This was written in 2011, it seems. I write about my Nokia x5800 and how to configure it. At some time I merged it with my notes on the E71, but most of this content is now useless, at some time I will adopt a content retirement strategy but not today.<\/p>\n
In May 2011, just on my contract break point, I upgraded OVI suite on my PC which downloaded some configuration data to the phone. The upshot is that my e-mail no longer works. Any attempt to use e-mail invokes Nokia’s Mail Client which they want to charge for. However the second attempt worked and Mail is now working. I wrote a blog called Using Mail on a Nokia-Orange phone<\/a>.<\/p>\n In September 2009, I got myself a Nokia x5800<\/b> on an Orange<\/i> contract. I used it in a dilatory fashion until January when I decided I needed to get to grips with it after a several of stays at the Travelodge and a week in a flat without wifi. Progress was slow and I fell back to using it as a voice & text device.<\/p>\n The task list I set in Sept 2009, was to,<\/p>\n Maps, Joikuspot and Fring are good. Maps is good, easy to use, the proximity data seems crowdsourced and some locations I have been looking for is missing or of poor quality. When I started Nokia PC suite was amongst the best around.<\/p>\n The browser is slow and I wasn’t happy with the adult filtering that occured so I had it removed. There is no skype client. The menu structures are poor. Ovi Suite is a walled garden, so sharing address book data across multiple devices is hard.<\/p>\n Few of the big applications developers write for the S3 platform.<\/p>\n How did I do the Gcal Sync?<\/p>\n The current client can support multiple mail accounts. Each account is bound to an “Access Point”. Currently this is named “Orange Internet”. The mail account needs to be bound to access point.<\/p>\n Once you find out where to enter the name of the smtp server, this is dead easy. There’s no SMTP security settings because Orange trust their network. The help desk was helful and knew what they were talking about.<\/p>\n The values are obvious, the Access point in use<\/b> should be inherited from the incoming e-mail settings.<\/p>\n The Nokia Messaging email client which was installed last year in 2010 when they offered me a 30 Free trial. Nokia expect to charge \u00a35 p.m. for this ‘service’, which since I use a 3rd party mail provider, and a 3rd party ISP i.e. Orange, means they are charging me for software rental. (To put this in perspective, I paid 5 Euros for lifetime right to use of the Joikuspot<\/a> binaries). I am not paying it. (I lived without phone mail for most of the contract and have reached the breakpoint in my contract.)<\/p>\n A chat client that supports Google Talk and more. It runs in the background, I now need to understand how my online status is represented when using the phone.<\/p>\n\n
Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/h4>\n
Google Calendar<\/h4>\n
POP 3<\/h4>\n
SMTP<\/h4>\n
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Nokia Messaging Client<\/h4>\n
Fring<\/h4>\n
Joikuspot<\/h4>\n