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Nokia N95 -3… -4?

laserone_ — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:50:14 +0000

I was talking to a friend of mine via email and IM regarding the Nokia N95-3 and the Nokia N95-4. I wasn’t sure what the difference was. Here is what I found so far:

from my email:

I found some info on the n95-3 vs. the n95-4…

According to wikipedia:

“…the upgraded N95 8GB (N95-2), the N95-3, which adds 3G support for North America, and the N95-4 which is an America-targeted version of the N95-2.”
“…on January 7, 2008, Nokia announced the N95-4, which is the inevitable 8Gb version of the N95-3. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95

I see some contradiciton there. Huh.

If you open these two pages side by side you can compare:
http://wirelessimports.com/Store/Catalog/Detail.aspx?productId=620
http://wirelessimports.com/Store/Catalog/Detail.aspx?productId=906

“…it seems the mythical N95 8GB with HSDPA 850 / 1900 is now in stock.”
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/03/06/north-american-nokia-n95-8gb-now-available/

My brain hurts now.

Cell tech.

laserone_ — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:33:08 +0000

Lucky text messages led engineers to missing San Francisco family:

mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16171582.htm

Turning Cell Phones Into Lifelines:
news.com.com/Turning+cell+phones+into+lifelines/2100-1039_3-6140794.html

I’m finding these articles about cell phone technology and how it helped to find 3/4 of the missing Kim family very interesting.

M. works for a cell-technology company. So as I find these articles they peaks my interest.

Meanwhile, the longer I own my Nokia N80 (3mp camera phone), the more I LOVE IT but as soon as the Nokia N95 comes out, I’ll be upgrading (if I’m not broke) because that will have GPS (and a 5mp camera).

I still prefer spamex.com

laserone_ — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:10:41 +0000

This story was on digg:

Find_out_who_gives_away_your_email_address_with_Gmail_trick

Links to hedir.com/introduction/about17942.html and the mirror is here.

But I use spamex.com and it does the same thing and works much better. The spammers can’t just drop the “+whatever” to get to your real addy. I can host a domain name there for my own email use. It’s great.

Edited to add: spamex.com is free. I have a premium account but that’s not required. For each case of giving out an email addy you create a forwarding alias. Then if u get spam at that addy, you not only know where it came from but you turn that alias off to stop the spam “I GET NO SPAM” and this is how. I host a domain there so I have my own domain name email. It’s fantastic.

Please Digg

laserone_ — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:27:04 +0000

Please digg this story, I lost one of my clients domains becaue of them:

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/RegisterFly_preventing_Domains_from_being_renewed

Tech Links

laserone_ — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:30:08 +0000

This is kind-of a “note to self” kind of post:

Someone was asking me yesterday for this link:

Dynamism.com

It’s a neat website where you can buy imported electronics. These kinds of sites are great because the U.S. is so far behind in tech.

I got my new cell phone imported. It’s a Nokia N80: bluetooth, WIFI, and THREE megapixel camera phone. I got it from this import site:
WirelessImports.com
The upcoming version of this phone (the N95) will have FIVE MEGAPIXELS and BUILT IN GPS!

The same person told me about this site:

WildDigital.com, supposedly another good site for electronics. I have not checked it out yet tho’.

It worked it worked it worked

laserone_ — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:00:33 +0000

Syncing palm pilot handheld pda with Nokia N80 / Nokia PC Suite:

Ok, the final process that worked for me was:

1) export the palm calendar to a .dba file

2) import that .dba file into yahoo calendar online

3) *use intellisync (free, from yahoo) to sync my palm w/ Yahoo Calendar. (this step is *optional, I guess, if doing it all at once).

4) export the calendar from yahoo calendar to a .csv file.

5) import the .csv file into microsoft outlook

6) and then set the nokia pc suite to sync w/ outlook.

Now that I’m bald and bloody. But at least it’s done.

kw: sync palm pilot pda, palm os, with nokia pc suite, series 60, nokia n80, via microsoft outlook, using yahoo intellisync, .csv file, .dba file, yahoo calendar.

Losing my mind

laserone_ — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:36:02 +0000

Still battling to get my palm calendar onto the new nokia phone.

Seemed I just had to sync palm w/ outlook, then sync outlook w/ phone and voila.

BUT NOOOOOOOOO.

” To synchronize a Palm Pilot with Outlook, you must have both the Palm desktop software and Chapura PocketMirror software installed.”, and THAT software is FIFTY DOLLARS! F*CK THAT. Thats nice. TO USE IT ONCE?

All I want is to get my palm calendar onto my series 60 Nokia N80. But apparently that’s too much to ask.

And we can put men on the moon…………..

What’s in your bag?

laserone_ — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:00:55 +0000

I just did another “What’s In Your Bag” thingy on Flickr. (“What’s in my bag.”)

Bald.

laserone_ — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:19:28 +0000

Pulling my hair out.

I have the new Nokia N80 and it’s very advanced, and so for the first time I am considering using the phone as my primary organizer instead of my palm. I LOVE MY PALM, I have a Sony Clie UX50 which I’ve considered bying extras of because it is the ultimate perfect pda.
But I need to lighten my purse (tech bag, really) cuz I’m having wrist problems. As it is I take two bags to the car, one that stays in the car and has things I use in the car but don’t necessarily need w/ me inside places, such as my “liability camera” (*), my ipod, my umbrella (it rains every day in summer here), etc.

But anyway, the Palm OS will only export the calendar as a .dba file.

The Nokia PC Suite will only sync w/ the calendars of Lotus Organizer and Outlook.

So I don’t want to buy Outlook just to convert one file and never to use it again.

So far I’ve tried Yahoo’s IntelliSync (which created a .csv file) for Yahoo Calendar to sync my palm w/ Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Calendar will THEN export to Outlook, but again, not sure I want to install Outlook.

IntelliSync worked great.

I can log into Yahoo Calendar using the very advanced web browser on the phone, but that’s a million extra steps that I don’t want to do in a hurry.

I tried importing the .csv file into Google Calendar, and Google Calendar said it was formatted wrong.

So I have a .dba file that Nokia won’t use and a .csv file that is broken and I don’t think Nokia would use anyway, and I don’t have (and am not sure I even want to install) Outlook or Lotus.

Therefore, I am going nuts.

(*) I always have at least one camera w/ me and I like to put the DXG 506v on the dashboard when driving in my neighborhood for several reasons: a) kids playing in a dangerous manner in the streets, b) psycho neighbor and his buddies who have been road-raging me since the last neighborhood annua1 meeting.

And I thought my cell phone was KING.

laserone_ — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:47:59 +0000

GOD.

MY NEXT PHONE:

http://asia.cnet.com…

Upcoming version of my AWESOME camera phone:

FIVE MEGAPIXELS!!!

BUILT-IN GPS!!!