Unboxing my E63 cell phone
Autor: andreavb | Publicado: 2009-09-18T08:49:00-03:00

Hello!Last week made me realise that I&#39;m losing my abilities to communicatein English. I used to speak a very nice English, because I was anintern at IBM and my project architect was an American engineer. We(the team) used to talk to him for about two hours per week - whichI&#39;ve considered as free lessons. Since I don&#39;t need to use my Englishthat much nowadays, I&#39;m just forgetting it...So, I&#39;m posting this in English to practise! I hope this to be usefulfor somebody else. OK, let&#39;s go!I&#39;ve brought my new cell phone yesterday, after a 3-hours waiting. Itdidn&#39;t bore me at all, because I spent it looking at new models,sparing time in the shopping centre, talking to the service guy andgetting to know more and more things about my Cell Provider...When it finally became my turn, I did know which model and plan Iwanted to acquire. I&#39;ve been passionated for the E63 and the E71, butthe E71 was so expensive that I couldn&#39;t even look at it...The shopping process was actually a quick one! I believe to havespared about 20 minutes doing that. Although I already knew that Iwould get the E63, I&#39;ve asked to take a quick look at the box, just toconfirm my expectatives, which I did promptly. I became speciallysatisfied when I noticed that the cell phone would come with a 2GBmemory card! I was counting on paying about R$80 in a card, so it wassuch a great thing.I&#39;ve filled lots of forms, than I&#39;ve payed for my new toy and I camehome, and it was about 11pm.So I was home, late at night, having to work the next day... I&#39;vepromised to myself that I wouldn&#39;t even open the box. If I did so, Iknew I wouldn&#39;t sleep. I must say it was kind of hard: I love techgadgets, how could I wait 24 hours to see something that was alreadyin my hands? But I was strong, and I made it.Now I&#39;m home again, holding the box, and I&#39;ll open it...The E63 looks beautiful! I&#39;ve choosed the blue version (they have ared one too). It looks like my old E61i phone, but it&#39;s design isreally better... it&#39;s shorter, slimmer, and the keyboard is morecomfortable. Time to insert my Sim card and battery, pretty straightforward (yeah, I&#39;ve owned cell phones that made this task almostimpossible... hehe!).It wasn&#39;t very quick to boot, but it&#39;s expected from a smartphone.It asked for my PIN code (I&#39;m using my old Sim card), my country andcity, current date and time, and gave my a Welcome screen.My first task was to configure my Gmail account, even before taking alook at the menu. I was asked to select a connection, and promptly Iwas connected to my home wifi network. I&#39;ve choosed the first option(e-mail, not nokia e-mail), gave it my e-mail address and password,and, automagically, everything was OK! I didn&#39;t have to tell I wasusing an IMAP connection, nor give it the server parameters. Way togo, Nokia!Then I&#39;ve configured my SIP Phone. As I don&#39;t live in the same city myparents do, I use that resource too much, so my phone bill isn&#39;t veryhuge. I use Vono, a Brazilian SIP provider. Configuring the servicewas as easy as in the E61i. No news at all, it was exactly the samething, the same fields to fill, the same menus to go...I&#39;ve made a SIP call to test it, and it was successfully. Then I&#39;venoticed that I hadn&#39;t make a common call! I&#39;ve called myself (I havetwo phone numbers, and I could talk to myself for about 30 seconds. AsI live with other 9 girls, I decided it was better to hang up beforethey sent me to the manicomy...)As I had just use a simple cell phone command, I&#39;ve immediately testedthe other thing: sent my dad a sms, and got the answer in few seconds.Nice.Time to install some new software! My first software was DataQuota[1],a must-have application that shows me how much I&#39;ve used of my dataplan... I&#39;ve got an error (the software wasn&#39;t certified), so I wentto the application manager and choosed to install every application Itry, not only the certificated ones. I&#39;ve pointed my browser again tothe DataQuota Website and installed it. This software is very, verysimple (even more than I wanted it to be, because I&#39;d prefer to logonly the data sent/received from my plan, excluding the wifi megabytes(as wifis are for free). I&#39;ve then configured the quota to 40MB andthe billing day to 25, as this is the information from my provider.I&#39;ll test the 40MB plan for about 2 months. Maybe I&#39;ll migrate to the100MB, let me see how much I will need...Next software to be installed was Opera Mini[2]. I&#39;ve heard that E63&#39;sdefault browser is a good one, but I&#39;m one of the old-fashion girlswho likes things as they have ever been. :)Time to install Nimbuzz[3]. What would be the purpose of having a dataplan if it wasn&#39;t for staying online whenever I want/can be? :)I like their way: I&#39;ve opened their page, put my cell phone number andreceived a sms with the download link.While waiting, I&#39;ve pointed my browser to Yafi&#39;s home page[4]. Yafi isa FICS Client, which I&#39;ve used before at my E61i.Next step: mkut[5], a mobile Orkut application, developed by aBrazilian enterprise.After installing those softwares, I&#39;ve noticed that my data planwasn&#39;t working (only the wifi connection). I&#39;ve called my provider andthey didn&#39;t provide (ahah!) me a solution yet.[to be continued...][1] http://code.google.com/p/dataquota[2] http://mini.opera.com[3] http://www.nimbuzz.com/pt/mobile/download[4] http://m.yafi.pl[5] http://www.jmobi.com.br/mkut