Hung Up

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you

"Boy-ar, the phone can play music right?"

"Yes, can."

Precisely the reason why sis and us chose to get a new phone too, asides from her previous phone starting to give some problems.

So mum started getting to know her phone, and of course we have to help with setting it up to her specifications. Of course, this wasn't without some...hiccups.

First it was the battery casing. When we first got the phone we'd let the nice lady at Nokia show us everything, and ended up with her fixing the battery in the phone and placing everything back into the box. Then we took the thing back home to wrap.

The day mum opened up her present it wasn't long before we were woken up.

"Boy, can you try and open the phone battery casing? Dad and I tried already cannot."

Well, turned out neither could we. In the end since none of us wanted to be responsible of wrecking a brand new phone that's still under warranty, the family decided to take it back to the shop after lunch.

In the end it was due to the family having...smooth thumbpads. No grip on the metallic casing. Thankfully it wasn't due to anything being broken or whatsoever.

After that the nice Nokia lady continued on to swap over the SIM cards and transferring the contacts from the old Nok6610i to the new Nok6300. Once that was settled we headed back home.

"Boy-ar, why does Uncle J's contact show up as Uncle J, Uncle J1, Uncle J2?"

Egads, forgot about that. Nokia Lady copied all phone contacts on the Nok6610i onto the SIM card before transferring to the new phone. Well then again there wasn't any other quick way - the Nok6610i doesn't have Bluetooth. So in the end we deleted all the contacts on the new phone and manually keyed them all in again.

And given how...neat we are, we'd tried to fill in the details of First Name, Last Name, Phone Number type (Mobile/Home/Office) etc instead of just putting everything under First Name and Number. Took us a while to finish that task. Then came the challenge.

"Boy, I want the pictures of the dogs from the old phone to use as wallpaper, can you transfer the pictures?"

OK. Somehow we couldn't get the PC to link up with the Nok6610i - probably due to us using a different data cable. Also there's no IR port, and no Bluetooth connection. Photos on the Nok6610i can't be sent via IR - only via MMS. And mum hasn't had her MMS settings set up yet.

Just so lucky for us we'd opted for Multi-SIM 1 Line hor? Guess who's gonna see a sudden spike in his MMS charges - uniquely sending MMSes to himself whatmore. This was until Maxis activated mum's MMS service and then it was sending the remaining pics straight to her phone.

Thankfully, the bits after that weren't so difficult anymore - the Nok6300 uses the same interface as our l'Amour, so any questions about how things work means we just use our phone as a reference before troubleshooting mum's. Especially now that she has to learn about the Music Player, updating the Music Library for her songs, and probably Bluetooth too.

Next time we get her a new phone (and we think it might be likely down the road) we're sooooo gonna make sure we do all this first before wrapping it up.