If you have a bluetooth dongle set up with your computer, you can upload songs to your phone when without connecting the phone to the computer via the cable. Even more useful is that if your phone automatically syncs with your PC, when you have taken photos for the day and you walk over to your computer, your computer and phone will start sorting out what photos are new and copy them over to the computer. This will also happen to your NOTES and your CALENDAR items*. Before you can even sit down, you already have your photos loaded up on your computer ready to be added to your blog, sent to your friends or just stored for safekeeping.
* All these features require you to set up your synchronisation with your phone and PC and there are options to only sync CALENDAR items for example if you dont want the other things sent over to your phone.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Why Nokia E65? syncro-NICE
Why Nokia E65? MP3 player one less bulge
Quite often people will ask, why do you need your phone to do so many things? Well, when you have a phone that takes photos, you may not need a camera. When you also have an MP3 player, you can save on your pocket real estate.
With the Nokia E65, one small "hack" for listening to mp3s is to pair your phone with a bluetooth loudspeaker in your car so that you can listen to podcasts (dont really suggest listening to music unless you have a bluetooth receiver hooked up to your car stereo system) as you travel. As you listen to your mp3s, your phone will switch off the music when someone calls in and when you are finished with the call, it will switch the music back on. There's one advantage over your car stereo system. Another good thing is that the nokia E65 can multitask. Your phone can continue to play your mp3s even if you decide to use the calculator, start up your GPS bluetooth program or send an SMS to a friend.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Why Nokia E65? Seamless data transfer and quick booting ''PC"
When you get your hone for the first time, one of the most daunting tasks is transferring over your contacts from one phone to then new one. I sat myself dow for a mundane session of working this out when I discovered one of those hidden features in phones that make you go "oh, Awesome!'' Under settings, there is a feature called dat transfer. Select your old phone from the list of found bluetooth phones, elect what you want to transfer and press Copy!
Another cool feature having this phone is when you cant be bothered rebooting your computer to do a blog entry, turn on your wireless keyboard and start typing into your phone like I am doig now.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Nokia E65 - Questions driving you nuts
I've noticed that there has been an increasing number of people coming to this site probably with questions they want answered about the Nokia E65 (possibly from other E65 users). If you have such a question, post it here in the COMMENTS section and someone else passing by may have the answer.
Why Nokia E65? - Let Nokia Explain (video)
Sometimes its better just to let the experts tell you why. This is from the Nokia E65 CD that comes with the phone. Press play and away you go :)
Why Nokia E65? Size vs Features vs Price
When deciding which phone to get, I was wrestling between the Nokia N95, Nokia N80 and the Nokia E65. It wasn't easy choosing between the three but one thing that moved me towards the E65 was the size of the phone. When you look at it, the phone seems quite large but most of the phone's surface area is the screen. When you have features like mp4 and 3gp video playback,
camera, internet surfing and word processing, you start to appreciate the size of the screen! The E65 is about half the thickness of the N95 and the N80 making it one of the slimmer slide phones. Also, I heard from quite a few people that with the E65, the slide mechanism is a lot more solid than previous Nokia phones.
Nokia E65 - GPS when you want it
Back to the comparison, the N95 offers GPS and that was one of the biggest questions floating in my mind... would I pay another AU $500 for a phone with GPS? I decided there was no point because the Nokia E65 supports GPS but to buy this separately, you will need to buy a Bluetooth GPS device for about $100 more (a fraction less than buying a Nokia N95). I figured that the main use of GPS was in the car so if I got a bluetooth GPS device and put it in my car, it will connect to my E65 when I need it most - in the car.
Finally, you might be wondering why I was only comparing between Nokia phones. From what I have seen, Nokia phones are more intuitive in their design making the features of the phone easily accessible. This is unlike many other brands which may have all the bells and whistles but whats the point when you want to set an alarm for example, you need to scroll through
4 menus to get there?
Friday, July 20, 2007
Why Nokia E65? Travel Guide Programs!
You're in a foreign country and your "friend" who works as your full time interpreter has just ditched you for something that they have to do. You flag down a taxi and when you jump in, the taxi driver asks in Chinese, "Where do you want to go?" A cold sweat breaks out and you do a quick self-assessment on your miming skils and conclude, "I'm screwed!"
A new JAVA program has just been launched which is for mobile phones called XS2theWorld. NOt only does it provide over 300 phrases in a foreign language (read out, displayed on your phone in the foreign language and with pronounciation in ENglish!)... It also gives you a guide of the city you are visiting (restaurants, museums, shops etc) emergency contacts and a section for you to bookmark your favourite phrases for quick reference. Learn another language today because they are offering the first 5,000 users FREE DOWNLOAD of their program! Quick! Before you go, check out this video and see XS2Shanghai in action:
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Why Nokia E65? - More on WAP/GPRS
OK lots of people ask "SO WHAT if you can surf the internet on your phone? When are you ever going to do that??" I'll have to go to some local examples for this one but I am sure you will also be able to apply this to wherever you come from. Consider the usefulness of having access to the following websites that I have bookmarked in my phone (or could have).
Qantas Arrivals/Departures
To find out the times for a flight coming in or leaving your city.
Rainfall Radar over your City
There are clouds in the sky and you are considering doing the 500m dash to the bus station... do you go for it? Check the rainfall radar! Or if you don't know what the weather is going to be like tonight, check the weather forecast
Sharemarket
Check what the price is for your favourite stocks.
Google or Snopes
Everything: http://www.google.com/ Urban Legends: http://www.snopes.com/
You're arguing with your friends about the stupidity of iPhones soldering their batteries to their phones to increase revenue and your friends INSIST that this is a myth... consult the oracle right there and then so you can rub it in their face that you were right!
Other useful situations (add your own website)
- Movie times
- Bus/train/ferry timetable
- News websites when you are waiting for a friend
- Web email
- Google suite of websites - gmail, calendar, maps (more on this another time)
There are many more possibilities with having an internet connection with your phone and you will probably find that once you do have it enabled, you would probably refer to the net at least once in your conversations with other people and it would probably frustrate those talking to you... especially if they dont have internet on their phone :P
Why Nokia E65? QuickOffice - Word Excel and Powerpoint
We'll now look at a scenario... you are on your way to a meeting.
Before the meeting..
Admittedly you may become cross eyed editing your excel spreadsheet on this phone, but QuickOffice is a very handy tool for those who may want to make last minute changes to their presentation or want to backup their word document because they don't trust their memory stick. Before you shout at me, I should mention that Quickoffice by default does not allow you to edit your files, you need to pay a small fee for that to be enabled. You can only view files until you upgrade the software. With a portable SU-8W Bluetooth Nokia keyboard you have yourself the lightest laptop you will ever find!!
After the meeting..
You can also send your presentation to other people via Bluetooth or even email the presentation from your phone if there is WiFi available. Failing that, you could use GPRS or WAP if you have a data plan with your phone. Failing that, you can eject your miniSD card, stick it into your SD Card adapter and plug it into your friend's computer (as most computers now have SD card readers).
There is another program that doesn't come with the E65 and it really makes you wonder why! The Nokia Presenter is a program that allows you to control a powerpoint presentation using your E65 via Bluetooth.. more on this another time! This is already too much to read for some.
EDIT: Many of the new phones now come with Quickoffice full version installed like E71
Monday, July 16, 2007
Nokia E65 didnt make it but
The Nokia E65 didnt make it to the PC World's Top 100 products list in 2007 but those interested in the Nokia E65 would also be interested in these: The Top 100 Products, in Ranked Order
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