Md Emran Hasan (phpfour)

Today I bought a Nokia N81 8GB smartphone from my friend Nesar. This is an upgrade from my previous Nokia 6300, which I’ve been using for 1.5 year (thats the longest time I’ve used one model). The Nseries of Nokia has been attracting a lot of people lately, with their great music and photo capture features. One of my colleagues, Anis, also bought N73 just two months back.

Nokia N81 8GB

Now, good points first. The N81boosts an extremely loud set of sterio speakers - combined with its Music Express, it delivers the highest quality of music I’ve ever purchased. Combined with the built-in FM radion, the dedicated music keys, and a multimedia menu - this is a music powerhouse, thanks to the all new Symbian 9.3 OS.

The Symbian OS is superb with all the applications and now has some stunning gameplay capabilities. The phone also has all kind of connectivity point you might need - GPRS, EDGE, Wifi, Bluetooth, WLAN, 3G. And don’t forget the built-in 8GB memory.

The only downside of this phone is the camera. It’s a 2 megapixel camera - which I don’t have any clue how got into a Nseries phone. If there is not enough light, the pictures are somewhat blurry. It has flash and a number of picture modes, so its a decent one - but nowhere in comparison with other Nseries 3.2mp and 5mp cameras.

All in all, here are the facts:

• 2.4” QVGA main color display (320 x 240 pixels), up to 16.7 million colors
• S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 based on Symbian OS v9.2
• Dedicated media keys for quick and easy access to music and video
• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support
• Bluetooth Specification 2.0 (profiles supported: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, GAP, SPP, HSP, BIP, A2DP)
• Micro USB 2.0 Full Speed (mass storage class)
• Nokia AV Connector 3.5mm
• Up to 2 megapixel (1600×1200 pixels) camera, MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 15fps
• Zoom: digital up to 20x
• Front camera (CIF)
• Video call and video sharing support (WCDMA network services)
• Integrated flash (modes: on, off, automatic, redeye reduction)
• Rotating gallery with Navi wheel support
• Nokia Nseries digital music player supports MP3 (VBR), AAC, eAAC+, AAC+, WMA/M4A, WAV
• OMA DRM 1.x, 2.0, Windows Media DRM (OTI/OTA with Nokia Music Store*)
• Synchronize music with Windows Media Player 11
• Media keys (play/pause, stop, forward, rewind)
• Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz /76-90MHz)

Let’s see how long it can serve my ever-growing thirst of technology

It’s my greatest pleasure to introduce another social community of Bangladesh, Prothom Alo Blog, to you all. The site has been made public for a beta period on Friday, 24th October, 2008. And it is expected to be fully released in public on the first week of November.

Me and Hasin has been working on it for a couple month, with occasional help from Anis and Jahed. We’ve tried all our means to make it as user-friendly as possible, without sacrificing functionality and robustness. The blog platform hosts most of the major features of a community blogging platform, along with a few key features which are unavailable in other similar platforms in Bangla.

The site is fully Unicode based, with support for embedded eot font for Internet Explorer. AJAX has been used spontaneously throughout the site to decrease initial load time of primary contents, and slowly fetching secondary contents. All the sidebars of the main pages and admin panels are widget ready and hosts a number of widgets as of now. In future, users will be able to add their widgets as well.

In this platform, we have separated the main site and the administration panel for users. This helps the bloggers as they get a centralized panel where they can mange their posts/comments/links/feeds/moderation/profile etc easily.

Besides the common functionality of community blog, the platform is different in one major context: Moderation. The content from the user’s blogs won’t be moderated. In order to allow this freedom, it’s been decided that no post will appear in front-page of main site categories, until promoted by the moderators. The aim is to provide a place where everybody has freedom of their own blog, but if they want to convey to others, they have to write in a way which actually adds value and abides by the common guideline.

Now that it’s open, we’d like everybody’s comments and suggestions for making it the largest social platform in Bangladesh. Although the registration is closed right now, you can still get into it using an invitation code. The site is OPEN now for public registration, go get one Please send me an email or Contact me using the Contact page if you need an invitation any information/help.

Thanks everybody!

Nothing to say much, check the image below:

I am going to take some of my time out from my regular job as CTO of Right Brain Solution Ltd. and will work at Trippert, Inc. as Development Manager, starting from this month. My primary responsibilities will include software development and project management on various company projects.

I am very excited about working with Trippert as many of the developers there are known to me and I highly regard their work. Also, teaming up again with Hasin is a great thing (we worked together before in Somewhere in… and Pageflakes). I hope to enjoy this journey a lot !

Cheers!