Optus Prepaid customers - price increase alert

Standard Pre-Paid rate increases as of 3 March 2009. Includes any credit already on the account from what I can see.

Basically:

Billing Increments: Calls will be charged in 1 minute blocks instead of 30 second blocks.

SMS Rates: 25c to Optus/Boost Pre-paid. Increase to 29c for all other Australian numbers.

MMS Rates: Decrease to the equivalent SMS rate.

National & international Flagfall: Increase to 35c

International: Calls to NZ; HK; USA; UK; and Singapore: .97c per minute. All others: $1.63 per minute.

It is unsure whether this will apply to just new pre-paid customers or existing ones as well. 

Nokia E55 to offer 1 month standby batttery life

Nokia has recently annouced the release of the Nokia E55 and E75. Scrolling through the announcement, one major highlight for the E55 is a boast of one month battery life on standby mode! Other features seem to be quite similar to the E71 and E63 offerings that are currently available - probably because these releases seem to be coming too closely behind the other E series releases. This indicates that Nokia is trying to make sure business and executive (if there's a difference) users have no excuse for not finding an E series phone that suits their needs. See more about these two new phones here.

Who visits MyE65 anyway?

We had a post a while ago about where everyone comes from and what they do. Here is a list of what you guys are up to out there in the real world. For those that have recently joined MyE65, leave a comment here and tell us who you are. If there was one thing that you would be a world expert in, what would it be? 

• IT exec @ Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Pharmacist and Symbian blogger, Beirut, Lebanon.
• Manager-North Borneo
• Student Economics at Leuven, Belgium
• Memory researcher, St Louis, USA (though I am an expat and only recently moved here from Leeds, UK)
• IT student in Paris, France.
• IT Program Manager, Lake of Garda, Italy
• Electrical engineering, Taiwan
• E65 user.Biomedical student@republic polytechnic.Singapore.20yrs old.
• Work in IT in Fredrikstad, Norway.
• Northern Ontario Canada
• Accountant - Great Grimsby, UK
• Saludos desde Cádiz, España
• Hi from Cádiz, Spain.
• Saludos desde Cádiz, España
• Registered Nurse - Manila, Philippineso
• Lawyer, Madrid
• Software architect in Oslo, Norway.
• Computer science student at Manila, Philippines.
• Small Business Owner, Pune, India.
• Bussiness Program Manager @ Chihuahua, Mexico.
• Sarawak, Malaysia (borneo). 
• Vancouver Canada : ) accountant
• IT Consultant (ex RSA) now the Netherlands.
• Got my E65 for 2 months now and proud of it! ;)
• it and psychology student, web designer... mexico city
• Sales executive for a telecommunications company, Dominican Republic
• Softwaredeveloper from northern Germany :)
• Kenya, Software developer
• Adhesives Technologist, Farnborough UK
• external auditor, 23 y/o, Cebu, Philippines =)
• military, signal, Lisbon, Portugal ;)
• PR Exec, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love my E65 hehe
• Information Systems student/Computer Scientist, Osnabrück, Germany.
• IT Exec @ TropicalWeb , Maputo, Mozambique
• South of Africa
• Industrial engineering student from Burgos, Spain.
• Cop moroccan,connecticut
• Classified Resseller - Lisbon (Portugal) E65 Owner
• IT what else ? Paris area, France
• former PalmPilot user and developer
• Student, Ricardo, Lisbon - Portugal
• Accountant, Perth Australia
• Just saying Hi from Brasov, Romania.
• Cacak, Serbia. Fiberoptic Network Consultant
• Project manager in public administration.Zagreb, Croatia, Europe. I just love my E65!
• Melbourne, Australia
• @ Quito-Ecuador
• Product Manager in Melbourne, Australia.
• Zichen-Zussen-Bolder , Belgium
• A finance student - Karachi, Pakistan.
• pastor - South Africa
• Assist. prof. (Bridges & Tunnels) Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• Infosec professional, Bangalore, India.
• Database developer, Kingston upon Thames, England
• Sw Development Manager, Portugal

Free 7 Day Navigation License from Nokia

If you have a GPS enabled phone (such as Nokia E71 and Nokia E90), get your free trial of the Nokia spoken navigations by following this link here. This will allow you to consider whether or not the 30 day or 1 year subscription is worth the money. With GPS modules dropping in price around the world now, I would imagine that Nokia should be considering dropping the price of their subscription to voice navigation.

As for what the trial is like, I've started on the navigation trial and so far it is quite an experience. It is easy to use with the Nokia E90 large screen and if you make a wrong turn, the voice navigation adjusts by planning a new route without berating you for taking the wrong turn.

The voice navigation from Nokia does not say street names, only announcing a turn around 250m before the turn and then "Turn left now" when the turn approaches.

Can you use another sim card whilst subscribed to voice navigation on another sim card?

No. Whilst you are using the navigation, you are unable to change SIM cards as the phone will no longer recognise that the voice navigation is activated. This i guess prevents people from registering for perpetual free trials using different sim cards. I am not sure if this is the case for the 30 day or 1 year subscription. I am also not sure whether you can put the sim card which IS registered into another GPS enabled phone device and run the voice navigation.

However, you can probably use the same phone for two or three 7-day trials using different Mobile numbers to activate the 7 day trial. That makes sense because if you sold your Nokia E71 on the internet to someone else, they should also be able to get a free trial as well.