Motorola S605 Bluetooth Stereo Headset

It was Thursday. SO had the day off. We had just watched the movie, Mummy 3.

There was a Handphone shop at the basement of PS. I had gone to Cathay Motorola shop last sunday to hunt for the Motorola S605 bluetooth stereo headset. The one I was eyeing. The one which could be used with our very own headset. The shop assistant there told me that it was out of stock but new stock could becoming in one or two weeks time.

But today I was lucky. This shop has the Motorola S605. I was excited! It really cost only $98! I made SO paid for it and took it home to try.

This is my second bluetooth stereo head set but I definitely preferred this over the Nokia BH 501 headset!


The sound quality is pretty decent with the given earphones. And the thing is now I could use my very own headset! And it does not hurt my ears like the Nokia BH 501 did. Now listening to music from my phone or ipod for long periods of time is so comfortable!

Pairing with my Nokia N95 was really easy. Just turn on the Motorola S605 and search for the device on my phone.

As for pairing with my ipod classic, this took some time as the ipod did not have any specialised bluetooth menu. It took me a while and a few retries before I could finally paired it with the ipod.

Now I am finally wireless and wire free. I really like this product. Really cheap and useful!

And I felt like this.

Re-installing web applications on Nokia N95

When I got back my Nokia N95, they did installed the latest N95 firmware as promised, which is version 21.0.016, created 14-02-08.

To check what version your N95 firmware is, just type *#0000#

However, some of the applications which I have installed in the phone were gone.

I have spent the last few hours to research and reinstall some of the web applications on nokia...and here's for archiving purposes.

Firstly, I reinstalled Opera Mini. Opera Mini is a great mobile browser. I think it is better than the pre-installed Nokia browser. I discovered this when my Nokia browser crashed on me a few weeks back and I have been using it since then. And now though my Nokia mobile browser is back, I think I will still continue to use Opera Mini.

The Opera Mini Browser download is here. And yeah, it is advisable to sign up for an opera account so that your bookmarks can be synchronized. I am glad all my bookmarks and web feeds are still intact online and I dun have to waste time to reinstall that.

Secondly, I upgraded the Share Online. The version in the phone is 2.0 The latest version for Share Online Nokia N95 is 3.0 and comes with Flickr, Vox, and Ovi pre-activated accounts.

Share Online version 2.0 dun have those accounts. I was trying to install Vox and Flickr accounts on SO 2.0 but gave up even after installing the configuration files, as advised online by Nokia.

Vox configuration file is below.
http://www.vox.com/services/config/vox_configuration_file.cfg

Flickr configuration file is below.
http://www.flickr.com/services/atom/config/nokia/nseries/flickr_configuration_file.cfg?dl=1

Both files are to be transferred to the phone via Data Transfer, not PC Suite.

Since adding the 2 configuration files did not work, I thought of installing the Share Online 3.0 and this automatically adds in Vox, Flickr and Ovi.

Just activate the Vox, Flickr and Ovi accounts and they are ready to be used.

The last application I installed in the N95 was the Vox standalone application. This application would install an icon on the phone and you can upload photos and posts from the application onto the Vox blog.

Nokia N95 belongs to Series 60 3rd Edition (Nokia).
And the download to Vox application is http://get.typepad.com/VoxS6030.sisx

My N95 is well!

Nokia called SO yesterday late afternoon. My phone was ready to be collected.

If not for the fact, it was quite late in the afternoon, I would have rushed down immediately to collect it.

I did not sleep that well last night. This morning, I woke up at 11 am plus with a major headache. I read the papers, watched some TV, bathed, fed Bell some snacks, popped 2 panadols and left the house at 2pm.

I was feeling hungry. But I did not want to talk to anyone. Not this morning, unless absolutely necessary. I have to talk to order food and today, I am simply not in the mood to talk to anyone.

So, after returning SO's library books which weighed a ton, I popped down to the basement and bought some bread. Each bread cost $1.40 and I bought 4.

Then I took a bus to collect my phone from Nokia. I was just teeming with anticipation. The old replacement phone I was using for the last few days simply sucked! Big time. It was the Motorola Razor, 1st generation. At that time, when it came out, it was so cool. So slim...and the thinnest phone at that time.

But now, the razor just seemed so obsolete. The camera could only take VGA photos up to 640 by 480. And there are no Notes in the phone. I am so reliant on writing notes in the handphone, and these few days, I felt so helpless. I could not remembered a lot of things. And I have to save my notes onto the razor phone by writing them as sms and saving them as draft.

A few days away from my Nokia N95, made me appreciate what a great phone it was. I really loved the 5 mega pixels camera and video, never mind that sometimes the resolution is not that great. And I really missed the NOTES!

I reached Nokia around 3pm. The place was not crowded like on Sunday. I gave the reception my letter and IC and was issued a queue number. Within 15 mins, my number was called.

The guy who attended to me was the same young malay guy who attended to me on Sunday. He got a great smile. How do people smile like that? I would like to learn to smile like that.

Anyway, I asked him what's wrong with my phone, he told me he dun know. He said there were some technical terms in the report, which he could not interpret.

I was simply grateful to get the phone back, I did not asked for anything else. My baby is back!

Anyway, it was still early. I have not been to the Tampines Mall and Century square for a few years and took a quick walk around.

New shops have popped out. Everything looks so new and yet so different.

There was a Hokkaido fair going on in TM. I was planning to get some dried scallops. I still remembered those scallops SO's mother brought back from Hokkaido when she visited earlier this year. They were delicious. Like juicy and bouncy, big round cuttle fish. So yummy.

But at this fair, a 100g cost $15 to $20 and these are the low quality ones. The better quality ones cost around $45 to $120. And there were so many aunties around, queuing with packs and packs in their hands. Doesn't look like the country is undergoing inflation. The whole place was so packed. And this was at 3-4pm, in the afternoon, still office hours!

Anyway, the scallops were too expensive. I was being miserly and thrifty. It is too much of a luxury food item at this time of inflation.

SO is so going to slaughter me if I bought such things. And he does not even eat them. His mother always tried to sneak them into food she cooked for him. But once he found out, he would not take another bite. He simply cannot stand the fishy smells. I did asked him once why his mother did it anyway. And he replied, she was just trying her luck! Hahahaha!

Anyway, I took a bus home. It was around 4pm. I did not think it would be crowded, but it was simply packed to the brim! I really dun like to squeeze into a crowded bus, but I was tired and I just wanted to go home!

On the way home, I bought a nice new red cover for my Nokia N95. And changed its silicon cover.
But then, I have to restore the phone backup from the laptop and reinstalled all the missing applications back.

Welcome back, N95!

N95 in a coma

I had already made plans to visit the Gramophone sale today. The venue was rather out of place.

And this morning, as I doing a quick surf online with my Nokia N95 phone, it went into a COMA!

It just hang there, on the Nokia logo, white background. Just hang!

It never happened before! Not in the 7-8 months since I started using the phone!

Gosh, why did it happened? Did it know I was talking bad about it?

In a blog post a few days ago, I was lamenting how bored and uninspired I was with the Nokia N95 and that I was craving for the new Samsung Omnia, and today it went into a coma.

Actually this sort of things did happened to me before. The other time, I wanted a new water bottle, so when SO and I went to a sale, I told him the water bottle was dirty and that we should get a new one. He asked what's wrong with the old one, I told him, nothing, just dirty.

And the next day, I discovered the old water bottle cracked!

SO said I am jinxed and banned me from saying such things in the future. He said I could destroy things just by talking bad about them.

Anyway, back to the phone. I checked the Nokia page online and there was a Nokia service center in Tampines, quite near to the venue of the Gramophone sale.



to be continued