dinesh@gmail.com

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Windows VISTA beta 2 - An exciting beta you can use !!

Micorsoft for a change has opened its Windows vista beta 2 to all users, and they even provide you with trial product key.Ok lets forget it all and come down to business, I installed vista ultimate edition last week and seriously didnt find anything discerning.

The beta is as smooth as any normal version, cool features wonderful new concepts.And it really looks like one for the future. The Collaboration tool and also IE and support for both 32 bit and 64 bit applications, and ability to run IE in both 32bit and 64 bit mode are real cool. The inbuilt phising filter,antispyware and Firewall have beefed up heavily.The security features have improved vastly.And cooler vista doesnt allow any software to run in admin mode without ur permission...so virtually denying spywares any control at all.

I got nVidia drivers for vista (yes most hw manufacturers already provide vista beta drivers).Even if vista installs ur driver I recommend you to download from hw manufacturer.Most XP drivers will do for Vista as well. Diagonistic tool in system menu recommends ur hw changes and driver updates and also suggests reasons why your PC is slower.

My recommendation for Vista (minimal)

Any P 4 or AMD XP or AMD 64

atleast 512 MB RAM(if you have a good ie 128MB or above graphics card)

(or)

1GB RAM

128MB or above graphics card(aero compatible)

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