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Nokia e61i - Screenshot, Google Reader, User Agents, Exif, Gnome Bluetooth, USB, and a Bug?

April 30th, 2007 by aizatto

Originally this was a very very long post, I decided to put it into two seperate ones.

So after having the phone for a while, I can finally discuss somethings about it.

Wireless

The phone works on Wireless 802.11 G, thats basically for most common day routers available :).

WEP, WPA ad WPAv2 key works also. Been only using pre-shared keys.

Screenshot for SymbianOS

Awesome software Screenshot for SymbianOS (Free Software). Best part is its licensed under the GNU GPLv2. So I can learn from it :).

Note: Press both the buttons at the same time. Stupid me.

Google Reader

Instead of using the RSS reader, Yoonkit suggested I use Google Reader instead. I didn’t even know Google Reader existed for the mobile, because last time I went to the original site on the phone, it broke. You have to go to the mobile version, which I only found via Googling.

HTTP User Agent

So if you were curious what the HTTP User Agent for the e61i was…here you go.

Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 es61i

Anything else you’d like to know about the phone?

If you want to see the e61i naked, well then it’s already been done, but not by me.

Note: Geek pr0n

Exif Data

Using the Eye of Gnome and exiv2 program I can investigate the properties of the images taken.
Aperture: F3.2
Focal Length: 4.9mm
ExposureMode: Auto exposure
WhiteBalance: Auto white balance

Now this means nothing to me at all, but I bet some of you may be interested.

Gnome Bluetooth

So now with some screenshots, I need to transfer those screenshots to my phone. Finally I can play with the Bluetooth on my IBM ThinkPad. So I did the required sudo apt-get install gnome-bluetooth, and tried it out…but no luck. Didn’t seem to work at all.

Transferring via USB

Bluetooth doesn’t work. Don’t even want to think about IrDA… so one of the remaining choices was USB.
Note: The phone can act as a USB storage device or be enabled for the Nokia PC Suite software. Naturally I chose the storage device.

Messaging Application Bug?

Funny thing though. When connected, people can’t call you. So when you disconnect, you get “1 new message”, and when trying to open it, it seems to hang the Messaging application. I can’t close it or anything, so I have to restart the phone.

Once started up again, you can read the message just fine. Damn weird.

The message?

You have X missed call(s) from +6XXXXXXXXXX

Or something like that…

Wonder if it’s related to the last time it hung at the Creative Commons event. Except I wasn’t connected to anything at all.

In the end I decided to flash my firmware, even though it’s at the latest one. Hope it doesn’t occur again. Die bug die!

More!

Stay tuned, more coming up later!

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