Lost your Symbian applications?

Update 2008-11-15: Sadly, I lost my apps again. This time it seems the installed apps folder was wiped out, along with data. Looks like another re-format is needed. This is very frustrating. None of my other mobile devices have been this unreliable. Being a long time user of Nokia phones, I’m very disappointed in Nokia. [...]

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Reading Chinese text with TequilaCat BookReader

I’ve been using TequilaCat’s BookReader for some time now on my Nokia phone. It’s pretty useful, especially with JSR-75 support, so I can read text files directly off the memory card. However, that doesn’t work with Unicode files… What does work though is to use the provided shell program to package the Unicode files into [...]

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Phone rants

Everyone’s talking about Apple’s recently announced iPhone, but I’ll just rant about my new phone instead. Yep, I finally retired my good ole Nokia 6230 (the 2-year contract is almost up anyway), and got a no-frills, low-end (going by today’s standards) Nokia 6288, the twin brother of the older 6280 that has been around for [...]

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Nokia Headset Mods

I would love to use my Nokia 6230 as an mp3 player, but I don’t carry my nokia headset around as I don’t like the earphones. It would be nice if I could use my favourite headphones instead. It turns out many people wish to do the same thing (and for the same reason), and [...]

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Nokia 6230 review

I’ve been playing with my new phone (a Nokia 6230) for the past few days. Decided to get one after I realised my 2 year contract with MobileOne is ending, so I upgraded from my Nokia 6610 (which has served me well over the years) and got the Nokia 6230. The Nokia 6230 is not [...]

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