After my Motorola V3 was stolen I really missed having a mobile phone. Apart from not receiving calls and messages, I went to a meeting at a friend’s place and forgot which unit in the security block they lived in. I stood outside for 15 minutes, buzzing units and even borrowing a man’s phone to call my husband to get him to tell me the unit number. In the end I had to go home, call my friend to apologise, explain and ask which number they are, then go back over.
I finally got a replacement on Sunday. The Nokia 6020; it’s technically a downgrade – polyphonic ringtones, smaller screen, no bluetooth. I’m grateful to have it, but it kind of makes me despise Nokia and Optus, after paying nine years of insurance they gave us the cheapest product possible.
The phone has a better battery life than the V3 and I can understand my friend Edwin when I talk to him on the phone, which is better than on the V3.
When it came to transferring numbers onto the phone, I investigated everything under the sun and in the end I had to enter them manually. I found a website, ZYB, which seems good for backing up your contacts on your phone. From there you can export them as vcards for safe keeping and you can sync your phone over GPRS whenever you like, but you can’t upload your vcards and download them to your phone (yet).
I could buy a data cable on Ebay for $5-10, but so far I can’t find anything to suggest that I’ll be able to use the phone with my MacBook, even if I get a cable. I could probably pull something together on my Ubuntu box using gnokki, which might even work on Mac too, in a work-around kind of way. I’m still cheesed off at the way Nokia makes you buy data cables separately and then only makes their software for Windows.
Still, better to have this phone than none at all.
Perhaps if I’m a good girl and save up my money I could buy one of these…
