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Read more... The non-OS Nokia phone with the richest equipment up-to-date is a highly stylish clamshell. The Nokia 7390 has 3G support, two colorful displays and an impressive 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus. The phones of the L'Amour collection rarely provoke hesitation in who thinks of buying them. One either gets in love with their extravagant design, or remains overwhelmed, but also shocked by their sophisticated construction. It is sure that Nokia 7390 is not a love-at-first-sight phone. When we obtained it for testing, we were slightly reserved about its typical Nokia style. Within a week of using the phone, however, we think rather different: Nokia 7390 now seems to be a perfect combination of style and functional equipment. It is when mobile phones are evaluated that their looks are the most ambivalent characteristic to describe. That is why we prefer only to state that the darker version of Nokia 7390 is probably also the least controversial one in the entire L'Amour collection. In the course of the discussions in our office some colleagues expressed the opinion that Nokia 7390 is not suitable for men; I cannot agree, though. Of course, a gentleman would hardly pull out a pink-white phone from his pocket, but the other version in bronze-black would surely suit both ladies and gentlemen. Not to mention that the device may also be used as a luxurious accessory with dark clothes. A great part of the phone surface is made of plastic materials. Exceptions are the band around the external display, the silver line along the sides, the frame of the digital camera lens, which looks as if it’s made of metal, and the area covered with softer material for easier hand-hold on the rare side of the phone. I myself was somewhat disappointed by the fact that Nokia had decided not to implement a button for automatic opening in Nokia 7390 like they did in the 6131 model. Nevertheless, the phone is not difficult to open thanks to its round edges: just stick your finger between both its parts and open up. On one hand it shows stronger resistance if compared to the competitors; on the other hand both the top and the bottom parts lock in their end positions pretty reliably. The elements located on the sides of the phone will hardly surprise Nokia fans. Yet, there is one specialty: the key for switching on/off the phone and for switching between profiles has been modified, so the old uncomfortable one frequently commented on in numerous reviews has become a tiny control element located on the left side of the phone, and working with it is a real pleasure. Beneath the switch-off button you will see a slot for wireless Infrared communication and a charger port. Nokia 7390 uses the newer, thinner charger connector. The opposite side features two elements: a dual volume control key and a camera release button. By the way, it will probably be the release button of the built-in camera that will surprise you the most at first glance. It is extremely soft and easy to press and one immediately expects it to make a mess when the phone is in a pocket for example. It does not though. It has two press levels due to the autofocus photo function, so a light press does not lead to shooting; a picture is only taken by a stronger press on the release button. The top side of the phone is the most interesting. Even though it lacks Pop-Port, it is still able to communicate with other devices in almost all existing ways. Nokia seems to have woken up lately and has finally started to equip it models with a miniUSB system connector. The advantages? Fast, extensive standard communication; what’s more, you don’t need to buy additional data cables as you could use the one from your camera or MP3 player. Nearby there is a 2.5mm jack connector for your earphones. As usual for all Nokia phones of the L'Amour collection, Nokia 7390 has an ornamental wrist band, which looks more like a design accessory rather than a practical element. Anyway, be sure you treat it with care as intensive usage may convert it from a stylish decoration into an unsightly, ragged piece of something. Apart from the eyelet for the wrist band and the microSD memory card slot under the rear cover, where the card does not fit perfectly, here you will also find a BP-5M Li-Ion battery. According to the official statements Nokia 7390 should provide you with 3 hours of call time (2 hours in UMTS network) and more than 9 days on stand-by. By the way, it was the durability of the battery that surprised us a lot; if not used intensively, the phone easily makes it for 5 days. The device is compatible with AC-3 and AC-4 chargers. Charging with the AC-3 model takes approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. Once having given a light glance at the phone, your eye will also be caught by three buttons located beneath the external display. They facilitate the control of the phone’s multimedia functions. For example, you could run the radio, the music player or the camera without opening the phone; the last icon closes the keypad. However, the pictures shot with the camera do not come out pretty well on the tiny display; you’d better only use them in case of emergency. The mini-display also allows for deactivation of the alarm clock, confirmation of a reminder in the calendar etc. The main keypad is divided into two blocks – a functional and a numeric one. Both are surrounded by a silver frame, between which and the nearby plastic surface there is a tiny gap, through which one can see into the internals of the keypad. Key distribution is standard, just like one would expect from a Nokia clamshell. The keypad is completely flat, on the same level like the rest of the phone surface. The only exception is the four-way control key. Even though there is a notable tendency for the keypad to go down in the area of the side columns or up where the middle column is, this helps very little for the overall orientation when typing. On the front, beneath the keypad you will also find the speaker grill. The superb level of Nokia 7390’s design has been reached at the expense of user comfort. Keys are quite difficult to use, but getting accustomed is just a question of time. Key presses are accompanied by soft, but loud clicks. Backlighting is a joy for the eyes due to the successful distribution of the keys and their silver frame bedding. The light is decent and evenly distributed both under the keys and between them. The menu offers automatic keypad lock due to the ease with which external keys can be pressed when the device is in a pocket or a bag. Once the corresponding interval has been set up, the lock blocks both the external and the internal keys. The lock gets automatically unblocked if the phone is opened. The keypad weaknesses are compensated by the highly professional elaboration of the display. Let’s start with the external one, able to show up to 262K colors on a resolution of 160 x 128 pixels. Using colorful wallpapers is not advisable though as they interfere with the character legibility significantly. If you prefer, you may set up a screensaver, animation that should appear when the phone is opened or a sleeping mode for a gradual deactivation of the display and battery saving. The internal display is a completely different story. It represents the maximum for non-OS phones. Nokia 7390 features a QVGA display (320 x 240 pixels), able to show up to 16 million colors, on which you could comfortably enjoy the finest images taken with its built-in camera. Above the display you will find a light sensor.. This way the phone tries to save the maximum amount of energy. Unlike the external display, the internal one is not able to visualize screen savers or other similar elements. If the phone is inactive, the backlighting gets weaker and the display goes out completely within a moment or so. Nokia 7390 features Series 40 3rd Edition. As we have already written a lot about this platform, let us borrow and use several basic paragraphs (updated, of course) from previous models we have reviewed. Nokia 7390 is based on the latest, Series 40 third generation platform. The latter comes along with a new graphic interface, similar to the one applied in Nokia 6111 or Nokia 6280. In terms of common mobile phones this last-generation platform is pretty close to the behavior of smartphones. For example, Nokia 7390 can be switched on without a SIM card and you are given access to all the functions that do not require the presence of mobile network signal. The phone also features an active stand-by mode; several particular applications could be minimized while working, as well. Nokia 7390’s interface responds to user’s orders quite fast. However, the third edition of S40 could have been even faster. Regarding the elevated number of errors we ran across in the test version of Nokia 7390, a conclusion can be made that the final version of the firmware is still to come. Let us now compare the active stand-by mode in Nokia 7390 with some other Nokia models with Symbian. In this new model, the top bar features the icons of the applications with shortcut access. A little bit lower you will see other functions like typing a brief note, visualization of the names of running music files or radio pieces, a stopwatch, whose organization depends on your preferences. The organizer only displays the calendar for the actual day, which is rather unpractical. In other words, it doesn’t show the agenda for the following day until the clock does not reach midnight. The lack of a Tasks application is also a drawback. The entire active stand-by mode is subject to possible modifications. The inconvenience is that it is located deep inside the menu. After all, the vagueness of the menu scheme is one of the most serious problems of the control of the new S40 3rd Edition platform; there is no doubt that the high amount of functions installed in the phone is not easy to order in a logical scheme, but even so, we consider this as a handicap. Even after having used Nokia 7390 for a long time, some users will still have difficulties with memorizing how and when some functions work. The left and the right context keys can be assigned a particular function. Should you use the active stand-by mode, there will be three configurable control ways at most. In the opposite case you can use all four ones. The confirming center provides access to the main menu. The main menu can be organized in four ways: as a list, as a matrix grid, as a grid with legends or as horizontal fields. We found the grid without legends, where 12 icons fit into display, as the most suitable of all. All 12 icons can be relocated according to user’s will; the icon that is being moved gets highlighted in green, after which you need only to find it a new place. Nokia know pretty well that personalization is important not only for user’s comfortable control, but also for the creation of a specific looks of the phone interface, through which the owner expresses its preferences. Nokia 7390 meets both requirements brilliantly as it allows for every important, rational function to be user-configured. For example, in the “Gallery” you can choose which elements should appear directly: image thumbnails, full file names in a column, or file names and details about date of creation and size. There are numerous settings like this one in the menu system. Nokia 7390 supports graphic themes, which not only change wallpaper on the main display, but also modify the graphics of the other screens. While a great part of the models based on S40 3rd Edition uses a blue default scheme, Nokia 7390 features several colorful combinations, which favor the final outlook of the phone a lot. Font color can be modified from the menu if legibility requires it. The resolution of 320 x 240 pixels provides the phone (at least theoretically) with good visualization options. In this sense it is quite strange that the company’s designers have used unnecessarily big fonts, due to which only half of the possible information fits into the display. A similar problem exists with font visualization in the active stand-by mode, where letter borders always remain white and thus look somewhat unattractively. In this case the advantages of the QVGA display basically remain unused. Nokia 7390 works in GSM networks at 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz, and also in UMTS (WCDMA 2100 MHz); it also supports data transfers via GPRS and EDGE. The ringtone of incoming calls can be silenced by opening the phone and pressing a particular key. The sound quality of the calls is good, but we know Nokia can make better ones. On the other hand, however, do not forget that we pay attention to every single detail; any common user should be absolutely satisfied. The speaker located beneath the keypad creates sounds of satisfying quality too. Nokia 7390 also offers video calls. The phonebook features several visualization options. You can set a classical font as well as a large-size font as a default one. The entries stored on the SIM card and those saved in the phone memory can all be displayed simultaneously. Nokia 7390 has space for 1000 contacts, each of which can be assigned up to 20 different fields. In advanced setup levels you can state, whether contacts should be organized by first or last name. You can modify your selection further on by selecting among options like „list of names“, „name and number“ or „name and image“. The phonebook is searched by gradual typing of the letters of the desired name. Groups with special images and ringtones for better order in the contacts are available too. All names in the phonebook can be called via voice dialing. Nokia 7390 does not require prior teaching; it recognizes anyone’s voice and it does it brilliantly. You have to press the corresponding key and pronounce the name of the person you want to call. The phone will visualize their image, read their name with an automatic voice and dial the number set as default. In the same way, that is, without prior teaching, you could also activate several particular functions. Each number in the phonebook can be assigned a shortcut key access. Groups can be used as call filters in the ringing profiles. Nokia 7390 also offers the so called timed profiles; when you activate one of these you could set up its deactivation time right away. Inside a profile you can set up different ringtones for calls, messages, emails and talk. Volume level, vibrations, keypad tones and the above mentioned filters are selected from here too. Nokia 7390 plays sounds in 64-voice polyphony when it uses MIDI files. MP3 or AAC files or even video ringtones when incoming calls are accompanied by a video record are far more attractive, though. Ringing with vibrations is decent, it does not make the phone body rock around, but sometimes it is much too quiet. If you are walking, for example, you will have no chance to notice an incoming SMS alert. Missed events get all listed on the main display; when you select one of them, the phone switches straight to a simpler version of the call register, where all calls to the same contact are unified and you only see the number of all made calls and the time of the last one. Beside, however, Nokia 7390 offers a complete Call log, where all types of calls are chronologically organized, including multiple tries. The phone has two more particular folders: Message recipients and Data transfer reader. Nokia 7390 manages SMS, MMS and emails as well as the so called sound messages (MMS consisting of a sound file only) and messages straight on the display. MMS are created in two ways. One is the “standard” one, when you simply insert images and other elements (text, video, sound, business card, and note from the calendar). The MMS plus editor, however, hides a few novelties: the first one is the option for sending high-resolution images (common MMS editors cut pixels automatically in order to make images fit the display and the phone size). If you want to attach a second image, this will already get modified according to the resting space in the MMS. The limit per MMS is 300 kB. The T9 dictionary is pretty intelligent; it features a rich vocabulary and maintains a record of preferred words and phrases, which it offers on first position. The editor counts characters from 1000 downwards and displays the number of typed sub-messages (7 at the most). Like in smartphones, here you could also select the addressee of your message straight from a bar in the top of the editor. We also appreciate the option to send a message to one of the recent contacts or to a person from the list with last received or made calls. Groups can be applied too. SMS delivery notifications are set up either for all messages, or separately for each message. They pop up on the display for a little while, after which they get saved. The state of all deliveries is checked through a separate folder in the message menu, but is also available in an icon attached to each sent message. The email browser is a Java application. When you open it, it immediately offers you a selection of frequently used email services (AIM, AOL, Yahoo, and Gmail). While the interface in other phone areas uses an inadequately large font, the email client offers a superb folder list with font size just as big as to make visualization the best possible. Regretfully, this does not hold true for the email editor or the text body of the emails alone. The client works well with the phonebook and the addresses stored in it. It manages attachments seamlessly. They can be saved and eventually opened as long as the phone supports the format they have been created in. The maximum size of an email message is 300 KB, so be careful with larger attachments. Nokia 7390 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel built-in camera. The finest images have 1536 x 2048 pixels, but lower resolution is available as well. Each resolution selection further offers three quality levels – high, normal, basic. The higher the resolution of the image, the longer it takes the phone to save it, but also the better the result is. Logically, the lowest quality corresponds to the smallest image size; if you are to send images in MMS, then shooting at higher resolution simply makes no sense. The phone can be held horizontally due to the comfortable location of the camera release button. The display remains somewhat tipped out, but it doesn’t matter for shooting. The camera release button has two positions. When half-pressed, it runs the autofocus. A full press takes the shot and saves the image. Besides, you could also shoot by pressing the confirming center of the control key; the only difference is that you will not be able to use the autofocus function. If the camera is not active, a press on the release button opens the camera control interface, which provides a structure overview of the most important settings. That is why most of the latter (like camera activation, number of images/amount of time left, zoom application, white balance or other effects) are visible straight on the display. Right next to the camera you will find a LED for night shooting. Both LED settings and flash are user-configurable. This way you can choose whether the image you are shooting should be constantly illuminated or just automatically, after a press on the release button. Even though we checked every single spot of the interface, we could not find a function for switching between the front and the back camera. It seems that every time you need to make yourself a self-portrait, it will be necessary to turn the phone and ask somebody to adjust the image on the display. A closer look at the photos taken with Nokia 7390 reveals that the number of megapixels is not the only decisive quality factor. The pictures are characterized by disturbing noise, which only disappears when light conditions are perfect. Have a look at various sample photos taken with Nokia 7390 The errors typical for any non-final firmware are most visible in the camera application. Even though according to Nokia official site the highest video resolution in Nokia 7390 is 352 x 288 pixels, we also found a 640 x 480 option in the camera settings. Nevertheless, when we selected the latter, the camera refused to run and displayed a “no memory” alert. In a result, we had to switch to the lower, standard resolution anyway. It is a pity that Nokia has once again lowered quality standards. Many users would have appreciated good quality video records in VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) than 3 megapixel images of average quality. Besides, Nokia has already proven its skills in VGA in models like Nokia 6280 and 6233. The calendar is practical and quite complete so we will only make a brief overview of its options. Month and week views are well organized; the calendar stays visible in the top part of the display, while the bottom bar is reserved for the events on each day. The organizer offers 5 event types: meeting, call, birthday, note, and reminder. Inside the meeting type you will find other options like subject, place, starting date and time, end date and time, alert date and time, alert type, repetition (never, daily, weekly, monthly, annually). The task list is very simple. Here you can only add subject, priority, deadline and alert type. Accomplished tasks can be marked off; tasks can be organized in an alphabetic order or by deadline as well as moved into the calendar. The phone offers useful text notes that get synchronized with PC and allow longer texts to be downloaded into the phone. A single note could contain up to three thousand characters. Nokia 7390 features a pretty good alarm clock. It wakes you up with any sound from the phone memory. You can even use the radio as an alarm. The sound comes out through the speaker, but do not forget to plug in the earphones as they serve as an antenna. Without the earphones the radio will not run and the phone will wake you up with a standard sound. Repetition days and even the intervals between repetitions are user-configurable. Further in the organizer menu you will find a countdown timer, a stopwatch with split and lap timing, and a detailed calculator managing not only basic mathematical operations but also memory, goniometrical, power or fraction operations. Also available are several Java applications: size converter, world time, and the so called Sensor (similar to its symbian brother). There are four preset Java games in the phone. In the application Music Guess you can try recognizing music pieces. Rally 3D – as clear from the name - is a racing game. Two mobile legends meet in an attractive even if not so successful 3D version of the famous Snake. The last game is a flash Sudoku. Here is a short manual on how the music player in Nokia 7390 is controlled: save the corresponding file into the phone memory or onto a memory card, run the music player, wait for it until it looks up the new items in the file structure and then listen to the result. Control functions like fast forwarding, switch between music pieces etc. are viewed on the display in the form of a four-way control key. The player menu allows for organizing files in a custom way or by artist/album/genre/composer. There is also an integrated five-band equalizer, which changes the sound in five pre-set or two user-configurable editing options. Besides, Nokia 7390 is able to play music through Bluetooth as well as to download files from Internet. Repeat and shuffle are available too. Unlike other applications the music player can be minimized while one works with the phone functions. Running music files are visualized on the active stand-by display, from where it is possible to fast forward songs or switch from one song to another. Playing gets stopped when a call is coming in or another multimedia function (camera, radio) is used. As we mentioned several times already, Nokia 7390 is equipped with an integrated FM tuner. In order to receive radio broadcast you need to plug in the earphones as they serve as an antenna. The radio options alone fit into Nokia standards – you can save radio stations, search stations automatically, switch between mono and stereo output, or let the sound go out through the built-in speakers. Unfortunately, Nokia 7390 does not feature RDS, that is, it cannot receive radio station data. Inside the retail package along with the phone itself you will also find a number of interesting accessories. Even though Nokia 7390 is not advertised as a multimedia phone, it comes along with a microSD 128 MB memory card and a standard SD adapter for memory card readers. (Let us just add that users have 21 MB of internal memory space). Here you will also find a wired stereo headset Nokia HS-60 for listening to music and voice dialing. Nokia remains non-conventional even in the elaboration of its headset. Instead of common wires it has applied a non-traditional slip over one’s head; besides, the set is so long that storing it will create you worries rather than pleasure. The remote control only features two keys for switching between songs / stations and activation of voice dialing; it does not allow you to control volume, play / stop music files or receive calls. The latter functions are reached through keys on the external cover of the phone. In the retail package you will also find a stylish silver wrist band. To our opinion, silver is not the material that suits black the most, but on the other hand, when Nokia creates extravagant models, extravagancy usually breathes from every single detail. Nokia 7390 is no exception to the rule. As far as data options are concerned, Nokia 7390 offers nearly all of them: you are going to appreciate GPRS Class 10 in GSM networks as well as its faster EDGE version, also in Class 10. If you’d like to communicate even faster, you can use 3G networks. The phone communicates with other devices via wireless technologies like IrDA and Bluetooth. If you do not mind wires, then you may also use the above mentioned miniUSB connector. Nokia stylish phones have always been somehow special, different, so it is difficult to state who their direct competitors are. On the other hand, functions play an important role too. One of the most serious rivals for Nokia 7390 in the category of 300-350 euros will be Sony Ericsson K800. The most serious advantages of the latter are its 70 MB internal memory, its built-in camera that creates higher-quality images than the camera in Nokia 7390 and its competitive price. On the other hand, Nokia 7390 has an external display with better saturation, and most of all – EDGE. Anyway, Nokia 7390 is not only a design product, but also a device of superb functions. Care is visible even in the tiniest details. The only drawback is the phone’s price of 380 euro. For this money nowadays you could easily have a high-end phone, including a smartphone with an OS and plenty of additional options.
Key features
Main disadvantages
Nokia 7390: you will not necessarily like it at a first glance Brilliant elaboration
It could suit your T-shirt pretty well
Size: made for a hand-hold No pop-port
Functional key and Infrared port on the sides
The switch-off button and the charger connector are both on phone’s right side • miniUSB connector and a slot for the earphones on the top • a textile etiquette like on a T-shirt • the bottom is elements-free Beauty at any cost
Ornaments on the front • leather on the back
Buttons open everything
Keys are big; control is generally comfortable with touchpad orientation being slightly more difficult
A large speaker grill beneath the keypad
Keypad backlighting is weak, but sufficient Two colorful beauties
The external display features a small menu • playing music • changing a profile
The main display occupies a great part of the surface • the tiny camera reveals 3G • QVGA resolution allows for displaying plenty of information Not so far away from smartphones
Active stand-by mode • settings in the active stand-by mode • a standard stand-by display with wallpaper Adjust it according to your needs
The main menu in different modes You like colors?
Nokia 7390 offers plenty of graphic themes; others can be downloaded from Internet Call functions are brilliant
Ringing profile setup • call register
Two of the numerous looks of the phonebook It knows you all
Each contact can be assigned plenty of fields
Phonebook setup • a view at a contact • group setup MMS in several modes
Message menu • creating a new message • creating a MMS SMS+T9: a dream team
Typing a SMS
Emails are managed separately • writing an email It remains a mobile phone
Taking picture by using the tiny external display
Camera viewfinder • camera menu • the viewfinder in the camera mode
File manager in the memory It will organize your life
Organizer’s menu • alarm clock
Calendar
A menu with extra functions • smart size converter
Four games for boring moments All-color play
Music player • Playlist • music library • equalizer • the music player in active stand-by mode
You will find a radio in the menu • video playing • video in full-screen mode • video player menu Abundance of memory
In the retail package you will find a 128MB microSD card with an adapter for SD size • earphones are especially attractive
Another interesting accessory is the metal wrist band
Internet browser A special device for special users
INDIA VS NETHERLANDS WARM UP MATCH : INDIA WON BY 182 RUNS.
Captain Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar with the bat and an unlikely hero with the ball – Yuvraj Singh -- powered India to a 182-run victory against the Netherlands in the ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up match at the Trelawny stadium in Jamaica on Tuesday.
Chasing an Indian total of 300 for nine, the Dutch had no answer to Yuvraj Singh’s left-arm spin. The Chandigarh-born player bagged four wickets for 12 runs in just 3.5 overs as the Netherlands slumped to 118 all out.
Earlier, India, put in to bat by Luke van Troost, scored freely, at around six runs per over.
But the Dutch side's South African-born all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate reined the Indians in with an impressive 5-57 haul. The Essex player claimed the first scalp -- that of Sourav Ganguly -- caught at cover after reaching far outside the offside.
Virender Sehwag was to go soon after, playing down the wrong line to an inducker from ten Doeschate. Robin Uthappa, batting at number three, began well, clattering boundaries on both sides of the wicket, but got a touch too carried away and ended up dragging the ball back onto his stumps.
Tendulkar and Dravid came to the square at 82-3, calmed their team-mates' nerves, cutting out the temptation to play the big shots against a Netherlands attack that was reasonably disciplined, and picking off the ones and twos.
Both batsmen had reached half-centuries before losing their wickets in pushing the run-rate. In the end, Dravid made 74 and Tendulkar scored 61.
The Netherlands, for whom Peter Borren also picked up 2-45 including the wicket of Dravid, then pegged things back with a burst of wickets but were all the same left facing a daunting run-chase.Scorecard
India:
Virender Sehwag b Ten Doeschate 28
Sourav Ganguly c Stelling b Ten Doeschate 19
Robin Uthappa b Reekers 20
Sachin Tendulkar c Van Troost b De Leede 61
Rahul Dravid c Kervezee b Borren 74
Yuvraj Singh c Kervezee b Ten Doeschate 14
Mahendra Dhoni c Reekers b Ten Doeschate 21
Dinesh Karthik b Borren 3
Irfan Pathan not out 25
Harbhajan Singh c Van Troost b Ten Doeschate 0
Anil Kumble not out 2
Extras: (3b,7lb,12nb,11w) 33
Total: (for 9 wkts, 50 overs) 300
Fall of wickets: 1-60, 2-64, 3-82, 4-198, 5-244, 6-248, 7-251, 8-283, 9-284.
Bowling: Mark Jonkman 5-0-36-0, Darron Reekers 8-1-34-1, Ryan ten Doeschate 10-1-57-5, Tim de Leede 10-1-41-1, W Stellng 5-0-33-0, Mohammad Kashif 5-0-44-0, Peter Borren 7-0-45-2.
The Netherlands:
B Zuiderent c Karthik b Patel 32
D Reekers lbw b Pathan 6
A Kervezee st Dhoni b Harbhajan 14
R ten Doeschate lbw b Kumble 31
D van Bunge st Dhoni b Harbhajan 4
E Szwarczynski lbw b Yuvraj Singh 5
T de Leede c Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh 4
L van Troost c Ganguly b Kumble 0
P Borren c Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh 13
W Stelling not out 0
J Smits lbw b Yuvraj Singh 0
Extras: (lb2, w4, nb3) 9
Total: (all out, 37.5 overs) 118
Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-56, 3-64, 4-69, 5-100, 6-102, 7-105, 8-105, 9-118
Bowling: Pathan 6-2-12-1, Sreesanth 7-1-24-0, Patel 8-0-30-1, Harbhajan Singh 8-0-24-2, Kumble 5-1-14-2, Yuvraj Singh 3.5-2-12-4.
| Date | Group A Jamaica | Group B St. Vincent | Group C Trinidad | Group D Barbados |
| Mon, Mar 05 | WI v Ken | Eng v Ber | SA v Ire | SL v Sco |
| Tue, Mar 06 | Ind v Holl | Aus v Zim | Pak v Can | NZ v B'desh |
| Wed, Mar 07 | | | | |
| Thu, Mar 08 | Ken v Holl | Zim v Ber | Ire v Can | Sco v B'desh |
| Fri, Mar 09 | Ind v WI | Aus v Eng | Pak v SA | NZ v SL |
Introduction to How Firewalls Work
If you have been using the Internet for any length of time, and especially if you work at a larger company and browse the Web while you are at work, you have probably heard the term firewall used. For example, you often hear people in companies say things like, "I can't use that site because they won't let it through the firewall."
If you have a fast Internet connection into your home (either a DSL connection or a cable modem), you may have found yourself hearing about firewalls for your home network as well. It turns out that a small home network has many of the same security issues that a large corporate network does. You can use a firewall to protect your home network and family from offensive Web sites and potential hackers.
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Basically, a firewall is a barrier to keep destructive forces away from your property. In fact, that's why its called a firewall. Its job is similar to a physical firewall that keeps a fire from spreading from one area to the next. As you read through this article, you will learn more about firewalls, how they work and what kinds of threats they can protect you from.
What It Does
A firewall is simply a program or hardware device that filters the information coming through the Internet connection into your private network or computer system. If an incoming packet of information is flagged by the filters, it is not allowed through.If you have read the article How Web Servers Work, then you know a good bit about how data moves on the Internet, and you can easily see how a firewall helps protect computers inside a large company. Let's say that you work at a company with 500 employees. The company will therefore have hundreds of computers that all have network cards connecting them together. In addition, the company will have one or more connections to the Internet through something like T1 or T3 lines. Without a firewall in place, all of those hundreds of computers are directly accessible to anyone on the Internet. A person who knows what he or she is doing can probe those computers, try to make FTP connections to them, try to make telnet connections to them and so on. If one employee makes a mistake and leaves a security hole, hackers can get to the machine and exploit the hole.
With a firewall in place, the landscape is much different. A company will place a firewall at every connection to the Internet (for example, at every T1 line coming into the company). The firewall can implement security rules. For example, one of the security rules inside the company might be:
Firewalls use one or more of three methods to control traffic flowing in and out of the network:
Making the Firewall Fit
Firewalls are customizable. This means that you can add or remove filters based on several conditions. Some of these are:
A company might set up only one or two machines to handle a specific protocol and ban that protocol on all other machines.
With a hardware firewall, the firewall unit itself is normally the gateway. A good example is the Linksys Cable/DSL router. It has a built-in Ethernet card and hub. Computers in your home network connect to the router, which in turn is connected to either a cable or DSL modem. You configure the router via a Web-based interface that you reach through the browser on your computer. You can then set any filters or additional information.
Hardware firewalls are incredibly secure and not very expensive. Home versions that include a router, firewall and Ethernet hub for broadband connections can be found for well under $100.
What It Protects You From
There are many creative ways that unscrupulous people use to access or abuse unprotected computers:
The level of security you establish will determine how many of these threats can be stopped by your firewall. The highest level of security would be to simply block everything. Obviously that defeats the purpose of having an Internet connection. But a common rule of thumb is to block everything, then begin to select what types of traffic you will allow. You can also restrict traffic that travels through the firewall so that only certain types of information, such as e-mail, can get through. This is a good rule for businesses that have an experienced network administrator that understands what the needs are and knows exactly what traffic to allow through. For most of us, it is probably better to work with the defaults provided by the firewall developer unless there is a specific reason to change it.
One of the best things about a firewall from a security standpoint is that it stops anyone on the outside from logging onto a computer in your private network. While this is a big deal for businesses, most home networks will probably not be threatened in this manner. Still, putting a firewall in place provides some peace of mind.
Proxy Servers and DMZ
A function that is often combined with a firewall is a proxy server. The proxy server is used to access Web pages by the other computers. When another computer requests a Web page, it is retrieved by the proxy server and then sent to the requesting computer. The net effect of this action is that the remote computer hosting the Web page never comes into direct contact with anything on your home network, other than the proxy server.Proxy servers can also make your Internet access work more efficiently. If you access a page on a Web site, it is cached (stored) on the proxy server. This means that the next time you go back to that page, it normally doesn't have to load again from the Web site. Instead it loads instantaneously from the proxy server.
There are times that you may want remote users to have access to items on your network. Some examples are:
Setting up a DMZ is very easy. If you have multiple computers, you can choose to simply place one of the computers between the Internet connection and the firewall. Most of the software firewalls available will allow you to designate a directory on the gateway computer as a DMZ.
Once you have a firewall in place, you should test it. A great way to do this is to go to www.grc.com and try their free Shields Up! security test. You will get immediate feedback on just how secure your system is!
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