Saturday, November 20, 2010

BSNL 3G review on Nokia N78

BSNL caught me by surprise when i loaded the BSNL SIM (which i was using in another mobile) onto N78. It was showing that it is connected on 3G. So i just tried browsing, then it told me that i am using a wrong access point and that if u need the new access point i need to send an SMS as NOKIA N78 to 58355. The SMS came after few minutes. I got a configuration message and accepted the same. I am on BSNL 3G now. Cool to see BSNL becoming so easy to operate. Then i tried doing youtube using 3G.

As soon as i connected my youtube application it was showing some 3.5G and started seeing Apollo in Moon Video. It was a very good experience with no buffering issues which i used to see in case of WiFi (over BSNL DSL connection) for the same video. Full marks for BSNL. I had consumed 2.4 Mb and it charged me Rs 2/-. looks neat for a prepaid connection.

I tried to speedtest.net but sadly N78 does not support java and flash to run the speedtest. From a QoE perspective 10/10.