Nokia 6255 (Flip+Video) Release next week

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#14317 22-Apr-2005 11:33

Robbie,

Thanks for that pricing I'll keep an eye on trade-me, I also have a mate who is a computer supplier that Says he has found a guy in Christchurch that will supply mmc cards etc for less than he can buy 4, So I'll check that out. The stereo sound is great from the phone ay!
RE: your bluetooth query
The guy at the telecom who took my phone home to test the radio station thing. Was set up with bluetooth and he said you cannot transfer directly to the card via bluetooth. I'm not sure (going to buy my bluetooth dongle 2day) but you must have to download them via the phone software. He suggested putting the card into a card reader for large transfers and organising. I priced a card reader at Dick smith at around $37-00 cheap so that will be the way I'd go! Makes sense to organise your mp3 and vids via the power of the computer rather than bluetooth anyway. If you had a 1 gig card and wanted to transfer say 100 songs surely u would whip the card out and do it with the computer. And use Bluetooth for single downloads and synking your outlook etc.

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#14318 22-Apr-2005 11:40

With a bluetooth nokia and PC suite, can you set it all up so its completely user-intervention free? i.e. you walk in to the office, sit at your desk, the b.t. devices find each other (previously paired), and just start syncing with outlook?

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#14320 22-Apr-2005 11:48

Knowing current Bluetooth implementation on Nokia phones, I'd say no, you can't do it.

I'm still waiting to see the first device that actually do this scenario - an unfulfilled promisse since the first time Bluetooth was released.

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#14321 22-Apr-2005 11:58

Seems to work automatically for me.
Using the PC Suite of nokia-asia.com and Bluetooth on my laptop works a treat.
When I set it up in PC suite I ticked "launch PC Suite at Start up" and " Automatically sync every time my device is connected"

When ever my phone comes in range, it connects, and I see the PC suite come up on the task bar saying "Phone Connected" then it syncs and it is done.

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#14322 22-Apr-2005 12:05

Really? So you're just having the devices see each other and connect at will without intervention? This is a first for me then...

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#14323 22-Apr-2005 12:14

Sure does. Using PC Suite 6.41.6
When I set the phone up I paired it using "Nokia Connection Manager" Then ran the "Bluetooth (WIDCOMM)" Option, set it to automatic and it is all go.
I am guessing this is totally separate of HP/Microsoft’s Bluetooth stack, and if I want to pair the devices in windows I still need to accept the connection on the handset

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#14324 22-Apr-2005 12:53

I found a webpage www.phoneyworld.com/handsets/specs.aspx?phone=nokia_6255 that reckons the 6255 has GPS? Can anyone confirm this?

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#14325 22-Apr-2005 13:00

GPS location from the netwrk end i suspect (for emergency services??)

I dont think this means you can store your favourite fishing spots co-ordinates in it sorry.

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#14326 22-Apr-2005 13:09

This the A-GPS (Assisted GPS) that most CDMA phones have now - but Telecom New Zealand does not have support for any location services based on this - yet.

I've heard rumours that a proposal was on the table to enable this on the network - not cheap mind you.

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#14327 22-Apr-2005 14:49

"I dont think this means you can store your favourite fishing spots co-ordinates in it sorry."

Dam, I would have brought a telecom phone outright then.

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#14328 22-Apr-2005 15:02

I hope everyone saw my tongue firmly planted in my cheek with that one!!

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#14329 22-Apr-2005 16:19

I agree with Skyplonk - bluetooth works a treat when you sync its great and very easy. And to the question about how much video with a 1GB card, the video is always capped to 15 secs pretty stink!!

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#14330 22-Apr-2005 16:25

no its not. mine has a setting that allows 3 minutes...

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#14332 22-Apr-2005 17:07

ah yes, setting the video clip length to max gives 3 mins

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#14338 23-Apr-2005 16:32

Mine Auto syncs aswell, great system. And the software converts midi files on the computer to ring tones e.g. I have "ea games: Challenge everything", lord of the rings stuff and a few others. The computer has heaps of midi and mp3 files that make good ringtones especially if you have a few games loaded. Just do a *.mp3 search and you'll have hundreds

I have been flicking in and disabling bluetooth when not needed as I recon the constant search for an available connection will give less battery time although when I learn to sync outlook and sort out that side of the system I may leave it on all the time. But at the moment you only need it when you decide to use the pc suite so I turn bluetooth on then. That said it is just so good to be able to get all the stuff you need to down load from the net and organisation side "done one the computer" then just sync the phone. Means not having to use the more expensive internet connection via the phone itself.

Haven't fooled around to much with MP3 but the ring tone conversion thing was pretty quick so not sure if loading a cd full of music is slow or not. Some feedback would be great. I bought the card reader and when I get it set up. I'll let you all know if it is faster via the Phone PC suite or directly onto the card. Hopefully PC suite will be ok as that means I don't have to pull the phone apart to get the card out all the time.

Question: If I have a cd of music I want to put on to the phone do I need a Converter to make the cd music to mp3 first. If so is there a ripper on the net I can download or what do you guys use??

I must say its a damn fine featured phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can see why people carry round those bigger PDA's now!

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