Hello Moto you old bean
As seen as I shirk from all human contact I’ve never had much use for mobile phones, except in the odd emergency such as “I’m at the train station will you pick me up?” You know the sort of call. But even with such infrequent use my phone has been getting more and more embarrassing, it was large, heavy and had a dreadful monochrome display. So I finally ordered a new one the other day from orange. Since Nokia went to pot by stopping with all the elegant, simple and obvious looking phones, instead deciding on fugly and stupid looking contraptions i settled on motorola, they seem to be the only mobile company with any idea at the moment and they do a not too bad cheapo phone called the v220 so I went for that. Obviously it had to be a payg phone, no point with a contract when you don’t use it, ever.
I wanted a data cable so that I can sync stuff, does anyone know why it costs 18 quid for a usb cable? Nah me neither. Ah well, oh and yeah, of course the software that came with it was windows only! Luckily, and with no help it seems from motorola, Apple have done their best to support the phone. At first it doesn’t seem good, when you connect the phone to the mac sod all happens, unlike windows, mac-os doesn’t give any indication that a device has been connected but after reading a few pages on the web i discovered that all I need to do is load iSync and it will find it… and it did! Awesome, so syncing contacts and my calendar is easy as pie on the mac. I also found a great site here which gives you some ppp connection scripts for using gprs, and they work! So that could be handy if i ever end up with my iBook in the middle of nowhere.
The only problem is that there doesn’t seem to be any way to transfer media files between the phone and the mac, its all proprietary, you have to use special software on windows and it doesn’t mount as a drive. iPhoto doesn’t recognise it so i’m a bit stuck as far as camera phone stuff goes. Not totally bothered though, the photo’s that the phone takes are repulsive beyond all comprehension.
