[sclug] OT mobile phones

[Dickon Hood]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:15:42 +0000, Matt Dainty wrote:
: * Dickon Hood <sclug at splurge.fluff.org> [2007-12-16 01:22:54]:

: > The only drawback I've found so far is that if you run up putty sometime
: > in the pub and forget to kill it, it wakes you up at about 0430
: > complaining it's out of battery.

: I've got an E90 too, PuTTY feels a bit "fragile" sometimes, but it
: works. Nokia have finally given the device pipe and tilde keys, but the
: Esc is non-trivial,

Control-[ works.  Press and release control, then press and release the
'[' to the left of the keyboard, rather than the Character-7 version.
Good enough for writing mail in vim.  Press-and-hold-Control-press-[
doesn't work, oddly.

: I can't remember what the older devices had.

9210 and 9[35]00 had Escape keys.  IIRC the 9110 didn't, but the 9000 did.

: The
: web browser also passes the slashdot test, although that's not really the
: same now that they don't have quite so many nested tables.

: Battery life is okay, but I suspect I experienced the same thing, found
: the E90 in my bag roasting itself, suspect one of my crashed PuTTY's
: went mental and spun the CPU.

There's a battery monitor application you can download from somewhere on
Nokia's website.  It's interesting to watch the energy usage for the
various connection types and applications.

: My only real gripe is the position the screen locks open in if you don't
: open it out by 180^, utterly unusable angle.

I've no idea why they chose that angle.  It's a bit daft.

My main gripe is the Series 60 stuff.  The Series 80 calendar and clock
applications -- to name but two -- were much better, and it's a shame to
see them regress.

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Dickon Hood

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