My soul remembers a different time, a life born into wealth and privilege. A life devoted to learning about the world and helping others around me.
I remember finding love, as finding it in this life feels familiar, as if I have gazed in those eyes long before this time and recognize the spirit inside. With that love comes happiness, and with that happiness comes fear of loss.
My own mortality haunts me. I fear it.
I fear losing everything. I fear the end of all things, because deep down I secretly feel that I once bore witness to it. In a different time, a different place, I once lived, loved and lost.
Will I see the end again in this life? Will I remember it in the next?
It was about a month ago when I decided that my Nokia 6600 had to go. After that it was a matter of finding something that could possibly merge my palm and phone. At first I looked at the Sony Ericsson P990i. It had OCR, 3gp, a 2 mp camera, productivity tools, wifi, etc. but SE had delayed its release and I didn’t wanna wait for whenever. Also, it cost almost Php 50,000 and I really didn’t wanna spend that much on a phone. I could get a great laptop with that (although a laptop I already have so no plans of getting one at all).
After much deliberation I settled on the Nokia N80, even though I had vowed to stay away from Nokia coz it was too mainstream for me. Had to eat my words to get this phone. I mean people are carrying around the N90 like it was the Ferari of cellphones and when the new N series phones were introduced, I’d see people staining the glass windows with their faces in which the new cellphones were encased in. It’s pathetic and I didn’t wanna jump in the bandwagon but this is truly the best smartphone out there! Not to mention the price didn’t have to cost me an arm and a leg. Well… maybe just an arm.
The amount of things that this baby can do are just amazing! The camera pics are pretty good, the screen makes the colors just pop out, the sounds from the speakers are crisp and clear. The phone is very easy to use. I didn’t even have to read the manual. Transferring from the pc with the cable is fast. I can even save my text messages with the new PC Suite. Just a few clicks and I can connect wirelessly on the internet. It’s so freaking cool!
Just to even things out a little bit, the phone is small and texting can be difficult for those with big fingers. Also, you’ll need an extra charger or battery coz with all the things you do with it, battery gets drained out very quickly. Still, it’s just a small price to pay for everything it gives.
This is what it looks like. I got the black one but you can also get it in silver. Black seems more sleek and yuppie looking though. Plus you won’t see smudges and finger prints. The silver one makes it more apparent.
Short Specs:
Integrated 3 megapixel camera sensor (2048 x 1536 pixels) with up to 20 x digital zoom and close-up mode.
Landscape capture with dedicated capture key
Integrated flash LED with red-eye reduction
High-quality video capture in MP4 and 3GP formats with up to 5x digital zoom
Image and video editors
White balance: Auto, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent, cloudy
Color tones: Normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Capture modes: Normal, self-timer, sequence
Scene settings: Normal mode: Auto, portrait, landscape, night portrait, night landscape, sports, candlelight, and user. Close up mode: close-up and document
Advanced camera modes: self timer, advanced sequence mode, 10 scene modes and brightness, contrast, sharpness, color saturation, white balance, exposure compensation and color tones adjustments, image quality settings and video stabilization.
Integrated VGA camera on front with 2 x digital zoom
Video capture: H.263 (up to 16.7 million/24-bit color)
Integrated digital music player with stereo audio. Supported file formats: MP3, AAC, m4a, eAAC+ and wma
USB mass storage that enables easy drag and drop of files from your compatible PC to your device and back
Stereo FM radio with support for Visual Radio
Multimedia player (RealPlayer) with 3GPP & MPEG4 AVC video streaming support
Internet browser
Email with Document Viewer
Bluetooth
Infrared
Wifi
Quickoffice
Video sharing and two-way video call
(check out the Nokia site. I don’t think I can do all the specs justice here.)
