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Couple of weeks back I bought the cheapest Fiio I could find. That's the matchbox sized A1 portable amplifier.  It costs me about 2000Rs. It's portable. Good a small battery inside. Charges off computers USB port with supplied micro-USB cable. Provided items are two clips, two stereo cables, one micro USB charging cable and a user manual alongside the portable amp unit.  Let's get right into the experience. The amp is decently loud. The provided three equalizer presets are not much help though. The tiny form factor makes it ultra portable.  My only gripe is I don't have any heavy headphones/ weak audio sources to use these.  My Soundmagic ES1 run fine on my years old Nokia C5. Heck even the 32Ohm Sennheiser HD349's run fine on that.  So there's that!! Maybe I wasted my 2K!!😃

Just read this somewhere in news. WTF Xiaomi????

If you must remember, then I bought this android phone for my sistsr as her first android. It replaced the aging Nokia C5-00 5MP, her first phone. It was a decent value for money phone back then. It shipped with android 4.1.2 and stayed stuck there forever. Since it was with my sister who stayed with my parents at my hometown I didn't have much chance to do any real hacking/modding of it. So it worked for last two+ years.  Then after two years it's original battery gave up. So I purchased a replacement online for 200 odd rupees and that gave it a bit of lease of life. Then next year it fell few more times and finally the screen got damaged enough to produce some lines on it.  Being a loving and caring brother I told sister that I would give a new phone. But I couldn't find a decent phone and so gave her my - then about a year used but still in pristine condition -Nubia Z9 mini and she's enjoying it since.  So the Titanium S1 stayed with me for last six months, being ...

So I have never yet tested the GPS thoroughly in Panasonic T44, but somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that this is something that doesn't work on this phone of mine. But I managed to ignore it for all these days. Then this week I really need the GPS because I'm going touring this coming weekend and having the GPS would be blast.  So I checked the GPS in google maps. Doesn't work, the fix I get is triangulated from cell towers. Next I downloaded a number of GPS Diagnostic apps and checked through them. The best GPS Diagnostic and info app is "GPS Test". It's icon is a radar like circle with green/red dots in it depicting satellites. This showed that the phone is getting the sat list, but is not able to get any signal. Then I put the same app in my Intex Aqua Fish, and it worked fine there. I even got the fix in a few seconds outside on road. Well, sucks! So there can be multiple reasons for this. Maybe the antenna connection is loose, or there's no ...