6 posts tagged “3”
Yipee!
I've taken the plunge and upgraded my current N73 on 3UK to the very nice looking Black N95 8GB.
Delivery has been promised for tomorrow the 12th Feb 2008, so I'll be looking for all those GPS and Feature Pack 1 applications I couldn't install on the N73 tonight, awaiting the gerrymoth's N95 8GB baby.
Well today I described to another co-worker what the 3Skypephone is and what it can do. When I told them you can top up £10pm and get 4000mins Skype Call and 10,000 Skype Chat, I think I had them there and then, but when I told them about using some of the £10 topup to buy the Internet Add-on for £5 and what you can do with that, they were totally amazed.
Well 3UK, for the amount of people I've told and they have then went out and either bought a 3Skypephone or a 3PAYG SIM I wish you did a Recommend a Friend for PAYG as well as Contract as I'd make some amount of commission.
PS: As a few fellow bloggers have reported its cheaper to buy two 3Skypephones £89.99 LINK
Note: I have nothing to do with 3UK, but I'm due an upgrade next month so if anyone at 3UK wants to sort a nice new N95 8GB for me to use and review I'd be very happy.
I'm always being asked by people to help them out after they have rebranded their 3UK Nokia N73 or N95 or N6120c only to find they can't download the 3 branded MSN or Skype or Slingplayer, etc..
Well to help all you guys & girls these should be the latest versions as of 11th December 2007:-
3MSN for N73
3MSN for N95
Skype for 3
Slingplayer for N73
Slingplayer for N6120c
3MobileMail
For Mobilcast just use the built-in browser and goto:-
http://zeus.melodeo.net/mc
For Orb simple goto the Orb website and download the software for the PC:-
http://www.orb.com
For Google Maps & Google Mail just use the built-in browser and goto:-
http://www.google.com/gmm
http://gmail.com/app
Don't ask me for Y!GO or Y!Messenger, I've been unable to download and any versions I have found I've been unable to install on my N73, so I'm staying well clear of these apps until Yahoo sort themselves out and allow all to enjoy.
For YahooGO! version 2.0, extract both JAD & JAR files to a folder, ensure a Services connection to the internet and run the JAD file:-13/12/07: Scrub that, its an older version which then asks you to update and thats where I fall over.
YahooGO!
I've found a few more applications for the 3Skypephone I thought might come in handy for a few people.
jZipMan
Converter
mWallet
GoDiary
RSSReader
SysInfo
Wikipedia
SkyMobile_SonyWithoutTV
Download
LINK
Note to self: I need to get back into looking at S60 applications, so will need to put down the 3Skypephone if I can?
Had the new 3Skypephone for over a week now, so what does gerrymoth think of it?
"I like the 3Skypephone", there I said it, I know I shouldn't, but I do.
When I first got this phone I started to compare it against the current phones I've got, the N73 and N95. I thought it looked a bit cheap and wasn't so advanced, but that's a bit unfair to compare it against the more advanced Nokia phones, or is it?
Skype calls work great on the 3Skypephone, just like they do on my N73/N95, but its the Skype Chat I'm even happier with, I was always switching between Skype and MSN to communicate with my family, now its all in one place. Not that I'll stop using MSN or Yahoo Messenger (Well not until everyone I know switches to Skype).
Now I could do most of the same basic things on the 3Skypephone that I can do on the N73/N95, like Call, Text, Chat (Skype chat built-in and MSN/Yahoo/AIM using Mig33 application), take photos/videos (well at a reduced capacity seeing the 3Skypephone has a 2MP Camera and VGA Video) and access the internet (Using Opera Mini).
Now the 3Skypephone doesn't have a FM Radio or ability to play the internet radio streams I listen to, but it has a good MP3 Player which seems to mimic the nokia music player in that it lists by Artist, Album, etc.. and I can watch streaming videos (m.YouTube.com) and 3's live TV (3's Mobile TV add-on for £2 per month).
Bluetooth works fine on the 3Skypephone pairing to PC, other phones and my BT Headset. One thing I did notice and like was when I paired my N73 to the 3Skypephone, using the 3Skypephone and connecting to the N73 you can see everything on the N73's external memory card and transfer it over if you want.
Now looking at the phone again, I don't think its cheap looking anymore and for £50 as a PAYG phone, its beautiful and its a bargain.
Oh, and I gave the other phone to my 10 year old daughter to test out for me. She's never had a mobile phone before, but she picked up how to use it very easily for Skype Calls & Chat, normal Calls & Chat and generally calling or sending MMS with her singing on it to me constantly, so much so I took it off her on Sunday night as she was doing my head in. Still shows the phone is very easy to use and I'll give her it back if she's good.
PS: I want the new Skype application on my N73 so I can chat, please 3 and Skype?
Okay, just a quick blog on the new 3Skypephone, will post more tonight hopefully, so been playing around with my 3Skypephone since the start of the week. Now those nice people at 3 have put £30 credit on this PAYG little phone, so first thing I did was buy the Internet add-on for £5pm, so £25 credit left. This internet add-on has a fair usage of 1GB, I think, so what to use it for as the built-in web browser is a mobile version?
Lets install Opera Mini V4.0 Beta 3 (mini.opera.com/beta) and have near like full internet access, lets install Google Mail java app (www.gmail.com/app), lets install Google Maps java app (www.google.com/gmm), lets install Mig33 java app (wap.mig33.com) for MSN/Yahoo/AIM messenger.
Now a £50 PAYG with £10 min top-up and you can use £5 of that top-up for internet is a bargain, still to try if you can use as a modem, will do this tonight and get back to you. Will be searching through www.getjar.com tonight to see what other useful java apps I can install on the phone.
The always on Skype app which reconnects you automatically if you switch between 2G & 3G areas works a treat for both Calls (4000 mins allowance) & Chat (10000 message allowance).
Oh and normal mobile calls and text works okay as well!
