Thursday, January 13
Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle
Speaking of shiny things, I just got a
Nokia 6670.* Good price, too: My old phone had started playing up, and dropped out a couple of times when my boss was trying to call me.** We can't have that, so he offered to pay for a new phone (as long as it was reasonably priced). Then he got himself a 6670 and decided that I
had to have one... So I could teach him how all the features work.
I can deal with that.
It's cheerfully snarfing electrons right now. A bit later on I'll take it for a stroll and see what sort of photos it takes.
* My old phone is a Nokia 7110. When I went to buy a new charger for it a year ago, the woman in the store wondered what it was. She'd never seen one before... Come on, it's not that old!
** We're rolling out our ADSL service next month and he's one of our guinea pigs. I have to be contactable 24/7 in case he loses internet access.***
*** Which doesn't seem to happen now that we have a few modem settings ironed out.
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Wow ... you managed to keep a 7110 alive for this long? Mine died at the age of 18 months ... still the best phone I've ever had though
Posted by: Rob at Friday, January 14 2005 07:57 AM (kXZI6)
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Yeah, for some reason mine is indestructible. I dropped it down three flights of stairs once - the little plastic sliding thingy popped off, and I had to put it back on. It still mostly works, but the keypad is starting to play up. And it doesn't have a colour screen, or a camera, or Bluetooth, or a choice of 317,000 different ringtones, or any of those essential things that all phones must have these days.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, January 14 2005 08:01 AM (+S1Ft)
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317,000: is that an estimate or did you try them all out?
I had an indecisive friend whose phone could use a random ringtone. The only problem was he was never sure if it was his phone ringing...
Posted by: Ozguru at Saturday, January 15 2005 07:17 PM (4M7oc)
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I killed a Nokia 6190 a couple of weeks ago. I didn't notice that I had dropped it in a snowbank, and by the time I went looking for it the LCD was irreperably frozen. Luckily I have several more in my desk drawer. I can't carry anything else; I use the netmonitor features on a daily basis to determine stuff like the cell ID of the site I'm serving on. I have one with even more engineering software in it; it does stuff like count failed handovers.
The best thing about the Ericcson test software I'm working with now is that the phones I cable to the laptop aren't as good as the Nokia and so I have a much better chance of reproducing the drops customers complain about.
I've succesfully converted downloaded MIDI files to ringtones with Logo Manager. The Hungarian engineer who helped design our network was rather pleased when I loaded the Hungarian national anthem into his phone.
Posted by: triticale at Thursday, January 20 2005 11:27 PM (z13kK)
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