Geek in progress

There are a few firmware updates available for my Sony Ericsson K750i, but as I don’t have a Winblows installation lying around, no update made it onto the phone. Such is life in the Microsoft dominated world. Time for the revolt, I’d say.

However, there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Turning off the phone and turning it on again seems to allow a new Bluetooth connection to be made to it from my Powerbook. This allows me to get the photo’s off the phone and upload the lot to flickr. It also allows me to sync my calendar and contacts to the phone. Sweetness.

I hope that when I succeed in finding a winblows crippled machine, and upgrading my firmware without destroying the phone outright, the Bluettoth heaven will be another step closer by.

This is it. Is finally succumbed to the mobile phone infection. I guess Poliel is not kind. It was, in the end, a pretty hard decision. I had narrowed the choices down to either the Nokia 6230i, or the Sony Ericsson K750i. I finally decided on the Ericsson, despite my dislike for Sony since their recent DRM fuck-up. The reason I went with them is my hapiness with my Sony Cybershot, and the fact that some relatives are having issues with their Nokia batteries. The phone came with a 64MB memory card – usable in my Cybershot as well, I assume, a headset, USB-cable, and power adaptor.

The phone itself looks quite good, and feels usable too, despite my right hand thumb being a bit damaged. As I am a complete mobile phone noob – generally disliking the intrusion these things cause, I am doing quite well handling the thing. I think. I am now in the process of letting my PowerBook meet the little bugger.

Having said that, I intend to only use it for emergencies – phone-wise, for making pics when I don’t have a real camera with me, and for being contacted by family. Now, the difficult task of keeping my number from friends awaits me.