![]() ![]() The phone, being a 3G device, constantly switched between the GPRS and 3G / UMTS network as I travelled around, almost invariably resulting in dropped calls or disrupted data flows. Over a WiFi connection, using it to connect to these services was a breeze.īut here’s the rub. Admittedly, the Symbian operating system it runs is extremely capable and within a week of getting the phone I had installed a number of free programmes that got me the latest RSS feeds, allowed me to connect to Skype, Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and SIP through WiFi, got me daily weather updates, my Gmail account and even Reuters news. It looks delicious, but when you begin to use it, you realise that it’s horrendously underpowered and over-featured. The Nokia E65, which I bought after the X820, is Morris Minor that’s donned a Ferrari outfit. While the multimedia features of the phone are a cut above that which comparable Nokia phones have to offer, I found myself using it less as a media player and more as a phone / SMS device, which at the end of the day, meant that I had to deal with a battery that gave up at the end of each day, which if I ever forgot to charge it overnight or was travelling, was a disaster (though I did get a spare battery and external charger with the phone, which helps things a bit). As I SMS a lot and have primarily used Nokia phones, the predictive text input was also annoying in that the space was located differently to that of Nokia phones, drastically slowing down my text input rate. The Samsung by far offered the best picture, sound and video quality, but the worst battery life. FWIW, I cannot synchronise my contacts on Vista using the Nokia PC suite either.I’ve gone from a Samsung SGH-X820 to a Nokia E65 in the space of a year and before finally buying a Nokia 3110 Classic. But be that as it may, I am still extremely impressed with Mac OS X and Apple and it is times like these that make me wonder how the majority of people in the world can be dumb enough to allow themselves never to experience Mac OS X. Hopefully I'll be able to find some patch or something for iSync that lets me synchronise my contacts. I still cannot synchronise my contacts but it's a start. Also, I can open up my Address Book, click on the bluetooth button and then send a text message to any contact in the list. So basically, all I need to do to is set up a mobile phone as a device on my Mac once and then click on that option whenever I want to connect. I then accidentally clicked on the bluetooth button in the menu bar again and there was this option that said "Join Network on Aayush's Nokia 6300": I booted into Mac OS X and turned bluetooth on. First of all, I was forced to use an idiotic interface forced down my throat by Microsoft and then having to face this weird behaviour drove me nuts. But for some strange reason, the PC suite would randomly stop detecting my phone and I had to keep re-installing the software again and again. So I had to install Nokia PC suite which, I have to accept, made the process of connecting to the Internet quite simple. Of course, there isn't any way of using a phone as a modem in Windows by default. Since Mac OS X wasn't allowing me to connect to the Internet using my 6300, I went ahead and did something I had hoped to avoid - I installed Vista using Boot Camp. You know what, I love Apple! So much that if I had been the creative type, I would have written poetry on them. ![]()
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