By Nimish Dubey Most people become famous by being the first to do something. Or doing something a certain (record) number of times. And yet one of the most famous names in travel history is a man whose greatest achievement is surrounded in mystery. George Herbert Leigh Mallory was one of the best climbers of his period and had made [...]
By Nimish Dubey The world has been buzzing about the launch of the latest flagship phone from Nokia, the N8. We got a chance to play with a unit for some time and while we are not sure that it will beat the socks off the likes of the iPhone 4 and the high-end Android phones, we do feel that [...]
By Nimish Dubey There are travel books that tell you about how people went about a particular journey. There are those that tell you about places that people visited. Of the people they met. Of the food they ate. And so forth. And there are a few rare ones do all of this and leave you breathless with laughter while [...]
By Nimish Dubey Not too long ago, we talked about Glympse, a tool that let you share your location with certain select people. While that is a great tool if one wants to reach out to just a few people, those looking to advertise their presence to just about everyone they know (and some they do not know too well) [...]
By Nimish Dubey With the recently launched Nokia N8 claiming to be as good as a digital camera, yet another chapter has been added to the feud between camera phones and digital cameras. Speaking from purely a travelling perspective, we must confess that both sides have powerful arguments on their side. Here is our take on the entire camera vs [...]
For all the praise heaped upon all the tablets in the market, we must confess that we find them coming up short in a few key segments. First off, typing on them is a pain (a ‘key’ problem literally) – believe me, it is easier on a touchscreen phone than it is on a 7 or 10 inch touchscreen slab. [...]
By Nimish Dubey For most people, ascending Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth, remains the ultimate travel fantasy. For years, Everest had been most travellers’ holy grail, notwithstanding the risks involved (many people died in their attempts to conquer the peak). A major accident in May 1996 that claimed the lives of eight climbers did shock many but was [...]
By Nimish Dubey We sparked a fair bit of debate last week when we said that Amazon’s e-book reader, the Kindle, was the best option for travellers who love to read. Well, an Indian company EC Media, came up with its own e-book reader, the Wink, a few days ago. And while it does share some of the features of [...]
By Nimish Dubey RIM joined the Tablet Wars a few hours ago with the announcement of the PlayBook, a BlackBerry tablet. However, while we must confess to being very impressed with the specifications of the device – two HD cameras, 7 inch multi-touch display, 1 Ghz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, etc. – purely from a traveller’s perspective, we [...]
It is the latest bit of jargon to have hit photography – geotagging, or the ability to add details about where a picture was taken, using GPS. While the jury is still out on whether it will become a rage, there can be no doubting its utility, especially to travellers and shutterbugs. Here’s why:
By Nimish Dubey Of all the journeys that have been undertaken, few have been as tragic as the “race to the pole” between Britain’s Robert Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Both Scott and Amundsen were reputed explorers and each wanted to be the first human being to set foot on the South Pole. It was a bitter race and one [...]
By Nimish Dubey Our post on the Kindle’s travel-friendliness has led to a number of queries about the device. While we have answered those made in the comments, we have had a fair number over the phone as well. So to satisfy everybody, here are the basics about the Amazon Kindle, which we think is the perfect companion to the [...]
We keep hearing and reading about how electronic books (or e-books, as the tech pundits like to call them) will ultimately replace paper books. Well, that might not happen for a while yet, especially given the price difference between e-books and real books and the availability of titles, but what we are certainly sure of is that the e-book reader [...]
By Nimish Dubey Ask someone about reading travelogues and it is a fair chance that they will head off and start looking for books by the likes of Mark Shand, Bill Bryson and Sir Ranulph Fiennes. And there is nothing really wrong with it as these are perhaps the masters of modern travel literature. However, before people start off on [...]
The world has been buzzing about the new iPods released by Apple last week and while they are no doubt good devices from the music fan’s angle, just how good are they for the traveller who likes to keep their music handy while traversing all sorts of terrain? Well, we took a closer look at the new iPod threesome purely [...]
Contributed by Nimish Dubey It’s a book that is considered a literary classic, has sold millions of copies, inspired film directors to convert it to celluloid and even has an animation series named after it. And yet, for most people, it does not really figure among great travel novels, simply perhaps because they had far too good a time reading [...]
Contributed by Nimish Dubey It is rare to see an adventure or travel being hailed as a literary classic, but this status has been accorded to Apsley George Bennet Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World. Apsley Cherry-Garrard is best known for being part of Robert Scott’s ill-fated 1910-13 Antarctica expedition in which Scott and his friends raced against Roald [...]
Contributed by Nimish Dubey Camera lovers – professional and amateur – in India have never quite had it so good. In recent times, just about every camera manufacturer seems to be working overtime on upping the zoom and megapixel count of their cameras while keeping the price at relatively sane levels. The latest superzoom camera to hit the Indian market [...]
Contributed by Nimish Dubey They may have taken the world by storm, but we think that touchscreens – be they on phones, computers, tablets, satnavs or cameras – are not really travel-friendly. Don’t get us wrong – it is not as if we dislike touchscreens. If anything, we think products like the iPhone and iPad are amazing. However, we doubt [...]
Contributed by Nimish Dubey Letting people know where you are has become easier thanks to just about every device and social networking service in town getting GPS or some kind of location-sensing feature. However, most location-displaying options tend to be designed to display your location to a whole community for as long as you have the feature running and inevitably [...]
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