Nokia N70

Just an iPhone

If you really must know, yes, I'm getting an iPhone. It was not a no-brainer until very recently, when Rogers/Fido offered a promotional 6 GB plan for $30 on top of a voice plan. Still not a no-brainer, because after some speculation, about whether my plan was eligible for the most coveted of mobile computing platforms, I called Fido today to find out if I'm eligible for that which must be worshiped and/or bitched about. The plan has nationwide Fido-to-Fido calling, necessary for calling the girl while we had our long distance relationship, my being in Vancouver and her being in Toronto; unlimited weekends and evenings; something called "Can. ID" (can someone enlighten me as to what that does?); and that's it for exactly 30 dollars a month. That last point is important because it qualifies me for the $249 8 GB iPhone, not the $199 8 GB iPhone, which comes with a plan of more than 30 dollars a month.

Added to my current plan are Caller ID and 50 monthly text messages. No voicemail for quite some time now: it was always quicker for me to call the person back and ask them what they were calling about then to listen to the message, find a pen to write down the number (which requires rewinding not being as fast a write as people are talkers) and forget to delete the message, then listen to my voicemail later on wondering if it was a new message or not. Visual Voicemail looks interesting, but I don't get enough phone calls to warrant paying for it. Forgetting to ask the helpful French-accented Fido representative if I could keep the add on features, I still assume the answer is yes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What am I going to do with the iPhone?

Re-document my world, using Drupal of course, since the phone has GPS and there are going to be all kinds of cool applications on it. (Drupal + Location is in currently in a state of flux and I already have some geolocation stuff happening on this site and am planning more.) And listen to music and watch videos. Not making or receiving many phone calls, I don't really care all that much about the phone part of the iPhone.

Could I have bought an unlocked N95 at a cool $600 from an unknown Craigslist posting?

Absolutely. The 3-year contract the Rogers/Fido alliance goes in the "cost" column, and at $400 maximum to exit and not anticipating a move outside Canada in the next 3 years, that's something I can handle. The N95 is nice, but I can't stand the complete lack of usability on the Series 60 operating system. Everything's a pain. Everything on the iPhone looks so smooth.

When am I getting it?

Not today, and likely not this weekend. I'll wait until next week when the rush dies down a little bit. People are saying that stock is low today as well.

Does that mean you, dear reader, should get an iPhone too?

You don't have to get an iPhone.

What about your existing iPod mini, GlobalSat DG-100 GPS logger and Nokia N70 cell phone?

I never got Internet sharing between a Series 60 phone (like my Nokia N70) working with my Mac, and now I don't have to! The iPod, GPS unit and N70 will get new lives for people that don't have an iPhone. Since I don't have the latter yet, it'll be a few months before I give them away.

Help Ruk with Python on his S60 phone

Any S60 Python developers out there can help Ruk out with a problem sending SMS messages with his Nokia N70? One of the reasons I got a S60 phone was to learn Python. (So much for that.) Ruk got sending text messages from his Mac computer through his phone via Bluetooth by asking the his readers (you have to visit the comments for the answer, since he didn't update the post with the question itself. I still have yet to get his instructions on getting Internet using my computer via Bluetooth on my N70 to work.

N70 Mirror Shot

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Submitted by gillicious on Thu 2007-02-01 15:57 #

What's up with your hair, dude?

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Thu 2007-02-01 18:27 #

Yeah, it was wacky today.

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Help Rukavina getting his Nokia N70 to send SMS messages from Mac OS X Address Book using Bluetooth
This would help me too, for those times when the '6' button stops working on my N70.
Nokia N70 Wear and Tear (Camera Cover Top Right)

The Iceland sticker covers up even more damage from regular use.

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sillygwailo added a note: Paint chipped. Similar chipping on opposite corner.

Nokia N70 Wear and Tear (Camera Cover Bottom Left)

The Iceland sticker covers up even more damage from regular use.

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sillygwailo added a note: Scratch looks worse in the photo than it does in real life.

Nokia N70 Wear and Tear (Camera Cover)

The Iceland sticker covers up even more damage from regular use.

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Nokia N70 Wear and Tear (Keypad)

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sillygwailo added a note: Metallic paint chipping off.

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sillygwailo added a note: Originally had TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) branding on it, but it scratched off easily. I'm totally fine with that.

Nokia N70 Wear and Tear (Top Front)

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sillygwailo added a note: Paint rubbing off.

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sillygwailo added a note: Dent.

Numbers on My Nokia N70 Stopped Working, But Now They Work Again

Yesterday evening, my Nokia N70 stopped working properly. That is, the numbers 1, 5, and 6 didn't respond. After a day of adding phone numbers to my Powerbook's address book and using iSync to add them to my contacts list, and trying straight rebooting the phone (turning it off then on again), and worrying that I would have to get another phone (which would have been my 4th this year, beginning with Siemens S55, then Nokia 7610, and then now with my N70, not including the Nokia N80 I had for a while), it works again. I couldn't hard reset the phone—7370# or, star seven three seven zero star number-sign—because I wasn't able to type in the code it asked for (12345) since, well, the 1 and 5 weren't working. What made it work again was the following: open the phone, take out the battery and SIM card, blow around a little bit, then replace the SIM card and battery and turn it on. Voodoo, I know, and probably not a permanent fix. But here's hoping it is, because I paid my right arm for it.

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