I have a Motorola H700 Bluetooth headset, and when I try to pair it with my phone, it's detecting it as 'Audio/Video' and cannot pair.
Anyone have ANY idea why this is happening??
Saturday, June 30, 2007
I need YOUR help!
Friday, June 22, 2007
If music be the sound of Nokia, play on.
The boundaries of technical gadgets is rapidly blurring. The new nokia N-series ads actually some it up really well. eg "I have a thing in my pocket, but it is not one thing, it is many." and "Its what computers have become."
For me, the E65 really is my little helper. It's my email device, my phone, my eBook reader, my games machine and my music player while I'm on the road. I'm a website developer (drop me an email if you're interested in a quote or go to sitefx.com.au) and I spend alot of time out with clients.
Now, on the way to the said clients, I often go by train, and that means the E65 becomes my sanity saver. I'll post about ebook readers later this week, but as a music player its great, not as great as my iPod, but still pretty good.
I can throw a bunch of track on there (I only have a 256mb microsd which came with the phone) and off I go. It's got all the features you'd expect, play, pause, stop, next, previous and your sorting such as artist, album etc. All in all, a fairly easy application to use.
So what about the battery? I havent thoroughly tested this, but I've spent 4 hours on a train (there and back) and played mp3's and read and played more mp3's and at the end my battery was still on around 2/3. What really kills the e65 is the wireless, but that's another story. :)
If you're considering the e65 as an MP3 player as well as a phone, you'll be pleasantly surprised, it's no frills approach is simple and effective without being too devastating on your battery. If you're like me and have a massive music collection, your still better off with your trusty iPod.
For me, the E65 really is my little helper. It's my email device, my phone, my eBook reader, my games machine and my music player while I'm on the road. I'm a website developer (drop me an email if you're interested in a quote or go to sitefx.com.au) and I spend alot of time out with clients.
Now, on the way to the said clients, I often go by train, and that means the E65 becomes my sanity saver. I'll post about ebook readers later this week, but as a music player its great, not as great as my iPod, but still pretty good.I can throw a bunch of track on there (I only have a 256mb microsd which came with the phone) and off I go. It's got all the features you'd expect, play, pause, stop, next, previous and your sorting such as artist, album etc. All in all, a fairly easy application to use.
So what about the battery? I havent thoroughly tested this, but I've spent 4 hours on a train (there and back) and played mp3's and read and played more mp3's and at the end my battery was still on around 2/3. What really kills the e65 is the wireless, but that's another story. :)If you're considering the e65 as an MP3 player as well as a phone, you'll be pleasantly surprised, it's no frills approach is simple and effective without being too devastating on your battery. If you're like me and have a massive music collection, your still better off with your trusty iPod.
ARGH! I already know I'm on Three!!!
Another one from Varun,
Is it possible to flash the phone to a generic firmware?Okay, first of all let me explain this one to the non-technical readers. The E65, like all phones contains software called 'firmware' which resides on the mobile phone and controls all its actions. This is essentially an operating system, which runs all your programs and games and dialling etc. In the case of most carrier phones, they use a version of the firmware that contains branding with their specific logo's etc. Now, flashing the phone with a generic firmware probably breaks some agreement you have with three, so I'm not going to go into specifics, but if you search on google, or call a phone repair shop, they should be able to do it for you. It requires a special cable and the original nokia firmware.
If you break it, its not my fault, blame yourself for meddling! ;)
Three are notorious for stupidly annoying phone branding. Its not enough its etched onto the phone, they insist on having their logo on almost every screen available. However the e65 is different.
Firstly, there's no annoying three logo's in stupid places. They have the following brand specific items.
1) A quick screen that flashes up when you turn on the phone, after the nokia logo.
2) The planet three logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. (You can actually change what this key does unlike other phones, so if you want it to run a different program, you can.)
3) You permanently have Planet 3 as a connection type.
That's all folks, no further branding and no annoying three stuff. IF you want to see annoying, have a look at their flip LG phones. YUCK.
Question, questions, questions
Well people, I go away for two weeks and I come back and I'm swamped with questions! I guess thats what you get for having a high-performing niche specific blog lol. :)
The short answer for this is.. no. The Black nokia E65 is an exclusive to Three, so if you want the sexy black version (I personally prefer the red, I'm sick of black phones) you will need to purchase it from Three, or grab a used one off ebay. Unlocking the phone shouldn't be much hassle, there's hundreds of sites that will supply you with an unlock code or an unlock SMS. Just google it.
Do you know of any place that sells the Nokia E65 unlocked in black
colour?
The short answer for this is.. no. The Black nokia E65 is an exclusive to Three, so if you want the sexy black version (I personally prefer the red, I'm sick of black phones) you will need to purchase it from Three, or grab a used one off ebay. Unlocking the phone shouldn't be much hassle, there's hundreds of sites that will supply you with an unlock code or an unlock SMS. Just google it.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Snakes on a phone
In the box with my phone, there was a booklet about all these nifty new applications for use with the E65. The first thing I noticed was the interesting looking game called Snake (kinda a 3d remake of the old Nokia Snake game.)
Anyway, I went to their site and the link isnt there. So what gives?
After plenty of searching around on the net, I found the game on the N95 website, don't worry, it still works 100% with the E65. This game is fantastic and really shows off the graphic capabilities of the E65.
Grab it today!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Added some social bookmarking
For all you regular blog users, I've added some social bookmarking icons below the posts. Feel free to submit my posts to the various links and/or link to this blog from your own!
If you have a nokia e-series related blog, send me an email and I'll add you to the blog list!
Sync'ing ZYB style
Apart from my last post about Folders and synchronisation, (I'm in australia, so I'm going to use Australian spelling, okay?) I'd like to tell you how delightfully easy it is to use ZYB.com to synchronise your contacts.
I've never really used synchronisation before until I started using this smartphone. My emails were always on my laptop and my SMS/contacts on my phone. If I lost my phone.. well.. umm.. I've never lost a phone yet.. :)
Anyway, I recenlty tried out ZYB.com so I could have a single place to store my contacts and my calender. These guys have spent some serious time making the process as simple as possible.
You login, enter some personal details, put in your phone number and rather than having to setup the synchronisation yourself, they send you a config file to your phone.
All you need to then is go to Menu / Connect. / Sync / ZYB. Since I only do this sort of thing when I'm in my home wireless network, I select my wireless and its done. This works just as well out on the road, but since I don't like the expensive data costs, I wait until I'm at home.
There's a few things I don't like about the service, I'm not sure if they're syncml limitations, or what.
1) Doesnt sync SMS messages. How hard could this be? They have a number you can 'forward' your messages to to be included. I notice however that they do not have an Australian number. Forget it!
2) Pictures. It doesnt save your contact images. I could imagine that after 12 months of using this phone, I might have 400 contacts and 350 images. if I lose the phone or upgrade, why can't I take my thumbnails with me.
Feel free to share if you have any thoughts on this one.
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