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Google Android Phone Kogan Agora delayed?

Probably a stale news for most of you, the touted second Google Android Phone on the market, Kogan Agora product has been canceled despite having received huge pre-orders. The official statement from Kogan Technologies website states that the Kogan Agora release is delayed indefinitely citing technical issues regarding is screen size and resolution.

Kogan Agora, estimated to be available by Christmas 2008, might not even be ready by this year (2009). Customer who pre-ordered Kogan is being refunded as this article were written.

Its a pity to see such affordable Google Android phone to be delayed indefinitely, while there are a lot of phone manufacturers behind Open Handset Alliance (OHA, the organization that backed Android), we have yet to see other Google Android phone surfaces besides HTC manufactured T-Mobile G1.

As for my personal opinion, I don’t think Android platform is worth investing in right now since the only supported Android phone in the market is the SIM-locked T-Mobile, and although there has been news that Motorola, Huawei and Sony Ericsson are preparing to release Android phone, I don’t think I will give in much hope for Android until I’ve seen on the shelf of my local mobile phone store (SIM-unlocked, just like normal phones that is)

I bought a new phone – Nokia E71

I know I’ve been slacking lately on my post.. but hey, I got myself a new phone – The Nokia E71!

Phones model and features are getting diverse now and I’ve noticed that its getting harder and harder to choose a phone that really suits my needs. For example, one feature found on Phone A isnt necessarily can be found on Phone B.

So it took me a while to replace my good old 6630 that has been stolen few months before. But hey, I’m back on my feet now.

Among the key feature that attract me to buy this phone are :

• Location API support (JSR-179) with built in GPS receiver
• QWERTY keyboard
• Ease of handling, my hands a bit slippy on its sister’s phone E66
• Battery last longer
• Hot swappable micro-sd card
• More than adequate internal memory

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• Supports WiFi

The only drawback that I could think of this phone is its camera that is not as good as the N95,N96 series phone. But I can still live with that since I rarely use the camera anyway.

Other additional feature
The phone comes with Advance Call Manager and Multi Scanner free of charge, making it easier to filter out unwanted call and to manage phone blacklist.

Multi Scanner allows you to take a photo of name card and automatically store important information (Name, Phone Number, Address, Company’s Name, Fax Number) right into the phone.

I hope I can be more productive at updating this blog and producing new mobile applications with this phone.

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1

This website upgraded has been upgraded to wordpress 2.5.1 to ensure quality content delivery for its reader. Thank you for subscribing and reading this blog after this long years. I’m planning to continue to write in the blog again some time after next month.

So stay tuned!