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Wish List 2009

// January 9th, 2009 // Life's Happenings

A  new year. A new list. I sure have sky high gadget goals as far as 2009 is concerned. I want more of innovative products than cliched glossy looking over priced products. Understandable that the Mumbai terror attacks and the globad economic recession have hhaunted everyone. My wishlist is fairly full of all the technologies that I would want to see. I share it with you in the hope that we have something in common.

1. The Open Alliance System with 14 new inductees include Sony Ericsson, Asustec and Vodafone, which looks ot heat up the competition in the market with Google’s Android powering many new phones. Even Palm is coming up with a potential iPhone and Android killer. Sweet! In the end we consumers will be left with more choices as manufacturers wont stop innovating as they need their products to be the best.

2. I want notebooks with better battery life.  My Dell runs out of juice in 4 hrs.

3. I want manufacturers to stop the megapixel wars on the phones. Anyways the current 8MP phones fail t

o do better than my 2 year old 6MP Nikon.  Also, CCD sensors  rather than CMOS sensors would be appreciated. I dont understand why they cant get rid of it.

4. The arrival of 3G will make a certain group of people happy. Not just in terms of mobile phones, but also for broadband on the go. It will certainly be a boon for laptop users in India where the number of wi-fi hotspots is limited.

5. Lower internet rates. I pay approximately Rs.1200 pm inclusive of taxes for a 256 kbps unlimited connection. I need cable net since my monthly downloads are pretty high(crossing 50 gb at times). Also, the connection is bound to one computer and transfer requires phone calls and wait time for change of MAC address. Not what the doctor ordered. What is appealing  right now to me is the new unlimited data plans offered by MTNL. Even though it will end up costing me the same, portablity with the connection and the ability to use the  Wifi router more effectively appeals to me.

6. Better customer service from companies like intel. My recent ordeal with them took me more than a month to get hold of a replacement motherboard. All this for buying an intel board for my quad core processor. I would not recomment intel boards to anyone. Service sucks.

7. Windows 7. Yes, Ive tried out their last two pre-release beta builds, the recent one being the 7000 one. It did manage to impress me with the speed and better functioning than Vista, but nothing can be said as of now. Ill write a detailed post on the windows 7  experience soon.

8. Bigger capacity harddrives. Out of all the points mentioned above, this one certainly seems the most concrete. I curently use the WD My Passport Elite 320GB portable drive. Wouldnt it be so convenient to have 1Tb in the 2.5 inch form!

9. Guys at PC World created this :

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