xhac (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xhac) wrote,@ 2006-07-01 08:11:00 |
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The Aqua Tunes Saga, Part 1 of 4, The Mobile
My mobile phone was stolen at the end of last summer, along with other stuff and I got around to replace it only a few months ago. My requirements list was fairly simple:
These sound straightforward enough and you'd expect that half the modern mobiles out there fit the bill. Not according to a products catalog I browsed through some months ago. Being a notorious minimalist in marker research I had decided upon a model right from that catalog. It was the Sony Ericsson w800i.
At the time I though that that particular model, along with another one from nokia was one of the few ones that met my requirements stated above. What I didn't know is that, apparently, the catalog I consulted had time travel abilities and had actually fallen into my timestream from 3 months in the future. Further, the phone wasn't really called SE w800i, rather sported the fancy name SE w800i Walkman (R) mobile phone, denoting that it was a phone _and_ an mp3 player. Sure, I had noticed the steep price tag (around 400e) but as I mentioned, I though it was because it had such wonderful features.
The whole affair got further complicated since my 5yo phone number in under the name of my mother and so in order to take advantage of any special deals, my mother should do the buying. I will not bore you with the(se) details, but after several shouting matches, misunderstandings and half inaudible phone conversations, I was finally the owner of a se w800i. Proud owner? Not really.
If you suggested to me back then that I should buy an mp3 player / mobile phone, I would have laughed in your face and called you names. First of all, I wasn't all that into music. My honest-to-god-purchased-cd-from-a-store (not the ones from newspapers, gifts, etc) amounts to 0 or 1 (I can't remember if I actually bought "master of puppets"). My mp3 collection is hardly 5 CDs, copied from friends, (in a totally fair use way I'm sure), mainly to take advantage of my super-early-adopted MP3 cd player I got 7 years ago(!) on a trip to the US.
The phone is great though. The screen is the best thing I have ever seen in a mobile (though I couldn't care less about that), the operation is sensible and interrupting your radio program to let you answer the phone you just received is actually quite intuitive. And that was before I got my mind blown by Google maps mobile. The only thing I'm really annoyed about it the little slide button on the back which both uncovers the lense and activates the camera (2.0 MPs), even if the keyboard is locked. This happens 1/3 of the times I get the phone out of my back-pocket. Oh, and it's orange
So the phone is nice. But how to use it?
(to be continued)
My mobile phone was stolen at the end of last summer, along with other stuff and I got around to replace it only a few months ago. My requirements list was fairly simple:
- Infrared port, for sure and easy connection to the PC and the zaurus
- Bluetooth, for advanced connectivity to the PC/zaurus
- GPRS, mainly to use as a modem
- Not to be a clamshell design, to keep slim/sturdy enough to keep in my backpocket
These sound straightforward enough and you'd expect that half the modern mobiles out there fit the bill. Not according to a products catalog I browsed through some months ago. Being a notorious minimalist in marker research I had decided upon a model right from that catalog. It was the Sony Ericsson w800i.
At the time I though that that particular model, along with another one from nokia was one of the few ones that met my requirements stated above. What I didn't know is that, apparently, the catalog I consulted had time travel abilities and had actually fallen into my timestream from 3 months in the future. Further, the phone wasn't really called SE w800i, rather sported the fancy name SE w800i Walkman (R) mobile phone, denoting that it was a phone _and_ an mp3 player. Sure, I had noticed the steep price tag (around 400e) but as I mentioned, I though it was because it had such wonderful features.
The whole affair got further complicated since my 5yo phone number in under the name of my mother and so in order to take advantage of any special deals, my mother should do the buying. I will not bore you with the(se) details, but after several shouting matches, misunderstandings and half inaudible phone conversations, I was finally the owner of a se w800i. Proud owner? Not really.
If you suggested to me back then that I should buy an mp3 player / mobile phone, I would have laughed in your face and called you names. First of all, I wasn't all that into music. My honest-to-god-purchased-cd-from-a-store (not the ones from newspapers, gifts, etc) amounts to 0 or 1 (I can't remember if I actually bought "master of puppets"). My mp3 collection is hardly 5 CDs, copied from friends, (in a totally fair use way I'm sure), mainly to take advantage of my super-early-adopted MP3 cd player I got 7 years ago(!) on a trip to the US.
The phone is great though. The screen is the best thing I have ever seen in a mobile (though I couldn't care less about that), the operation is sensible and interrupting your radio program to let you answer the phone you just received is actually quite intuitive. And that was before I got my mind blown by Google maps mobile. The only thing I'm really annoyed about it the little slide button on the back which both uncovers the lense and activates the camera (2.0 MPs), even if the keyboard is locked. This happens 1/3 of the times I get the phone out of my back-pocket. Oh, and it's orange
So the phone is nice. But how to use it?
(to be continued)
Mood: epic
