Imitate (Pirate) Nokia N95 Phone From China

China manufacturer technology is good, and I feel respect to their engineers! This is the first "real and workable" pirate Nokia mobile phone I seen, and it really work, with imitate to Nokia Symbian phone software graphical user interface.

See the first photo I captured with my lousy Panasonic DMC-LS2 macro mode, I think you should be able to tell this is Nokia N95. Pay attention to the N95 LCD display, the standby screen is Nokia latest standby interface where you could use the directional navigation pad to browse between the shortcut icon of SMS, Bluetooth, WAP, Calendar and etc.




Third photo, with the N95 keypad slide out!! Wow, again, are you able to tell is this N95 or pirate N95? Watch carefully the icon of the main menu, the design is "almost" identical to Nokia style, but not as detail and well-design per original Nokia N95.


Rear view of the pirate N95, it got camera with white LED flash, awesome?


Side view of the imitate N95, it got camera quick snap shortcut button and volume button. Oh no, now I realize I forget to snap another side of the N95 where it got flash memory card slot, USB connector for link to PC, and 3.5mm headphone female connector.







I tested and it got bluetooth feature. The camera is working too, I took a few photos with it, the quality of the photo is okay!


The intention of this photo is to show you the quality of the LCD display. Not bad, the color is 16-bit and backlight is good too. The menu icons are non-animated static photo only. I suspect they modify from the Symbian S40 firmware, because the icon and functionality is almost identical to S40 firmware.


Another close view of the "16-bit color" LCD display again. When display high complexity tone color, it a bit of washout. Anyway, it not as serious as photo show below, actually it just little washout and if not pay attention may be can't realize it at all.


Okay, that all the photos I took for this imitate Nokia N95. My bro's friend said it sell for RM650+ (bulk purchase may reduce price), and "imported" from China. If you interested, mmmm, I'll advice you don't buy it, the functionality is pretty okay, with all the multimedia (video, photo, music, camera, game and etc), bluetooth, SMS, MMS, WAP, Calendar and multi-language support. The quality is below par, the keypad tactile feedback is so so (and feel like won't last long), and the plastic quality is pretty bad. If you really want to own N95 (with minus Wifi and GPS features) with limited budget, then this is the best product for you. :P

Broadband Speed Test (ADSL, Streamyx, TMNet)

Do use TMNet Speedometer anymore, it a lousy bandwidth test site, give a try to SpeedTest.net, it great!!

With SpeedTest.net, you are not limited to Malaysia servers in Cyberjaya only, you even can test your bandwidth with server located in USA and Europe. I had tested my Streamyx broadband speed with Penang server, and surprisingly, my connection speed is almost close to 512kb/s downlink and 256kb/s connection speed!!



That why, you see in above screen capture, I rated Streamyx 4 stars, because it really exceed my expectation!

Again, to get the true performance of Streamyx bandwidth, we should test with Cyberjaya server too. I did it, and the result per show in figure below (it contain link to SpeedTest.net for more detail info):

It still provide competitive bandwidth compare to Penang server connection for my 512kbps Streamyx package.

I further clicked on the stat, wow, PenangFone is the best broadband provider (or ISP) you could find in Penang Malaysia!!! See it yourself from the chart!!

How Much You Understand About Fluorescent Light?

Do you know what the different between fluorescent and incandescent? The fluorescent is the long 4 foot cylinder tube light and compact fluorescent (CFL), while the incandescent is the dimmer light bulb, or the light bulb that generate heat and the light generated look yellowish.

What the different of compact fluorescent versus traditional four foot fluorescent? No different, both are base on same concept where the UV generated by argon gas (plus mercury as booster to improve the efficient of UV generated) hit the phosphors inside the tube wall, it generated cool white light. Visit How Fluorescent Light Work page for more info or if you prefer something easier to understand, visit HowStuffWorks Fluorescent.

The compact fluorescent basically is a fluorescent light system with all require part integrated (eg: ballast).

Visit Efficiency of fluorescent light compare incandescent, you may find a table compare different kind of lighting system. From that table, if you plan to use 2-3 compact fluorescent to light up your living room, better you go for traditional 4 foot fluorescent, where it provide better brightness and lower cost!

Beware of MSN Messenger Virus/Hacker

Beware of the MSN Messenger virus or hacker. Normally you will receive an offline message from your contact lists buddy ask to you check who deleted you from their MSN or who had blocked you from their contact list. Don't fall into the trick. Do you think Microsoft allow them to access the MSN database?

I received these kind of message from my friends few times and managed to capture a screen of it. What you could do is change your password frequently to avoid the hacker still keep your username + password so that they could access your account to send spam message.



Normally when your account being occupy by them, you won't be able to login your MSN account. May be these may warn you time to change your password!

White Dolphin?

This creature look like dolphin, but in white color. Is this albino dolphin??



Wait, this is not the only white dolphin, there are 2 of them.








Mmmm, I don't think this is albino dolphin, there is more than 2 in the photos below.



I did a searched at Google.com, cool, this is a whale. It is beluga whale, or commonly known as white whale, is an Arctic and sub-arctic species. For more info about this species of whale, may visit:
Wikipedia Beluga Whale
EnchantedLearning.com Beluga page
More images of Beluga Whale

CIMB Clicks Transaction Charge Info

I surfed through all CIMBClicks.com.my pages just hope to find out more information about the surcharge (or extra transaction charge) impose to users. Disappointed, I got nothing. Anyway, thank for the good customer support, I received replied mail from their email support. Share with everyone for the useful information.
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We wish to inform you that there is no charges for bill payment to MBF/AEON credit card. Only the below bill payment are charge with the service charge: -

- Lembaga Tabung Haji (RM 0.50 per transaction)
- Perbandanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) (RM 0.50 per trannsaction)
- Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) (RM 0.50 per transaction)
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (Long Distance Learning) (RM 2.00 per transaction)
- Malaysian Petroleum Club (RM 1.00 per transaction)
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For further information, there are no charges imposed for customer to reload their mobile via CIMBCLIKS.

Additionally, should you wants to perform fund transfer via Internet to other banks than the charges imposed are RM2.00. No charges will be incurred for fund transfer to other CIMB/BCB accounts.