Category Archives: Nokia E61

N800 To The Rescue, Again

I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I … Continue reading

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US 3G N95 Reality Distortion Field

The world is all atwitter with news of the new Nokia hansets, including an 8 gig N95 model that actually works on US 3G. I’m looking to upgrade from my European model E61, so of course I’m considering it. I … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Email Clients

While I’m in a timezone that’s rotated 12.5 hours from my home timezone most of my communication is by necessity asynchronous. Not a problem, I have email magic all over the place. Emails on my phone, run my own imap … Continue reading

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Mini Friday – Virtual World on Mobile Devices

Russ pointed me at the Mini Friday site, probably to talk about the design of the site itself. But of course I immediately got distracted by the project itself. It works very well on the E61, w00t!! The interface is … Continue reading

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3GSM Wrapup

I spent the last few days at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. It was the first 3GSM for me, very informative, met lots of interesting people, had lots of great conversations. Here are some of the highlights and takeaways from … Continue reading

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Opera Mini Bookmarklets

This is amazing, Opera Mini supports bookmarklets. Seriously, I’m blown away. I was hoping that the Nokia Open Source browser would have some way to perform simple user extension, but that hasn’t been the case as far as I can … Continue reading

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v3 Firmware for E61

I installed the v3 firmware for me E61 using the self-service updater. The hardest part of the update was getting the Windows machine to actually get back onto my wifi network after a reboot, would be great if they could … Continue reading

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E61 and Putty

Putty for S60 is one of the coolest apps out there. There’s a relatively short list of apps that run directly on my phone that I consider critical. Putty is both critical in itself so that I can get to … Continue reading

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WLAN Connection Manager

I have the WLAN Connection Manager that Steve mentioned at All About Symbian installed on my E61. I tried using it to connect to a secure access point that I hadn’t created an access point definition for, and a little … Continue reading

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Why the Fuck Won’t My SIS File Install

Just ran across the online SIS file debugger whythefuckwontmysisfileinstall.com. Pure genius! I think that’s exactly the phrase I’ve used about a dozen times in the past trying to figure out what exactly might have gone wrong with an application install … Continue reading

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