Free Wi-Fi for New Nokia Cellphones!

Good news to newly bought Nokia Phones, Nokia Philippines has tied up with Airborne Access to provide free wi-fi access to select wifi-enabled cellphones. See more details here.

Free AirborneAccess Wi-Fi Access for Nokia N-series Phones!

AirborneAccess is at it again!  This time, the lucky recipients of free wi-fi access on their hotspots are the owners of wi-fi capable Nokia N-Series cellphones (N80, N80 IE, N91, N91 8GB, N93, N93i, N95, N77 SD and N77 8GB).


For more information, click here.

Oh, and thanks to Mykolant of PhilMUG for the heads-up.

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Jealous Computers: Nokia's Attempt at Viral Marketing

Nokia has launched a website that chronicles how computers attack people in a fit of jealousy. Here are some pictures of how computers attack their users:

Apparently the jealous computers attacked these people when they started using the Nokia N95. (yeah right!)

technorati tags:viral marketing, jealous computers, nokia

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Free Instant WiFi Access for Nokia E-series Phones (Philippines only)

Basically, if you are a Nokia E-series phone user, you are entitled to a 720 hours (30 full days) of internet access from your device courtesy of AirborneAccess. So, what's the implication of this promo? This means that for 30 days, existing and new E-series users can make use of AirborneAccess hotspots to surf the 'net, send/receive emails, do VOIP calls and other online activities -- for FREE!

technorati tags:wi-fi, nokia, airborneaccess, internet

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Truphone: Free Voice Calls and SMS to the US and Other Countries

Yup! Free, as in "free beer" -- at least until December 21, 2007.

Anyway, Truphone is a voip service that allows its users to do international calls through wi-fi or 3G. Its client software can be downloaded by texting an international number (a cost worth spending for, IMHO) and once the Truephone servers gets your request, it will send you the Truphone application. As an added "bonus" to the ability to do international calls, users are assigned a US-based phone number.

Truphone works mostly with Nokia handsets and here's a list of the supported phones so far:

• Nokia e61i
• Nokia e65
• Nokia e90
• Nokia e95
• Nokia e60
• Nokia e61
• Nokia e70
• Nokia n80ie
• Nokia n80

According to their website, Truephone is also working on a software that will work with Windows Mobile-based phones.

Oh, and they have a special offer that gives you a $2 credit if you sign up now (whoa! did I just write that? I think I sounded like a telemarketer there...)

technorati tags:cellphone, voip, nokia

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Mail2Web: The Kuripotechie Guide to Email-on-the-Go

When I decided to take the plunge and get a Nokia E61I last week, I got busy trying out all its features. One feature I really like about this phone is its ability to connect to MS Exchange Servers, effectively giving its user a facility that is similar to the expensive Blackberry service. The program Nokia E61I uses for this is called "Mail for Exchange" a bundled program that emulates Windows Mobile devices' ActiveSync.



I attempted to connect with our corporate MS Exchange Server but unfortunately, we use self-generated certificates which essentially means that it can't communicate with my phone. So I searched for a solution until I discovered was a free service from Mail2Web. What it essentially offer is a free MS Exchange Outlook Mobile Access (OWA) that can be accessed using Mail for Exchange. What's so cool about this free service is that it can aggregate different email addresses. I use GMail as my personal mailbox while my company mail is hosted by, as I've mentioned, MS Exchange.

Since the service is free, I immediately signed up and initially accessed my "native" mail2web.com address. Then I used Mail2Web's mail aggregation wizard to get my GMail account. When I got to the office, I configured MS Outlook 2003 to automatically forward emails that are flagged as "Important" to Mail2Web.

End result? I now have a poor man's Blackberry-work-alike. I can now wirelessly read my emails and reply to them as needed. Total cost for the facility is virtually zero because I only access my emails whenever I'm in the vicinity of a wi-fi access point.

This post is cross posted at http://pwit.org/

From Treo 650 to Nokia E61i: A Paradigm Shift

I've been a Palm user since the early 2000's. That's almost seven years of loyalty to a family of devices that was embodied by the so-called "Zen of Palm" -- a principle of keeping things simple and uncomplicated. However, I have somewhat matured in my choice of gadgets. The last Palm device I had (and actually still have) is the Palm Treo 650 -- a phone/PDA combo that fitted my life when I first got it. It did all I wanted and I was really happy with it.

But technology moved on but Palm seems to have been left in the cold. Their PDA line still uses somewhat outdated operating system (PalmOS 5.x). When the need arose, I had to opt for another phone. That's when the Nokia E61i caught my eye. I was actually tought I'll get a Samsung SGH-i600 but my experiences with Windows Mobile is not really pleasant so I took the plunge and got the E61i instead.


Th Nokia E61i is a Smartphone that runs Symbian. A really big jump from PalmOS. I'll the first one to admit that this phone is a big jump from my Treo 650. I had to change the way I use my phone because this doesn't have a touch screen. Instead, everything must be done through its QWERTY thumb board. The specific Symbian version this phone runs on doesn't have as much 3rd party applications as Palm but as long as it has a version of iSilo running, I'm a happy techie.

Now, my phone/PDA device can access data through wifi (which costs significantly less compared to data access via GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA). I have configured it to synchronize with the PIM data of my MacBook. I have also configured it to get emails from a newly created account I made through its bundled "Mail for Exchange" application. Another impressive bundled application is its "Podcasting" program -- it searches, updates and downloads my favorite podcasts!

I will be posting more Nokia E61I-related posts in the very near future. But in the meantime, I'll continue enjoying this new toy, and my paradigm shift.