Recent content by raj_pol

I had a Lumia 640 and another Lumia before that. Recently moved to a droid - frustrated with the lack of apps.

I have recently found that buying offline for many products give's better pricing. Case in point - an water purifier that I recently purchased plus additional free service offers which the larger retail chains (my case reliance offered). There is only a time till which they can use VC funding...

If you have not already bought - you can check the articles on live mint. They have a list of top term policies for various ages. Helpful read.

Agreed - my wife uses the same phone and it is much better than comparable phones so far as responsiveness goes.

Independence Day 2 - Disappointing. CGI heavy and was not so intense as the first one. Saw it in IMAX for the CGI and even the effects are not outstanding just good.

@cellar_door As I mentioned both uploads and downloads are counted by the network monitoring tools. Let me check for a month more

@prabs and @blr_p Yup mine is over wire and wife is wifi. Yes all devices are equipped with a counter and the counter measures both uploads and downloads and I have details down to each day. So. I am not sure where the gap is. Let me measure the same for 1 more month and then check.

@swatkats Bangalore

Surprising that so many members still think piracy is legit - yet many of these members would be willing to spend 50 K or more (sometimes much more) on the latest and greatest shiny hardware. Work and family does not give me the luxury of playing too much - but whatever I have played (recently...

Hi All, I have taken a new airtel connection - 40 MBPS with 100 GB data cap. Now I am suspicious of isp's so I had installed a network monitoring tool for both me and my wife. Our total came to around 60 GB whereas airtel shows around 85 GB used. Has anyone faced such issues before? Are they...

Captain America civil war - 6/10 X men - Apocalypse - 7.5/10

Kung Fu Panda - 6/10 . The movie was entertaining but somehow I missed a strong villain as in I thought the bull was a little weak compared to the Peacock and the Snow Leopard

@babhishek Thanks for the quick reply. @tech.addict I just want to make sure that I am not swindled - I mean I do not know the online retailers and I am looking at some American and German brands. I have checked and the brands do exist - just that I should not get duplicates or things like that...

One more thumbs up for Bali. Went during our honeymoon ;) lovely place and the nicest people I have ever met.

Hi All, Has anybody have any experience of purchasing from Amazon Global. I was looking at some lovely non expensive watches which can be delivered to Bangalore but not sure if it is a good idea.