Phone-fu
So, having obsessed for at least a month, probably longer, over what to go with to replace my Nokia 6280, I finally went and got myself a Sony Ericsson W910i.
There are many fancier phones out there, but the non-smartphone S-E interface is clean and readable for someone with my shonky vision — unlike most Nokia interfaces these days — and the W910i has a (relatively) large and bright screen. It also has what looks to be a reasonable music player with support for M2 cards, which go for about AU$150 for 8GB.
So far I’m just enjoying being able to read the screen. I’ve got their media management software running on the PC at the moment trying to index the ~40GB of music we have here, hoping that that will provide a more manageable interface for putting music on the thing than simply moving files around via Explorer.
My one big gripe so far: apparently not supported by iSync. This seems pretty dumb, but that’s more Apple’s fault than S-E’s. The phone presumably supports the standard stuff for exchanging data via Bluetooth so this is Apple being annoying by refusing to play with a kid it hasn’t seen before. Only matters because I had the bright idea of syncing my contacts from the Nokia to the work iMac and then over to the new toy.
I’m sure I’ll have plenty more to say about it once I’ve been using it more than a day.
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