| | | | | | by Ilian Tzankov on
| Getting started with your Nokia E60
Freatures you are not likely to get working:
- VPN - There are vpn settings in the "Connections" section of settings. Isn't that great, Nokia has integrated a VPN client?
The VPN client in your phone is actually a fearly standard and widely suppirted under Linux, MacOS and even Windows type - IPSec. So, may think that it will be easy to setup the phone to work with you corporate network... but this is not so! Unless you have a Nokia VPN server - an overpriced device Nokia is trying to force people to buy by integrating a client in their phone. So, forget VPN. - OMA IMPS. Actually Nokia has integrated a OMA IMPS client in this phone. If you read the user's manual you'll see an example of how to configure it to work with the yamigo serveice. Unfortunately you'll have little success configuring it. Nokia believes mobilre operators have to pay them more money, so the client included will not work with any existing IMPS server. Operators have to pay Nokia to make their service compatible, and free services are outright out. Actually, let's give Nokia the benefit of the doubt - maybe they are just stupid and didn't test their IMPS client. Realy?
First steps
The first thing you absolutely have to do is check the version of your phone's software. To do so enter: *#0000# and the phone's software version will be displayed. If this version is 2.0618.06.05 you are in the clear. If not, you'll need a USB data cable and the Nokia firmware update program in order to upgrade your phone. WARNING! : Upgrading the firmware will delete everything from the phone's memory! You will loose all contacts, pictures, applications and settings. Backing up your phone can help, but keep in mind that restoring the settings after the upgrade will cause your phone not to work corectly, so if you do a backup/restore you have to restore the factory settings of the phone imediately after you have restored the phone. You can download the firmware upgrade from the nokia european website (no, firmware updates are not available to US custumer): http://www.europe.nokia.com/A4176110. Good luck!
WiFi
This is pretty straight forward. Just go to the main menu and Choose: Connect->Conn. Manager->Availab. WLAN. It will display the available wireless lan access points. Choose the one you want and select: Options->Define access point. Just make sure to give it a meaningfull name.
VoIP
Your phone has SIP based VoIP client. How does it work? Consider you want to speak to someone. There two problems you have to solve before you can do that: the first one is that you actually need to know who is it you want to speak with and where he is, and the second is the actuall speaking process. Well, with SIP these problem is solved in a very simila manner to the conventional telefony. There is a centralized location that people connect to - the PBX. The PBX knows all people (SIP clients) that are connected to it, and it also know how to connect to other PBXs. The diference between conventional telephony and SIP based VoIP is that there is only one PBX level to worry about since every single PBX on the internet is able to comunicate directly to any other PBX.
In order to be available to receive calls you have to be registered with a PBX. This is achieved with the SIP. By registering with the PBX you are telling it what your actual address is at the moment (location) and that you are ready to accept calls.
Placing the actual call works as follows:
- You tell your PBX who is it you want to call (SIP invite)
- The PBX then trys to resolve the address - figure out if this person is connected to it directly or via another PBX
- If that succeds the party you are calling is going to be invormed about your request, as well as what are the capabilities of your device to transmit/recieve voice and video.
- If common ground for communication is available the recepient's phone starts to ring
- At that point the two devices are no longer doing SIP... RTP takes over - this is the protocol that does the actuall voice or video transmission.
The problem here is that in order for the call to succeed the two devices have to be able to connect directly wich is not allways possible if they are befind a firewall. This where the tricky part is. Most beause in most cases your E60 phone will be befind a firewall - so no calls will be possible. The easy sollution to this problem is for the PBX to stand in the middle and forward the RTP trafic. Infortunately not many VoIP services provide this capability, and therefore only few will work with your E60.
The one I've foind to work the best is truphone. In order to register for the service you have to visit their websire. You must then send an SMS to a number they give you. In a few seconds you will receive a SMS with the settings for your phone. You must select Options->Save to save the settings.
Let us now look at how the VoIP client inside the E60 is organized. There is "Internet Telefone" application, "SIP Profiles" and "Internet tel. settings".
You may think of the "Internet tel. settings" as VoIP service providers.
The "SIP Profiles" are ways to conect to connect to a service provider. One "Internet tel. setting" can have multiple SIP Profiles associated to it.
So, with the sms they sent you truphone has installed: 1 Internet tel. setting and 3 SIP Profiles associated with it.
The Internet tel setting is called "TruVoip", and the sip profiles are called "Truphone-home", "Truphone-office" and Truphone-travel".
The idea here is that you may have one WiFi access point at home, one at the office and yet another one some place else.
To start using the service, go to the main menu and choose: Tools->Settings->Connections->SIP Profiles.
Edit the Truphone-home ane Truphone-office SIP profiles. Change the Default Access Point setting to your home and office access points. Change the "Registration" setting to "Allways on".
And you are done!
Now when you go to your office the phone will detect your office access point (the one you selected in the Truphone-office profile) and automaticly log you in to truphone. When you go home the same will happen, but with your home access point.
The truphone-traver profile is more complex to use. In order to use it truphone have provided an application called "truphone" that you can install in your phone. This application is a "wizard" (don't you love those?) that will let you select an access point and setup the Truphone-travel SIP Profile to work with you....
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| | | | |  | | DRM, or the fall of the walkman(tm) | | | by Ilian Tzankov on
| I remember the day I got my first walkman as it was yesterday. You
can't imagine the goy I boy living in a small comunist country in
Eastern Europe can feal, to be one of a blessed few who own a device
most have not even seen yet. It was a far cry from todays models. It
could only turn one way, so there was no rewind button, the speed
controll was far from being precise, I could hear quite clearly the
interference from the brushes of the DC motor inside and more often
then not it would wrinkle my tapes. The worst probably was that it ran
just 30 or so minutes on two quite expensite bulgarian made carbon AA
bateries.
Sony has gone a long way since then. Now I own a Sony Hi-MD walkman
that runs so loing on it's internal battery that I never manage to keep
track of how long it was since I charged it.
Since I got my first MD walkman I have been a fan of the technology.
And there are many reasons for that. First I am one of these people
that can actually hear the horible sound an MP3 makes. It seems to me
the people that developed the MP3 audio compression technolgy never
intended it to store music. Some of the most important features of ths
kind of media would be gapless playback for example. (imagine listening
to a piano performance or a DJ set you would probably want to be able
to listen to the hole thing from start till end without interruptions
in the sound, and at the same time be able to go exactly to a
perticular part of the performance. With CDs and MDs this is possible,
with MP3 files it's not)
The removable disk is not such a problem any more, as the MP3 players
are produced with plenty of storage. But still you can go on a vacation
with your MD walkman and cary 500h of music on just 10 disks. And last
but not least, the MD walkman is a high quality music recording device.
But the MD walkman is dead. Read on to find out why.
My first MD walkman could store 80min max on a single MD. It ran a
little over 20h on an AA size battery in playback mode, or only about 3
hours in recording mode. There were two ways to record by disk: the
analog line in and digital optical SPDIF line in. The latter was the
only way my walkman could place track marks automaticly. I got a sound
card with an optical SPDIF out and was very happy with my walkman.
The second model I had, had one major improvement. In addition to the
ATRAC3 mode recording, it supported ATRAC3 LP mode, which gave me up to
4 times the recording capacity on a disk. The battery life was improved
somewhat, but not much. Even though it claimed to be a "network
walkman" the recording was not much diferent then from the older model
- Sony had now bindled a USB sound card with it. But I still had to
title my disks by hand.
And now my newest and greatest. The Hi-MD model. Now this was a great
leap for Sony. They increased the media capacity 3 times - now 1GB can
be stored on the same size disk. The ATRAC3Plus codec was addes which
could encode 45h of music on a single 1GB disk and most importantly -
USB connection to a PC for, as Sony clamed "5 minute to record an
entire disk".
And here is when my trouble started. Even though I could use my walkman
as a USB storage device for my files, those files can not be played by
the walkman. In order to actually record music to it I have to use an
application Sony proviced for me - SonicStage. And it only works under
Windows XP...
Oh, wait, but I'm a Linux user. So in order to use my walkman I have to
but MS Windows also? Seems so... (You MAC users are in no better luck)
I install Windows on my computer and fire up Sonic Stage. Well, the
recording time is far from being 5 minutes for a disk, but I'm ready to
live with that... Just a small hastle, every time I want to record a
disk, I copy the music I wish to record to my windows partition,
restart, record and restart again. I should be finaly happy, or so you
would think... 3 months have passed and suddenly my Windows no longer
boots. How could I expect that if a person has MS Windows installed
they must not have an Internet connection or scores of "viruses",
"trojan horses" and "spyware" would climb on for the ride. Well
actually I knew that, but somehow I did not think it would happen to
me, being a computer programmer, etc.
So I reinstall windows, disable all network interfaces keep the old
routine... happy again. Untill Sonic Stage 3 arives. I downloaded it
from minidisc.org and installed it on my computer. It removed the old
Sonic Stage. But the new one did not work! It did not recognise the
walkman at all... then did I find out - there were many version of
Sonic Stage and they were not compatible. So a unit sold in Europe
could not connect to the software for a unit sold in the US.
I remove sonic stage 3 and install version 2 again. Guess what... no,
it didn't work. Somehow my user friendly Windws decided for me that the
new drivers were better I can not revert to the old once.
Format the windows partition, install windows, install sonic stage 2 and I'm back in busness.
Few months passed and I decided to give sonic stage 3 a second try.
This time the official version for my model from the Sony website. But
the installation requires Internet connection (just to make sure I'm
not cheating). So armed with few antivirus, anti-spyware programs and
enable the network a few short hours after I have a fully working Sonic
Stage 3.
I prepaired to record a disk, drag my files into it (some few fundred
songs) and .... surprised...Sonic Stage took my compilation and
"kindly" rearanged them alphabeticly my "Artist" and "Song name"... But
I had already aranged them the way I wanted! Who cares? Sony knows
best! I spent 20 minutes trying to find some sence of the mess! And
gave up on it... format again, windows reinstall and back to sonic
stage 2.
But the day I knew MD was dead was when I tried to give some of my
original music to a friend. I had a disk, over 3 hourls long, with my
own original live recording. I loved it, listened to it on my walkman,
enjoyed it.
I friend who also had an MD walkmen asked me to give him a copy. And I
did... connected my walkmen to his notebook computer and downloaded the
music to his computer.... Just after returning home I found out that
Sonic Stage would not let me copy my own music onto my own computer -
it had been copied to diferent computer already!
Then I knew - DRM had killed the walkman! And my music went with it!
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