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Thursday 23rd February 2006

ShoZu

Shozu is a great app for your camera phone for Flickr users meaning you don’t need to connect your phone to a PC first (although watch out for GPRS costs!)

Monday 10th October 2005

P990

P990I want one!
Does anyone have a spare £400 lying around so I can get it in the new year or for my birthday (hint, hint, hint)?
Best features:
3G, Wi-Fi, 2 mega-pixel camera.

(hint)

Tuesday 7th June 2005

Blackberry on a P910i

Yes, it is now possible!
A few things to note first of all. THIS IS NOT OFFICALLY SUPPORTED!. I have it working with a Vodafone SIM with blackberry.net APN enabled and a Vanilla P910i using the Web Client Software.

First download this zip file from Sony Ericsson.
Once you unzip the file, you will need to install the .sis file onto your P910i.
The file is only unpacked, so you will need to go to the Application Menu of your phone, and select Applications -> Install and select Blackberry.
When the software runs, select Instant Email. You will now see the Blackberry icon flashing. Press the OFF button on the software to stop the Blackberry from trying to connect to GPRS.
Now open your Control Panel, select the Connections tab, and in here select Internet Accounts. Highlight BWC Blackberry.Net and select Edit, then Advanced and then rename the Address to blackberry.net
Turn your phone off and then back on. Hopefully now you should connect to the Blackberry server (Blackberry logo shouldn’t be flashing).
Go back into the Blackberry software and select Blackberry -> Register Now. This should tell the blackberry webserver your PIN and IMEI number.
Now on the internet with your computer visit http://mobileemail.vodafone.net/ and setup a new account.
If possible get your mail provider to Forward emails to the vodafone email address, instead of accessing it via POP3.
You should now have Blackberry working on your phone.

Points to note
You need Blackberry enabled on your account
You need a certain firmware version CXC16204x R2A17
This “should” work for other operators, but check what the APN needs to be to talk to Blackberry.
For more instructions on setting up an Enterprise Blackberry connect, read this post on HowardForums

Update - 23rd August 2005
The latest version of the software 2.54.4 works with CDA162005/3 R5A02
You can download it from here:
www.maxis.com.my/blackberry/consumer/connect_start.asp

Update - 24th January 2006
Looks like this no longer works on Vodafone UK. PINs seem to be blocked for the P910’s :(

Update - 26th July 2006
Actually have this working again (for some months). If you have an Enterprise server, you’ll get around the PIN blocking. Vodafone have also decided not to support this software at all and it looks like they won’t support it for the M600i and the P990i.

Saturday 19th March 2005

This week I have been stealing a V800

My new job at Vodafone means that I can borrow phones for the evening/weekend. I’ve been trying out the V800, but as I have an o2 sim card, and we have no 3G Vodafone signal in Lincoln, the main feature of the phone is a bit pointless.
Haven’t noticed anything special about it really, and am missing the functionality of my P910i.

Friday 22nd October 2004

o2 and the Internet

Having got my P910i, and getting o2 to send the GPRS settings to my phone, I noticed a small problem.
Whilst the WAP browser worked, Email, Traffic-i, jMSN and Opera didn’t. They all worked before on my P800, and Traffic-i is a subscription service which I’ve paid for.
So as I was about to complain to them, I noticed something on their website: Mobile Web, this seemed to be different from o2 Active. Unfortuantaly unlike o2 Active, they won’t send you the settings via sms. Instead you have to open up PDF documents, which don’t relate to your phone, just to find the settings.
For those on o2 (any new phone), I would recommend adding this Internet Profile:

Name: o2 Mobile Web
Connection Type: GPRS
Username: o2web
Password: password
Address (APN): mobile.o2.co.uk

For a P910i, you will also need to set up a Wap Account with these details:

Account Name: O2 MOBILE
Internet Account: o2 Mobile Web