Google Maps and Bible for Nokia E65

Two more fantastic applications for the Nokia E65 - Google Maps and Go Bible.

Google Maps has a novel feature called 'My Location' which probably uses triangulation to determine where you are. Accurate to within one mile or so.

Go Bible is an implementation of the King James Version and is one of the easiest Bible software packages I've ever used. Navigation is very easy and intuitive and it's rendering on the screen is excellent making it very easy to read.

Nokia E65 Tips and Tricks Part 3

Not too much in this post but it's something that I searched high and low for when I first got my Nokia E65. The problem was how to locate applications that had been minimised or 'left behind'.

For example the Skype application has a 'minimise' option. This I did and then wondered just how I was going to find it again. The answer is simple but not obvious. Hold the menu button down for a couple of seconds and you get a pop up of all running apps. Then scroll to select and press the middle button to go to that app or 'c' to close the app. The 'menu' button is the bottom left, one in key that looks like the moon orbiting an invisible earth.

Nokia E65 Tips and Tricks Part 2

I have to admit that I sometimes feel left out in terms of pc applications as I run Linux (Linspire). For example my Nokia E65 comes with an Application Suite. I'm not too sure quite sure about everything it does as it's not going to run on my laptop. But sometimes it would be good to know.

I'm pretty sure though that there's some sort of a sync facility on there to synchronise calenders and to-do lists between the E65 and something like Outlook. But since I canned Outlook a long time ago when I switched from Windows I now use Google Calendar to manage my diary. But here's the bonus - I can sync directly between my E65 and Google Calendar!

There's an application available called Goosync which lets me synchronise stuff. As their website blurb says:

Synchronize your Google Calendar with your mobile phone or PDA.

GooSync will seamlessly synchronize almost any mobile device with your Google Calendar. It's quick and simple, sign-up and start syncing.

Upgrade your free account to our premium subscription and get access to GooSync Contacts and Tasks as well as advanced calendar sync features.

Never be without your vital information again!

And it works bloody well. I'm using the free version which has some limits to it's capability, but that works well enough for me for now.

Official Google Reader Blog: J-walking with Reader

Starting to use Google's Reader more and more recently. Being a penguin type of person I find that the system based feed readers available to the linux community don't include any that I like. And as with most stuff I'm finding more and more that it's just so convenient to have it all online. Especially now with my Nokia E65 it's so easy to access the internet.

Here's post outlining some keyboard shortcuts, most useful!

Official Google Reader Blog: J-walking with Reader

Nokia E65 Tips and Tricks Part 1

I'm getting more and more impressed with my Nokia E65, especially as it's part of the X-Series from Three Network here in the UK.

Three Network offer a service called 3Mail which costs about a fiver a month. Let's you access your email from whatever server it's on. But as part of the X-Series contract I can use MobileMail to access my emails using the Three Network for free! Shome mistake shurely?

Another nice little app is Goosync. Allows me to sync with my Google Calendar. Has to sync over my home wireless network else Three will charge. All power to the wi-fi capability of the E65 though!

Nokia E65

Just got to the end of an 18 month contract with Orange which has been a bit of a challenge. Where I live Orange has one big drawback - coverage.

I can't get coverage in my office, in any of the local supermarkets and not round a number of friends houses. Recently when I was at an ISO 9001 Auditors training course at Middle Aston House I found I could not get a signal there either.

So 18 months is up and I've been looking round for a new mobile. After much deliberation I opted for the Nokia E65. The internet gives lots of bad reviews for this model but if you take the time to actually speak to users it comes across as a very good phone. So phone sorted but what about the network and tariff's? Orange is out but open to everyone else. All the usual suspects offered the E65 but the tariffs were less than impressive. My main requirement is for loads of x-network anytime minutes. Searching further I discovered 3 Mobiles website with some tempting offers. Not a network I would normally consider but their offers seem excellent value. So I took the bait and have now got an E65 with 700 x-network minutes and free access to a variety of other applications such as Skype and MSN.

So am I happy? Yes.

I was tempted by the N95 8Mb but the size and the extra £6 a month put me off. The E65 is a fantastic phone packed full of features. All taking a bit of getting used to as my previous phone was the excellent Sony-Ericsson W810i