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!
You’re reading the blog of a owner of a Nokia e61i . I didn’t even think they sold e61i-s in Malaysia. Even I was told that. In fact Nokia’s website only lists the e61. But somehow my parents found it. Not a Nokia e61, but a e61i.
Okay enough bragging.
Now I would have taken pictures of the unboxing ceremony but my parents took the opportunity to do that. So sorry guys, no ceremony.
Big upgrade
Its quite a big upgrade compared to my old Nokia 1110, which I purchased over a year ago. Which has less than half the features. But the Nokia 1110 is a good phone. Very very durable. The menu’s and everything is quite easily accessible.
Nokia 1110, a very good budget phone. The cool part is the reverse back light. So instead of having a branding blue light emitting from your phone, they reversed the bright part such that it is only the text. Plus they used a subdued hue of green as the text. Very hackerish. It’s something different on the block!
Of course, it made for a bad flash light during those times when you needed one. But the e61i, wow, talk about a very powerful flash light.
Little trivia. the highscore on the games of my previous phones have always been 0.
ODF Support
This thingy majigy has alot of doohicky features. I’m not even sure where to start. Just reading through the manual, it appears there is an application which can read .doc files, but no mention of .docx or .odf.
Doing a google search for “s60 odf” brings me to a good first find.
Hi,
just wanted to let you guys know, that Mobile Office is now released also
for S60 2nd Edition(older Nokia devices).
We decided to release this software as freeware!
If anyone from the fellowship happens to buy a new Symbian device (3rd
Edition), please let me know for a free registration key.
Best regards
Max
Note: Emphasis by me. Free registration key! Great! Sadly its not FOSS.
I received an email from them and the offer is off :(. Any other suggestions?
Wireless
Connects to my WPA encrypted wireless just fine.
The Web looks good
Wow, the web looks good on this phone. Okay things might be squeezed abit, but still looks good. Even my websites pull up! And javascript works! I haven’t tested all of it yet, but we’ll see.
Google Ads works…
RSS Reader
Omg it has an RSS Reader…for all my brain rotting goodness.
Bluetooth? Screw that, go Wireless!
Since the phone comes with wireless, I am transferring files via my Apache web server :). Blue tooth is alot slower, max of 40Kbps. Apache, well the best I should be able to get is 54Mbps.
Yes there are other uses for Bluetooth. But right now I just want to transfer music :).
SSH Client
Oh yeah! Putty available for Symbian OS, yum. Seems there is a problem about self signing applications.
As of 25th April 2007. After installation, I ran the program and tried to connect to a machine. Except when I tried to enter the host I want to connect to, nothing came out, except blank space. Installed the development version which seems to have fixed this bug.
Mobile toy
Expect lots of experimentation from me, now that I have a better phone. Can play around with software for it, be it JavaME, Python, or even Ruby for the s60. Heck if I event wanted I could go the good old fashion route with C++. The Nokia site for s60 development seems bundled with stuff.
I can now also experiment with CSS on Mobile phones, and especially with the media attribute=”handheld”.
Office on the go
Basically I now have a more portable office (besides my aging laptop). It’ll be good to always be ‘connected’, but I may once again be doused with an overdose of information!
But no experimentation yet. I have a growing to do list that needs some hacking.
Software
Looking for software, any suggestions? I’ve come over the E-Series blog, which I have just been pouring over…
After installing the new Ubuntu Feisty Fawn I was looking around through the settings and saw this: System » Administration » Restricted Drivers Manager .
Oh yeah…doesn’t it feel good to not run any restricted drivers. A completely Free Operating System. The dream of RMS.
The Truth
Actually it’s not true. I am not running a completely Free Operating System. Its only free in terms of hardware. But when running things like video decoders such as for DVD playback, I have to rely on “non free” elements due to regulations in place which restrict the distribution of “unlawful” (sarcasm also intended) software.
Conclusion
But in terms of getting your computer up and running, being free of restricted drivers makes it so much easier. Maybe that’s why my Ubuntu installation went very easily.
