So, I'm on a plan with a Nokia e75 for another year. The way I originally got into the plan is a long and slightly comedic story, so I won't go there. The e75 is supposed to be a decent business phone. Or so I thought. In addition to lots and lots of trouble with Symbian and the phone itself, this happened yesterday evening:
1. The phone started yelling at me that there isn't enough free space on the phone's memory.
2. I don't save ANYTHING on the phone memory (I have a memory card for that), and I couldn't find anything that took space with the phone's own File Browser. I tried to remove the Spotify client, which for some reason wanted to be installed on the phone's memory. "CANNOT INSTALL. NOT ENOUGH MEMORY." WHAT?!
3. Eventually, I figured out it's the e-mail I have synced to the phone. The sync is configured so that the phone SHOULDN'T download the messages but just read them from the server, but for one reason or another that hadn't work. Excellent.
4. I tried to change the Nokia Mail setting so that it would save the messages on the memory card so that it wouldn't take space from the very limited phone's internal memory. Turns out this is not possible. I'd have to pay $25 for a 3rd party e-mail application that could allow such luxury.
5. Fuck, fair enough. I'll just empty the messages from the phone's memory and repeat that when I run out of space again. Right? Uh, right. I selected the messages and marked them for deletion.
6. I'm sitting at the computer while doing this, and suddenly I notice something strange going on the computer's screen. The e-mails are disappearing from the server. Massive panic. The Nokia stopped reacting to key presses and kept deleting the messages, so I quickly took the battery out.
7. Result: Six months of e-mails (and this is my business e-mail account, mind you) permantently lost. Gladly I have them downloaded on my iMac and I take nightly backups, too, but I often need to access my work mails when I'm at another studio, in school, on the road etc., and now quite a bit of the messages are long gone. Fuck my life.
I'm fed up with Nokia. This is my third Symbian phone, and I haven't been 100% happy with any of them. Not even 50%. I think I'll just order a Desire HD and pay the rest of this plan anyway.
1. The phone started yelling at me that there isn't enough free space on the phone's memory.
2. I don't save ANYTHING on the phone memory (I have a memory card for that), and I couldn't find anything that took space with the phone's own File Browser. I tried to remove the Spotify client, which for some reason wanted to be installed on the phone's memory. "CANNOT INSTALL. NOT ENOUGH MEMORY." WHAT?!
3. Eventually, I figured out it's the e-mail I have synced to the phone. The sync is configured so that the phone SHOULDN'T download the messages but just read them from the server, but for one reason or another that hadn't work. Excellent.
4. I tried to change the Nokia Mail setting so that it would save the messages on the memory card so that it wouldn't take space from the very limited phone's internal memory. Turns out this is not possible. I'd have to pay $25 for a 3rd party e-mail application that could allow such luxury.
5. Fuck, fair enough. I'll just empty the messages from the phone's memory and repeat that when I run out of space again. Right? Uh, right. I selected the messages and marked them for deletion.
6. I'm sitting at the computer while doing this, and suddenly I notice something strange going on the computer's screen. The e-mails are disappearing from the server. Massive panic. The Nokia stopped reacting to key presses and kept deleting the messages, so I quickly took the battery out.
7. Result: Six months of e-mails (and this is my business e-mail account, mind you) permantently lost. Gladly I have them downloaded on my iMac and I take nightly backups, too, but I often need to access my work mails when I'm at another studio, in school, on the road etc., and now quite a bit of the messages are long gone. Fuck my life.
I'm fed up with Nokia. This is my third Symbian phone, and I haven't been 100% happy with any of them. Not even 50%. I think I'll just order a Desire HD and pay the rest of this plan anyway.