Friday, October 10, 2003
Win Some, Lose Some (But bluetooth sure is nice)
My Nokia 3650 randomly turned itself off for the 100th time so I decided I needed to take it in for repair. Cingular was kind enough to give me a shiny new one. I think its a new revision or something because now I can no longer synch with iSync. I can transfer files and surf the net without a hitch but if I go to add my phone to iSync it has no luck picking it up. I can't seem to find much on the net. No luck with a hard reset. I guess I'll just wait till a new version of bluetooth/isync comes along. I was really getting used to having everything all synched up.
But while I wait I can atleast enjoy the super cool new features that came along with the last apple update of the address book. Now my mac will tell me when I have an incoming call, complete with number/name lookup! Now if only they could add a call logging feature I would be all set. I am notoriously bad for charging for my time. Its amazing what you can pickup while reading other people's blogs.
While on the bluetooth-powerbook topic I have to say that surfing the net while your phone is still sitting snuggly in your pocket is all its cracked up to be. To kill time in the airport before a flight I like to suck down some news to read on the plane, bring all my cvs checkouts up todate, chat on im and irc, make sure none of my servers are going to take a dump while I'm in the air, and generally waste time mucking about on the 'net. I used to do this by attaching a usb cable to my samsung A500 but it was a complete pain. Where the cable plugged into the phone was flaky at best and everytime I shifted my position my connection would drop. I got pretty creative with wedging the cable and phone in the handle of my travel bags but it was still clusmy. Oh but now I just slide my slender powerbook from its case, flip it open, click connect and start surfing all in one suave movement. Within 15 seconds I'm on the the 'net. Sure I wouldn't mind the connection being a little faster but still for this 3mbit connection addict, its more than useable. Too bad Cingular doesn't have a flat rate for data like sprint.
But while I wait I can atleast enjoy the super cool new features that came along with the last apple update of the address book. Now my mac will tell me when I have an incoming call, complete with number/name lookup! Now if only they could add a call logging feature I would be all set. I am notoriously bad for charging for my time. Its amazing what you can pickup while reading other people's blogs.
While on the bluetooth-powerbook topic I have to say that surfing the net while your phone is still sitting snuggly in your pocket is all its cracked up to be. To kill time in the airport before a flight I like to suck down some news to read on the plane, bring all my cvs checkouts up todate, chat on im and irc, make sure none of my servers are going to take a dump while I'm in the air, and generally waste time mucking about on the 'net. I used to do this by attaching a usb cable to my samsung A500 but it was a complete pain. Where the cable plugged into the phone was flaky at best and everytime I shifted my position my connection would drop. I got pretty creative with wedging the cable and phone in the handle of my travel bags but it was still clusmy. Oh but now I just slide my slender powerbook from its case, flip it open, click connect and start surfing all in one suave movement. Within 15 seconds I'm on the the 'net. Sure I wouldn't mind the connection being a little faster but still for this 3mbit connection addict, its more than useable. Too bad Cingular doesn't have a flat rate for data like sprint.
