| After many years of faithful service, I recently realised | | | | round, I thought I would follow the instructions to the |
| that it was time to trade in my trusty old mobile phone. | | | | word, rather than just delving in as I normally do! To my |
| Despite the jeers from my friends, I had held on to my | | | | surprise, after following the steps in the Quick Set-up |
| chunky old phone well after my phone company had | | | | Guide, it actually worked! it was really that easy, my |
| offered me a free upgrade. It had always performed | | | | phone was connected to my computer and it worked. |
| reliably and more importantly, I knew exactly where I | | | | I made a few setting changes (as mentioned in the |
| stood when it came to use it. | | | | instructions) on the mobile phone software and within |
| As you may have guessed, I like my gadgets and was | | | | moments I had transferred all of my telephone |
| fairly excited about the prospect of getting a new | | | | numbers and addresses into my phone! The great |
| phone, especially with the incredible host of features | | | | thing here is that now I can update any new person |
| now available on the latest phones. After much | | | | and telephone number to my phone and my computer |
| research, I settled on the Sony Ericsson K750i with its | | | | at the same time, all I need to do is connect the phone |
| colour screen, digital camera (with panoramic feature), | | | | to the computer and one button automatically updates |
| video capture, bluetooth connectivity, access to the | | | | my computer with information on my phone or vice |
| internet, MP3 Player and FM Radio. It also allows use | | | | versa. |
| of a separate memory card up to 1Gb so I can store | | | | I then got even more adventurous and thought I would |
| loads of photos, songs and video. It made phone calls | | | | try and get some music onto the phone. I have never |
| too! | | | | used MP3's before, but heard loads about it and |
| After receiving the phone I started to look into the | | | | following the instructions, within 5 minutes I had music |
| daunting prospect of learning how to use the thing. The | | | | on my phone! It even sound good. Using the camera is |
| first task I had to tackle was getting all my phone | | | | great too, easy and useful at times, not having to carry |
| numbers onto the phone. After consulting the manual, I | | | | a separate digital camera for snaps. |
| found that it was possible to copy my address book | | | | I thing that amazed me was how straightforward |
| directly from Microsoft Outlook on my computer over | | | | everything was, I had avoided changing the phone |
| to the phone, saving me from having to manually key | | | | mainly because I did not fancy the hassle, but it was |
| in all of my phone numbers. This would save me a lot | | | | actually easier to set up then my old phone which was |
| of time, as long as I could get it to work! | | | | so basic in comparison. Within an hour I had charged |
| All I needed to do was install the phone's software | | | | the battery, added my lengthy contacts list and |
| onto my computer from the supplied CD-ROM and | | | | appointments onto the phone's calendar as well as |
| connect the phone to my computer using the supplied | | | | recorded a few songs. Brilliant! |
| data cable. I also had the option of connecting my | | | | Now all I need to do is expand the memory capacity |
| phone to my computer wirelessly using the Bluetooth | | | | of the phone as the few songs I have put onto the |
| facility to connect to my computer, this sounded very | | | | phone have already used most of the memory that |
| interesting, but meant I would have to get a USB | | | | comes free with the phone. Apparently, I just need to |
| Bluetooth Dongle for my computer, so I decided to | | | | buy a Memory Stick and slot it into the phone then |
| leave that for later. | | | | enjoy, will try it soon. |
| As these things have a habit of not working first time | | | | |