078 - Nokia 2760 cellular phone Bluetooth and Download notes

Nokia 2760 cellular phone Bluetooth & Download notes
================================================ written by JCPMA
last updated 2010-11-07

Settings-->Connectivity-->Bluetooth-->
Bluetooth - ON
My phone's visibility - choices are [Permanent visibility/Temporary visibility/Hidden]| You want to have this setting on Permanent the first time you set up Bluetooth with another device. Once the setup has occured you can switch this back to "Hidden".
Search for audio enhancements | I think this makes the phone search for bluetooth earphones.
Active devices | This lists the (external) bluetooth devices currently communicating with your cell-phone.
Paired devices | This lists the (external) bluetooth devices which have worked with your cell-phone already.
My phone's name | here, you set the bluetooth nick-name of your phone to something easy for you to remember/recognize

Settings-->Connectivity-->Packet data-->
Packet data connection - WHEN NEEDED | I'm not sure about this one; the other choice is ALWAYS ON; I don't know if you always want your internet to be on.
Packet data settings-->Active access point - INTERNET | I think the default is INTERNET. There are slots here, another 9, if you want to set more access points.

Settings-->Connectivity-->Data transfer-->
Server sync | I'm not sure what this does; It connects to your telephone service provider??
PC Sync | This sets the UserName & Password for connecting your phone to PC via Bluetooth.; (tip:Make sure your Password is numeric.)[5]
Contact | To enable this feature, hit "Options"-->Add Contact; This lets you synchronize notes/Calendar/& contacts from your phone to your PC.


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By connecting to your PC using Bluetooth, you can transfer small files such as notes and pictures, and perhaps small video clips under 300KB.[5]
For video clips greater than 300KB & the full range of PC/Cell-phone file transfer, including contacts transfer, you have to install Nokia PC Suite 7 onto your computer. This app is about 30-35MB, but it is needed if you want functionality.
Recently, Nokia's website suggests the Computer software be the Nokia Ovi Suite 2.2. This app is about 100MB. (I haven't tried this.)

The Week of Oct20.2010: Nokia website suggests model2760 users install NokiaPCSuite7 from link http://europe.nokia.com/A41157164
The week of Oct27.2010: Nokia website suggests model2760 users, instead, install Ovi Suite 2.2 from link http://europe.nokia.com/support/download-software/nokia-ovi-suite/compatibility-and-download
http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/software
http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/software/nokia-ovi-suite
http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/global/phones/software/Nokia_Ovi_Suite_webinstaller_ALL.exe
The Ovi suite faq is at this link:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/download-software/nokia-ovi-suite/faq or
http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/software/nokia-ovi-suite/faq

If you are able to obtain a connectivity cable for your phone, you can connect to your PC without using Bluetooth. (However, the userManual/Guides all say the connection port on the 2760 cannot be used at all). If you do use a cable, you will still have to install the Nokia PC Suite. (note: I have been unable to obtain a cable).

For accessing files, you can use the browser windows like you would in a normal computer; But, for transfering files from PC to your phone, you have to Drag and Drop the files onto the NokiaPCSuite user interface. Otherwise it won't work. I think the User Interface acts as a security guard. It won't let you access protected files at all. And, certain media files are first inspected &/or reconverted to a suitable format for the phone. Anyway, your files will end up in the "Gallery" folder. From there, you can redistribute them in the appropriate file.
If you drop in an mp3, it won't end up in the Tones folder. That folder appears to be reserved only for downloading using the phone's internet service. Your computer mp3 file will end up automatically in the "Music" folder.[5][Nov.06.2010]



Downloading apps/games
-----------------
No matter what programs you download whether it be games or other, Nokia PC Suite will install them into the "Collection Folder" not the "Games Folder". This is a minor issue; just another "quirk" of this phone.
.jad files contain internet addresses; they tell your phone/computer what/where to download the games from.
.ashx files could be .jar files in disguise.
.jar files are the actual files which contain the games. These are the files that get installed.
.sis files are programs for other Nokia phones. The Nokia2760 phone does not support sis files.[5].


Downloading Wallpapers
----------------------
This is pretty straightforward. Jpg images used by this phone should be 128x160 pixels or more. Anything less will leave parts of your phone screen uncovered and show through as white space.[5]


Downloading Themes
------------------
Themes are files with a .nth extension. Some themes you download from a site claiming to be compatible with the 2760 may not be so. For example, themes where there is a working clock image fit this category. These "clock" themes may work on other Nokia models, but not the 2760. They contain flash files, (Adobe Shockwave Flash?) .swf files, which work on computer internet-browsers or flash swf players but this feature is NOT part of the model-2760.[5] (If it is let me know.)


Using your own audio files for ringtones/alert tones
---------------------------------------
This is the worst feature of the Nokia2760. This is why my reserved grandmother, who refrained from smashing the phone onto the concrete walkway, gave me her Nokia2760 and went out to buy a phone of a different manufacturer. After you read these next paragraphs, you will see why I do not blame her. Nokia sure doesn't try very hard to retain "repeat business"; The "cell-phone experience" instead of being "fancy-free" has been full of bugs,quirks, & restrictions. Most likely with the next cell-phone I get, I will follow my grandmother's lead, and go with a different brand of cell-phone. I know there must be worse phones than the Nokia2760, but I'm getting fed up with it too. Unlike a pre-arranged marriage where the couple learns to grow and love each other and discover their partner's strengths, the Nokia 2760 faults far outweigh any of its assets.
The Nokia 2760 will not permit using your own mp3 files to use as tones. You are able to play them back but you cannot use them as tones. My guess is mp3 downloads from a Nokia certified service provider would be ok to use as ringtones. But, I am not going to try to download any ringtones. It's one thing to pay 5 or 10$ to buy some ringtones. It's quite another thing to go through different available services, by trial-and-error, ending up paying perhaps hundreds of dollars, and not being guaranteed that the mp3 ringtone will be usable. The user-guide, non-surprisingly is vague about this issue.[10] It says, on page34, "Your phone supports mp3 format ringing tones. You can also set your recordings as ringing tones." I have made some mp3 tones from scratch. They are not copied from music or published as music. They are audio sounds and sound effects which are unique. Importing these files into the phone was accepted, but once, again they were rejected for tones. The phone flashes a message "Not Allowed by Activation Key". This scenario is analogous to recording an mp3 audio Christmas message, emailing it to your family, and having it undeliverable due to it "not being allowed by activation key".
Other audio file formats can be imported into the phone. But the 2760 cannot play them back; I have tried .wma, and .aac formats.
This is the highlight of the story. I used NokiaPCSuite (version 7.1.51.0) to transfer audio files into the cell phone. It opens up a dialog window and asks you which format, if any it should covert the audio file into. There are 2 formats available, AAC and M4A. It has several bit rates of conversion to choose from. One of these bit rates is even promoted as a "mobile optimised format" (The software spells optimized as "optimised".). I do several transfers. Some as AAC format, and others as M4A. I try this with different bit rates too. The result is the Nokia 2760 does not recognize the .aac files or the .m4a files. "Isn't that a kick in the head? (and a waste of time and energy as well.)."
One compromise is a work-around option enabling you to use your own audio sources for ring tones. Convert them to .AMR audio format. Obtain or create your audio file/tone. Search on the internet for an application/program which can convert audio files to AMR NB (Narrow Band) format. The output file will have poorer audio quality, and be in mono channel sound but will be recognizable to the listener and be acceptable by the Nokia 2760.


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2760general-notes.txt or
1-nokia2760startHere.html
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077 Stumble to a random site and Submit a site

Stumbleupon: Stumble to a random site; & Submit a site
======================================================
2010.10.19

written by JCPMA 2010.11.19

There are several ways of surfing to a random site in StumbleUpon.com's
database.

1. Use the StumbleUpon demo url.

(No login or install required). This is especially handy for
those that don't use browsers like Firefox or GoogleChrome.
[from source http://www.labnol.org/tag/stumbleupon/ ]
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.labnol.org/ This link
is referred by Labnol.
try it now

[from source
http://operawatch.com/news/2008/02/how-to-get-stumbleupon-to-work-in-opera-
and-safari.html]
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://operawatch.com/ This link
is referred by Operawatch.

With these links, the topics are not pre-set, you click on some
interesting ones before you start stumbling:

http://stumbleupon.com/demo/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/

2. Create a user account at StumbleUpon.com.

After login, set your preferences/interests. Then you can
click on the "Stumble" button in the upper left corner to go to a
random site that matches your interests.

3. Install the Stumbleupon (SU) add-on/extension for the
browsers Firefox, or Google Chrome.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/addon/
https://chrome.google.com/extensions
http://getsatisfaction.com/stumbleupon/products/stumbleupon_stumbleupon_for_chrome
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138/

Login and start Stumbling.


4. Log in to http://su.pr

This is StumbleUpon's branch service, of urlShortening/blog-
content integration to social media sites. (You need to be a user of
Twitter &/or Facebook.) You should have access to a StumbleUpon
toolbar there.



Different methods of submitting (recommending) a site to Stumbleupon.com

When you submit an url with a button/badge etc, this is what it puts
into the browser address bar, appended with the full url that the user
wants to submit immediately after.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://url-to-submit-for-example.com/easy.html

There are three general categories of ways to submit a site
to StumbleUpon.

A. From the Firefox/GoogleChrome add-on SU toolbar.

Hit the the "Thumbs up" button. You will be prompted for more
details, if the site in not in the SU database. After filling in the
details click on "submit"


B. Bookmarklets

Two sources of Bookmarklets

• Navigate to Stumbleupon's page to find the bookmarklet on
  the right side: http://www.stumbleupon.com/addon/
  Once you are there, you can drag its link to your bookmark bar


• This next bookmarklet is from source
  http://www.ampercent.com/stumble-see-reviews-bookmarklets/1745/&t=Two
  Useful Stumbleupon Bookmarklets to Replace the Toolbar written by Amit
  Banerjee
  
  Submit
  a page <= Bookmark or drag this link to your
  browser's bookmark bar

Here is the code

<a
href="javascript:document.location.href='http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+document.URL+'&title='+document.title.replace(/%20/g,'+');">Submit
a page</a>

C. From a button (badge) that has been pre-embedded on a site.

i) Putting a submit button on your own web site

The easiest way to get a button is to go to
Stumbleupon.com at

http://www.stumbleupon.com/buttons/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/badges/landing/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/badges/

ii) Putting a javascript button on your website
This javascript code, is taken an modified from David Kwan's
page at
http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/1dku1S/www.articlestools.com/articles/stumbleupon.shtml

It puts an imagebutton or, if you choose, a non-image link on your
static webpage:

/*-- This is javascript code for your static webpage. --*/

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write ('<a href="');
document.write('http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+document.URL+'&title='+document.title.replace(/ 
/g,'+')+'">');
document.write ('<img border=0
src=/yourImageDir/SU-logo.gif>Submit a site to
StumbleUpon</a>');
</script>



/*!-- Note, you can omit this string from the above script if don't
want a logo: --*/

/* <img border=0 src=/yourImageDir/SU-logo.gif> */

iii) Putting a badge (submit button) on your Blogger site Follow the
directions at:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/badges/

http://woork.blogspot.com/2007/12/add-stumbleupon-button-in-your-bloggers.html
http://herselfswebtools.com/2007/05/how-to-add-stumbleupon-links-to-your-blog-posts.html

076 - Three Apps to add album art to mp3 files

076 - Three Apps to add album art to mp3 files

written by JCPMA Nov.17.2010.

I have a handful of untagged mp3 music that I wanted to add jpgs to. I don't use ITunes player. WindowsMediaPlayer doesn't seem to help (nor do I trust it completely). And, I did not feel like installing a music-player for such a minor reason.

The ideal application of course, would require no installation and be easy to use. Three such programs are listed below. (Other notes: all three programs have an internet database feature for tagging!; They can support retention of original file modification dates.)

Broken tags?: The strangest thing is that after my initial tagging, Windows Media Player (WMP) would recognize all my mp3s and play back the album art, but Windows 7 OS would only display some of the mp3 icons with art, others without, in the file folder. (Is this a Windows quirk?)

This article by Richard Farrar is a great educational piece on mp3 art tagging: http://www.richardfarrar.com/embedding-album-art-in-mp3-files/ The standards in art embedding for mp3s is using formats of .jpg or .png. It involves the ID3v2 tag. The BBC embeds 300x300pixel sized images in their mp3 podcasts.

TagScanner by Sergey Serkov is a user-friendly full featured music file tagger. The one I used was version 5.1.593 (Oct.or Nov.2010). Download the portable version in a zip package. It works for Windows2000 to Win7, and is about 2 MB in size. http://www.xdlab.ru/en/download.htm

I lucked out and found this program Media Tagger v. 1.35 at The Portable Freeware Collection: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=141 It is a small, 1.2 MB tagger, that works even on older computers like Win98 and WinXP. The programmer is Ladislav Dufek and his website is http://www.mediatagger.zde.cz It is quite versatile and has a simple interface.

The third app MP3Tag ( http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ ) requires installation, but the author suggests a method to make it portable: http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=976&view=findpost&p=23162

(I used Universal-extractor 1.6 app (learn more at http://Portablefreeware.com or http://www.legroom.net/), to extract the contents of the setup installer to an empty folder; This method isn't sanctioned by MP3Tag but so far MP3Tag has worked well)

The MP3Tag setup installer is about the 2.5 MB; The portable product (that you make yourself) is about 6.5 MB.

The version of MP3Tag I used is 2.46a for Windows XP-Win7.

Windows2000 users need to use version 2.39

Windows95 to Windows ME users need to use version 2.32a

A note about the pseudo broken tags in Windows 7. This is what really prompted me to write about art tagging. I didn't understand why Windows couldn't see the jpgs, even though WMP could see them. I have used tags on older machines and older tag makers with no problems. My theory on this is the encoding format.

· This may involve the program setting of "retain file modification times." This feature lets you edit the tag info without changing the last modified/last saved date of your mp3 file. So, if you created an mp3 in June2010, and you altered the tag info in August2010, clicking on the mp3 file will still show that the mp3 was modified in June. (I had this setting activated and Windows7 was able to see some of the mp3s as being embeded with art.)

· I don't know if this phenonmenon has to do with the tag ?text? encoding setting. Windows 7 may be unable to see tags encoded in unicode. In the programs' options menu, choose to use ID3v2 tag and choose the encoding format of "Ansi or Iso8859, or Western Iso", something along those lines. (I don't think you get this choice with Media Tagger 1.35.) Avoid the formats which say "unicode or UTF-8 or UTF-16 etc."

(LATE ENTRY. Nov.21.2010)--Please disregard the above paragraph about unicode. I just tried to tag my second set of mp3s & changing the unicode setting to non-unicode did NOT have an effect on making the jpg art visible in Windows7. I turned off the setting for "retain file's last modification date" in the program MP3Tag, and this made all the jpgs embeded in the file, appear in Windows7. I wonder why Windows was only able to see some of the files with art (as discussed above)?

· MP3Tag v2.46a can show a music file's tag version. It appears, that Windows7 likes tags which are ID3v2.3 but not ID3v2.4. ID3v2.4 is encoded in UTF-8 according to MP3Tag. If practical, I suggest you use ID3v2.3 only and avoid tagging with ID3v1. (SUMMARY: Windows7 is incompatible with ID3v2.4; Is that because the version is different (than 2.3) or is it because version 2.4 is encoded in UTF-8?)

Conclusion - to have Windows7 be compatible with mp3 tags (in decreasing order of likelihood):

A. deactivate tagger's setting of "retain file last modification date"

B. use ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 encoding or ID3v2.3 UTF-16 encoding. (Both these result in an mp3 file where the jpg art is visible in Windows7 AND WMP; the version of WMP I currently have is 12.076. The setting ID3v2.4 UTF-8 will NOT show album art in Win7 or WMP! I just confirmed these statements!)

C. To be on conservative side, use ID3v2.3 settings of ANSI or ISO-8859 (ie non-unicode) where able.

(If any of the above is incorrect, please leave a comment below.)

"3taggers.gif"

http://tinypic.com/m/dpb7kj/2

http://i55.tinypic.com/2i94ebb.jpg hotlink

Other Links

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Mark O'Neill writes about an app to clear or wipe clean the mp3 tags: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-mp3-id3-music-tags-with-id3-tag-remover/ It is made by Headstrong.de called ID3Kill version 1.4. It refers to link http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/21/id3-tag-remover/ This app looks interesting.

Jojoyee at Gizmo's Freeware, reviews some mp3 tag editors: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-mp3-tag-editor.htm

075 - AVP and AVPR

075 - AVP and AVPR

I read some reviews on the 2004 movie Aliens vs Predator (AVP) on Amazon.com. There were several critics who disliked it. Similarly several reviewers on Amazon.com enjoyed the 2007 sequel Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.

The sequel I agree was dark in some scenes but not overly so. (I didn't realize this until I read the Amazon reviews!) However, the first movie is the better one.

AVP has a more sci-fi atmosphere/feeling to it. The same sensations felt from the movies Predator, or Aliens. The only things I would change to AVP would be to give the auxillary characters a more thorough reveal of their backgrounds, who they are. Without connecting to these characters, the viewer really doesn't care about them as much, like the crewmen in the original Star Trek television series who wore the red uniforms. They were destined to die like nobodys. The subplot about the Predators quest for the blaster weapons stored in the pyramid, could have been fleshed out more. Otherwise AVP is a very fine movie. Budget seems to be big. The special effects are believable.

AVP:R on the other hand was less thrilling. It is a combination of a teenage slasher/horror movie + biological vector gone awry theme. It felt more like a halloween flick than a sci-fi flick. The only part of the movie which had some sci-fi atmosphere was at the beginning when the hunter Predator prepares to launch to Earth, and at the end when the politician/espionage type characters close the show.

AVP Summary: Humans Aliens and Predators interact in an ancient game.

rating 4stars****

AVP:R Summary: A U.S. town gets infested by Aliens. A predator goes to fight them.

rating 3stars***

074 - Nokia 2760 User Guide Manual

document: "1-nokia2760startHere.html"

Nokia 2760 User Guide by a layman; Nokia 2760 cellular phone general notes

written by JCPMA

last updated 2010-11-16; 2010-11-07; 2009-10-31

Nokia's worldwide: http://www.nokia.com

Description:

I made these sets of notes because the documentation on the web and the included

paper documentation are HORRIBLE. I wonder if there is any phone on the market

with decent instructions. It seems, all phone OS's suck. They are clunky and

confusing.

Information I have appreciated or found useful, information which should have been

included in the user manual, is recorded here. [Oct.2009]

INTRO

-----

the Nokia 2760 is a S40 type phone (but i don't know which generation though.)

source [1]

north american gsm dual band phone:

bands: 850MHz and 1900MHz source [2 http://www.speakoutwireless.ca/sim-card-guide/][5]

Speakout sim cards will work on a locked Rogers phone but probably will not work on

a locked Fido phone. [2 (Oct.2009)]

CALLING

-------

Using the speakerphone:

While on an active call, press the Right Soft key to select Loudsp. source [4 document tm51986, 5, 7]

Handset volume:

During a call, you can increase/decrease the volume of the handset by pressing the

right/left cursor key. However, make sure your screen is cleared of all

characters/numbers or else the volume control won't respond. (This is especially

relevant when calling customer service where you are prompted to press 1 or 2 etc...)

Headset: The model-2760 comes with a headset with a button in the center; "Is it a built in mic?

Is the button like a walkie talkie where you push to talk?" or "Does it start the phone

call and end the phone call?" (I wish there was some documentation included.)

CONTACTS

--------

Phone contacts on your sim card:

If you choose to store/use your phone contacts on your sim memory, a sim card icon

will appear on the upper part of the screen. The advantage of this is portability.

The contacts stay with your sim card. The disadvantage, is that the Nokia 2760

will not let you associate a photo/picture with a phone contact, if the storage is

on the sim memory (compared to phone memory). [5] [2009-09-01]

you cannot associate a ringtone/tone to a particular contact.[5] [2009-10-02]

FIRMWARE

--------

[5 (dial *#0000# will show your phone is hardware version eg, RM-259 and a 3 digit firmware version)]

I am unable to find any new firmware for this phone. According to the Nokia,

USA/Europe Websites, there is no software upgrade for this model of phone.[2010-10-27]

I wasn't able to find software available to update current firmware at this site:

http://www.nokia.ca/get-support-and-software/software/device-software-update/can-i-update

source [6, 5(Sept/Oct 2009)] [http://europe.nokia.com; www.nokiausa.com (Oct.2010)]

This link to a list of Nokia firmwares: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Nokia_Firmware_Versions [Nov16.2010]

INTERNET DISABLING

------------------

I found this tip on a Speakout forum[2], I think. You can disable your phone from

accidentally connecting to the internet, for example if you are playing a game and

it decides to connect without your knowledge etc... (I can't remember who the

author is though, but it works.):

Settings-->config-->Personal config-> Add New-> ¤Web-> leave everything blank & save.

Settings-->config-->Default config-> choose PersonalConfig

Settings-->config-->Preferred Access Point-> choose Internet.

POWER

-----

I can get approx. 10-11 days worth of standby time if my phone use is minimal.

It takes me about 2 hours to recharge the battery (that originally comes

with the phone) from a "dead" state to a full charged state.[5]

When the battery level is low to the point of critical, the phone "beeps" once per

minute for a total of 3 minutes. Then, it seems, in the next minute, the phone

"dies"/turns itself off,.[5][2009-10-02]

TEXT/SMS

--------

text quota = 159 characters per sms message

This phone has a bad habit of mixing up your saved texts. That is, if you have

several saved messages, they can be cut and spliced with the body of each other.

"It is quite a messy defect". [5]

TONES

-----

IM Alert tone:

The default is

"Standard" very loud. This one sounds like two "beeps from an Aliens Scanner"

(ie the scanner Ripley and the crew used in the 2nd Alien(s) movie.)

Message Alert Tones:

"Standard" very loud. This one sounds like two sets of loud sonar pings: "ding Ding, ding Ding!"

"Beep once" very loud. Sounds like 1 loud beep.

"Special" medium loud. Sounds like Morse code/telegraph code: ... -- ... ...-- ...

"Ascending" from soft to very loud. plays 4 sets of successively loud 2 beeps. Each pair of beeps get louder than the last.

Calendar Tone:

If you substitute your own tone, the phone makes it sound progressively louder after about the 5 or 6 second mark.[5]

(See 2760bluetoothDownloads.txt for more information on using your own tones/ringtones.)

VOICEMAIL

---------

The first time you activate your voicemail,...

This is how you do it:

(the user manual instructions are missing a step. it tells you to hold the "1" key and then input the 5 digit password code)

but, first you have to program your phone number into the cellphone. (yes, this is the missing step.)

Go to Menu|Messaging|Voicemessages|...

Enter your voicemessage mailbox number here; it is your 10 digit cellphone number. source [5].

Explanation:

a) you program your phone with your 10 digit cellphone number, so that when:

b) you hold down the "1" key, this causes your cellphone to phone itself and the call then connects to voicemail.

c) Once connected to voicemail, you enter your 5 digit voicemail password code.

When you get a voicemail, ...

Speakout texts you, the msg alert tone sounds, and there is a "voicemail" icon on

the top of your standby screen:

O_O

as well as a "sms text message" icon:

_______

| V |

|_/_\_|

Your mini-screen should display "new voice message". You should follow this cue to

check your text (message) inbox for details, or you can go ahead an check your audio voicemail.

Caller-ID does not work with voicemail[5].

This is what is displayed on your main screen sms text:

Voicemail 1 new. Sender not available.

Received hh:mm:ss yyyy/mm/dd

At this point, the screen gives you an option to listen to the voicemail from your handset.

When your phone is off = instant voicemail pickup source [5];

When phone is in use, voicemail probably picks up right away too. (guessing).

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Why the Nokia2760 is a good celluar phone:

. flip phone

. buttons are well placed

. speakerphone

. economical

. good sounding audio for phone calls

. acceptable entry level 0.3 megapixel camera

. voice-recorder is handy

Why the Nokia2760 is a bad cellular phone:

* thick

* plastic shell/housing looks/feels cheap

* software/operating system needs more user-friendliness

* require better user manual (cell phones in general do too)

* low capacity memory: approximately 10MB

* no expansion for memory, ie no slot for a SD-MicroCard or other.

* short battery life (shorter than most phones.) ie, 2.5 hour talk time; 10 days standby time.

* lack of documentation on how to save files from/to a PC computer

(Manufacturer should have included a USB cable)

* the low resolution 0.3 Megapixel camera. Other phones have 1 or 1.3 or 2 or 5 or more Megapixels!

* there is no external volume buttons. These would be handy to adjust volume of ring/handset-audio/speaker.

* unable to use your own mp3 files for ringtones.

* no built-in electrical contacts for easy "cradle" charging. You have to lift

a plastic tab at the top of the phone to get access to the charging jack.

* easy to obstruct/cover external speaker with palm of the hand

* using the fm radio requires the insertion of the earphones

* instead of having a radio, they should have added more memory or a bigger battery!

* the predictive texting input is TERRIBLE. i suggest not using it.

Internal Links:

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1-nokia2760startHere.txt a copy of this current document, 1-nokia2760startHere.html, in txt format

2760bluetoothDownloads.txt on Bluetooth and Downloads (and Ringtones)

2760camera-notes.txt on the built-in camera

2760recorder-notes.txt on the audio recorder

2760security-notes.txt on the phone's security settings

bestNokia2670settings.txt on my preferred phone settings to balance power conservation and usability.

External Links:

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Nokia 2760 Guides http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/product-support/nokia-2760/guides

Nokia 2760 User Guide in English 2760_US_en.PDF 3.39 MB http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/nam/phones/guides/2760_US_en.PDF

[This links to the 2007 user guide. Nov.16.2010]

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[ ] footnotes:

1. http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/discussions or nokiausa.com

2. http://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/ The Unofficial 7-Eleven Speakout Wireless Canada Consumer Page

3. 7-11 Speakout Nokia 2760 Quick Start Guide (book, Canada) 9205744 09/07

4. T Mobile website (USA)

5. my own (subjective) notes.

6. http://www.nokia.ca

7. Canadian Nokia 2760 User Guide (book) 9205625

8. Quick Start Guide (color pamphlet) 9205756

9. Nokia 2760 User Guide 9203335 Issue 1, 2007 (Europe?) (pdf format)

10. Nokia 2760 User Guide 9203335 Issue 2, 2008 (Europe?) (pdf format)

Nov.2010.

Below is a "box" from Box.net. (I think it requires a browser to have Adobe Flash or Adobe Shockwave Flash in order for it to be visible.)

This nokia2760box is contains my tips and user information for the Nokia 2760 mobile cellular phone.

Please refer back to this blog-entry or to the link of this blogbox (which is http://www.box.net/shared/5i4hmkqj2u ) for any updates.