Saturday, January 05, 2008
Merry thingie and happy new whatever :DIt's been a while since I've blogged, mainly coz I just can't be bothered.
I used to blog on a daily basis, as back then, it was the easiest way to talk about whatever was on my mind. These days though, having obtained one of those elusive "life" things, I find I've pretty much said everything I feel like waffling about, in the real world, so blogging has become fairly redundant.
But anyway...
Christmas was cool. I cooked for Andrea, her son, mother, and myself, and no-one died, which qualifies it as a successful meal.
Among my many pressies were a new bike, a new mobile phone, and a radio controlled Dalek.
Much fun.
Now bikes and Daleks are pretty much self explanatory, but the phone is a funky thing which deserves a little more mention here.
It's a Samsung E380... a mid-price phone even when it was first on sale, but compared to my old phone, and ignoring my MDA Pro, which is more of a palmtop computer anyway, I can't help being impressed with what it does.
All the usual features are present, games, mp3, camera, WAP etc, but today I added something to it which brings it up to a whole different level.
The Opera Mini browser works on pretty much any mobile, is completely free, and releases you from the confines of the crappy WAP protocol, allowing you to surf the real internet.
It has a very clever method of getting around the dificulties of fitting large pages onto a tiny screen, and though I can't be bothered to go into the details of how that works, I have to say, if you have a gsm, gprs, 3G or whatever enabled phone, but are restricted to WAP with your standard browser, you really should try it.
Just point your WAP browser at http://mini.opera.com and click to download.
Labels: phones
Steve 12:28 AM [+]
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