No, I have not forgotten Mumbai but if people are willing to travel to India and Mumbai, I am willing to blog about travel.
I have to say that it was the offer of using the Nokia N96 by Blogger’s Mind that spurred me to go to Jaipur. Now all I was asked to do a review of it. So in this post, I am posting my experience against the features of the phone.
1. Keeps you connected with the world, take calls, send messages, check mails, browse the internet, geotag pictures.
My Experience– Yes, of course I could make calls on my Jaipur trip, take calls and use internet partially. I posted a few lines on my blog using N96 from Delhi-Jaipur Shatabdi Express train. For email, whenever I tired, the Vodaphone connection would ask me if they should open a secure connection and somehow most if the time it would say could not find a secure connection. Now I am not most tech savvy person, but I wonder what a more informed person like Shrinidhi would find the experience?
2. Want to travel light and not carry too many equipments. Can substitute Digi cams with its 5 MP camera and Carl Zeiss Lens for great pictures.
My experience– For people like me who travel with multiple cameras, yes a 5 MP camera and video recording in the same equipment is a great help. If this phone was mine, I would have traveled just with my SLR and this phone. As of now I carry a Nikon point and shoot, Canon SLR and if I wish I can carry a Sony handycam apart from a cell phone! That way in future I think I can invest in a good phone.
Ipods, walkman, with so much of storage content, 100 english and 100 hindi music videos and space to store more and more for all the long journey trains rides.
My experience- Not really for me, I prefer to look out of the window rather than listen to music. But my nephew was really interested in loading songs if we take it on another trip.
Plethora of Cd’s with FM Transmitter that can blare out your favorite playlists in mobile through your car speakers and woofers, for those long car drives on open highways.
Once again I can think of Shrinidi and his rental cars and long drives!
Laptops with access to internet and mailbox, if in case you want to shoot out an important mail while on your trip.
This definitely is possible and of great help, but depends on your connection and getting used to it.
Sportstracker or Lifevine to share your travel stories live with the world.
I have to try this feature. One has to go to the Nokia site to post it but it definitely feels interesting.
My experience- Umm once again I like to look outside the window, even on a plane at night but I have seen one person using that N96 stand and watching something on his handset in the Shatabdi while coming back from Jaipur.
No idea how this one works.
Enjoyed your review. I am not much of a gadget person… just reading the instructions annoy me, let alone applying them. Though I am glad I have my cell with me to stay in contact via SMS – even my mother does it. I am glad to see that I am not the only one still travelling with an SLR:-)
I feel honored that you’ve termed me “a more informed person”…Well, I still do not have GPRS activated in my phone and use it only for its telephone, SMS, camera and music purposes.If you’re trying to access web based mails like gmail then there shouldn’t be any problem with secure access (provided connectivity exists- in a moving train you might have moved to a no signal area in few mins)If you’re trying to access default mail clients in the phone I guess one time setup will be required- Vodafone customer care should be able to help you with that.Hope this helps
“If u want to see a lion in action and get him in your lens. No hassles just place your phone as near as possible to the animal and then sit back in your room to enjoy live action from the animal world. “Just wondering who will go and keep the phone in front of the lion… will Nokia reps help us in that? 🙂
I am a gadget junkie, but for vacations I intentionally choose destinations where my cell phone cannot get any signal and TVs are used as coffee table.
I thank Nokis N96 that you it compelled you to get out of your house and you took a well deserved break. Thank you Nokis N96! 🙂
I’ve been using the N96 since it came out and I actually think it’s quite overrated! The camera isn’t *that* great at all, battery life is so so, and it lags a lot, since there is so much software etc. packed into it!It’s OK, but nothing amazing.
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Fida I too am not really good with gadgets but if I can get one camera instea of two/three that sounds interesting to me.Shrinidhi I understood everything that you explained in the first comment 😀 And as for your second comment I too don’t know :-DAtul those kind of vacations are the perfect ones.I know Alka, even I am thankful for that.Tanya, thanks for sharing your thoughts.Mumbaitravelguide thanks for stopping by.