Elisa - first bill

I finally got my first bill from Elisa. It was packet of 400 minutes of speech, 400 sms's and fixed data plan (of 384 kbit/s). There were few abroad calls beside normal use. I was kind of surprised when I noticed 66 € total.

It was not so bad. I was getting used to my wifes Sonera, which has been over 100 € always.

E90, should I get one

I've been looking to change my personal phone (6210C) to more advanced one. Seriously speaking I have really considered E90 to be my next. I really need something to have more sms cabability, so E61i or E90 could be the thing.

Otherhand, my business includes a lot PGP'ed emailing and this is out of reach with current E90 and variants. So, should it be really small linux based laptop (asus EEE?) - since N810 has no encrypting enabled in GPG.

Strange days!

Back in E90

Yes, it's been really a while since last post but here it goes again. I've been very busy with family, day job and my fresh business. I've simply been around Finland and abroad a lot. I tried to learn some time handling procedures, which includes so far following attempts;

1. I registered to GooSync to have my personal phone (6120C) in sync with google calendar.
2. I installed sunbird plugin to mozilla email client, which synchronizes nicely with google calendar.
3. Changed my day job phone back to E90, due GPS and keyboard.
4. Used a LOT of N810, which is great device for web, im and skype.

But there is still issue with personal vs day job side. As soon as I can tell which to prefer, I think I need E90 to replace 6120C.

Busy year 2008

It's been a while, I really have been busy. Met lot of interesting peoples, witnessed very nice Linux usage applications and farewelled microsoft in various implementations.

As I've been now two months with N810 and 6120C, I must say that it's all I need. Beside of that mobile approach, I've been really glad with this HP 6710p with ubuntu. It's really kicking.

And of course, I must say that something (for a long time) which I could buy, is this: goosync.com. Check it out. It ties my 6120C and mozilla thunderbird calendar plugin together very nicely! Check some details out from here.

Year 2008

I will face new year with new operator plan (Elisa, fixed 3G data) and Nokia N810 Internet tablet. It will be interesting, so far it has been fun. I really hope that this mobile computing and communication could bring something more than ordinary phone experience.

I also hope that our plans with our business is taking positive swing, since it could really be interesting.

Happy new year.

Mobile Skype

I found out that N810 is able to offer mobile skype for me. My BT handsfree is paired to N810, which is coonected to internet by BT enabled 3G phone. This combination offered me total mobile skype, while driving around Helsinki. Voice quality was ok, even 3G handover was couple of times problematic. But staying still, phone locked to 3G network - everything worked.

I think this might be one of the reasons why Maemo does not hit phones real soon, too much superior functionality which breaks barriers of current carriers.

N800 is here

Yes, my present arrived early this year.. I've been now playing with N800 a lot and I must say it's a wonderful device. Blogging, forums and skype, along with IM is finaly mobile.

Nokia has finally a vision in here, let there be more Maemo devices soon!