Nokia should remember my settings
I got my new Nokia E90 from Vodafone. After leaving it in the back of that limo (bad call) in Las Vegas, I was without my primary number for about two weeks.
I set up the device quickly. I put in the sim card, called Vodafone, got them to activate the sim and bish, bash, bosh, the phone was operational.
Then I walked out the house to a social event arranged by my other half. She was driving so I sat in the car and used Mail For Exchange — which I’d downloaded from Nokia and Bluetoothed from the Apple — to synchronise my entire calendar, contacts, tasks on to the handset.
Perfect.
I *love* the simplicity. OK, so it’s not entirely that simple. I have to remember my rather annoyingly complicated username from Fasthosts and this is something that my mother, certainly, couldn’t be bothered to setup.
But it does work, and beautifully. In fact I have about 8 Nokia devices that are all synchronised in this way. It is genius. If I add a contact or a calendar entry on one device — or on Outlook, for example, it’s immediately synched across all phones.
Mail for Exchange renders me, more or less, device independent. I could use an N73 in the morning, an E61i at lunch and my E90 in the evening — all have the critical address book/calendar data synchronised continually.
But unfortunately we — that is, the industry, or, more precisely, Nokia — hasn’t evolved to the point of synchronisation of handset settings.
It’s a TOTAL ARSE when I try to type ‘Ewan’ with my new E90’s T9 and get two word choices: ‘Exam’ and ‘Exco’.
Surely it’d be quite easy for Nokia to create a .mac style system to take a copy of my phone dictionary and various other settings (themes, that sort of thing) and sync them from handset to handset via the web?
Or — perhaps since most people only get a handset every year (is that more or less still accurate nowadays?) maybe this isn’t such a big deal?
“Mail For Exchange — which I’d downloaded from Nokia and Bluetoothed from the Apple..”
Simplicity?
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Posted by James Whatley on April 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pm.Every year? People here don’t get new handsets every year, try every 3 years when their contract expires
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Fair point, it’s not THAT simple, James!
Posted by Ewan on April 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm.I have to agree that having an MS Exchange account when you review/use multiple mobiles does make things quite easy. I personally love that aspect of having an MS Exchange account.
But its not always easy to take advantage of it. For example, M4E didn’t work on my N75 (latest version just didn’t work, and the version that did work didn’t sync). I use Emoze to handle things and have been quite pleased with it (aside from it being shutdown when RAM gets low, and the battery life drain). But the info accessibility is hard to beat.
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Posted by Antoine of MMM on April 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm.This is exactly what I was thinking today - A new N95 8GB arrived and I did the device sync thingy-majig with my old N73 and most settings (bookmarks, calender, messages and obviously.. contacts) were transferred: Just not the words I taught the T9! Argh!
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Posted by Anthony on April 14th, 2008 at 10:57 pm.Absolutely agree with the dictionary thing, it’s taken me ages to teach my N80 all the local names and jargon we use, not to mention swear words!
Posted by Ash on April 15th, 2008 at 1:23 pm.Can’t someone devise a way to upload personal words? Then they could be downloaded to the new phone?
Also other settings should be transferred to the phone in the same way as it can be on a PC.
And finally shouldn’t there be someone develop a downloadable dictionary of words we all use but are possibly a bit risqué for Nokia?
Cheers
Ash
Everybody knows that the Nokias desperately need a user-editable dictionary (I want to DELETE useless words, as well as adding more than a handful of my own words), with user-editable priorities for the order it suggests words in.
Well, everyone except Nokia, apparently.
Posted by Denny on April 17th, 2008 at 9:25 am.