BADODONG » gadgets http://www.badodong.com Pira-pirasong kaalaman at kakaibang karanasan ni Badong Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Laptop is fixed! http://www.badodong.com/2009/09/06/laptop-is-fixed/ http://www.badodong.com/2009/09/06/laptop-is-fixed/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:51:32 +0000 admin http://www.badodong.com/?p=145 Finally got my laptop back. The girlfriend finally took it with her to work and we got it back yesterday, three days letter.  It’s been restored and we’re back to having Vista for our OS. I formatted this thing before and installed XP instead. I think that was what caused all of the problems in the first place. None of the drivers were really compatible with XP because the laptop was made for Vista.

Anyway… I am missing all of my files, but the person who fixed the laptop for us (for free!) backed up all of the files and will let me recover them soon enough.

I am back FB! Here I come Envoy! Wahaha!

]]> http://www.badodong.com/2009/09/06/laptop-is-fixed/feed/ 0 I’m a Rok’r http://www.badodong.com/2009/07/13/im-a-rokr/ http://www.badodong.com/2009/07/13/im-a-rokr/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:28:53 +0000 admin http://www.badodong.com/?p=112 Late last year, I purchased a second hand O2 XDA IIs phone. I told myself that this was the phone for keeps.

o2 xda IIs

Because of the scratches, I thought about having it masked or recolored or something like that.  I found out earlier on that there were no available replacement housing for this unit so having it masked or have some blown art done on it was the way to go.

I never got around to having that done.

This PDA phone came with a stylus (that I lost) so what I did was treat it like it was an iPhone. Yes, I used my thumb and index finger to navigate through the menus and even to tap out my messages. I had a touch screen phone! Haha.

On Friday afternoon, Vera excitedly told me about a phone she had seen at work.  The Motorola Rokr E8.  Apparently it was being marked down and for the features it carried, it was a steal. We agreed to go hunting for it on Saturday.  Timing! One of the buttons on my phone had actually fallen out, the Home button I think it was.

After lunch on Saturday, we headed out to Greenhills. After walking around and haggling with several  stall owners, we finally found one who sold us the Rokr’s at the price very near to what we wanted.  We got three. One for me, one for Vera, and one for her Kuya Bads.  We also bought pouches: black for me, red for her, and gray for him.

Motorola_Rokr_E8_UI

The phone goes all black when it’s locked.  And the keypad control changes depending on the phone mode as you see in the above photo.  It has 2g internal memory, and will hold up to 6 or 8g more of external memory via micro SD card.  It also has a 2MP camera.

So this isn’t a new model, but so what? It’s awesome!

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