Is there such a thing these days? I think peer pressure extends beyond school and colleges where you just go with the flow and do whatever the cool crowd does.

Take into consideration the smartphone battleground these days. In one corner are the iphone boys, and in the other corner are the android fellas. Then in the secluded corner are the WindowsPhone and Blackberry guys. Instead of just getting a phone which fits their budget and how they use their smartphones, they go for who people are talking about.

Which is why in the secluded corner, the Windows Phone and Blackberry guys are happily using their phones while the android and iphone fanboys hurl facts and make believe facts at each other.

It just plain and simple, get the one you like.

Each of the smartphone platforms have their own plus points, and their equal share of negatives. So why bother comparing? Is apple or Google actually paying you to defend them? Do they actually GIVE you a phone or phones? Do you get special treatment and do not have to queue up for hours to BUY your dream phone?

Anyways, having said all that, please do keep it up you guys. Your actions actually pushes the smartphone companies to up their ante and try to out do each other. The one who benefit are actually us, the consumers.

So, I would like to firstly apologise for kutuk-ing you, and then follow up with a big thank you. It’s because of you guys that people like me who use all kinds of phones of all platforms who really benefit from it all

And here’s a totally unrelated photo

The musang king durian. Hebat belaka rasanya!!

It’s true what about the say which goes “The best camera is the one with you”. What’s the use of the top of the line RM20k DSLR with a RM8k lens sitting at home when you are witnessing a heavenly sunset? Of course if you have that DSLR with you, it would be much better.

With today’s smartphones sporting better and better cameras with more interesting applications like Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest, more people are taking photos and sharing them online. I read somewhere that in the first half of 2011, almost 100 billion photos were uploaded to facebook. That’s about 64 photos uploaded per second. This number could double by today.

I do upload quite a number of photos to social media sites including facebook, google+ and instagram. I just love the camera on my current smartphone, the HTC One X.

Everywhere I go, my phone is with me. So I tend to flick it out to grab a random snap shot like the one above which was taken as I was on the way to breakfast.

The lobster as I was browsing through the numerous tanks filled with live seafood at a restaurant.

This is rather interesting. The Sony MP3 player which I bought some quite a long time ago. It was laying dormant in my office drawer for a couple of years. Still works fine

This is interesting. A shot of my office’s plotter doing a printhead calibration.

Even when travelling. During my recent trip to Bangkok, i did not even bring along a camera. First of all, my DSLR is too darn huge and bulky. And my current point and shoot camera is a bit dated and my smartphone would perform much better :p

This is my point and shoot. As you can see, it’s very well used. It’s still working fine except for the LCD which is a little wonky. Much discoloration, but Ive excepted it since it was followed me to the beach, construction sites and was used rather roughly.

and with ever more interesting camera apps which emulates film and other effects, it very interesting to take photos like the one above; double exposure.

I think in time we will get to see much more advanced features being incorporated into smartphone cameras.

It’s a very pleasant phone to use. The user interface is rather … how would I put it… soothing. Seriously. The colors, brightness and animation is a joy to experience.

Recently Nokia introduced to the world their range of new phones powered by WindowsPhone8.

Pic thanks to gsmarena.com

The new WindowsPhone 8 tiles seems to be a bit more cluttered, but apparently is more customisable compared to the previous versions.

But they simply must pull their socks up when it comes to messaging. I mean, as I mentioned previously, messaging apps like whatsapp and viber are a pain to use with WindowsPhone 7.5 as they are extremely slow. Like it’s loading message history online.. and on the fly. Let’s hope they have addressed it in WP8.

Oh.. and Nokia introduced the wireless charging. Hmm… interesting.

Pic again thanks to gsmarena.com

Oh.. and apparently, as you can see in the pic above, they have done away with the annoying “press to open” flap to access the micro usb port. I had to be extra careful not to snap that flap off each time I wanna charge or sync my phone.

Anyways.. This month is an exciting month indeed. Many new phones, tablets and camera being announced.

Oh joy!!! but not so joyous for my wallet :S