Kiran Jonnalagadda ([info]jace) wrote,
@ 2007-08-07 01:55:00
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Wireless
My BSNL broadband connection finally got installed today. For the first time in a year since moving out, I have something better than GPRS with which to get online.

I have Wi-Fi at home again. Yay!

I also have a new phone that does Wi-Fi, from which I download podcasts, do bedside late night e-mail, blogging, feed reading, random browsing, IRC chatting, and Skype and Gizmo calling, without needing to lug around that hunk of a laptop. Life is now good.

Double yay!

Now if only someone would fix the way the phone's WebKit-based browser handled HTML TextAreas so I could edit wiki pages. Just one small wish.

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[info]satyap
2007-08-07 12:08 am UTC (link)
There's an extension for Firefox. It's called.... "It's all text". You can set it to edit textareas in vi or emacs or editor of your choice.

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[info]skjaidev
2007-08-07 01:32 am UTC (link)
Which phone is that, I'm in the market for a phone with wi-fi, I'd love some recommendation. I've been looking at the N93 / N80ie - can't decide if the camera is important for me.

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 03:54 am UTC (link)
Nokia E61i. I figured I needed both QWERTY keypad and camera, everything else being secondary. This was the only such model from Nokia. Everything else was Windows Mobile or PalmOS, which I don't particularly fancy, so the E61i it was. I'm quite pleased with it.

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[info]derherr
2007-08-07 06:06 am UTC (link)
The Nokia E series is much much better than the N Series. The N series is more for the entertainment oriented phone market. The latest E90 is a killer phone but is guaranteed to burn a crater sized hole in your pocket!

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 06:27 am UTC (link)
It does seem though that the N series is receiving more love than the E series. Most Nokia apps debut and usually remain on the N platform. LifeBlog, for instance. The N95 also appears to have everything the E series has minus the QWERTY keypad.

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[info]derherr
2007-08-07 06:31 am UTC (link)
From what I have read and heard, the N95 seems to be the ONLY N series phone worth considering. I have friends who bought the lower N series phones and gave them back and exchanged them for other phones because of the instability and the crashes and hangs etc ..

The E series is the business series and so its features are concentrated towards office apps etc ..

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[info]skjaidev
2007-08-07 11:32 am UTC (link)
I'm not so particular about the QWERTY keyboard. I'd rather have the carl zeiss on the N93i / N95. Anyway, thanks for the recommendations!

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[info]mrinal
2007-08-07 07:49 pm UTC (link)
I'm totally happy with my N80! Especially the fact that it runs TomTom and acts as a GPS turn-by-turn voice navigator for me!

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arucard2
2007-08-07 01:36 am UTC (link)
you are spoilt! :) :P

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 06:28 am UTC (link)
I have earned the spoils! A year of 3 kB/s bandwidth! You folks in Singapore have it really good by any standard.

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arucard2
2007-08-07 07:51 am UTC (link)
was kidding dude. :)

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[info]sajith
2007-08-07 03:44 am UTC (link)
Yeah, which phone?

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 03:56 am UTC (link)
Nokia E61i.

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[info]latelyontime
2007-08-07 06:33 am UTC (link)
rub it in why don't you? Do you know I had to be in office till 12:30 last night, making the dratted presentation, 'cuz there's no interwebz at home?

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 06:37 am UTC (link)
You could have come and hung out here, saar. Nicer settings, etc.

And hey, it was a long wait. I deserve it.

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[info]latelyontime
2007-08-07 06:41 am UTC (link)
should have, could have phooey... I didn't realise it would take so long to make that presentation. For half an hour, I was searching for pictures of cows. Are you planning to come to office at all or does the broad band make it an unnecessary activity? *chuckle*

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[info]teemus
2007-08-07 07:15 am UTC (link)
http://www.operamini.com/download/pc/nokia/nokia_e61/ ?

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 07:30 am UTC (link)
Trying it. Prefer Opera Senior but for the shareware fee.

Besides, Opera Senior on the E61i doesn't support cut and paste (the process is different with qwerty keypads since there is no pencil key), but otherwise does get textareas right. This is a major oversight on their part that I hope will be fixed with Opera 9.

I think I will use Opera Mini for forms with textareas and the WebKit-based browser for the rest.

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[info]sidcarter
2007-08-07 10:52 am UTC (link)
And with this phone, one can read PDFs, txts and all the regular books one used to on the Palm ?

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[info]jace
2007-08-07 11:11 am UTC (link)
1. PDFs with Adobe Reader (as lousy as the desktop reader experience). Xpdf on Linux comes with a useful pdftotext --layout command that does a decent job rescuing these documents.

2. TXTs with QReader (very nice -- the programmers evidently use it to read full books themselves).

3. HTMLs with in-built "Web" browser for desktop-like rendering or Opera for reformatted rendering.

4. DOC/PPT/XLS/ODT with QuickOffice (bundled) and Mobile Office (not free). Tolerable experience.


I'm halfway through my first full book on this phone.

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textareas
[info]tushar
2007-08-07 03:21 pm UTC (link)
What exactly is the problem with textareas in the browser? I did manage to edit the pune blogcamp wiki on the bus there. Horrifically hard, but it worked.

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Re: textareas
[info]jace
2007-08-07 04:44 pm UTC (link)
If the textarea is larger than the screen, the browser doesn't scroll when editing, so I have to type blind. Opera used to have this problem until a year ago.

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[info]udhay
2007-08-13 09:09 am UTC (link)
Are you still in south bangalore?

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[info]jace
2007-08-13 09:39 am UTC (link)
Langford Town, now.

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How do I configure E61i to use BSNL BB
(Anonymous)
2007-11-12 04:51 am UTC (link)
Hello,
I brought a E61i yesterday, I have BSNL BB and have enabled security based connection. I am trying to use my phones WLAN wizard, it detects a WEP connection and prompts me to enter the KEY. I enter the correct key (as I am able to use my laptop with the same key), it establishes a connection but fails saying there is "No Gateway". Any idea what might be happening or what I should be doing? Any help is really appreciated.

My mail ID: dky.5.vaporize@spamgourmet.com

Thanks in advance
-dhruva

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Re: How do I configure E61i to use BSNL BB
[info]jace
2007-11-12 04:57 am UTC (link)
Not sure, Dhruva. My E61i has been similarly finicky with an ad hoc network -- I haven't been able to resolve it.

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Urgent please help me out
(Anonymous)
2008-03-29 10:30 am UTC (link)
hey friends I have a BSNL wi-fi at my home and I bought Nokia E61i couple of days back only. I am not able to connect to internet through BSNL can anyone please help me to connect to BSL wi-fi through my E61i.
Thakns in advance

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