Thanks to the many folks who offered their advice and favorite products in the PDA space. As time permits, I will be looking into them. The next-generation TREO phone looks extremely promising.
Today's S.J. Mercury carried the rumor that HP is about to buy RIM, the maker of the Blackberry.
I've now heard from a high-ranking manager at ATT Wireless with an offer of personal help and his cell phone number. Apparently, my entry about my frustrations with the Nokia 3650 caught someone's attention.
I've found myself taking snapshots of people at meetings all the time which is something I've always wanted to do. I must have 50 stored in the phone. My latest problem is that the phone refuses to upload an entire set of images to my Mac. It does fine sending them one at a time over Bluetooth, but when I mark a set, it just chokes. This is obviously inconvenient. It's easy to take a dozen photos, but sending them one at a time makes not sense. I'm going to fiddle with it further before trying to get some help with this, but if anyone just happens to have encountered this problem, let me know.
It's also unclear to me who's responsible for support on this problem - Nokia which makes the phone, or ATT, which is my service provider. Taking a photo and uploading it via Bluetooth to a PC doesn't involve any of ATT's network.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at August 01, 2003 02:08 PMJust got my phone a day ago, and having the same issues with uploading images. Knowing that you'll have to upload the pictures one at a time makes using the phone a lot less fun. Any progress on that?
Also, for anyone who might be having a problem with iSync and a 3650, try enabling access to port 3004 in your firewall, if it is running.
Posted by: Peter Haggerty at August 25, 2003 08:17 PM
No progress to report. I've been told by folks working in the mobile space that the comparable Sony/Ericcson phones have a bunch of advantages over the Nokia 3650 - smaller size, perhaps cleaner software. Time permitting, I will be investigating.
Posted by: Mitch Kapor at August 26, 2003 06:27 AM