2 nokia 5800s were won by students who suggested the DIT ANTHEM of the YEAR which ended up being more of a DIT Discription of the Year I love College!, which must also be this WEEKS NOKIA MUSIC STORE SONG of the week 2nd week running! Heres some pics from the event where every one had the last bit of craic before the end of any kind of social life! Bring on the summer and GOOD LUCK EVERY ONE WITH EXAMS wish Nokia had an application with the answers but sadly not!

This is probably one of the best songs on the Nokia Music Store at the moment!

I do Love College

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Digging the Well

Dear Bloggers, I can happily inform you that my recent trip to Malawi was a great success ALL THE PHOTOS I HAVE ON THIS BLOG WERE TAKEN WITH THE NOKIA 5800. The group from DIT sponsored by DITSU and DIT Societies achieved all of our set out goals and more than we could have imagined;

The group, and I were based around an Orphan day care centre in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Mzuzu, Salsberryline. During the time there, our collective labour and donations enabled us to create a clean water source for over 250 two – six year old children, who attend the orphan day care centre, and prepare the nearby land for cultivation which will supplement the children’s diet in the coming months, we have allocated a large amount of our raised money to the running of the Orphan day care centre for the next 6 months. We also laid the floor in a newly built agricultural college which will show the poorest people of Malawi how to get the most from the small amount of land they have. But most importantly we created real connection with some of the children there who were in desperate need of some attention, love and care.

During our stay in Mzuzu we worked with a youth group, we exchanged cultures and spoke about our values and cultures. We learned about the work they were doing in rural villages teaching about contraception and aids. We had the opportunity to work with the street children of Muzuzu, we met them in St. John of Gods where they can avail of meals, partial schooling and washing facilities. We had a football tournament for the boys and a netball tournament for the girls.

During our stay we made many friends and shared amazing experiences. We let the people of Malawi know that there people out there that do care. You can read more about this amazing and innovative charity that we travelled with at www.wellsforzoe.org.

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The exhibition is open to the public from the 23rd to the 28th April at:

Gallery One
No.1 Castle Street
Dublin 2. (Beside Jury’s Christchurch)

Free entry.

This is a photo of Jame, just one of the many interesting people I met on my recent trip to Malawi, his Nokia branded top caught my eye. I took this photo using my Nokia 5800s 3.2mp Camera. More photos and details of what I got up to over there this week!

Last year a different group, I and the residents of Luvuvu managed to build a three class room school in two weeks. During this time our collective labour and donations helped build what many in Northern Malawi are calling the miracle school due to the speed of construction. This school built by us, the parents, and even the pupils is now being used by 270 pupils daily. The total cost of the school was only €2700. This show’s how so little can make such a big difference.

Wells for Zoë is a small Irish humanitarian organisation. At the beginning they were involved in wells and pumps for safe drinking water, rainwater harvesting, and small dams for water storage, in four rural areas of Malawi. This has now been expanded to projects such as the orphan day care centre, and educational buildings. Set up in 2005 by John and Mary Coyne, Wells for Zoë concentrates on low cost, small scale, appropriate and sustainable water technology and projects. This charity is dedicated to providing clean water for the people of Africa with no administration costs allowing 100% of your sponsorship to reach the people of Malawi. John and Mary have specifically targeted a region with an extremely high HIV rate, very poor amenities and little fresh clean water however this is changing. With new technologically advanced pumps that John and Mary have sourced out we believe we can provide clean water for a child in Malawi for life for just €1. There is more information available about this brilliant charity at www.wellsforzoe.org and our group is mentioned on the sites blog.

What can we say about the Nokia 6220 CLASSIC, well firstly congratulations to Aaron Aylward who won this handset last week! This classic phone is attempting to regain some ground within the 5 mp market, and that it is doing. The compact smartphone carries some serious imaging power. Xenon flash, active lens cover, VGA video and TV-out if that doesn’t get your tech juices flowing then this will - One of the most compact bodies in the Symbian realm squeezes in GPS and HSDPA. The new classic has a serious set of skills!!!

Key features
• 2.2″ 16M-color display of QVGA resolution
• Symbian 9.3 OS, S60 3.2 UI
• ARM 11 369 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM
• 5 megapixel camera with active lens cover and xenon flash
• 3G with HSDPA support
• Quad-band GSM support
• Built-in GPS with A-GPS support
• Compact and lightweight body
• 120 MB user memory
• microSD card slot, up to 8GB cards supported
• FM radio with RDS
• TV-out
• Document viewer
• USB and Bluetooth v2.0
• More visual enhancements to the UI than any other S60 handset we’ve seen
• Nokia Maps comes with three months free turn-by-turn navigation license

Nokia 6220 classic is a Symbian all-rounder, which takes photography seriously. The inexpensive price tag makes it really hard to compete with!