R2’s rants

Just finished watching the movie xXx: State of the Union, or xXx²: The Next Level depending where on earth you are, which was great as was the first xXx.

The thing that I had to remember, to look up,  the most of the movie was this small part with some different kind of music compared to the rest of the soundtrack, a string quartet called Bond, performing at a party. The track is called Victory.

I actually loved it even though I normally don't like that kind of music. The fact that they're all cute didn't hurt either. :)

Another version:

Nokia Navigation Kit

As I've been a long time user of Navicore products, I find it terrible that Wayfinder has acquired Navicore. With the forever ongoing Finland-Sweden battle in everything, I really dislike swedes buying Finnish stuff. :)

I think I have to hurry up and buy the Navigation Kit for my N800 quickly before there's any swedish marks in it.

What would make me happy is that they would let Navicore continue on it's own as they used to or this will probably be the last product of Navicore I will ever buy, unless....

Please Nokia, buy Wayfinder! :)

I still haven't survived the last update, most of my apps are in wrong places etc.

Well, ok.. I'm still going to update now but first I'll clear out all unnecessary crap from my N73, I have a bunch of crap installed that I haven't used since the initial install and first tests.

This time it's a major update, maybe I can find some visible changes this time. Wish me luck. :)

Firmware_update_n73

except for a few things:

• Linux, not because of Nokia but because of me not having used it before too much.. :)
• memory handling, even with the virtual memory I can add and I did with the original memory card that came along the device, is not as good as I like it to be
• apps wont start when I want them to unless I reboot the device, possibly because of memory handling
• the email app wont show images, dunno if it's because I use gmail accounts only
• the touchscreen is a bit random, seems to get scratched a bit too fast even when less than a month old
• wifi seems a bit random too, I did some tests to prove this but they didn't. I used Darla Macks page (with her permission) to test this. Some (average) results based on this test (in seconds), taken 2 times on different days and different times of day:
• 61 on IE7 and wlan
• 73 on N73 GPRS and the services browser, it crashed at this point, no result really
• 88 on N800 with wlan
• 103 on N73 3G and the S60 browser
• 190  on the N800 via N73 and 3G
• 207 on N73 GPRS and the S60 browser
• 780 on the N800 via N73 and GPRS

(I still think wifi is random, I might have to press the go button to surf a page alot of times before it works  when I want to access a page but when it works, it's fast. Might be my Fon router too.

• battery life, could be better but it lasts longer than my N73 when tethered together by bluetooth
• Opera browser, I just lost my favorite usage of the whole thing, Google Reader mobile just doesn't work anymore on the N800 (not Operas fault, minimo doesn't work with Google Reader mobile either)
• connectivity, the N800 does switch to bluetooth connection to my N73 when wifi disappears but why cant it switch back to the wifi when bluetooth disappears?
• youtube.com, embedded videos/links to youtube videos on blogs wont work because of too long (I think) links to them. Getting the same video on youtube by searching causes no problem
• embedded audio (podcasts) on blogs, the sound mutes/pauses when the screen goes to power save mode (turns off)
• the RSS reader, it keeps read and unread items on the home screen as it wants to
• PIM, what PIM? Gimme a PIM or atleast a calendar. Though it seems I'm fine with the Google Calendar mobile as I discussed with Darla about it and started thinking about it :)
• I want more apps :)

I might have more issues to complain about but I just cant remember right now.. ;)

Next purchase to the N800 would be the Navigation kit, I'm a long time user of Navicore and will certainly love it on this device, thanks to ThoughtFix for proving that.

Whatever happened to the statement from Nokia's Pekka Pohjakallio who said this at the CES in January:

"From now on, all the Nseries will have Wi-Fi"

Is it just me that's blind or doesn't the N76 lack Wi-Fi?

Finally I have my new laptop replacement, and I really mean replacement. I sold my laptop and now the N800 will be my secondary computer along with my N73.
I've been playing with it now for a few hours and I think I handle it good enough to be ready to use it fully. Time to upgrade the firmware and start putting things together as I like them to be.
I had some bluetooth issues at first startup and it just wouldn't enable but luckily it started working after a restart.
I still do have one issue though, I can't get my gmail accounts set up to send on this thing yet. Took a while to get it to receive but I finally solved it.
So if anyone knows the right settings for sending I really would be thankful. ;)
Now I have to go back and play with my geek toy as my co-worker called it, lol..

My new toy: Nokia N800

Sweet, gonna upgrade now to find out what's new if I can find anything.

N73 firmware - 3.0713.1.0.2

Dvb

DVB-H just started broadcasting here in Finland with a couple of major tv stations in addition to one earlier channel. And the first device to support DVB-H, the Nokia N92, hit the shelves on friday at the Nokia Flagship store in Helsinki with a gigantic price tag of course.

Nokia N92

The thing that bothers me with these devices is that I need to buy alot of phones to carry in my big pockets to have all the features I want. I need a N92 for DVB-H, N95 for GPS, N93 for video and N800 for a nice big screen. Why not an all in one device that would support alot of stuff. To buy all these devices to get all these great features would cost me a fortune. N92 for 855€, N93i for 700€, N95 for 700€ and N800 for 400€. That's alot of money!

Take the N800, include a GPS, DVB-H and a good camera and it would be a fantastic device with it's big screen already included. And then I could have my N73 or something else for all my regular phone connectivity I need.

I don't need 7 phones, I want 7 features! :)

Enough of this rant, I'm still going to buy one of those devices I mentioned during next week. I'll rant about that one later when I have the device in my hand.. ;)

Rihanna - Umbrella