What you bought this week

[R a g h u]

I wouldn't invest 70k on that for sure. Got them after a hefty discount through the diwali employee offer. Can't reveal the price ..sorry for that.

 

And coming to the experience, I watched a movie for some time and played Call of Duty: Ghosts MP sometime back..playing MP games on it will stress you out very fast. I played for like an hour+ and when I removed them..I felt..weak.Playing Single Player on it isn't as stressful as playing Multiplayer. Watching movies is fine..you feel as though you are sitting in a theater. Didn't try 3D yet..will update once I do that.

 

And yes, I bought 2 of them.One is a gift to a friend.

 

@Everyone,

 

Thanks

 

@Athek

 

You can come over to my place and check them out.

 

EDIT: Also, forgot to mention that another downside is the rubber flap that we have to attach to block light..it would have been better if flaps are permanently attached.

Edited November 6, 2013 by R a g h u

[kemosabe]

 

Awesome stuff dude. The white PS3 looks great

 

thanks, yeah its a beauty

[AtheK]

I wouldn't invest 70k on that for sure. Got them after a hefty discount through the diwali employee offer. Can't reveal the price ..sorry for that.

 

And coming to the experience, I watched a movie for some time and played Call of Duty: Ghosts MP sometime back..playing MP games on it will stress you out very fast. I played for like an hour+ and when I removed them..I felt..weak.Playing Single Player on it isn't as stressful as playing Multiplayer. Watching movies is fine..you feel as though you are sitting in a theater. Didn't try 3D yet..will update once I do that.

 

And yes, I bought 2 of them.One is a gift to a friend.

 

@Everyone,

 

Thanks

 

@Athek

 

You can come over to my place and check them out.

Oh would love to, will def come over some day. Only downside i see is that this is 720p, great for games, but would have love to be able to see Full HD movies on it.

[sameuun]

true that ,

i was about to hit that point,

[sameuun]

sell me one if its around 15 k, so called heavy employee discount

[Bird Bird Bird]

Thanks guys ... and great buys birdy , dat Superman logo thing looks sweet.

Birdy as usual

And Shadoken

Danke guys.

 

I bought a 3BHK flat this Diwali. Will post pics when I get possession next week.

Super grats !

 

Rocksmith 2014 (Bad news: Need to buy a new guitar the headstock piezo pickup not working well with the game)

Shanti, itni saari hobbies ke saath tu hum sab ko embarrass kar raha hai.

 

Got these today

Couple of Head Mount Display's

f**k ME SIDEWAYS !

 

Something else turned up yesterday as well, though not as awesome as the above buys (and the HMD in particular):

 

 

 

Accessories:

 

 

Moko Slim-type case, a 4GB card for rooting and installing CWM (and also CM if needed). A 32GB card for all the movies and comics (will be replaced with a 64GB soon )

 

 

Been playing for some 6-7 hours. First impressions so far:

 

 

Pros:

- Perfect size for movies and comics and books (8.9 inches)

- Brilliant screen (1920*1280). One would be hard pressed to get a screen like this in a VFM segment.

- Expandable memory - can't say how much I miss this in the current breed of tablets.

- Snappy OS. Latest update adds Google Play support, so you can download as much as you want.

- Light to hold, so no tired arms.

- Good PDF handling, with bookmarking and annotation support.

- CBZs look STUNNING when viewed with the internal reader. Absolutely stunning. Compared with ComicRack and Perfect Viewer, but nothing comes close to the native handling of CBZs. Page turns look really cool, with a translucent effect. Lovely stuff !

- Downloaded apps are automatically shared/moved to internal memory (16/32 GB), so no need to move to SD Card (and no option as well. 3rd party moving apps don't work).

- Stereo speakers hidden behind a single grille. Ideally a bi-grille would have been better, but I'm happy with the sound. Notifications are LOUD (and I do mean LOUD). Music/movies sound adequate. Was watching Pacific Rim and had to tone down the volume a bit.

- Even though there's no native MKV handling, 1080 rips are a treat to watch with aftermarket players . 720 ones, well, are generally stretched (higher screen res). I think the close distance of watching really outlines the difference between 720 and 1080.

- Multiple profiles are possible, with content filtering. So you can have guest mode, child mode etc.

 

Cons:

- Proprietary 30 pin cable. Given that B&N is shutting it's hardware shop, you WILL need to stock up on proprietary cables.

- Runs on ICS (4.0.4), which is sorely lacking in customization (already missing DashClock).

- No native CBR handling (as RAR is a proprietary format. Broken since 2.1 update). So you need to convert your stuff to CBZs.

- With side-loaded CBZs and PDFs, no native thumbnail generation (although PDFs and other formats like Mobi/Epub etc can be tweaked with Calibre to include metadata and thumbnails). All you can see is a question mark with the name at the bottom. Not the most elegant solution. Also no CBZ organization, so you cannot sort by series or date published or characters etc (this is where ComicRack shines). Major bummer given that the CBZ rendering is possibly the best I've seen in any reader so far !

- "Recent apps" is f**ked up. No two doubts about it. The recent apps drawer will only show running apps if you're using the stock Nook launcher. With Apex/Nova, the drawer shows up blank. Another major bummer as multitasking gets difficult. To circumvent this, I've been using Swapps from the Play store. A slide from the trigger area brings up recent apps and one can pick easily, but killing them all in one go is not possible. Nevertheless, I should mention that I never came across any "memory" issues throughout my initial run. Even in places where I had to go the app drawer and click on the app again, it picked up right where I left it off. So memory handling is pretty decent.

 

Other considerations:

- Can be rooted easily. I've also installed CWM as the go-to recovery.

- Settings are customized, so you *might* miss some native Android options (ADB debugging is thankfully present). There's a CWM flashable ZIP on XDA which enables side-loading of APKs ("Trust/enable external sources"). Personally, the only gripe I have is that the statusbar does not show battery percentage and there's no option to enable it.

- CM 10.2 is easily installable to the internal memory, giving a more stock Android feel. Personally, not a huge fan of CM, but will check out SlimBean/CarbonRom once I get tired of the stock layout (or if the recent apps issue drives me crazy !).

- Battery life seems decent - not OMFGBBQAWESOME and not mind-numbingly bad, somewhere in between. More on this in a week or so.

 

[WMWM]

Congrats Birdy!!!

[Shantz]

@alekhwa tum to na hi bolo.. tumne kitne hi logon ko sharm se apna sir jhuka kar is thread se nikalne pe majboor kar diya hai.. ab to unhe ye thread kholne me bhi dar lagta hai

and awesome buys (and awesome pics) as usual

[Bird Bird Bird]

Congrats Birdy!!!

Animus

 

@alekhwa tum to na hi bolo.. tumne kitne hi logon ko sharm se apna sir jhuka kar is thread se nikalne pe majboor kar diya hai.. ab to unhe ye thread kholne me bhi dar lagta hai

and awesome buys (and awesome pics) as usual

Bargain hunting saar, bargain hunting.

Edited November 6, 2013 by Bird Bird Bird

[m-JeRi]

This came in mail today. Loving it so far.

Edited November 8, 2013 by m-JeRi

[Ne0]

Aaaaand its here ....First week of Wallet rape month has started.

 

 

dude, can you post a quick review ? I'm on the fence on buying this one, but a little confused as Note 3 looks damn attractive too (only that the data plans are through the roof for Note 3 , and comes with a 2 years contract at where i live).... I'm mainly skeptical about camera and screen .... have read enough reviews on both, but still let me know your thoughts based on your usage ....

 

 

and congrats

[Bird Bird Bird]

iPad Air !

[AtheK]

iPad Air

[m-JeRi]

.... Liking it.

[AtheK]

when iPad is so awesome, how can someone not like iPad Air. Really tempted to get one, but iPad 3 has lot of juice still left in it, maybe i will wait one more year.

[playstation]

 

Something else turned up yesterday as well, though not as awesome as the above buys (and the HMD in particular):

 

Been playing for some 6-7 hours. First impressions so far:

 

 

 

+1. I too got Nook HD 7 inch some time back...amazing VFM ...beautiful screen tried watching 1080p movies and once again really good resolution... I am surprised that this tablet did not manage to get much attention compared to neuxs,ipad .....specially after they open support for google play as well.

 

Will try with comic reader as well...which comic app you using??

 

Enjoy!

Also good that you inform about storing one or two cable for nook device as its closing....if cousin travels again to usa anytime soon will ask to grab one for me ...

 

 

Also Congratulations to others well well..raghu,shantz,m-jeri,sweetpoison...

[harjas]

congos for ipad air bhaiya but mila kaise yaha abhi launch ni hua

[Bird Bird Bird]

 

 

 

Something else turned up yesterday as well, though not as awesome as the above buys (and the HMD in particular):

Been playing for some 6-7 hours. First impressions so far:

 

 

 

 

+1. I too got Nook HD 7 inch some time back...amazing VFM ...beautiful screen tried watching 1080p movies and once again really good resolution... I am surprised that this tablet did not manage to get much attention compared to neuxs,ipad .....specially after they open support for google play as well.

 

Will try with comic reader as well...which comic app you using??

 

Enjoy!

Also good that you inform about storing one or two cable for nook device as its closing....if cousin travels again to usa anytime soon will ask to grab one for me ...

 

 

Also Congratulations to others well well..raghu,shantz,m-jeri,sweetpoison...

 

Ah ! Grats PS bhai.

I'm using ComicRack atm. Lets you organise comics by series/year etc. Still love the native CBZ rendering. Also grab a couple for me too!

 

Sent from my NOOK HD+

 

 

[playstation]

Ah ! Grats PS bhai. I'm using ComicRack atm. Lets you organise comics by series/year etc. Still love the native CBZ rendering. Also grab a couple for me too! Sent from my NOOK HD+

Thanks bro. Will try comicrack...as for cable..cool will let you know when and if cousin is there..

[Shadoken]

Holy sh*t people have gone bonkers this month , and teh next gen systems arent even out yet

 

Congos Raghu,Shantz,m-Jeri and sweet poison... HMZ omg

 

 

 

 

dude, can you post a quick review ? I'm on the fence on buying this one, but a little confused as Note 3 looks damn attractive too (only that the data plans are through the roof for Note 3 , and comes with a 2 years contract at where i live).... I'm mainly skeptical about camera and screen .... have read enough reviews on both, but still let me know your thoughts based on your usage ....

 

 

and congrats

 

I was thinking between these two phones as well. Note 3 tech is simply superb , i decided against it because I just didnt want to make the jump to a huge screen.(not to mention the wallet rape , its almost twice the price)

 

Am just loving the N5 , its just amazing to hold and the display is quite good. The camera does take a little time to focus though , but not a big deal breaker. Still very good . Honestly am not a big camera junkie , I see all these camera comparison vids with this and S4 nd all , and am like whats the difference ?