Roland Tanglao's Weblog

m.YouTube.com doesn't work on my N80i or N93. Quelle surprise. Fingers crossed that it will eventually.

FROM Tommi's S60 applications blog:

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Symbian-Guru and Symbian-Freak found via HowardForums the YouTube Mobile site that Nokia announced back at 3GSM.

The URL apparently is "m.youtube.com"

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Installed fring on the N80i last night and it works pretty well. Aside from one crash on initial install and the usual annoying Series 60 memory issues (Nokia please put more memory in your phones), it seems to work as advertised. I have tested Skype Chat and N80i to Skype calls via fring and they work. One noteworthy bug, fring doesn't work with Skype group chats (it seems to partially support but not fully support: you can see a group chat but you can't participate in the group chat)

From VoIP Watch: Fring Is Here:

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Fring is a peer to peer communications program that lets mobile users talk for free between one another over WiFi, 3G or GPRS. What's really interesting is the folks at FRING have engineered a way to talk to Skype users as well as Google Talk users from within the the Fring client. This is interesting because Skype seems to have abandoned efforts for the time being to be in the mobile market. For months we've been hearing tha there was going to be a Symbian Skype client but at CES I heard this was far from close to happening, something that has Symbian fans scratching their heads.

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Just spoke with my sister in Holland on the N80i using TruPhone. Crystal Clear quality. Our 10 minute and 33 second call cost $USD 0.37 I can see how this can get addictive. Great quality (better than Skype - sounded like a local call), easy to make calls and with a familiar phone interface unlike Skype!

Hmmm who needs a limited device like the Sony Mylo when you have easy to use VoIP with the N80i and Truphone. Don't forget too that the N80i has the flexibility and openness of Series 60 along with many 3rd party apps unlike the closed Mylo!

Need to try lots more calls e.g. to South Africa and China but Truphone feels like a killer app for WiFi phones!

UPDATE: It's my old adapter's fault, not the N80i's fault. I don't think my 8 year old ACP-7U works with modern N series phones. I switched to a new North American N Series adapter that Andy sent me (thanks! got it December 27th) courtesy of the Bloggers Relations program and all is well.

For some reason, my old Nokia adapter with the plug converter doesn't work with the N80i (error message is "Not charging"). This is very strange since it works with the N93. I would assume that the N93 being bigger and having a bigger screen would require more power so it can't be that my old Nokia AC adapter doesn't give enough power. I guess I'll have to buy another Europe->Canada/USA converter tomorrow and change the SIM back to the N93 since the battery is dead.

After the first few N80i pictures, my impression is that they are not as good as the N73 or N93. Too much sharpening. The cool thing is you can change the sharpening and also there's an advanced sequence mode for time lapse photography which would be cool if it had a tripod jack!

What do you think? Check out the photos above and let me know!

My free trial N80i with built in Sip VoIP client that supports Gizmo was delivered today but nobody was home so I have to pick it up tomorrow. I can't wait to try Gizmo over WiFi! Very cheap phone calls to my relatives in Holland wherever there is WiFi. Yes! And 3 mega pixel camera and quad band so I'll have ShoZu over EDGE again! Yes!

My only real objection to Matchstick's program is that they are giving out obsolete phones like the Nokia 6682. Matchstick, don't treat Canadians like they live in a mobile ghetto/backwater (perhaps the truth is we do :-( unfortunately). Give the Matchstick bloggers an up to date quad band phone like the N80 not yesterday's news like the 6682. If the Nokia Blogger Relations Program can give out up to date phones to Canadians and Americans, I don't see why Matchstick can't.

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Full disclosure: I’m reviewing a new mobile phone I got for free from a marketing company in Toronto called matchstick.ca. They gave me a sweet package as well:

Nokia 6682 Phone with USB connector and charger
512 MB memory upgrade
Bluetooth Headset
Extra headphones

Fortuitous timing, I needed a mobile upgrade. The Nokia 6682 replaces my 20060729-1436_005Nokia 3595. I’ll be entering the modern world with photo/video/mp3 capabilities. The old 3595 had Java apps, web browsing and email, but they were cumbersome and ugly.

I’m not going to post a ridiculously long DPReview-styled analysis of the phone. The release date was over a year ago and that information is already widely disseminated. This will be a personal account of my experience with the Nokia 6682. For the detailed Nokia 6682 breakdown see Howard Chui’s review.

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