Mimi on August 12th, 2010

This video started as a simple requirement for a series of reviews of the HTC Desire that I did for Maxis Communications.

Long after the review programme was over, the video just seemed to have taken a life of its own. First off, there was this tweet that popped out of nowhere on the 14th of [...]

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Mimi on July 7th, 2010

The sky was so dramatic this morning that I couldn’t resist taking a few shots using my HTC Desire.
This photo was the best among the lot, unedited in any way other than addition of my site’s URL and resizing for the web (please click on the photo below to see a bigger version [...]

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Mimi on June 23rd, 2010

It was one of the most surreal moments of my life. There I was online Monday morning, holding my breath as I waited for the clock to strike 11 am, staring at the computer screen, refreshing my Twitter page every 10 seconds or so. Finally, the big moment came…and I stared in disbelief at Maxis’ [...]

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Mimi on June 20th, 2010

Long before the term ’smartphone’ was invented, I knew I needed one. I was always lugging around an organizer of some sort and I’ve always wished there was a faster, more efficient way of keeping track of my appointments, phone numbers, and other frequently used data. And I’ve always thought perhaps there was some way [...]

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Mimi on June 17th, 2010

My 20th-June deadline is looming and the past few days have been hectic like nobody’s business. So in lieu of a long, wordy review, here’s a quick mano-a-mano comparison on the key features of HTC Desire vis-a-vis those of the iPhone 3Gs:-

Features

HTC Desire

iPhone 3Gs

Touchscreen
Yes
Yes

Camera
Yes, 5-megapixel
Yes, 3-megapixel

Ability to shoot videos?
Yes
Yes

Built-in video editing software
No
Yes

Built-in sharing from Photos [...]

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