{"id":158,"date":"2005-08-24T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/great-mobile-handset-shame-about.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-16T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T16:18:21","slug":"great-mobile-handset-shame-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/great-mobile-handset-shame-about.htm","title":{"rendered":"Great mobile handset &#8211; shame about the connectivity software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112488787574398617-->Notwithstanding the fact that last month I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/finally-im-starting-to-understand.htm\">how I&#8217;d finally found a use for a camera phone<\/a>, my preferred feature list for a mobile handset is quite simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make and receives calls (with good quality reception).<\/li>\n<li>Long battery life.<\/li>\n<li>Easy to use.<\/li>\n<li>Good looks (colour screen would be nice).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluetooth.org\/\">Bluetooth data communications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irda.org\/\">Infra-red data (IrDA) communications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple profiles (general, silent, meeting, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Directory service\/address book.<\/li>\n<li>Call register.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other features I might use are a loudspeaker (handsfree) mode and GPRS; but whilst camera, FM radio, and even MP3 player are nice to haves, they are by no means essential. As for smartphones, I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/nokia\/0,,33210,00.html\">Nokia 6600<\/a> but I&#8217;ve barely scratched the surface on its capabilities (mostly because I&#8217;m scared of running up huge bandwidth usage costs on my personal account).<\/p>\n<p>For a long time now, the standard handset given out to most corporate users in the UK has been the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/nokia\/0,,133,00.html\">Nokia 6310i<\/a>. For a while it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/nokia\/0,,47780,00.html\">Nokia 6810<\/a>, but my new work phone is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/nokia\/0,,71344,00.html\">Nokia 6021<\/a> and I love it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/nokia\/0,,71344,00.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nokia 6021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/nokia6021.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meeting all of my &#8216;A list&#8217; criteria above, the 6021 is the perfect phone for me but I had some fun and games trying to get it to synchronise my contact details with Microsoft Outlook. Once I worked out how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/rtfm.htm\">turn on the Bluetooth functionality within my Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook S7010D<\/a>, I could get the phone to communicate with the PC via Bluetooth, but although the Nokia PC Suite (v6.5.12) seemed to detect the phone, I couldn&#8217;t get the Nokia PC Sync utility to recognise the Bluetooth connection.<\/p>\n<p>After spending ages creating and breaking down Bluetooth pairings between the phone and my laptop, I finally gave up, remembering that I had the same issue with my 6310i too and that IrDA seemed to work every time. Sure enough, an IrDA connection did the trick but the whole point about a Bluetooth-enabled phone is that I can synchronise my phone and my laptop without having to activate IrDA and set up a line of sight connection.<\/p>\n<p>Come on Nokia &#8211; you&#8217;ve produced a great phone &#8211; now how about some decent connectivity software to go with it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding the fact that last month I wrote about how I&#8217;d finally found a use for a camera phone, my preferred feature list for a mobile handset is quite simple: Make and receives calls (with good quality reception). Long battery life. Easy to use. Good looks (colour screen would be nice). Bluetooth data communications. Infra-red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/great-mobile-handset-shame-about.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great mobile handset &#8211; shame about the connectivity software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18,78],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mobility","tag-telephony"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Great mobile handset - shame about the connectivity software - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/great-mobile-handset-shame-about.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great mobile handset - shame about the connectivity software - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Notwithstanding the fact that last month I wrote about how I&#8217;d finally found a use for a camera phone, my preferred feature list for a mobile handset is quite simple: Make and receives calls (with good quality reception). 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