New phone: Nokia 6630
My "old" P800 gave up the ghost: the keypad stopped working. I got pretty frustrated with it in any case -- the UI felt kludgy and the stylus wasn't that great for working with it. The scroll wheel was nice, but not enough to make up for all the other deficiencies. I briefly used a temporary, do-nothing phone with no computer synchronization, no Bluetooth, nothin'. The experience was not pleasant, just lots of flipping open the laptop just to get someone's number.
After seeing what Bryan Rieger is doing with Flash on phones, and the fact that only Nokia has licensed it so far, I decided to get a Nokia phone.
I got my new Nokia 6630 just yesterday, and am still figuring it out. This Loud Thinking blog post has lots of good info on why it's the Best. Phone. Ever... as well as linking to a lot of useful applications.
I'm also going to link to this page of Fido GPRS settings, since I had to re-enter them.
(Yes, I do have to wait until Tiger before it will sync with my laptop, but it's *really* easy to add contacts as people call)
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I am glad I saw mention of your new phone . Do you remember when I got my P800 new ? Less than 2 yrs I would guess . Well , in the last week , I have started to experience a similar problem . The keypad mostly does not work . I can flip it open and use it in a touch screen mode , but it is awkward ...
Sooner than later , back to Nokia for me as well .
muvee! muvee! muvee!
one thing i really like about 6630 is the muvee editor that comes in it. Most people are like me - shoot videos but never really watch them. Don't ask me why, but maybe because most videos, i mean raw videos are not very interesting. But the muvee editor changes all that, by editing my videos AUTOMATICALLY! Using very easy to use interface – just select the style and say go – you can edit the video that you made into a 9 second long video – perfectly edited with special effects – and send that to your friends and family. Video editing on phones equipped with cameras!! Very interesting indeed!
No PC Suite for me
I believe muvee is PC-only. I saw it demoed by Chris Pirillo at the Blog Business Summit, and it does look good. I haven't found the video quality to be particularly good, but it is good enough for quick shots.
muvee recently had a team up
muvee recently had a team up with Nokia, making the muvee software now available in selected Nokia phones... 6630, 7610 ...i've got the other phones at the top of my head, ooh hell, i forgot sorry :) anyway i have here a recent article about that muvee thing :) http://www.phonecontent.com/bm/news/gnews/829.shtml