Bidding my farewell E72

 

    I am truly grateful for having reviewed 2 phones from Nokia, which proves that I will never choose any brand except Nokia. We used to own ASUS and Motorola phones but it failed us, which proves (For us) that Nokia is the best.

    And so my love affair with the E72 ends now, I went to DHL in Pasong tamo branch yesterday afternoon and as it was being packed I bid my farewells. I know it may sound pathetic for others as it is just a phone, but then I never thought I would fall in love with it. Until we meet again E72

     This is how it was packed by the guy behind the desk. And there’s a small note from me, I was supposedly planning on sending them a pack of Chocnut, but then I’d have to pay extra since it will be weighed, so I just opted for the small note.

    Thank you for the wonderful people at Nokia WOMWorld! hugs

 

Till then!

Meow..Meow..

Lady E + A sweet surprise

 

     It’s funny when I posted in my facebook “the week is almost ending, hopes something exciting or interesting will happen.” When I woke up this afternoon to prepare for work, I was still so sleepy, the first thing I looked at was the table and there were ironed clothes, which was good so I’ll just place them in my drawer. What caught my attention was there was a medium sized package which I thought was from my mom. And when I opened the lights, it didn’t have any writing on it whose it from? I was like O___O whose this from? while opening the package, literally opening it like a kid, yes it was damaged. I was thinking, did I win something? but then the contest I joined will not be announced until next week I believe, so it was really mind boggling. Upon opening the plastic there was a purple small paper bag and I immediately thought, has this something to do with Lady E’s question on when is my birthday? Opened the cute paper bag and saw some goodies. I first checked the letter and I was right! Lady E! you didn’t have to, it was so sweet of you, thank you so much. Here’s what happened

                                    You see how excited I was to open the plastic?

 

   I woke up past 6pm when I found it, first thing I did was read the letter

     I don’t want to reveal what she wrote, it’s just personal for me but those were very sweet words. What’s inside were these

     Hello kitty keychain (L-O-V-E), those cute clippers for squeezing bottles and 2 lip glosses (L-O-V-E)

                         Thank you Lady E! This is my most favorite gift of yours

                                   Clear lipgloss and pink shimmer lipgloss

                       Just like Lady E’s squeezing bottle, thank you XD

  As you may know, I’m such a hello kitty lover and the gift you gave me was perfect, I loved it! I can’t put into words how much I appreciated your gift, more so from a fellow blogger. Here’s where I used those lovely key chains

  My pink purse with Lady E’s gift, Trese, and some hairless voodoo doll

  I actually used the pink shimmer lip gloss already – excited? hehe

                            Used it on top of the Avon lipstick barely there

*photos were taken from Nokia E72

   You definitely ended my week perfectly, I guess I’m just simply touched with the gesture and I think I keep saying the same thing here in my post already,  haha. Again, thank you for the wonderful gift and I appreciate it a lot!

Arigato gozaimasu (thank you very much)

Interested about Lady E? read on to bits and treats

  Meow..Meow..

Binalot

 

   Rainy Thursday everyone! Hope you were all safe and sound in your homes and didn’t get wet. For tonight, had dinner with the BF before heading to work and it was good, well not that awesome but better than I expected before, The Binalot restaurant. Binalot is a term for – food wrapped in huge banana leaves.

   The first time I ate here was years ago actually with my brother at Robinson’s Ermita, food court. I forgot what I ordered there and it was so bad that I said to myself to NEVER eat at any Binalot kiosk or store.  For some reason today, I had craving for good ol’ filipino meal for dinner and BF and I was famished, yes we we’re that hungry, since I just slept through my off and played games. I ate but mostly cereals and ample of servings since I didn’t have appetite eating at home. Anyway, enough babbling, here it is

  I ordered the Longganisa (sweet sausage) BF ordered Tocino (sweet pork) and sisig 

                     Food is tightly wrapped with banana leaves and paper – so pinoy

  Typically, it should be plain rice but you can upgrade it to adobo rice. However, being hungry that I was I didn’t listen to BF when he said that we can order the one with adobo rice already that costs P60 only for this particular order, it cost us around P70 or P80, the difference of the cheap one is that it has 2 longganisa’s only. Didn’t realize it until we were having dessert already. Oh well! The adobo rice costs P25 which is over priced and small, for taste it was okay, not bad, just okay. It was funny when BF said “no plates?” errr, honey that’s why it’s binalot, toink! haha. Hungry I was, I couldn’t savor the complete taste of the longganisa but I wasn’t disappointed about it.

     I know it’s blurry, sorry about that. This was BF’s order, his came with fried egg, mine came with the salted egg. Can’t say how it tasted but our banana leaves we’re empty after. 

   Separate order of Sisig no rice, topped off with fried egg. The sisig looked weird, good weird not bad weird, hehe. Taste was not disappointing.

     I liked their ambiance, pretty cool and cozy which is good, I hate eating at open places. And something sweet to end the meal was

                                                                  Leche flan P45 

    When we first saw this, we thought that it won’t taste good since it has a dark color so BF let me taste it first and it was surprisingly good. I love the texture, can be a little bit sweet for some but I like it, but yes for the price I think it’s too much. Of course it gave me a chance to take pictures with the phone I’m reviewing and so far I’m loving it, I just wished that it had more camera settings or features.

  We had a few drinks from Figaro before we went our separate ways, still playing with the camera.

                            His and Hers - Milkshake something P135 each

                   

*  Food shots taken with the Nokia E72 

 

    Total amounted to almost P300 for the Binalot. If I’m craving for something like this again, I’d definitely eat there again and bring the BF along. I’m glad despite it being pricey, we weren’t disappointed with the food.

Till then!

Meow..Meow..

Nokia E72 review – camera testing

 

   Hello everyone! It’s a Monday and it’s a holiday here in the Philippines, though I still have to go to work but I don’t mind since I get paid for it.

    Here’s another post review about the Nokia E72, first off all I stand corrected when I said that the E72 doesn’t support the Skype app, it actually does and it works pretty fine, though I have to admit I prefer the Skype feature in the N900, as for the E72, I prefer using the Yahoo Messenger chat.

 

                  I tried taking pictures, here’s how it would look like:

                                            My Cat Tabby with flash low light

                                                Normal Indoor light, no flash 

                                  My Piccolo, no light with flash – not bad

                               The blue tooth, no flash, office indoor lights

  Mostly, I’ve done Indoor photos only will try to shoot outdoors by tomorrow. So far, the camera quality is really good. BF and I loves the camera quality definitely, as for me I’d hope there would be more artistic camera settings, like lighting and stuff. 

   As for the battery life, it lasts for 2 days max with texting, calling, browsing and taking photos, not bad. Battery life is the most important factor, but I’ll try to do some testing again with music player and see how long it will last me. I don’t want to mess with the phone that much since it is not mine, but gawd! I’d really love to have this phone so bad, haha. Now I’m sounding like I won’t be returning this noh? haha, of course I will! It’s just a part of me loving this phone so much and slowly getting attached to it. That’s the bad part of being a reviewer I guess, but then at least it makes you think of what product to buy, test out for quality, blah blah blah. So, that’s all for now, will try to see other things about the phone.

 

Till then!

Meow..Meow..

Nokia E72 – Phone impressions and other features

 

  A relaxing Sunday to all! As promised, I will do my  best to make an in-depth review of a day to day basis with the Nokia E72. I had a chance to play with the phone today and before anything else, I have to admit, I love the phone so much, it suits my needs, love the style but the price as I saw in the mall does not love me that much. Hahahaha!

  First Impressions with the E72

  Physical design:

•  Stunningly sleek and thin – the metal cover gives it a nice Ooomph to it! does not look tacky at all.
• QWERTY layout is very nice, not really that small even if you have big fingers. The feel of the qwerty is very durable.
• Doesn’t feel heavy at all.
• Looks very professional but not complicated which is a MAJOR plus for me.

     Features / Basic specs:

• Speakers are averagely good, not too loud or soft, just right.
• It has a flashlight – very bright
• 5MP LED with flash, front camera – YES front camera!
• Panoramic view – will check further
• 128MB RAM, 256MB phone, microSD up to 16GB
• 3.5mm audio jack, microUSB
• 2.36” screen, 320×240 pixels
• 1500mAh battery

        OS:

• Symbian OS v9.3 – on first hand it was really fairly easy to use, compared with the N900 which was confusing for me at first.

    Here’s how the main menu homepage looks like

                                                                  Simplified!

You can switch to Personal use or Business use (the one with the arrow black and white thumbnail.) I think if email is one of the things that is important for you, this phone will suit you well. My contact says, she uses this phone for her emailing business, I get what she means now.

  Other features:

  Basically, here’s how facebook will look like *images were taken via internet

                          If you prefer a full view HTML sorry, not in this phone :(

  My needs for a phone sure has changed, before I just wanted a basic phone with a good MP3 player, blue tooth and a decent camera. But now, i didn’t realize that I needed a phone to browse stuff online basically – ANYWHERE with a good wifi hot spot in malls or at work. And as a blogger, I need a good quality camera for my blog posts a decent 5MP sure is fine with me.

   Well anyway continuing with the phone features, here’s how the menu would look like

I was also able to try the email, and it works fine, I couldn’t figure out the email set up as seen in the main menu, so I opted to just search it in the internet thumbnail and it worked. I just saved it as bookmark so it would be easy for me next time I check.

This is the office menu, and my favorite here would be the Dictionary feature, just type in the word and you have a portable dictionary within your reach, very accessible if I may say.

  Chatting:

   I was hoping that this phone supports Skype like the N900 since most of my friends are on skype but then again at least it supports Yahoo Messenger, I had to download this via the OVI store which was pretty easy to install actually.

  BF and I chatted with our phones last night and it was sure convenient to chat in my room, love WIFI!

   Other things I downloaded through OVI store is the SIM CITY app, it works fine, though I have to get how the game works first, but what’s important that it runs smoothly. Another thing which I tried was the youtube feature, I searched for my favorite song, which is the Bang Bang by Knaan and I’m impressed, loading was sure fast, music was loud enough but I noticed that you can’t watch videos with it. Hmm?

  For my social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, email it works perfectly fine. I also tried if I can surf digg.com and was happy that it works with the E72. So it covers all my basic needs which is definitely great!

  I am enjoying the phone definitely and will try to see what else is new or interesting to feature with the E72.

Till then!

Meow..Meow..

Nokia E72 – my 2nd phone review

 

  Happy Weekend my readers! How did the week end for you? Mine has been great! I was granted another phone review and this time, it’s a kind of phone that’s close to what I’ll be buying soon. Huge thanks to WOM/World Nokia, Paul and Katie. So here’s the happy girl who got her package yesterday at BF’s office.

    I planned to have my identity to be a secret but then again! haha! Hello eye bags! XD This was at Jollibee Alphaland where we had dinner. For some reason, I was more excited now than my first N900 review (I don’t know why).

                                   BF took a picture of me unpacking the package

      I was like OMG! A different box? I was expecting a torn, used up box like with the N900. I thought all reviewers/ bloggers get that kind of box since it’s just for trial.

                                      Swwwweeeeeet! looks like a brand new box

         Okay, when I saw this, why did I fall in love with this phone instantly?

Closer look of the phone itself:

    Then I fell in love even more, it was so sleek, shiny and looks so professional ♥

Other surprises inside the box that I wasn’t expecting at all were these:

         It comes with a white pouch and white phone accessory. It also came with a 4GB Mini SD card with it, I didn’t have to use my sd card in my phone. I really felt pampered, giving me accessories like these and up to this point, I wonder why? They could just give me the same box like before. Because, I am loving the phone even more, why? look further how the phone looks like.

                                                                        Blue tooth 

  This is pretty okay, the feel when in your ear  is a bit wobbly. I tried listening to music with it and it’s very clear. I have yet to try calling someone with this device.

                                                   Other accessories in the box 

*the first clear photos were taken by BF with the Nokia N97 mini head on over to Proud2beGeek's blog here

More photos of the unit using my 5130 XpressMusic phone:

         Very slim, but honestly I would’ve preferred the black over the white one. 

               Back part, the case is steel very shiny and easy to remove

First few things I was able to try were taking pictures, it was rather slow but not bad since it  has a 5MP with LED, texting feature is different. I thought it was the same as with the N900 messaging feature but I didn’t mind. Third is music, the music player is far more better than the N900, but I still have to check out a few things about it. Fourth is surfing, well of course it’s only good for browsing, since my needs are mostly just browsing the net like Facebook, Twitter and email, the E72 serves well. You can’t chat though, unlike the N900, but it’s okay since I’m always in the office anyway. It’s just a matter of finding a good wifi spot and update your social networks.

I am still setting up the email, I can’t seem to browse it for now, would have to check the manual I guess or google it. I think this phone is good for when you need email on the go. And what’s good about a QWERTY phone? Texting is faster indeed. By the way, this phone has a flash light feature which is so bright, a good plus for me when I need to go to the bathroom at night, because light switch is too far. If you can notice the middle part (black button), it works as a sensor, which I find it weird, though you may need the sensor when taking pictures (zooming).

For a blogger this phone can be good for a phone and camera in 1 (more pictures coming up.)

So far for the calling feature BF’s end seems pretty clear, voice reduction maybe? Not so sure, will test it out more for 2 weeks. It seems that this phone, features and style fits my personality. Waaaaa! I don’t want to get too attached, I may be a DATE sufferer sooner or later, haha.

 

So that’s day 1! I will still test the email set up and post features for E72

Anyone owns this phone? how long  has it been with you? Care to share?

 

Till then!

Meow..Meow..