Fri Jan 25 13:12:30 PST 2008

My workplace just got me a new cel phone: the Sony Ericsson W200a Sony Walkman Phone. The provider is Rogers; minus two points for not letting me make an MP3 into a ring tone, but plus three for letting MidpSSH work. It was a lark to be able to check mail on my firewall box; Mutt was surprisingly useful. No idea how much data costs on the plan I've got, and I don't plan on actually SSHing around very much, if at all…but still, fun. And, as mentioned elsewhere, kudos for including a USB cable and making it show up as an ordinary mass storage device.

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Comment from John Burton  +
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:41:21 -0800

Funny, the online marketing bumf says you can do that.  I know on my
Blackberry, I could nominate any MP3 on my device as a ringtone, but I
couldn't do that until I already had it showing up as a song I could
play.  It was sort of counter-intuitive, and I wonder if it's not a
slightly sneaky way of getting people to pay for ringtones instead of
using their own.