Well, first of all I’m, back at work. Thats more or less a good thing I think. You can’t sit on your arse all your life 😉
Secondly, I lost all of my phone numbers from my phone by using fucking Apple iSync to sync my phone and work laptop. Well, I couldn’t find the “Sync phone to computer” button, so instead it just deleted all of the contacts from my phone and replaced them with the contacts from my iBook. Fucking bastards. Anyone who mentions backups can go and die. That was supposed to be the backup. So anyway, if I have your number, well, I don’t have it any more, so email or text it to me.
Leading on from point #2 is the fact that I am due a new mobile phone. I have a choice of the following and I am willing to take your recommendations:
- Samsung s400i – small, camera, good screen, free bluetooth headset
- Motorola L7 – thin, bluetooth
- Motorola V3 – flip
- Sony Ericsson z520i – flip, white
The included details are pretty much all I could scramble down whilst on the phone to the monkey on the other end.
So, wotcha think? All I need are bluetooth, voice activated dialling, a camera and MP3 playback would be nice but not necessary. Most other functions I don’t really use. Some degree of compatibility with open source sychronisation software like Multisync would be nice, or Mac at a push. Also an advantage would be modem scripts for OS X Tiger. I have to use this in the event of an emergency, I haven’t had to yet and in fact I have a work mobile for this very purpose, but, you know…
If anyone wants to explain to me how to do this in Linux, or explain to me why I should be using GSM/GPRS to do this, rather than a hideously slow mobile phone modem over bluetooth connection then I’m all ears, especially if you can tell me
a) How it works
b) and how I will be able to get it through a firewall (static IP would be nice ;))
At the moment, I’m leaning towards the Sony Ericsson. I have a k700i at the mo and I’m very happy with it, but it’s just starting to fall to bits. The Motorola L7 looks great but I’m not sure if they’re as good.
Thats all for now, I may have some great news (for me) to report soon, but I’d better not let the cat out of the bag right now.
Ohh and I guest-present the episode 46 of LUG Radio once again, so you should listen to it to hear my sexy deep voice 😉 Which reminds me, you should start booking your tickets for LUG Radio Live 2006.
Over and out.
i have a samsung s400i had it for a while since it came out it a good reliable phone iv had no probs with it at allthe only thing is it doesnt except mp3 on bluetooth but it accepts all other files so i kinda dont care i wppd recomend it, i had the motarola flip phone before that and put it bk for the phone i have now as it has very small memory barly holds anything. kirsty x
Hi
I’ve got my first mobile today 😉 it’s a samsung s400i and I tryed to csync with my pbg4 on bluetooth … it seams difficult, it looks that it doesn’t work with isync and it looks working with Onsync (connected as a SGH-D307) … I could acces to my dropbox and get photo for the s400i desktop and get it bak on my pbg4.
wath did you decide, you’ve allready done isn’t it ?
I got the Sony Ericsson z520i. I use Linux at home and gave up trying to use Multisync so I use iSync on my work Apple Powerbook.
Iv had a samsung s400i for 7months now, it had to go back to the shop twice with a brakedown. the batery life is (for me, with bluetooth OFF) 24 hours. i would not reccomend it, it does not sync with iSync and there is a camera but it isnt that good.
it also only has 13mb of memory, no expantion slot, and on mine (there may have been an upgrade) can only accept files up to 500Kb which, to me, defeats the point of the AAC player.