Twitter: @bhuwan: sep 13-14 is acc. to the bcb mailing list. Formal announcement sometime this week i expect. 2 days ago

(This post began as a reply to a comment question on my previous blog post about iPhone 3G. It’s also a complete re-write of an earlier post.)

My experience with the Internet on my Nokia N82 has been more than satisfying, but that might well be a result of my usage pattern. Your mileage may vary. And yes, my ideal internet-access device would be iPhone, but I’ve already written about why iPhone is a no-no for me.

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So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable.

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I’m surprised this didn’t happen way back in early 2005, but here are the first steps towards unification of mobile and email contacts. Research In Motion, the creators of the Blackberry, have announced a version of Google Talk for the Blackberry, to be out in a month’s time. Hope to see one for the immensely successful Nokia Series60 too.

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