Love the phone. Absolutely beautiful to hold and look at. I mean the build quality is the best I’ve ever seen. Cant say enough about the body of the phone and the screen. Brilliant. Swiping is different and takes a little time to get used to, but easily mastered. Just a matter of some short retraining I’d say. Comes pre loaded with just about everything you could practically need. If you want tons of apps / games you’d best look elsewhere because the ovi store for the N9 is hasn’t got much . It will  suite  someone  fine, if you not into apps. Good usable smartphone but not for gaming platform.  Camera is good, and battery life is better than a Nexus One that I have reviewed, so I’m happy. Not worried about the OS not lasting as the promised support will likely outlast the phone given the pace of smartphone development.

• QWERTY Keyboard
• 8 MP Camera with LED Flash and auto focus and 3264×2448 resoluton
• SMS, MMS, EMAIL, Push Mail, Voice Mail, Video Call
• Accelerometer sensor , which Auto-rotate
• Proximity sensor is Auto turn-off
• Boasts Touch sensitive controls
• Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI
• Tv out Via Composite & HDMI
• Casing, which is Anodized aluminum
• Black, Magenta and Cyan Clors
• Meego Powered OS
• 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, powered by VR SGX530 GPU and TI OMAP 3630 chipset
• Multi-touch input method
• Scratch-resistant surface
• Voice Command, Document Viewer
• Photo & Video editor, Flash Lite v4.0
• Audio, Video Recorder & Playback
• MP3, MP4 player
• MP3, WAV Ring tones, Vibration
• 3.5 mm Head Phone Audio Jack
• Speaker Phone and also playable as well as downloadable games
• Stereo FM radio with RDS & FM Transmitter
• Video and Photo Editor
• MicroSIM card is supported

2011 Christmas was not the ordinary traditional setting  for the Ross family which found themselves in another time zone.  Mauritius indeed, the seven day holiday was still in full swing.

They woke up early with excitement cos they heard a lovely story, Santa had a bit of trouble travelling with his reindeer in the heat so instead made a few adjustments and decided to pop by with his boat and deliver gifts to all the children visiting Club Med Resort La Plantation d’Albion.

In the pic above we escorting Santa to the main hall after his tiring boat trip and we all have a sing along together while he hands out gifts.

What a lovely day, girls were amazingly surprised with their gifts and lunch was awesome with so many choices and not forgetting the desert (I have a weakness so desert is always my favourite) Anyway I hope your day was super lovely with all your family members.

Well done  to everyone  who voted for our majestic Table Mountain! The announcement was 21:07 in  the V&A Waterfront. We were all  gathered  at Sevruga Shushi Restaurant, waiting for the announcement of  the  top 7 wonders of nature. It was a nervous, nail biting moment  but but some how I just had that feeling that Table Mountain will come out tops.

The  New7Wonders of Nature are as follows: Amazon, Halong Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Komodo, Puerto Princesa Underground River and  Table Mountain. I am proud to say that I was part of the Social Media Factory team that did the online campaign for this historical even.  Table Mountain is  360 million years old and is on of the oldest mountain on earth.

Social Media Factory in collaboration with Table Mountain Cableway  did a outreach programme to teach disadvantage children computer literacy and and getting them to vote. From February – November more than 120,000 unique visitors per month  was directed to www.votefortablemountain.com. A record breaking 3million votes was casted via the Mxit platform in one day. The Table Mountain fanpage reached an amount of 14,000 fans over a 8 month period and @votefortablemount twitter reached more than 2 million twitter users.

You can read more about the online campaigns and the outreach programme here

Saturday past was the big day for me, did the “I Ran-D For Hope” campaign. I woke up with a cough, headache and felt a bit flu-ish, however ,after a good ,healthy breakfast ,I felt good and ready for the day. My background , I am not professional runner and this was the first time I did a road run, this distance. The journey was from the foot of  Table Mountain to the RLabs office. While making my way to Table  Mountain, I realized, just what I got myself into,and the realization…there  is no way out “this is going to be a long day for me”.

The first stretch from Table Mountain to Mike Sports was down hill all the way .  Mike Sports was  the first water stop. I enjoyed the first stretch and we did it at a fast pace. When I came to Woodstock, I grew tired and my legs started to cramp, all that went through my mind was”  its still a long way home”. Then,Just when I felt like giving up the RLabs team, Hectic nine 9 and Fiona Fury( Table Mountain) came pass with motorbikes and made a noise and cheered me on. That gave me some extra miles

Coming down Blossom Road, this was the home stretch,  I had little to no energy left. While waiting for the traffic car and the motorbikes to escort me into Bridgetown, where RLabs are situated. I took a break to stretch. A  few minutes later the traffic cars came with the motorbikes. I was escorted through Bridgetown,the people came out to see what the buzz was about, I took that opportunity to encourage them to vote for Table Mountain.

As I came through the gates at RLabs it was  amazing to see all the students  standing outside as I’m making my way to RLabs. This whole campaign was about them and to raise funds for their end of year graduation. The students also contributed extensively to the Vote For Table Mountain campaign. My overall experience, I enjoyed every moment of it and it was nice to have a team and people that supported us.

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