Series 60

It seems that NewEgg does not require UPS to have signature confirmation on their $700 delivered packages. How convenient. UPS has “delivered” the N900 to my “FRONT DOOR” according to their tracking page;

Well, it’s not actually there. After a brief chat with a NewEgg representative, I’ll be waiting 7-10 days for an answer as to where my package is. I’ve never had UPS just leave stuff here. I’ve always had to sign for UPS. DHL, FedEx and USPS (CanadaPost takes the blame once it crosses the border) have all dropped stuff on my porch and left it – stuff worth hundreds of dollars. This is why I went with NewEgg and UPS shipping, I’ve always had to sign for it – or I receive a phone call and we schedule a time for delivery.

I talked with another rep today, and he told me they are in contact with UPS so far, and will be e-mail me shortly. Worse comes to worst, I will dispute it with MBNA/Mastercard and fill my pockets with the missing cashflow.

Having said that, I’m not worried – as NewEgg has excellent customer service, and between them and UPS – I will get my N900, or I’ll get my money back, and simply order another one and set the delivery to a work address. I’ve been hounding the Maemo boards again and re-activated my account from when I worked on the N810.

Everything will be going swimmingly soon.

Thumbs up for the bum rush!

Long time since I’ve had a new post. Expect a review of Handy Shell + Handy Weather on E71 since I haven’t really seen too many. I was request by a friend to do a review of S60Ticker so, I’ll do that too, but not the NewsReader Ticker, since I despise it.

I’ll also make a length post of the in-depth customizations on my E71 that makes a heck of a device for me. I’m also working on a patch for ROMPatcher that will replace the Active Standby SMS envelope indicator and allow it to directly open Conversations.

My N82 has finally arrived.

My initial impressions are ‘ho hum’. E71 has really spoiled me with full QWERTY. The numerical keys on the 82 are very small. The soft keys, d-pad and media+menu keys are horribly placed. I don’t have large hands by any means so I know it’s not me, but I can not get used to using those keys. The d-pad is also much flatter and gives less feedback than I am used to. The screen is nice and large for a handset of this size.

I will give it a try for a few weeks and try to get used to Nokia’s T9 (again) and the subtle differences between N and E-series devices (again).

Still waiting for my new N82 from the S60 Team. I haven’t written any S60 Ambassadors reports recently, been busy. New Nokia Maps is out, no visual changes or anything – I did experience quicker lock times on my E71 however. That alone is worth installing the new one. Just a direct install and it will over-write the previous version. Here’s the link;

http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/global/phones/software/Nokia_Maps_2.0_4503_3.1_u.sis

I stumbled across emoroom.com which is a weird service touted for “couples”. It documents calls, messages and such between your two handsets. It can also remotely vibrate and turn on/off display of the handsets. . Here’s an excerpt from their FAQ which is pretty damn weird.

“All of the partners phone conversations, all of the text messages, MMS-es, e-mails and tunes they exchange will be stored on a private web page no one but them will have access to.”

“Our calendar was inspired by a Buddhist prayer book and is supposed to remind you how important it is to be together and to care about one another.”

I guess if you want to run patterns of your communication and time spent ‘together’ while physically apart it might be useful?

I am also still waiting for my N82. Was a small hold up with DHL shipping but it’s been cleared up. I’m also told it’s not pre-loved.

HandWave BETA is out – currently only available to those who donate. I tried it on my E71 however it only supports portrait screen orientation! If my N82 arrives today I’ll be giving it a thorough run-through. I have an unsigned release which is not IMEI tied, from a testing dev. Send me an email if you think you deserve it.

BetaLabs has dropped a new Share Online Beta 4.0 – the catch? No love for ANY FP1 devices. Claims to only be functional on FP2 devices. FriendView also gets an update thanks to the built-in checking abilities. It will automatically ask you to install 83.3 however there are no noticeable changes that I can see. I wish the off-screen arrows would be a bit easier to reach.

Still waiting for DHL to drop by with my N82. I’ll have some pictures of it when I get it – even though it’s been handled by pretty much everybody, I haven’t really used it.

Until then!

This is the temporary page for my blog. Mostly Nokia and S60 stuff. I’ll setup a server somewhere my basement to run it later on.