schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100 :Revision: 1 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ==================== Oops, I did it again ==================== :Description: Damn, bloody shit. I did it again. I bought a toy, a geek-phone, an anything-but-no-more-a-cellphone. Right, it's the new Nokia 6600. And indeed, I love it! :) Damn, bloody shit. I did it again. I bought a toy, a geek-phone, an anything-but-no-more-a-cellphone. Right, it's the new `Nokia 6600`__. And indeed, I love it! :) |image_1| |image_2| After some really nasty experiences concerning color displays, so called internet connections (`I-Mode`__, `WAP`__), polyphone ringtones and handy cameras I'm finally really amazed about it's features. Maybe I'm really crazy about that technical stuff... So, what I really love on the phone is it's 176 x 208 pixel, 16bit color display. This enables you to surf around the \*real\* web (instead of dumb I-Mode or WAP) using an Opera web browser. First time, that surfing on a cellphone is really practical. The keyboard of the `6600`__ is pretty small, but just so small, that you can still use it comfortably. Very emproved text editing facilities (cut/copy & paste, line scrolling) make writing of SMS, emails, notes and even blog entries as easy as cooking coffee. Especially cool is the abillity to run `Java`__ and native `Symbian`__ application on the phone. Beside the (not very interessting) standard applications provided with the phone, you can download a huge variaty from the web. It's a bummer, that most of them aren't OpenSource licensed. You can do (hopefully, I did not test that, yet, in cause of a missing Blootooth port) pretty neat things with your cellphone, if you have skilled programmers and so it looks like for the 6600. Here just an abstract, what cool tools I found. First of all, `here`__ you can find a nice link collection to start up browsing. `Agile`__ offers a really cool looking `instant messenger`__, supporting `ICQ`__, `AOL`__, `Yahoo!`__ and `MSN`__ connections. Since GPRS is billed by traffic amount, that's a pretty usefull service. And the best: It's free! `Agile`__ promotes it's Symbian Software not as OpenSource, but anyway, it's free. Agile although offers some other Symbian applications. But I guess, that a "`Lie Detector`__" for phone calls, and a "`Mobile Pet`__" game are really useless. Another couple of cool tools can be found on `Symbianware`__. I will defenitly try the blacklist (no more advertisements...) and the FullscreenCaller (showing caller photos in fullsize... just a cool play item). A really nice tool is miniGPS by `Psiloc`__. This enables you to trigger events on basis of the mobile cell you are in. You can e.g. trigger the profile to activate at work or at home. In combination with Psyloc Extended Profiles, you can optimize almost everything on a time and location basis. The absolutly best thing I found for the Nokia 6600 is a `port`__ of the famous Windoze SSH client `Putty`__. All in all, I think I like that phone. If all those applications work well, I will defenitly say: It's optimal. .. |image_1| image:: http://www.nokia-online-shop.de/isroot/nokia/product-images/large/100020325.jpg .. |image_2| image:: http://www.nokia-online-shop.de/isroot/nokia/product-images/large/100020325_03.jpg .. __: http://www.nokia.de/de/mobiltelefone/modelluebersicht/6600/startseite/53442.html .. __: http://www.eplus.de .. __: http://www.wapforum.org/ .. __: http://www.nokia.de/de/mobiltelefone/modelluebersicht/6600/startseite/53442.html .. __: http://java.sun.com .. __: http://www.symbian.com/ .. __: http://www.andrerestivo.com/weblog/7398/ .. __: http://www.agilemobile.com/am.html .. __: http://www.agilemobile.com/am.html .. __: http://www.mirabilis.com .. __: http://www.aol.com .. __: http://www.yahoo.com .. __: http://www.msn.com .. __: http://www.agilemobile.com/am.html .. __: http://www.agilemobile.com/al.html .. __: http://www.agilemobile.com/ap.html .. __: http://www.symbianware.com/index.php?pl=n6600 .. __: http://www.psiloc.com/?id=prod&nrr=1 .. __: http://sourceforge.net/projects/s2putty/ .. __: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ .. Local Variables: mode: rst fill-column: 79 End: vim: et syn=rst tw=79 Trackbacks ========== Comments ======== - Garvin Hicking at Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:11:28 +0100 I couldn't agree more to that. I own the same phone since christmas and I love it. There's a nifty little tool called S60Remote out there with which you can remotely control your cellphone from the PC. And using ICQ via GPRS is also quite cool. ;) Apart from checking out the Gameboy Emulator (*g*) you should have a look at www.aikon.ch which is another cool resource for Series60-applications. Have fun :)