My Tryst with the Google Nexus One

It was a chilly winter day, I was rocking my Sony Ericsson K660i phone. It was an awesome phone. It had Google maps!! (..in 2009, well that was a great feature.) I had done loads of research on what I wanted and it had it ALL and was OUT of production!! So I shopped around and found only one piece in my search. I bought it without hesitation. And then this chilly winter day, the phone died, it did not respond to anything I did. I was heart broken, I felt betrayed. How can this sweet phone do this to me??!! Then I decided that I needed a new phone.

And lo and behold, this happened just the day Google announced the Nexus One. The first phone Google was going to sell, all by itself (turned out to be a crappy decision that) at www.google.com/phone. How awesome is that!!!

It could not be bought from anywhere in the world except US, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore. I have lots of relatives in US so I called my brother-in-law and made him buy the phone for me. Date of Purchase: Jan 7, 2010. And then the wait started, not many people my BiL knew, were coming to India. I waited so much!!

Thankfully I got it pretty early, maybe a week or two later. And thus started my tryst with the Google Nexus One. And through the N1, my love for all things Android started.

The Sony Ericsson K660i is still functional, my wife uses it daily. She was praising it just today of how awesome a purchase it was by me. Actually that chilly winter day, the phone had run out of battery because I forgot to charge it. Well, that was one mistake I am not going to regret.

Irritations 1

1. Zooming into a diagram and correcting any small mistakes, to achieve a state of bliss considering that the diagram is perfect to the tiniest detail.
2. Using the zoom function and getting in so close that nothing is comprehensibly visible.
3. Selecting various color schemes and not being able to decide upon the right scheme.
4. Forgetting that nifty little trick that you learnt on an online tutorial once, and struggling to find it again.
5. Your word processing/imaging software taking its own course and doing exactly the opposite to what you want.
6. Your computer turning off exactly at 99% of writing a DVD with your favorite movies.
7. Both friends logging on in invisible mode and being unable to talk to each other (thank you Google for not having an invisible mode).
8. Using the zoom function on the scroll wheel of mouse to make each page look so small you might be staring at Chiclets.
9. Your friend lifting the call just when u wanted to end it. And you get charged for that call of 00:01 secs.
10. You typing a long mail and forgetting save. [just saved this document] (no worries if you are using an auto save email client)
11. Having a nice cup of tea but your last sip has the tea powder and goes on to spoil your entire happy taste.
12. Finding that there are a set of latest drivers for your graphics card, installing them and realizing your favorite game gets crapped on these drivers.
13. Games without a proper saving technique. God damn those games that require you to find a typewriter/beacon/church etc to save your progress.
14. I think I will add to this list.....enjoy

Google Fanatics

Some people who are regular on internet have their lives entwined with Google. I might be one of them. Obviously, Google goes out and buys the best free stuff in the business, poor fellows like us need to get involved with Google.

Some people are just plain'ol crazy about Google. Following is an example.

They See this
www.Google.co.in/jobs Google is looking for Java experts. Jobs in Bangalore/Hyderabad. Apply!


and Do this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+Become+Java+expert+in+two+days+and+apply+to+google