Dropped your Handphone or iPod in the water?

This article from somewhere, give you a very good solution when your electronic devices like handphone, mobile, iPod, etc drop into water. You got to know, most of the time, warranty does not cover water damage, so what can you do?

To summary, here is the tips:
1) Remove the cover.
2) Take out the battery.
3) Put everything into a bowl of rice.

Rice can help to absorb the excess moisture. Let it dry for at least 24 hours. I would suggest you use the hair dryier to dry it further before you going to restart it. Do not try to charge the battery. No harm trying, since it is already a gone case.


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Interesting fact of mobile usage for Asian

According to a survey, Chinese is most likely to flirt with partner over SMS and most likely use their handset while they are in the washroom. And if you are having a Japanese wife, then she will very likely check your phone record than girls of other nationality. Surprisingly, 20% of Taiwainese will use handphone while having their extreme moment on bed. So lets see what are the statistic of the survey.

Chinese:

79% are most likely to flirt with their partners over SMS
67% is on their handset in the loo.
60% find it acceptable for a marriage proposal to be made over the phone.

India:

79% of Indians are busy with the gadgets at a wedding ceremony
69% of respondents think the cinema should not be off limits for phones
21% of them do so even in a place of worship.

Japanese:

71% married women check their spouse's phone's SMS/caller history.
70% rank price the most important overall factor.
67% said that they have taken calls when they were sleeping or trying to sleep.

Taiwan:

57% rate ease of use as the most important reason when buying.
20% of Taiwanese are most likely to use their mobile phones during "extremely intimate moments."

Australia:

60% driver will most like use a phone.

Asian:

80% chances are he or she will use a phone during the meal.
74% parents agree that children under the age of 12 should not be given a handset.
58% believe the use of mobile phones should be allowed during flights.


Conclusion: becareful when you are on the road at Australia, and never buy a second hand handset from Chinese!

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Nokia Tutorial: teach you how to use your handpone step by step in flash

They should have started this long ago. Use the flash to show some movie how to use a phone step by step. This can serves as an educational material for a user master the phone function in a very short time. Most importantly, I can have a "try" on the phone before I buy it. And Nokia is working on this direction now.

Look at this example, Nokia tells you that you can make or answer a call while listening to the radio on your Nokia 6220 Classic phone. The radio is muted when there is an active call.

You can see the full demo at: Nokia Tutorial

So next time make sure you read the tutorial before buy a phone.

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28mm wide angle lens digital camera

With the growing importance of wide angle, more and more camera comes with wide angle...

Here I provide a list of market available 28mm wide angle lens digital camera (35mm equivalent) for your refence...

• Canon SD870 IS
• Panasonic Tz3 Tz4 Tz5
• Panasonic Lumix Fx30, Fz18
• Nikon Coolpix S600
• Fuji F480
• Casio EX-Z100
• Samsung L74W
• Ricoh Caplio R1 / RX
  

I will update the list over the time... and do let me know if I miss out any.... or anything is wrong..

I am sure the list will increasing fast

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How to select digital camera

I am sure many of us will have this questions, which camera to buy, and where to buy it?

I am going to talk about my experience in locking down my target, on how I choose the camera. Basically this is what I did:

1. Set your requirements / budget: depending on your requirements and budget, you can short list a few camera that match to your need. For example, I need a large optical zoom 10x, in this case only Panasonic Tz3, Tz4, Tz5, Canon SX100 and Sony Cybershot H3B matched to your requirement. Or I need a wide angle 25mm, in this case, only Panasonic Fx35. Or I need a wide angle 28mm, then Panasonic Tz3, Tz4, Tz5, Canon SD870 matched. You may notice that, those with similar requirements will have similar price. And almost every brand will have one or two cameras match to your requirement.


2. Do a survey on the forum, such as forums.dpreview.com, forum.digitalcamerareview.com, http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/, http://www.photo-forums.com. However becareful when they are professional review. Usualy these professional review, they do give professional measurement, but sometimes they may not say bad things about a camera. Cnet do give quite a good review as well. However, the forum will have the input from many users.
   
3. Do a check on the buyers' survey, such as amazon.com. No one can give you a better feel than those who already own it.
   
4. Do a search on blog, many bloggers like me do share our experience.
   
5. Do a search on youtube. This is a new trick that I found out recently, many users or professional reviewer do take video on the user interface, video recording function and put on youtube.. so do remember to do a search on youtube.
   
6. Go to a nearby shop, try it out yourself before you order online!!!

Next I will talk about where to buy a camera....