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amawanqa
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@ Jojo,
Wow, you have a good knowledge of performance pipework brands, matey. 
Kerker are still around, but not one of the main players like they used to be back in the 80's and 90's. Remus are strong in Europe, particularly with BMW bikes. They are made in Ausria and although they are not the most performance-related pipes, their build quality (usually stainless steel construction) is very good. Termignoni are the pipes of choice if one owns a Ducati, although they do make for other bikes too. It's kinda like UIQ and  , or S60 and Nokia; one's pretty much synonomous with the other.
Similar with Suzuki superbikes and Yoshimura exhausts too. Yoshi have always been amongst the world's best and the fact that they still build the pipes for Suzuki's officia MotoGP team says it all.
But as regards the best mass-produced performance pipes, Akrapović are probably still (currently) the world leaders.
@ JK,
LMAO, yeah it must be!  You're sharp. I shoulda really picked up the 'visual connection' there, particularly the way the ball was mauled a la 'continents'.
@ da brixsta,
Enkosi. What I find the hardest to prevent when taking many of these bright daylight cellphone pics is the amount of light which gets reflected from white surfaces. I had to take quite a few pic of each bike from different angles to get a decent shot without being over-exposed.
Over-exposure often seems more of a challenge with this cellphone than under-exposure. (although the latter can be almost as frustrating when those horrid blue specs sometimes manifest in low light conditions..)
I'll never forget the first time I took the mrs for a ride on a superbike. It was back in 2002 and one of my friends in SA had allowed us to use his bike for the duration of our holiday time in East London. Even though it was a very powerful bike, the last thing I would've want to do is give into selfish adrenalin and testosterone commands and blast along the twisty roads around the East Coast Resorts. She was entrusting me to respect her inexperience and limits, which of course I did.
People who try 'impress' any newbies who are riding pillion on a superbike by going balls-out to scare them sh!tless don't bring out the best in me. It's so very different when one is in control of such a powerful superbike as compared to being pillion.
@ jmash,
Eish boet, 4 years and counting is a phenomenal innings for a cellphone in anyone's language. It's good to hear that generally that smartphone has served you so well.
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amawanqa
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Taken in central London, close to Oxford and Regent Streets, using the N73's integrated sepia effect in the first pic. I thought this effect worked well on the Tudor architecture in this pic:
Around Trafalgar Square with Nelson's Column, and the SA embassy adjacent to it:
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amawanqa
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Not the greatest N73 pics out there, but one gets an idea of the experience that is part of the 6 levels of stuff in Hamleys Toy Store, Regent Street, central London:
Got place for a life-size giraffe fluffy toy in the house? That'll be a cool £1500 sir...
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amawanqa
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Palm Treo 680 & P900 physical size/layout comparison pics:
Not bad pics taken with its limited VGA camera. A damn shame that such relatively new handset is equipped with something this lowly, even if the handset's targeted to the obvious business-orientated fraternity.
Both have some girth of note.. :
Stylii:
The Treo's larger stylus is far nicer to use and its chrome accents look cool:
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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From: South Africa
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@ama.Those are really great pics boet,especialy those first two taken at central London...Too nice!
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*Jojo*
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@popsy - Thanks ! But I still admire your WIT when it comes to superbikes matey . . . your explanation on those exhaust-pipe-brands are very well-detailed and the latest one too  !
Nice shots ! I really liked those architectural-marvels edifice(s)-designs pal !
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Tsepz_GP
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Ama I thnk you should start charging people to see those great pics u take,theres a missing market for people like you: Cellphone Photography is it  ,seriously,with some of those pics i could swear i was looking at a Postcard or something,once again a great pics from you. Im dissapointd a bit at wat Palm did to their Treo 680, i thnk the 650 looked so much better, 680 looks outdated next to that well looked after P900.
Anyway since im new to owning a Smartphone i have had to learn to get used to somethngs like managing RAM which is fine BUT managing it with Java applications like Opera Mini is the worst,i didnt know Opera Mini was SOOO ram hungry, the other day whilest runing ONLY operamini my ram went from 13mb down to a sorry 486kb can anyone explain why its like this? With other appz like DivX, lcg Jukebox,Opera8.65 ,MobileDVD etc. . .i dnt have that problem,i can happily run 5applications at once as long as opera mini isnt any of them,y is it so dam ram hungry?
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amawanqa
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@ gola, Jojo & Gucci:
LOL, thanks guys.
I have to re-iterate though that it often takes quite a few attempts to get a desired pic effect and composition, and one's input options are of course more limited with cellphones. However, it's great to see that there are more settings being included.
For example, the N73 has 'scene mode', flash mode, self-timer, exposure compensation (which I'm fiddling more and more with), white balance, colour tone, and of course ISO light sensitivity, which I'm also fiddling with quite a bit. Practice, trial n' error with a bit of press n' pray thrown in the mix and hey presto..! 
Funny thing is, in the past I never had any real interest in the finer aspects of photography at all, before cameraphones came along. For sure I've taken plenty with 35mm and digital camera on all of Wanqa's Travels over the years, but never bothered to take things further.
With cellphones and my appreciation for such what they can all do I've taken a far greater interest with cellphone pics, trying to maximise what they can deliver.
I'm keen to see what the K850i can do when it's out later this year. Wonder what the next cellphone cam benchmark will be after the N95/G600/K850i crop... the pace of this evolving technology is exciting stuff...
@ Gucci,
Dang, wish I had the expertise as to why Opera Mini seems so memory-hungry on your 'Neitie'; perhaps Darth Mario or Francois could enlighten us more.
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Kryptik
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Howzit all, hope everybody's doing well. It's been a hectic week to date, too much to be done in too short a space of time... par for the course really, given this time of the academic year. Anyway... Gucci, i agree that Opera Mini consumes RAM bigtime! Why not give UCWeb a try? It's easy to run and works very sparingly with your RAM 
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GUCCI: Don't know anyone using five applications at once. Opera Mini never hangs, occassionally it would quit by itself- maybe I need to check it's RAM usage.
Have to agree with the krypsta, UCWEB is an able alternative to Opera Mini. Only beef I have with it would be its formatting of pages.
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Falcon786
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Brix actually five apps is not as many as you may think i sometimes have live pvr,radio(or music player),opera mini,mxit,and gmail running in the back ground.although i usually log of mxit if not chatting.and obviously other normal apps such as call log,contacts,messaging,gallery. etc are used during this time.
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amawanqa
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Some P900 pics around Romford in Essex. Sorry for the poor VGA quality, but the N73's battery was somewhat exhausted by the time I took these:
Even 'black cabs' are advertising phones now:
New HTC Touch is much smaller than I imagined:
The W660i now available. A shame there's no autofocus like the W610i and K550i 2mp cams...:
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YOU GUYS MUST WATCH 'THE DEPARTED' DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORCESE STARRING JACK NICHOLSON,MATT DAMON,MARK WALBERG,LEONARDO DI CAPRIO,MARTIN SHEEN AND ALEX BALDWIN.I REALLY ENJOYED IT.TONIGHT I FELT LIKE SOMETHING REALLY EASY-GOING AND RETARDED,SO MR BEAN'S HOLIDAY IT IS.
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amawanqa
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More iffy P900 VGA pics:
K510i has dropped drastically in price:
Taking a leaf out of 's book and giving free portable speakers with some music phones, Nokia?
Thought of Gucci and The Brixster when I saw this local shop:
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