Nokia 6610
Got myself a Nokia 6610 on April Fool's day or the day when Leslie Cheung decided that his boyfriend doesn't love him anymore...
Then the nightmare begins...
Transfering contacts from old 8210 phone to the new phone. Since I store the contacts on the phone memory. I can backup the contacts to the PC... hmm... but wait! The newly installed Nokia PC Suite 5.0 has rendered the old PC Suite for Nokia 8210 useless on my PC. So I settled to IR beaming 88 contacts from one phone to another. Duh.
Searching all over the world for Oxygen Phone Manager 2 and MobiMB Mobile Media Browser. Finally found them on KaZaA. *pats KaZaA*
Transfering some midi from PC to phone - most of them the phone refuses to play or only playing in monophonic mode.
Sending an operator logo from Palm m505 via old Nokia 8210 to new Nokia 6610 worked fine. Menu -> Settings -> Display settings -> Operator logo -> On/Off allows me full control over the display of operator logo. Then I used Oxygen Phone Manager 2 to set a colour jpg as the operator logo. Then shit happens. The phone no longer accepts operator logos I sent over. You can View the logo, but the phone will tell you 'Failure saving' if you try to Save it. Moreover, you will not be able to switch on/off the operator logo display on your screen. The option will be greyed out.
I found some guides from the internet that if you reset the logo to default using MobiMB, the phone will be able to accept operator logo again. But it didn't work. Called up Nokia. After beating around the bush for half an hour, they told me to download the latest PC Suite 5.1 from the internet. 27MB holy sheet, but it's okay, only took some 13 minutes. But it still didn't solve the problem. And the phone browser of 5.1 is like sheet also.
Finally I decided to bring the phone back to Berjaya Plaza at Jalan Imbi to ask them to re-flash the firmware of the phone again. :(
Trip there was easy. 15 minutes. 2.30pm to 2.45pm. No jam. Went into Low Yat's parking lot, follow some cars, driving around looking for parking space... WTF? Exit? But I still hasn't parked yet! Asked the jaga and he pointed me back into the parking lot. Parked my car, asked a jockey for direction and walked to Berjaya Plaza. Went up to 13th floor, WTF. They have floor 1, 2, 3, 3a, 5, 6 and so on, but floor 13 and 14 instead of floor 12a and 12b? Pressed on the ticketing machine and got the number 1042. Immediately it was my turn. Coz the place has no other customer. Muahaha.
Had to demonstrate to her, the counter staff. So took out my Palm m505, Nokia 8210 and Nokia 6610, laid them down in front of her and fired away. I think her eyes popped out.
"So you can't save the logo on your phone," she said.
"But earlier I could," I didn't tell her the mishaps with Oxygen Phone Manager. I'm not that stupid. It might void my warranty.
She stripped my phone, took the inards and gave me a paper. "4 o'clock." That would be an hour's time, not bad.
Went down to LG, got a cup of Caramel Mocha for RM10.50 and sipped while talking to HW on my old trusty 8210.
HW : "Eh? I thought the function is greyed out from the beginning?"
Dr. Liew : "You know something? For some, they screwed something up, they realize it immediately. For some, they screwed something up, they think it's normal."
HW : "Isk isk isk. Hahaha."
So it didn't rain. Lucky. Imbi Plaza is as usual, RM5 each pirated CD. Four pirated Macromedia Flash collection CDs for RM20. Not bad. Prepare for some Shockwave plugs on this blog soon... hahaha... die!
4.00pm. Back to 13th floor. Got the phone back. Sent an operator logo and the staff saved it and showed me.
Staff : "Is that what you want?"
Dr. Liew : "That's EXACTLY what I wanted. Thank you, thank you, bye-bye, have a nice day."
20 minutes to come back. Not bad. Timing is very important if you want to avoid jams in KL.
Nokia 6610 is a good phone. It has this radio function and comes with a stereo headset. And you can opt to use the built-in speaker of the phone instead of the headset to listen to the radio. However, the built in speaker will not work if you unplug the headset.
If you are thinking of modding the phone so that the built-in speaker will work even if without headset, forget it. The headset's wire is supposed to act as the antenna for the radio. You may ask : "WTF? Can't they use the built-in phone antenna instead? If it can accept GSM signal, why not FM signal?" Well, the answer is : "Are you nuts or what? FM signal is in the range of 87MHz to 108MHz, you need at least 10cm of antenna to get a clear reception. Whereas GSM is some 800MHz to 1,900MHz and can be received clearly just with a 1cm antenna, you idiot! This is secondary school physics, man."
The colour graphics rocks, the polyphonic ringtones rocks, the rhythmic vibration rocks. The keypad is easier to press and softer. Less swollen thumb. The java apps and games rock too.
WAP via GPRS is cool. But I still can't get my Palm to go online using 6610's GPRS. For MMS, even though no telco in Malaysia support it, but there's a solution at
http://www.nowmms.com. I've tried it, but always 'Network busy'. Duh...
