Mob and mobility

In my last post I mentioned getting a new phone. Even after one week I still play with it like a child with a new toy. It's not a toy, however, but sadly I must admit that I have very little use for its many, many, many functions. If I worked in a proper company where being reachable 24/7, carrying a portable office with me, and having all sorts of meeting schedules was important, this would be the best thing ever. As it is not so, most functions are just "cool", "interesting" or "fun".

Well, in any case, it's nice to have all those funky functions and adjustable settings at hand. It'll take some time for me to actually utilize all it can offer, but I'm getting there.

There are a few things about the phone that bother me a bit, though. First thing is the battery life, which isn't really anything to brag about. I'm happy if I can go one day without charging. Of course, I'm probably using functions that take much processing power too much, leading to fast depletion of battery. In stand-by mode, the phone is like any other, and takes practically no power to run.

Other thing that bothers me is the alarm clock. My phone runs with Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, and while being really good and fast (surprisingly so!) otherwise, for some reason it doesn't allow for custom alarm sounds. So, I got crappy pre-set alarms to choose from, none which I'd like to wake up to. There are ways to go around it, but it's too troublesome and without any good result. I also checked for 3rd party alarm software to my phone, but most I have to pay for and the free ones are even suckier than the original.

With those two aspects that annoy me aside, the phone is perfect. I like it. I've never had a phone more complicated than the absolute basic functions, and it's a funny feeling carrying a phone like this around - something with more processing power and functions than my early PC's.

That's about that. No more will I say about my phone.

Below is a random picture taken in Wan Chai. American Restaurant with Peking Food... So which are you getting? Chinese or American? It's kind of like the "Real American Bacon from Finland" that you see in some Finnish grocery stores. I don't know.. just random.


I was going to write more stuff today.

But it won't.