The Beanster Blog

I've been bad mouthing the N-series from Nokia for quite awhile now. Now I'm no anti-Nokia zealot but I've always felt that Nokia is taking advantage of it's popularity and coming out with sub-standard mobiles [crippled might be a better term]. For example all Nokia mobiles except for the N8800 [which is not a music phone at all which is odd] does not have A2DP or AVRCP for that matter. They have mobiles with the capable Bluetooth chip but have elected to disable the profile and thus forcing the user to buy an 'enhancement' which is total bull crap IMO. Well I guess I can shut my piehole now as it seems that they have pulled their thumbs out of their assess and come up with 2 new models which support A2DP... Finally something not crippled in some way [hopefully] the N95 and 5300 series. It would be interesting to see how Nokia implements A2DP, I do hope it is way better than the way MS first did it in Windows Mobile devices [or did not do it for that matter]....

Happy Birthday: -- Paulo Canivel Ria Suiza -- May the Force Be With You...

Damn saw Fong's DS Lite! I want one!!! Now I know what Jomz and Chi are talking about that thing is friggin' amazing!!! Gotta save some dough and get me one of those... :P

Happy Birthday -- Philipp Llave -- May the Force Be With You...

Happy Birthday -- Fergus 'Fong' Lao -- May the Force Be With You...

Happy Birthday: -- Leland Fong Karlo Gloria Susan Sy Joyce Tiu -- May the Force Be With You...

Ok ok I probably shouldn't have bought a new mobile... but heck I was missing some important messages and calls when I changed my number. I decided to get a Motorola v3i as it was a quadband phone and it was really cheap already. I really thought I could sync it with outlook just like a PocketPC but I guess I was wrong. I use Motorola Phone Tools to sync my contacts, it get's most of the fields ok but leaves out the images. With 600 plus contacts [more than half have pics] I wasn't prepared to do them all manually, well I guess this mobile will do for now. I really like the slim and sexy form factor, and this one is so lite compared to my main mobile an O2 XDA Exec. Oh yeah this version has i-Tunes which is great if you want to listen to your music next month... I mean the syncing is so slow, I tried using Windows Media Player 11 to sync and it was faster however the tunes would not show up under iTunes [they did show up under Moto's DAP], this is one feature I won'...