Motorola.. In My Life

For those who don't know, Motorola has been a major part of my life, as well as my family life.

in the family, we had over 10 different Motorola mobiles until now.

It all started back in 1998, when my father got his Motorola D520 .. this one was rocking big, 2x12 characters monochrome screen, and .... it was the 1st device to have encrypted transmission of voice over the network!

(apparently, and the last :P).

Later, came my mum's Motorola Talkabout T180 .. this was an amazing


improvement. especially when it comes to the weight and size. and the one my mum had was fully black ... very stylish if i may say. I inherited

the phone after that, at the 1st times of my uni life, back in 2002.

That is, when the Motorola Timeport T250 entered the house:) this one


worth about 250 JD was acquired from FastLink with my dads post-paid line with only 20 JDs ... that was a rocking offer, for a rocking phone.

Tri-band, blue Optimax backlight (a.k.a laser in jordanian terminology ;) ). voice recording, built-in answering machine and voicemail, auto

answering, voice tag phonebook, and ever IR (which i never used). All of those were one of a kind features back in 2002. & despite the fact that

the mobile got stolen in 2003, my mum bought another similar one, and she still has it (but not use it).

Meanwhile, & since i'm obsessed with radio, I decided to run up for an FM Radio Mobile phone, my option was again the "KOOL" Motorola v2288. It was some sort of an advanced talkabout, with built-in FM

Radio & earphones, colored in Orange, with 2 rubber covers (when of them was the umniah kind of yellow :P). This phone was probably the most

powerful i ever had, it dropped several times from the 2nd and 3rd floor with no problems, I remember we even used to play volleyball with it :D
It brokeout at the end, actually, only the transmitter/receiver unit had, it still turned ON and OFF :D

The story continues with Motorola in my family, after got her Motorola L6 (or

actually i got her this as a birthday gift last year :P), a cool high-tech device all of today's usual stuff.

On the other hand, my story with Motorola continued after that with iDEN devices.
iDEN, a technology from Nextel and Motorola, available in Jordan throughout Xpress Telecom. runs on awesome powerful Motorola devices, with integrated GPS, data-packet and wap, to some multimedia cool stuff, you got it all there, with both direct phone calling and PTT.

A part of Project BiSCA took advantage of this technology, and i still keep my Motorola i265 device until now, and use it for mobile internet surfing, as well as PTT, phonecalls, and the GPS features.

I got board of this i265 actually, and aiming for an i850 ... if any one has got a used one, please don't hesitate contacting me :D

Mobile Radio Vs. Mobile TV Streaming

We have been witnessing lately the live TV Streaming on mobile over GPRS technology around the world's GSM networks

I still dunno how much of a feasible things this is! apart from the opinion of researchers in this domain's idea , I have never, ever seen anyone using this service around here in jordan, despite the fact its available on all the GSM mobile networks operating, nor i've seen any one using it in Europe!

Maybe having a radio streaming service is more efficient, convenient, and feasible. and lets think about it for a lil' bit!

What Radio over GPRS/EDGE would mean for the nation as a service?
- Having Radio available everywhere! without any area limitations, and without reception problems when you're traveling. Maybe having the in-car integrated mobile phones benefiting from this service to listen to the radio stations over GPRS/EDGE whenever the station's signal gets weaker and RDS-AF didn't get to receive a better signal.

- This will enable the radio stations broadcasting on a nation wide coverage through GSM Networks.

- In case of listening through a headset, its more feasible to listen to radio over GPRS (just like listening to a Mobile's FM Radio), than watching TV through it.

- Having it as a service would most probably insure having it at a low affordable price, especially when compared with TV Streaming over GPRS, which is alot more costy for both the customers and the operators (where infrastructure costs are kind of limited).


There might be mobile streaming some softwares around like the J2ME MFRadio, The Symbian specificVRadio, and the Window Mobile specific Mortplayer , but a software-only concept has a lot of limits, while Having it as a service would change all the measures regarding Radio over GPRS.
MFRadio for example, is an open source project of a software used by the Russian mobile operation MegaFon, for a value-added service of this kind. Thus, the service motivated the software, and not vis a vis in this case.
Having it as a service, with a specific protocol can even make special in-car integrated telephony & Audio systems get united, having the car computer switching to the radio station over GPRS in case no clear radio reception is available in the area of driving.

who knows, maybe we'd have this becoming a reality one day :)

Until then, lets see this nice attempt of streaming through a Windows Mobile PDA, that broadcasts whats being streamed through GPRS over an FM signal modulator built-in the PDA, and thus received through the car radio. cool stuff, but very complicated.

Radio Guide Update: Amen FM in Irbid on 89.7 FM

The Police Radio Station, Amen FM (أمن FM), started today (or actually partally yesterday), the transmission in Irbid and the area around it on 89.7 FM.

The ads company supposed to announce this on the ad boards in irbid, apparently didnot do its job, and no ads are there, yet. But the mouth-to-mouth news started between the people, and its doing well ever since this morning apparently.

More & More on Amen FM

Queen Rania replies on her commentators with a new video

After over 1.1 million views and around 5000 comment on Her Majesty's 1st video deputing after the creation of Her Channel on youTube last week.

Queen Rania replies with a 2nd video, watch it here:



And thanks to the Royal Hashemite Court for the trust in our jordanian blogosphere :)

SoftFeeder .. for hungrey software diggers

My ex-university colleague, peer at work, and partner in Project BiSCA, Ehab Al-Hakawati, has recently launched his own website, SoftFeeder.com

The website was fully programmed by ehab on J2EE Technologies, no Ready CMS, no Ready-made blog software. 100% his own code. As well as his design (well, with some icons inspired and gripped from here and there).

The website is mainly oriented towards the software apps and utilities hungry computer users. As it mainly feeds its visitors with download link-outs and description for softwares as they're released.

Last but not least, the website has an interactive commenting platform for its members, and an RSS feed to keep its visitors updated with what's hot and what's not around and about.

The site's URL is: www.softfeeder.com

Oh... its been ages since i've posted a geeky post :)

n@simjo 3.0

Yup...

As promised, a new version of blogger is finally there running on my blog, with a new RSS Feed as well (please update your RSS if your still using the previous atom.xml one), and all the new blogger features.

Also, a notable change in design and blog make over was done (Apparently, no more coral pinkish color :D). I hope the annoyers who didnt like the previous theme would like this one :P

del.icio.us bookmarks are also ON now, and add this will help you bookmark any post on a big variety of web networks, from your account on Google, Yahoo and even Facebook.

Hopefully, more would be coming soon around my blog, like moving my Jordanian Airwaves guide in here. and adding some hotlinks, and labeling old posts.
Its just that i'm not having that much time to do it all, so bare with me. I'm still accepting your suggestions.

Last but not least, this make over got me much more less rating on google. despite all the URLs are the same!!!!! I got really confused from this, and i'm feeling pretty sad about it:(

Queen Rania's channel on Youtube

Check the channel here, it already had over 47000 hits & over 160 comments on the video and almost 100 on the channel (Very interesting ones if i might say!)

This is what i call Web 2.0 :)

its amazing how this is having a big buzz on the bl og os ph ere :) ) ) Even before the written and audio media.... and hey, forget about the visual one!

Good Morning your majesty I know you read our Jordanian blogosphere

Umniah rocks the GSM Market in Jordan!

ومنذ الإعلان عن العرض، يؤكّد العموش توافد المواطنين الراغبين في حيازته منذ ساعات الصباح الباكر وحتى قبل افتتاح المعارض يومي الخميس وأمس السبت، وخصوصاً معارض الشركة في عمان في الشميساني والجاردنز وكذلك الأمر في معارض الشركة في إربد والعقبة.

وأشار العموش الى أنّ الشركة منذ يوم الخميس قامت ببيع نحو 20 ألف خط ضمن العرض الجديد في جميع أنحاء المملكة ما وصفه بأنه "مستوى قياسي للمبيعات".

وأكد في الوقت ذاته أن الشركة ستعمل خلال الأسابيع القليلة المقبلة على طرح عروض جديدة من شأنها تخفيف الضغط غير المسبوق على عرض "خط مستحيل 10".

وعدا عن العرض الجديد تقدم شركة أمنية التي يبلغ عدد مشتركيها اليوم 1.3 مليون مشترك 5 عروض رئيسة ضمن فئة المدفوع مسبقاً وعرضين رئيسين لفئة الاشتراكات الشهرية في سوق يدور في فلكها قرابة الـ 30 عرضاً خلوياً تتبع أربع شركات.

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و هكذا بنحب نحكي للأخت زين.... بس بلاش :)

More about this topic.

UPDATE: Just got those leaked photos from Umniah's showroom security cameras :D ENJOY!




As for me, i'm already an Umniah Subscriber for over 2.5 years now ... and i have FREE phonecalls to all Umniah number :) and 0.06 JD to all other numbers :)

بالثانية من أول ثانية

Earth Hour 2008

Since almost nobody blogged about it around here in jordan (sorry dima dudette for forgetting about you at the beginning), and since this happens to take place right in the day that is my birthday.

I hope some people, and you, my dear readers would be aware enough to get involved in Earth Hour, that would take place next saturday, the 29th of March 2008. at 8 PM Your local time, all around the world, hour by hour, country by country, all around the world.

Get involved and see the difference you can make in fighting the global warming.



& hey, maybe natalie imruglia will give you a kiss :D
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JO Magazine's ignorance of the "Trust Bus Accident"

After the sad accident with Trust's Aqaba-Irbid bus, and the 25 lives lost in it.
and after several bloggers blogged about the accident and Trust Transport Co.... and others who deleted their posts for one reason or another!

I got a phone call from someone at JO Magazine, who was interested in making a feature about this accident, and asked me several question, some were already answered in my blog post, others were further explained, and yet other were exclusively said in that phonecall.

The person didnt call again, and unfortunatelly, when i bought this month's JO Magazine, the topic was totally ignored, not even a single printed line mentioned this accident, its life loses or any abstracts about the story ,,,, not even in the blogs reaction page!

Interesting!

I'm still wondering, what ever happened to the topic, who took the decision behind not publishing anything about it. Did the company or its owners have a hand in that!?

I wanna know!

Can anyone please tell me! ... or dare to tell me!
and i dont think an answer of "It wasn't that much of an important topic" is either logical or accepted!