09.06.08

India: Primer dia a New Delhi

Posted in travel at 5:54 am by brainstorm

Despres del kitkat blogil motivat per problemes tecnics, torno a emetre… de moment en mode BETA i sense fotos, i ja que estem posats, sense accents

Si algu sap com posar accents en un teclat bluetooth DELL america i en una nokia 770, li agraire… merci plue pel teclat !

El vol

Virgin atlantic, compania aerea fins ara desconeguda per mi: Aquesta gent no es dedicava la venta de discos ? Virgin records ? Doncs tambe tenen aerolinees :S

Arribada

Despres de les obligades comprovacions del visat, omplert de formularis similars als d’USA pero sense tantes preguntes antiterrorista, ja soc dins !

Canvio euros per rupies… de sobte l’oficinista em dona dos feixos de bitllets que no m’esperava pas: El canvi esta bastant desigualat:

1000 rupies (Rs) -> 15 eur. Al donar-li 300 en 6 bitllets, em vaig trobar de sobte amb aixo:

TODO: foto feix bitllets
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09.05.08

India: Airtel.in GPRS mini-howto

Posted in gadgets, howto, inet, travel at 8:56 am by brainstorm

If you ever happen to need GPRS “MoBoffice” data connection in India with Airtel.in, keep in mind that after activating your pre-paid SIM-card you should:

Send an SMS message to 170 with text PLIVE
Dial *148# (toll free).
You will be presented a menu with 2 options: select 1, to activate Airtel Moboffice.
After 1 hour you’ll receive nearly 6 SMS’s with details on howto configure your mobile.
If you use a nokia770, make sure that the GPRS access point is airtelgprs.com and *not* airtelfun.com. Nokia 770 hacker edition has this outdated info by default and will not work out of the box :/

Airtel.in website is hugely undocumented on this aspect, I discovered this details (tricks?) by sending an email to Airtel.in support: 121@airtelindia.com :S

And btw, the tariff at the moment is 30 paisa for each 50KB you use… 100 paisa is 1 rupee, so to check your email and post a text entry on your blog costs you about 1 to 2 rupees… really cheap indeed !

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