Back to you (Sony Ericsson T200)

It's already a week now without my HTC Touch Viva, I returned it for repair since it lost it's Camera function for no known reason.  That is why I resorted to using my old phone, the Sony Ericsson T200.  It was the first of it's kind (I think) back then when Ericsson and Sony merged to have a multi-purpose, multi-functional phone.  It was launched years back when Globe Telecom offered free mobile internet through GPRS service.  It's still in black and white LCD but has a better resolution compared to it's Nokia colleagues.  And just like my other devices it was used appropriately to its full functionality.  The good thing about free internet is that you can have it anywhere, anytime.

After using it again for a week it seems that it got me closer to my love ones most especially my wife.  Since Globe's GPRS service is no longe free then it left me with one of the basic functions of Philippine mobile phones, the SMS message.  I always text my wife to ask how she is and tells her what's on my mind.  Good thing I'm now a SUN Cellular subscriber I don't have to worry about diminishing load.  This made me think that the leaving you empty handed in functionality makes you more closer to your family.

Sony DSC-H5 Subic Pictures

Last week me and my family went to Subic for a vacation and I had a chance to borrow my Dad's Sony DSC-H5 to take some amazing pictures of the flying dolphins and the crouching tigers.  He bought it a couple of years ago somewhere in Hong Kong.  It is not an SLR camera but it did captured amazing shots since it has a 12x optical zoom to take a closer look at distant subjects.  And thinking that this is a H series then I believed that it is easy to operate and quite heavy on features.  It already has a built-in flash so you don't have to carry a separate one.  Below are the sample amateur pictures that I took.

Thanks to it's Super Steady Shot Optical Image Stabilization shot mode I have no hard time capturing those fast subjects.  Animals tend to move fast so you need a fast shutter and a lens that allows more light to have a brighter picture.  That is why the Carl-Zeiss lens is a superb main component in this digicam.  I just set the settings to Auto Mode since I have no time to browse it's built-in scene modes and I do not have the user manual with me.  Amazingly everything went fine and I felt like I'm holding a P200+ high quality camera after reviewing the pictures that I took on it's 3 inch LCD.  Some shots were taken with less than the maximum pixel rating of 7.2Mega Pixels to utilize Sony's Smart Zoom function.  Sony's digital zoom is the only digital zoom that I know that do not distort pictures compared to other digicams.  This camera is an entry level camera for those who knows nothing about taking pictures.  For me, this is the best camera that I got hold of.

For a complete review and full specifications of this camera visit the link below.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/camera-reviews/sony/dsc-h5/sony-dsc-h5-review.html

Vista Slowly but Slower

Recently my friend asked me to copy some action movies into his Sony Vaio VGN-P688E, the one that I have reviewed a month ago.  I told in my review that Sony has just won the Vista lottery, but now I retract my statement.  After a month of usage Vista seems to degrade in performance.  Maybe because of the anti-virus that was installed and other connectivity managers like Nokia's PC Suite.  But despite these, I haven't experienced this type of slow down on XP or in Windows 7.  I also had another friend who is also a Vista user and attests on my comments about Vista.  It seems that Vista is Microsoft's Black Sheep and this one's not doing what it's parents are telling it to do.

Vista is a no-no for me from the moment that it was launched and I guess that will never change.  I just hope that Windows 7 will not exhibit the same thing when installed in netbooks.