Just returned from my Holiday in Thailand. During my holiday somehow my e61 fell a few times hitting concrete. Though it survived the first few times, after the 4th time it was clearly too much and my dear companion basically stopped working. As I never dropped it before (not completely true as I have wasted one e61 by dropping it in a pool), and looking back, I saw this as prophetic for the things to come. Travelling back from Thailand I was destined to buy as new phone. As I did not yet come across any Nokia e90 (not in China, not in Hk, and for sure not in Thailand) the plan was to treat myself with a brand new e61i. Traveling through Frankfurt airport I went out to buy my Nokia e61i. Entering the airport’s electronic shop I started to smile - I walked straight into a Nokia e90. Why Germany has it and the “rest of the world” not yet is a mistery to me, but anyway I got it though I have to get used to the fact that apparently the Germans put the “Y” where the “Z” is supposed to be. Anyway, just exploring the device and I will keep you posted on any progress / discoveries. 

As mentioned in an earlier post I traded in Yahoo for Bluehost. And so far I do not regret it for a second. Their service is much more complete, up-to-date and most important, much faster. This combined with a 24×7 helpdesk makes hosting even for basic bloggers like me a pleasure. This is further compounded by the fact that the Bluehost client is thin which makes it easy to do most of the domain- and web hosting activities straight from your e61.

Nokia and up to three other potential bidders are interested in buying Palm Inc., which could be sold for some $2 billion as early as this week.

Why would Nokia even be interested in buying Palm? I can imagine many synergies with other companies than Nokia, but Nokia … kind of backward innovation

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PC suite has been upgraded already for some time. Noticeable changes are esp the integrated Nokia’s phone software updater, increased stability of the whole application, and (at least that is my experience) a better connectivity in terms of Blue Tooth(”BT”). Where often in the past I had to go into PC suite and start connecting again to phone just to enable the BT connection and now almost immediately connects when PC suite is started. To me this in itself is quite an improvement.

IntoMobile reported a few interesting articles last week which have everything to do with the FREE future we are heading for. This week FREE power and FREE calls.

FREE power

… Solar powered cell phones have crossed over from imagination to reality. High Tech Wealth Electronics showed off its S116 cellphone at CeBIT to great fanfare. The device has a built-in solar cell that is capable of charging the battery with 30 minutes worth of juice after just 1 hour in the sun. A full charge can be expected after a 12 hour tanning session … read more >

This indeed should be the future. No charger needed anymore when traveling. Great, now we only need more efficiency coming out of the solar silicon.

FREE calls - FREE VoIP

A European company, started by a former Nokia president, wants to give all mobile phones access to free Voice Over IP services on their planned network. Well, nothing is really free in life, and neither is this service. The VOIP service will be “free” as long as you are willing to have advertising thrown at you left and right. An acceptable price? Most likely … read more >

 Actually quite a straight forward idea. As long as they keep sending these marketing messages under the same “sender number” we should be able to block them. Let us see.

Ever since I have purchased my first Nokia e61 the catalogs feature actually never worked. When opened I get standard the message -No Catalogs. Select Options/Refresh list to download-. And after refreshing as instructed, no change, no list, and basically the same message keeps sitting in front of me. So far I have not really cared as I never felt I was missing anything. However, with Nokia releasing more and more applications through this channel, I start to wonder actually why this feature does not work. First I thought it was maybe an operator related issue, however, whether I try to update through GPRS or WiFi it does not seem to matter.

Anyone any ideas about this one? Just let me know.

What many others already knew I had to found out the hard way, that is, YAHOO web hosting is crap in many ways. The service offered is dreadfully slow and heavily outdated, making the maintenance of any weblog no fun at all. As an example: I have been waiting for months now for an upgrade of Wordpress to version 2.1.x. It is simply not done.

Moved over in the meantime to BLUEHOST and it works like a charm.

Back again at both mye61.com and mye61i.com.

At clickergamer.com they have prepared a FREE Xmas gift being a game called SNOWED IN 5 - FLAKED OUT. As said it is free and downloadable for almost all mobile platforms including Symbian s60 3rd edition. Even better it has been specically optimized for the Nokia e61 and Nokia e62. Although it is clearly a marketing stunt of the guys at clickergamer.com I do not mind to much as actually it is a nice and addictive game. If you sign-up at clickergamer.com than you can get a registration code for free before the end of January 2007. You can download the *.sis file for the Nokia e61 and Nokia e62 here.

The purpose of the game is actually quite simple. The idea is that you manage to create as many “Xmas figures in a row of miminal three” as possible. The longer the row the higher the score will be you collect. Rows can be created both in horizontal and vertical direction. You create rows by “exchanging” Xmas figures from its square with adjacent squares. This can be done again in horizontal, vetical, as well as diagonal direction. TIP: to move in the diagonal direction use the number keys on your e61 / e62 (eg 1 for NW and 9 for SE). The game is offering two game modes: easy and time mode.

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