July 10th, 2009
The Nokia N97 caught my eye while I was mooching around the Internet last night, and I thought I’d have a look at it to see if it offered anything to rival the iPhone or the Google Android phones that are becoming more and more common.
The Nokia N97 is not just a sliding phone, it slides open lengthwise to reveal a 3-row QWERTY keyboard. Add to that a 16:9 Touchscreen, a 5MP Camera, Wi-Fi, GPRS, GPS, FM Transmitter and more, and you have one hell of a phone. Nokia have done it again.
Sadly at one hell of a price. If you want to buy one outright you’re looking at £500.00 for the Nokia N97. It is available for free on some contracts, however.
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February 23rd, 2009
With my old £40/month Orange contract coming to an end I decided to give them a call and see what they could offer me in the way of customer retention.
Speaking to a nice Scottish lady (sorry Nice Scottish Lady, I didn’t catch your name!) we went through a few options and I eventually plumped for:
- Free Nokia 6300
- 300 Anytime Minutes per month
- 100 Texts per month
- Unlimited Landline Calls
- £45 Account Credit
This amply covers my 100-minutes-a-month usage, though I may – may – go over the text allowance if I get carried away. Price for this package? £14-odd a month, so with the £45 credit there’s nothing to pay for the first three months.
I realise the included Nokia isn’t the most recent or even advanced of phones, but it’s the exact same phone that I have already and I’m perfectly happy with it. The new one will serve as a ‘just in case’ phone since I don’t have any form of insurance. Since I’m careful with phones anyway, there shouldn’t be a problem.
Tags: Contract, Mobile, Nokia, Orange, Phone
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May 23rd, 2007
I seem to have had a run of bad luck just recently – almost everything I use daily has gone wrong somehow.
SatNav – I found that the PocketPC had been away from the mains for too long and had discharged itself, wiping the memory and causing me a couple of hours work reinstalling the TomTom software. Sigh.
Hands Free – the earloop on my hands free snapped in two, so I can’t wear it anymore. I’ve tracked down another one on eBay and I’m waiting for the auction to finish. Oh, and I’ve been outbid. Gagh.
Watch – one of the pins holding the strap to the body snapped. I didn’t realise until it finally slid out and the whole thing fell off my wrist at my mum’s house. I retrieved my other watch – a ‘going out’ version of the same one but with added gold trim – and found the battery was flat. Gnngh.
Digibox – locked up time and time again over the weekend. Hnngh!
Router – has started randomly disconnecting any machine connected to it, be it wireless or not. Mind you, it has been on solid for about two years. Grrrr!
Main PC – PSU decided to quit while I was having my lunch. Enlisting Foo’s help I prodded it with a multimeter for a bit, then caved and splashed out on a new one. AAARRRGH!
What else could go wrong? (No, don’t answer that!)
(* – Ask Foo)
Tags: Flat 3, Problems
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March 5th, 2007
As you may or may not have heard on the news recently, the penalty for using a mobile phone while driving has increased from a £30 fine to £60 and 3 points. Get caught four times and you win a pushbike, so to speak.
So I spent half an hour digging through the piles of (“Interesting” – K.) crap I’ve accumulated over the years and found my old Plantronics 3000 Bluetooth headset, or hands free thingy. I dusted it off and stuck it on charge and it works just fine. In fact it works better with my K610i than it ever did on my k750i, which would frequently cut out halfway through a conversation, and which was the reason I threw it onto the pile in the first place.
Of course, all this legislation is a load of wank when we already have such laws as “Driving Without Due Care and Attention” – a law that lets the police bust you for anything, not just mobile phone use. Applying your makeup? Check! Fiddling with the stereo too much? Check! Eating an Apple? Che- oh wait…
But no, the Labour government loves making new laws. It’s almost as if they’re on performance-related pay or something. K was telling me just last week that they’ve introduced a new law for every day that they’ve been in power. However did we cope without them? The country must have been in downright anarchy.
But I digress. Get yourself a Wireless Hands-Free thingy for use while driving. Don’t use them while walking around town, however, because they tend to make you look a bit of a pillock.
Tags: Driving, Law, Mobile, Phone
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August 7th, 2006
I’ve finally got round to getting a new phone after waiting god known how long for the Nokia N92 to put in an appearance. The TV-sporting beastie doesn’t appear to be arriving on UK shores any time soon so I’ve plumped for a Sony Ericsson k610i instead.
Initial feelings are mixed. It’s thinner and lighter than my k750i and only 5mm longer – all good stuff for a 3G phone. In fact it feels positively svelte.
The menus have been reorganised, however, and that prevents me from simple picking up and using the k610i without reading the manual. The good – great thing about Nokias is that they all follow the same kind of menu layout (at least until you get to the Smartphones) and you can adapt to a new handset with ease.
The other thing about the phone is that MobileShop have sent me a white one. White. it looks like an iPod which, while it isn’t ideal, is slowly growing on me nonetheless. It’s smooth plastic as well which is… interesting.
That’s all the review you get for now, however, since Three still haven’t connected me despite me receiving the handset on Friday. I’ve been on to MobileShop and they’re chasing Three but at the time of writing, I can’t actually use the phone. Bah.
Tags: k610i, Sony
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