I lost my phone this weekend so I went shopping for another one on Monday morning. Since most of the full-featured mobile phones these days hardly resemble a productivity tool, with lots of funny colors, odd keypad layouts and even leather insets, I decided to go for a not-so-bleeding-edge model, i.e. the Nokia Series 40 6230.
I learnt about the importance of the Nokia Series concept only afterwards: the Series 40 is a platform where J2ME has been crippled down below its barest essentials, especially with regards to the Mobile Media goodies. The KVM runtime on the 6230 has no access to the built-in camera, which means I cannot mobile-picture-blog with this device, which unfortunately was one of the peeves I was lusting for. I'm still hoping some Midlet mail application exists somewhere which enables me to shoot a picture and mail it to Flickr, but so far no luck.
This said, the 6230 is a nice phone, if you can manage it from a PC. For MacOSX, Nokia apparenly chooses to ignore the Herd of the Geek Switchers and offers no support, but I've found a decent and not very expensive phone manager at MacMedia. Using this, I managed to import the few phone numbers I still had in my Address Book (so if you'd like your number to be on my phone, you'll have to call me), changed the wallpaper into the picture I won the picture-of-the-month contest with at my photography club, and I'm greeted now with Conversation Piece (*) by master Bowie every time someone calls me. Fun!
(*) released on the B-side of 'The Prettiest Star' in 1970 (Mercury MF 1135); it was reissued in 1990 on the Rykodisc version of Space Oddity. A demo version of the song can be heard on the bootleg The Beckenham Oddity (Leisure Records 005). Re-recorded for Toy in 2000, but not released until 2002 on the 2CD version of Heathen (with the long and slightly incorrect subtitle Written 1969 - Recorded 1970 - Re-recorded 2002). (from: http://www.illustrated-db-discography.nl/) (I can't provide you with an iTunes preview fragment since for some reason they even manage to not have the full Bowie collection on stock).
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mooie naam overigens, voor een fotoclub.
U bent en blijft een flatofiel, mr. Thiers.
You can use a simple html upload form to send images and other stuff while being mobile:
http://l4x.org/wap/p/