Introducing Linus!

Yes in addition to Lucy, here's LINUS!

My dream mobile phone has been added to our collection of electronics and gadgets at home. And certainly it is one of the BEST mobile phones that I've ever had. Simply because its got a fantastic camera feature of 5megapix.

Ha ha ha

Here's what Linus did on our short walk about the neighbourhood...

I've always wanted to capture a picture of this recycling bin, it usually filled to the brim with bags and plastic bottles. However, one morning, I noticed that all the big plastic bottles around it were gone, yet the bin is still FULL of the other recycling trash. Strange hor? Looks like someone is taking the recycling waste for themselves!

Cant see clearly? Here's a better shot after using iPhoto to "enhance" it with the magic ward.

Okok, I know I need more practise with this camera, i mean phone, i mean camera phone... see i'm confused. There are quite a few selections to this camera mode, so gotta practise abit MORE.

Next I climbed to a higher ground, attempting to capture more images, wondering if the shutter will take in the light from sources further away...

looks decent eh?

Then, I found a young, model, without her permission hee hee... I snapped pictures of her like a paparazzi (must practise to see if I can work fast!) Surprisingly, the camera response time is pretty fast unlike the previous Sony Ericsson mobile phone cameras which I've used.



I have yet to test out the 9frames/sec shots on a real model, tried it on myself and the results are definitely not nice cos of the choice of model.

I am having so much fun with the camera phone that I even took pictures of me "processing" my dinner ha ha ha...


here's a video of how I'm thawing my dinner hee hee... yes, as you can tell, i'm darn bo liao!


What makes Linus truly amazing is that it can take pictures, videos and any function until its last bits of juice. I took a 2min long video clip when it was at 3% of its battery life, even with the low battery warning, it still allows me to continue filming and viewing the clip. Right till its last bits of juice!

Previous models have alot of restrictions on minimum battery life when using the camera functions on the phone.

More things I like about this phone:
1. it has an addition shortcut key in addition to the 4 (top, bottom, left & right) shortcut keys which are usually used for sms, calender, contact list & alarm. I set the profiles, sound record and bluetooth on this additional shortcut key, extremely easy for me to access these functions.

2. its radio reception is of very high quality. It can receive FM transmission in places which my iPod add-on radio receiver experience break ups especially in the lift. I'm surprised! Next time gotta try it in the trains ha ha...

3. Its ultra easy to access its camera & video functions with the buttons and shortcut keys on its side. works almost like a normal digital camera! *sweet*

4. it does seamless bluetooth connection with my Peppermint! (ok this one requires alot more story telling)
In most of my previous mobile phones, the most painful process of acquiring a new mobile phone is the transfer of the contact list. In the earlier models of mobile phones, they have functions to copy all the phone numbers onto the sim card and I used to do that transfer 250contacts at a time. Then when it came to my Samsung E730, it does not have this feature! I cant even copy any of the phone contact to the sim card! aiyo so painful! I tried so many times to bluetooth the contact list over to Peppermint but only partial of the list are transferred. So sad hor!

I was determined to get the contact list sorted out right this time. Hence, I spend one whole afternoon, or was it day... to painfully, go through the 400 contacts on my list and sort them out accordingly. When they were all sorted out nicely on Peppermint. I did the bluetooth magic and everything, I mean EVERYTHING, Every single one of my contact went over to Linus!

Now isnt that just perfect? *muaks* I LOVE BLUETOOTH technology! also all photos, videos, music were transferred using the bluetooth option at the rate of 100kb/s. quite fast hor?

5. its got a great size, not too bulky like the N95 (which has a newer model that comes with 8Gb harddisk space internally, so you wont have to depend on the memory cards, but for that size? like a brick? how to fit it into my tiny purses?) Yep for its size, its easy to hold onto it, not too tiny which might slip out of your hands while you are trying to take a snap at something. I saw a guy holding onto the ultra slim K something mobile phone on the train, he looked like his fingers were going to have a cramp from having to press it to his ears so hard! ha ha ha

6. It has a SOS feature where you can make use of its light from the camera to flash the emergency SOS light signal to get help in times of need! Now isnt that cool???

7. it has everything that I ever wanted in a phone! yeah! I am loving it!