Category: Telecoms

  • Is your mobile operator crippling your phone?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Making calls from your mobile over wifi, instead of your mobile provider’s network, saves lots of money on call charges. This has the obvious consequence of reducing the income of the bloodsucking mobile operators (all together now, awwwww). To ensure you can’t do this, some mobile operators have crippled the ability to make Internet calls…

  • Sony Ericsson k800i?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In response to my last post about which replacement phone to get for my dead Nokia N70, several people have suggested that I get a Sony Ericcson k800i. Despite my bad experiences with the N70 (and worse with my wife’s N91) I am slow to move away from Nokia. Why? Well, almost all my phones…

  • Nokia N70 firmware update fried my phone

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    My phone has never been the most stable but I couldn’t update the firmware because I didn’t have a PC and Nokia don’t believe in supporting non-Windows platforms (despite Microsoft having a ban on its employees buying Nokia phones!). As I received a PC the other day, I decided now was the time to try…

  • Did the OS X 10.4.9 update break N70 iSync support?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been having issues with my Nokia N70 synching using iSync since my update to OS X 10.4.9 – anyone else having similar problems?

  • Nokia N91 crashing

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    Tom Raftery
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    I bought my wife a Nokia N91 for her birthday last year and initially she loved it. It has got a 4gb hard disk which makes it idea for rich media. She even used it to listen to a couple of podcasts (no, none of mine, she’s not that sad!). However, it has now become…

  • Pat's in trouble – continued

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    Tom Raftery
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    A couple of days ago I posted that Pat Phelan was in some trouble. This evening Pat confirmed it: From Pat’s blog: Our allfreecalls provider in Iowa today took flight due to increasing pressure from a large USA based carrier. We are working on getting a new number up. We expect to be back in…

  • Beware of Jajah's mobile web app!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I posted recently about Jajah’s mobile web app. It seemed like a great idea at the time. unfortunately I hadn’t tried it out before posting about it. I had an opportunity to try it out the other evening. I was trying to contact friends in New York from my mobile. I called up the Jajah…

  • Allfreecalls from Ireland!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Good buddy Pat Phelan [that’s the disclosure out of the way!] has launched an Irish version of his allfreecalls product. The thinking with this is that is you have signed up for a number of minutes a month from a local telco, then local and national calls are essentially free. With that in mind, Pat…