Nokia E65 & E Series Tips Tricks and Reviews

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Why Nokia E65? Quick voice recording

One feature that I have forgotten about for the last few months using my phone is the voice recorder shortcut button on the side of the phone. This is especially useful when you are in a conversation with someone and you want to record for future reference something that they are about to say. Press the button on the right side of the phone with a 'o' and it will start recording!"
 
Also if you want to remember something, you can press record outside of a call and tell yourself something that you need to do later. If you have bluetooth synchronising set up on your phone, recording a reminder is especially useful because when your bring your phone to your computer later that day, your voice file will be sent to your computer and the reminder will be played back to you automatically. Details of this feature can be found in previous posts.
 
* The recorder will BEEP every few seconds which is meant to let your friend / colleague / family member know that their conversation with you is being recorded. Please do not use this to try candidly record conversations as this will most likely be a breach of wiretapping laws wherever you are.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Watch that slide

When you're on a call, you cannot slide the phone closed or you will hang up on your friend. That is just one of those things you should watch out for or you will realise sooner or later.

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Google Maps 2.0.5 on Nokia E65 - sweet

I’ve downloaded the most recent update of Google Maps 2.0 which comes with a new feature “MY LOCATION”. This enables you to find out where you are, based on your proximity to the closest mobile phone tower currently . In Australia, you can only get an approximate location based on the phone tower radius of 1.7km (from what I worked out). When you install this from www.google.com/gmm, make sure you install to your phone memory as I had problems installing it to my memory card.


Google maps on your phone allows you to get directions from one location to another. If you searched for example, Los Angeles Airport, you can then press the main key on your phone to get options to find out how to get to/from Los Angeles Airport. An example below shows a person going from Milson's Point to Sydney Airport. The map first shows you a summary of the journey, then you can see the journey on the map, pressing "3" every time you get to a significant turning point in the journey to find out what to do next.

The searches I think have improved on this new version of Google Maps. If you look up “restaurants” you can toggle between the results by pressing 4 and 6. Zoom in on the map with 3 and zoom out with 1. Pressing 0 will get you to your Google Maps' "my location".


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