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I have bought a new phone which is a Windows mobile mini-PC. It's quite scary. It comes with all sorts of Evil Empire programs, like Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, Powerpoint Mobile and Windows Explorer. As they were all free, I shall probably not uninstall most of them. Eeep.

This is the first time I've changed my mobile since August 2003, so I feel vaguely justified in doing so. The idea is that I can have internet access when I'm anywhere with wi-fi. So I won't have to take the laptop to the US, but also won't piss off people at alt.polycon by monopolising their laptops for hours at a time ;) I'd been wanting one of the Nokia Communicators, but the one I wanted was never released on Orange.

As we are fluffy treehugging hippies, my current Nokia 6100 will be recycled as my mum's new phone. This means my old Nokia 8310 will be free, if anyone wants that. (Small phone, small monochrome screen, shiny blue lights. In the grey & navy colour scheme called Eternity. Currently locked to Orange but that's fixable.) Richard's Nokia 7650 is also available free to a good home, also currently locked to Orange. (Scarily, the 7650 has a Wikipedia entry.)

I'm trying to transfer the numbers from my old phone, but there are many numbers of uncertain veracity. As I have to type in all the data by hand, I can't be bothered to enter out of date numbers. Hence, a poll.
[Poll #948742]
My phone numbers are unchanged - same main number, and same Line Two number (if you have that - I can't ever remember it).

Comments

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

I filled in the poll, even though I know you don't need me to. :)
I'd like to play with Richard's old phone and see if I like it. My current phone is an 8210 I got from Fiona in 2003 when she upgraded to a smartphone.

Nokia 9300i

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I have a 9300i. Like others I know, I was very disappointed; it's a good PDA but shite as a phone, with buggy software and with very poor sound compared to other Nokias, and most daft of all, it's sold as a business phone but doesn't vibrate, so you can't tell if it's ringing when the sound is off...

Trying to connect it to the net was also so complicated I never really figured it out, and the manual and guys in Carphone Warehouse were useless. 36 explained lots of it to me though.