My new Nokia 6233
12/11/06 19:23 |
Personal
I broke my Motorola Razr a while back, I'm not sure
what happened to it exactly but it was probably
related to my habit of leaving it in my back pocket
and sitting on it. Still, I never really got on with
the UI, it was pretty clunky for what looked like a
phone from the future and I needed a change. I have
drawers full of old mobile phones and have been using
a Nokia 6600 as my backup, but it's big and old and
scratched and a bit broken from my dropping it a few
times.
So it's down to Phones For You Are Us and see what I can get for free. "I can't really justify spending money on mobiles when they give them away for free," I explained to the (now) somewhat crestfallen sales man. So he left me with five or six plastic models of phones to play with in the hope that I'd get bored and wander off. I didn't. I already had it in mind that I was probably going to get another Nokia and my price limit of free precluded most of the fancy ones. However, I liked the 6233 and after an hour of waiting for T-Mobile to give me the OK walked out of the shop with a new phone.
A Nokia 6233, yesterday.
"And is it any good?", I hear you ask. "Yeh, s'alright", I reply. It's got pretty much everything I've ever wanted from a phone, except...
It doesn't sync with iSync (yet). This has happened to me before (I'm always on the bleeding edge of free phones, it would seem) and anyway it's not normally a big deal as there's usually a work-around. After a bit of googling I found http://web.mac.com/the_reamer/iWeb/S60/iSync.html with instructions on syncing your Nokia 6233 with iSync. It's FREE, works perfectly, is made in the UK and it comes with a nice icon of the phone that will be more than adequate until Apple adds the required support in themselves.
The site also had Nokia themes which you can buy to make you phone look like a mac. Given that the iSync plugin was free I figured I'd buy one and here it is (sorry it's a bit blurred but I couldn't get the autofocus to do it's thing on the phones screen...)
OSXy themes for Nokia 6233, E61, N80, N73 and N93 are available here http://web.mac.com/the_reamer/iWeb/S60/Buy.html
So it's down to Phones For You Are Us and see what I can get for free. "I can't really justify spending money on mobiles when they give them away for free," I explained to the (now) somewhat crestfallen sales man. So he left me with five or six plastic models of phones to play with in the hope that I'd get bored and wander off. I didn't. I already had it in mind that I was probably going to get another Nokia and my price limit of free precluded most of the fancy ones. However, I liked the 6233 and after an hour of waiting for T-Mobile to give me the OK walked out of the shop with a new phone.
A Nokia 6233, yesterday.
"And is it any good?", I hear you ask. "Yeh, s'alright", I reply. It's got pretty much everything I've ever wanted from a phone, except...
It doesn't sync with iSync (yet). This has happened to me before (I'm always on the bleeding edge of free phones, it would seem) and anyway it's not normally a big deal as there's usually a work-around. After a bit of googling I found http://web.mac.com/the_reamer/iWeb/S60/iSync.html with instructions on syncing your Nokia 6233 with iSync. It's FREE, works perfectly, is made in the UK and it comes with a nice icon of the phone that will be more than adequate until Apple adds the required support in themselves.
The site also had Nokia themes which you can buy to make you phone look like a mac. Given that the iSync plugin was free I figured I'd buy one and here it is (sorry it's a bit blurred but I couldn't get the autofocus to do it's thing on the phones screen...)
OSXy themes for Nokia 6233, E61, N80, N73 and N93 are available here http://web.mac.com/the_reamer/iWeb/S60/Buy.html
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