18 Feb
Da passe ich mal einen Moment nicht auf und schon löst sich bei meinem Nokia-Mobilknochen die Tastensperre, während das Ding unbeaufsichtigt in der Jackentasche dümpelt…
Preisfrage: Was passiert, wenn man auf einem Nokia-Telefon “Joystick (links)”, “Joystick (push)” , “Joystick (runter)”, “Joystick (push)” drückt? … genau! Man schickt eine leere SMS an den eben ausgewählten Eintrag aus dem Telefonbuch. Das ist in meinem Fall… dummerweise der ADAC in München.
Hoffentlich kommen die automatischen Bandansagen (“Sie haben eine neue Kurzmitteilung von … erhalten.”) wenigstens bei unterschiedlichen Call-Center-Mitarbeitern raus…
02 Sep
I am currently using a Palm Treo 680 smartphone as a business phone.
I was thinking about getting a used iPhone (1st generation) sometimes, because my data plan only allows EDGE on the German Vodafone network. Recently I read a lot about the Nokia E71, e.g., a short review by Joel (who, by the way, writes a great blog at joelonsoftware.com which you should definitely check out if you haven’t heard about it so far) and a review on Engadget Mobile. Anyways, I also found another review of an owner who exchanged his 680 for an E71 and he seems quite happy.
As far as the software variety is concerned, there are a lot of applications for the Series 60 platform and also for Apple’s iPhone but I expect even more open-source software to be available for the S60s in the future and, to satisfy my hacking skills, I think I’ll more likely learn programming an S60 device than the iPhone (python on the S60 is another plus).
A question for my readers: Does anyone know if it’s possible to a) tether the E71 to a MacBook Pro or Thinkpad (via Bluetooth or cable) AND to tunnel non-HTTP(s) traffic, e.g., SSH connections to a designated host (listening on the SSH standard port 22) through port 80 or 443?
