Heylo :),

First up, a bit of feel-good on being able to post so soon after my last post, *sigh* my average posting time had ballooned to months if not years - but the important thing is there is improvement, yesh !

Coming back to the topicz, as probably some of you would know, I am a die-hard (and boley toh die, die hard) gadget aficionado with the bug having bitten me ever since I can remember which is a longg time when you are 30 years old :). But, instead of spending money hither and thither, I prefer the Value-for-money mode, each of my gadgets (to my mind, IMHO :)) is a deeply researched purchase, though very few make sense to normal people, like my wife :) ! Just to list the gadgets I have had the privilege of owning since time broke this head are:

1. Windows PCs and laptops (they are gadgets awwright !!) , right up from the old '98 to the new -1 Windows 7 :) !
2. Linux laptop (heh ! just once and thankfully never again :))
3. Motorola E1000 (My 1st phone wayyy back in 2005 when I finally bought a mobile in London)
4. Motorola E398 (and it got stolen :()
5. Motorola RAZR L7 (you could see I was sold on Motorola, if only they had not screwed up post the RAZR show !)
6. Sony Ericsson W300i (you just had to love the fold design !!)
7. Blackberry 7100v (the set was white though :))
8. Blackberry curve 8310 *IronMan Red* (and this one also got lost in a Mumbai taxi)
9. Blackberry *2nd hand* waiting-for-a-new-phone 8310
10. Samsung Corby Pro B5310 (the worst disastrous purchase decision I ever made - guess this was the time touch-and-type bug bit me - pitiful Samsung Touchwiz software I tell ya !! - read here !)
11. Blackberry Torch 9800 (and there was light again ! bought at 24k from US and sold at 16k in India !)
12. iPad 1 16 GB 3G
13. A couple of wife's Blackberry Pearls and Bold 3 9780 :)
14. Samsung Galaxy Pro (and the addiction with Android begins !)
15. Nook Color hacktivated with Cyanogenmod 7 (thanks guys !!) to run Android Gingerbread 2.3.7
16. Tester for Nokia E6 (already running it for the 2nd week !)

So, 16 gadgets and a few more later, I have pretty much tasted most mobile (atleast the important ones !) and computer (Again, the most important one :)) operating systems and most importantly, understand them. But, as I see around, there are folks who keep struggling with small techie things and either give up or make a mis-infomed choice (like buying the BB Playbook or the newly 9900 - seriously !!). Ideally, there should be helplines which help out them folks, but unfortunately the world doesn't work the Meluha way (thanks to Amish Tripathi for that one :)) !!

Moreover, whenever I have helped somebody in "techie need" and it has ended well, I have always felt fab (who doesn't after a bit of social work gone well !).

And hence, here is the pitch - if you have any gadget query (have to buy a new phone, problem with messaging, speaker phone not working etc.) - post it in comments and I promise, I will get back to you as soon as I can !!

And yes, its free :), thankfully my consulting job pays more than enough for me to live on ! A Thank you though is always welcome and so is a bit of patience if my response is delayed due to my other commitments !!

Hope to help out some of you out there !!

Thanks,
Ranjan

So, hope