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I need a new battery for my N95 8GB
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009ShoZu Video Of The Day
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Ah hah, today we’ve got a video and not a photo. Mobile Industry Review reader, Jared, took pity on us on Monday morning and sent us in this video via ShoZu. You know we got a paltry inch of snow here in the UK that day? And I took a video of a poor chap in a van outside my place trying desperately to get up the road?
An inch of snow really does cripple the UK. I kid ye not. Schools were closed. Honestly. Ridiculous I know.
Which brings me to Jared’s video. Despite TWO FEET of snow falling near Springfield, Western Massachusetts, traffic was, in Jared’s words, ‘bumbling along at a good 40mph’.
They’re hardy folk in Western Massachusetts. Jared shot the video in the middle of the day and was on his way back home. Another few more feet of snow due later that day.
Thankfully he had his handset on him — he doesn’t specify the make or model but I predict it was one of the top of the range Nokias. An N95 or the like.
So if you think the driver I captured in my video on Monday was having a bad day, spare a thought for the chap who’s lorry jackknifed in 2ft of snow…
N95 8GB: Phone start-up failed. Contact the retailer.
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Ah dear. I dug out my N95 8GB the other day and charged it up. I was going to try and use the device more - as a camera (because if you recall it arrived from T-Mobile UK without data functioning). Well. I can’t use it. Not at the moment. I’ve never seen this message on a Nokia before:
“Phone start-up failed. Contact the retailer.”
Any suggestions on how to get it to work?
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
S60 Application Reviews
Sunday, October 5th, 2008They are still happening, it’s just that I smashed my phone screen in my pocket the other week hence the reason for no updates. I should have my trusty N95 back with me tomorrow, so we should be back on schedule for a new review on Friday.
As ever, if you are an application developer or just have a application that you want to share with the MIR readers drop me a line (ricky@mobileindustryreview.com)
N95 8GB on T-Mobile won’t connect. Still.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I picked up my N95 8GB yesterday. It’s been gathering dust and I thought I’d take it with me to this presentation I was giving later in the evening.
It was only when I got on to the train and had a fiddle with the device that I remembered: Arse. It’s a disabled piece of shit.
I don’t know what went wrong with it. It has NEVER, EVER connected to the T-Mobile Data APN. Never. Not once.
I am at a slight loss.
I think I need to try putting the sim card in another device to check if my account is actually screwed. Who knows. I still cannnnnnot believe that it’s possible to acquire a locked T-Mobile handset that doesn’t ‘work’ on the internet by default.
Next.
Mobile Networks… You’ll never cease to amaze me!
Thursday, August 28th, 2008I’m being serious here. Since my time here as Mobile Industry Review I’ve read hundreds of news articles on the latest goings on with the mobile industry. Yes a lot of the so called news is terribly “boring”, but every now and then, I have to sit back laugh, and ask “why”?
Ricky kindly sent me over a link to a piece of “why” news; O2 who recently stopped subsidising their top end phones, have decided to subsidise them again! Well, at least on two phones, the Samsung Tocco and Sony C902.
The Samsung Tocco, Sony C902 and Nokia N95 were all raised to a £75-per-month tariff, but only the Tocco and C902 have been reduced. They are now subsidised on a £35 tariff.
Amazingly O2 have decided against subsidising the Nokia N95, and as Ricky mentioned to me… Couldn’t this cause a stir between the giant manufacturer and the mobile network? Maybe even Nokia penalising O2 by not giving them exclusive launches or something dramatic along those lines.
Personally, I don’t quite understand what O2 were trying to achieve with this, yes okay, they were hoping that other networks were going to follow suit; but who in their business-thinking-right-mind would make existing and/or potential customers pay more in the current credit climate?
Vodafone made me question them the other week too, with their higher prices they’ve introduced. They may be trying to make money here, but surely out-pricing yourself from the high-street competition isn’t the best way to do it, is it?
As for Nokia and O2, what’s going to happen here! I fear O2 are making some risky moves here, which I seriously doubt will pay off; and if Ricky has guessed correctly, this could affect them in the future too.
I wonder what they will do next!
N95 8Gb address book question
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Right then, I need the services of a Nokia Genius to help solve this issue below.
I had a reader, Tony, send me this by instant message:
quick geek question
i just changed to a different N95 8gb cause my other one had a touch of the N Series about it (crashing etc)
and now it doesnt seem to correlate anyone in my address book with sms or incoming/outbound calls
ie just their number shows, not who it is
any ideas?
I thought he might be using the wrong address book (i.e. SIM address book) but apparently not. Any ideas?
We can’t get the basics correct. We simply can’t!
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Here, then, is yet another depressing illustration of how screwed the mobile industry is. It doesn’t matter how enterprising you’d like to be, or how innovative you’re mobile developers are, or how many 80 hour weeks you’re working away… if I can’t access your services on my device, then you don’t exist.
But, at least, most folk have internet enabled on their handset, right? Billing for data, now that’s another issue. But most folk have it activated. At least, ok… let me qualify that: If you’ve been given a *new* handset by your mobile operator recently — in the last two years or so — it should work. It should have MMS settings, data settings, it should have all that gubbins’ that the meta mobile industry depends on.
(By ‘meta mobile industry’, I mean the folk around it. The folk who give value to it. Beyond just calling and texting.)
It’s all good, yeah?
No.
I write this as another reminder so that in years to come, we can look back and see why it took 25 years to properly ‘mobilise’ the United Kingdom (as an example country) when it really should have taken 5.
I just took delivery of a new top-of-the-range (at the moment) Nokia N95 8GB, on my T-Mobile UK account. It’s a T-Mobile branded device, configured with all their settings.
Or so I thought.
I fired up the phone and tried connecting to the web. (I was looking for the 3.5G sign). Nothing.
‘Ok, perhaps there’s a signal issue in this area,’ I thought, since I was out in the sticks. I tried again when I got into London. No. No data.
‘Maybe the settings aren’t correct?’ I had a poke about. Looked ok.
I connected to my local WiFi fine. Just, my N95 8GB data settings appeared screwed.
Five days after switching on the device, I got this text message.
Reply to this text for free? What does that mean? Do you send a blank text? Or…? Screw it. I sent a text message with the word ‘hi’ in it. Just in case.
I got these two messages back:
Weird. I’ve already got ‘T-Mobile Internet’ on my device as an access point (that one isn’t working). So why would I need Web’N'Walk?
Whatever. I installed them both.
Nada.
I won’t bore you with the stupid blank-screen screenshots.
So what am I supposed to do now, T-Mobile?
Obviously I will arse about with the device and try and get it working. I’ll phone them to check that they’ve, er, enabled data on my account. And, I’ll generally mess about until it works.
But, let’s just assume that, this morning, 100 people took delivery of their new N95 8GBs from T-Mobile on an 18 month contract. How many of them aren’t able to access data on their device? And how many of them will actually phone up and complain? Most will, I’m sure, simply assume that ‘it don’t work’ and leave it there.
How depressing.
How shit does a mobile network operator need to be, to deliver me a NEW top of the range device that is incorrectly setup?
I thought we’d sorted all this, I really did.
