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Faster boot-up, lesser battery consumption, vibrate notifications on new emails!
Worth the upgrade
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Death to the DRM!
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How will your Java apps work with the Tube?
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Learn to use the “Pause” key
October 13th, 2008 by
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No it’s not the “force”, or an ability to stop time, but if used correctly, you will save a lot of time that you waste entering pin codes, extensions and waiting for the voice prompt lady in customer service to finish talking…slowly.
Every phone has the ‘p’ or pause key (On Nokia Phones, you can get it by 3 presses of the ‘*’ key) .
As most of my family lives overseas, I use calling cards a lot. One of the major pain points of using calling cards is that you have to enter a pin code to validate your account and then you have to enter the phone number. A lengthy process indeed, and made even longer if you don’t remember the international phone number you’re calling.
This is where the pause key comes into play. Each instance of ‘p’ in the phone number accounts for once second of pause. Instead of just saving the phone number, save the pin code along with it by adding a pause in between!
The common way to save it is: <phone number>ppp<pin code>
The number of p’s depends on the number of seconds needed in between.
To take it a step further, pre-load the calling card information on a contact’s number.
For example, my parents’ phone number would be: <calling card number>ppp<pin code>ppp<parents’ phone number>
There’s a ton of ways to extend this concept even further: save numbers with extensions, save keypress prompts to call centers – the list goes on.
How to extend it even further? I leave that to your imagination. 
Share Online 3.0 adds the flickr ticker to your active standby
September 25th, 2008 by
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Although mostly useless for me, it’s nevertheless an interesting feature for people who are very active on Flickr. Adding more accounts aggregates them on the same line, very handy as the screen real estate is limited.
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The E71/E66 does not have a Blackberry Connect client…Why?
July 14th, 2008 by
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S60’s default email isn’t really usable, particularly for enterprise customers. And that is why we have various other add-on clients like Mail for Exchange and Blackberry Connect. Since Blackberry Connect is not available for the Nokia N95-NAM, I have to use a Blackberry Curve as my day-to-day phone. I’ve been contemplating moving to the E61i, but it would be too much of a downgrade. So I waited for the new E-Series line-up to be announced. The E71 looked like the perfect phone: FP1 enhancements, great build quality, sleek with QWERTY and above all…..BES support!
Unfortunately though, it looks like this won’t be happening anytime soon (or maybe never). From this thread over at Europe Nokia Discussion Boards, it looks like Nokia and Blackberry haven’t reached an agreement (and maybe never will!). So Blackberry Connect for the E71 is a no-go.
Quite a shocker, ain’t it! The new iPhone 3G will have exchange support and will support features such as remote device wipe (which Mail for Exchange does not support as it uses Exchange over ActiveSync – correct me if I’m wrong here). The new Blackberry Bold will obviously bring along some enhancements to the Blackberry OS. I wonder how Nokia plans to extend its reach into the enterprise market by leaving out a key component like Blackberry Connect?
I want to get the E71, but I can’t, since it doesn’t support BES. I guess I’ll wait for the next E-Series line-up and hope that it has Blackberry Connect.
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