Ionut's WebSpace » SmartPhone http://www.vioan.ro/wp Exploring Creativity Is My Passion Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:09:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Importing contacts from Nokia E71 to HTC Desire http://www.vioan.ro/wp/2010/08/08/importing-contacts-from-nokia-e71-to-htc-desire/ http://www.vioan.ro/wp/2010/08/08/importing-contacts-from-nokia-e71-to-htc-desire/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:53:41 +0000 ionut http://www.vioan.ro/wp/?p=452 In my previous post I was asking which phone I should buy: Desire, Nexus or iPhone. Finally I decided to go with HTC Desire and for my wife I bought Desire’s little brother HTC Wildfire :) .

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After playing about 4-5 days with Desire, I can say that it is an amazing phone, I love it.

First thing which I did was to install some applications on it, which I use frequently: ConnectBot (ssh client), AndFTP (ftp client), Dropbox, Evernote, AK Notepad, ColorNote, Compas, Color Flashlight, iReader, KeePassDroid and Yahoo Messenger. You can find all of them using Android Market.

The second thing was to import the contacts from Nokia E71 onto Desire, Here is how I did it:

  1. turn Bluetooth on both devices and pair them
  2. Nokia: Contacts -> Options -> Mark/Unmark -> Mark All
  3. Nokia: Options -> Send -> Send Business Card
  4. Desire: Accept the incoming file: the icon will appear at the top of the screen
  5. Desire: wait a little bit, and after that choose “Import All Contacts”
  6. Done

I think that method should work with different phones.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/vioan/sets/

I am thinking to change/replace two devices: Nokia E71 and the iPod Touch, with just one, a new smartphone and I have in mind: iPhone 4, HTC Desire and Nexus One, but I am still not decided which one to buy. So, I need your help, which one would you choose?

Desire: radio fm and sense ui but not android 2.2 and I am not sure if it will get 2.2 even if HTC said that it will get
Nexus: android 2.2 but not the others mentioned above
iPhone: 180-200 Euro more than the other two, and of course not all what I can have on the other two

BTW, openSUSE 11.3 is great, but you already know that :)

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Above is a photo of my new Nokia E71, which I bought 10 days ago.  It is a excellent phone, the keyboard is great to type on. It has everything you need and it is smaller than iPhone! A full review is available here.

The phone Nokia E71 is declared one of the best mobile phones along with INQ1 and G1 (see more here: http://www.globalmobileawards.com/winners.shtml)

“Email is made easy with the Nokia E71. The world’s thinnest mobile QWERTY device, the Nokia E71 is designed for easy setup and use, offering access to a wide range of personal and professional messaging needs – including Microsoft Exchange, the world’s most widely adopted corporate email solution – as well as thousands of ISPs.
Designed for a busy mobile lifestyle, the Nokia E71 provides one-touch access to email, calendar and contacts. ”

So, why I choosed Nokia E71 and not iPhone 3G?

Here is what I wanted:

  • a slim phone
  • a ssh client (I am using pine to read my email, and I need remote access to my servers)
  • querty keyboard which I consider that is better then on-screen keyboard
  • fast internet, 3g
  • to use my phone as modem/dongle/wifi-hotspot for my notebook (hotel, train, airport, …)
  • proper nav app (with audible announcements) – GPS built in
  • not very expensive
  • easily unlockable to other networks
  • multi email support
  • messenger, skype, good music & video capabilities
  • radio built in
  • Wifi, GPRS, UMTS,
  • USB connection and bluetooth
  • pdf and word reader (complete office suite)
  • task manager and sync with google calendar
  • video capture
  • real on phone voip (Gizmo)
  • The Symbian OS is one amazing piece of software :)

So, Nokia E71 can offer me everything what I need in the above list.

Just to mention iPhone 3G features over Nokia E71 – (pro and cons):

  • large screen
  • has arguably the best gui of any phone on the market right now
  • two times more expensive then Nokia E71 (considering the same data/internet and voice plan for let’s say 18 months)
  • bigger then Nokia E71
  • Apple App Store and Applications for iPhone
  • doesn’t have a decent bluetooth implementation.
  • I can’t send mms.
  • I can’t use videophone.
  • I can’t use it for connecting my laptop
  • I can’t forward a simple message
  • Safari on the iPhone is nice

I prefer to have a full featured device then to be cool and trendy :)

Some applications which I use on my Nokia E71: Putty, Skype, Opera Mini, Messenger, Fring, Nimbuzz, Google Maps, Google Mail, Youtube, JoikuSpot (a cool piece of software which transforms your device in a Wifi hotspot), KeePassMobile, YahooGo. I am still looking for new applications which can be useful.

I am very happy with my choice and I am stil exploring the capabilities of this great phone.

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