November 05, 2003
T610
After a brief stint with the Stabbing Pain That Is Nextel, I upgraded my trusty old Nokia 8290 phone to a shiny new Sony Ericsson T610.
I love this phone. It's truly a revolutionary leap beyond the old Nokia, acting as a PDA, a camera, and a voice-note recorder, as well being a pretty good phone.
I picked up a Belkin Bluetooth adapter for about $40, which drastically improves the usefulness of the phone. Using iSync, I've now got a standard set of contacts, calendars, and memos, between all my Macs, my .Mac account, my iPod, and my phone.
Bluetooth connectivity, paired with the Salling Clicker, allows me to use my phone as an integrated remote control for all manner of Mac OSX apps. So far I've tested it as a very handy remote control for iTunes, and as a DVD remote.
Salling Clicker is fairly smart, too: if I'm listening to iTunes, and I get a call, SC can pause iTunes, set iChat to be "away", display the caller's information and picture on the Mac's screen, and answer the phone. I can also very easily move files between Mac and phone, which makes transferring ringtones, wallpapers, camera photos, and themes very easy.
Another nice feature of SC is 'proximity-based actions'. If I'm listening to iTunes, and go out of Bluetooth range, SC will pause iTunes for me, until I get back within range.
James, (and anyone else who's interested), go to MyT610.net for lots of free wallpapers, themes, and so on.
Posted by Eric at November 5, 2003 05:55 PMJebus, could you be at all, possibly, more l33t?
Posted by: Nyx at November 6, 2003 01:15 PMThank you.
That little toy will be my next phone upgrade come February. I just needed a little justification.
Posted by: Thomas at November 10, 2003 11:33 AMWow... The Salling Clicker sounds just unbelievably cool! I'm just looking for a new phone myself - the T610 is not a bad buy then, I gather :-)
Posted by: Anders at November 12, 2003 01:55 PMThanks to your geekiness and hard work, I'm no longer on the fence wrt this phone.
Posted by: Jish at November 18, 2003 08:08 PMI'm sayin it again: I love this phone. I've got voice tags for everyone now, so when my phone isn't in 'silent mode', it speaks the name of the caller. OMG!
And I made my own little techno song on the built-in techno-song-composy-thingy! OMG!
And I took pictures of my dog! [jesus h, I'm glad I previewed before posting. typed 'dong' first time around.] OMG!
Posted by: Unxmaal at November 18, 2003 11:32 PMAnd I recorded a video while checking email and getting the weather too!
Posted by: polyphonic tones! wow! at November 21, 2003 11:06 PMYep! I have a T610 too. with Salling clicker it's fantastic.
I just put a OSX Panther theame on it too
I just got my phone a week ago and had no real time to play with it ... I am just trying salling clicker but cannot find out how to transfer a midi file (or any file) ... and GARY ... i'd love to have this panther theme on my phone too ... !!!
Posted by: Peter Nacken at December 10, 2003 11:29 AMPeter: Check those links I posted for Panther themes. There's plenty.
To transfer files via Bluetooth.. first get a Bluetooth adapter. Then, run /Applications/Utilities/Bluetooth Setup Utility to setup your phone with your Mac. Once your phone is 'linked' to your Mac, use /Applications/Utilities/Bluetooth File Transfer.app to transfer files to and from your phone.
Posted by: Unxmaal at December 10, 2003 08:35 PMHi,
You said you could "answer the phone, routing the caller's voice through the Mac's speakers, and my replies through the Mac's built-in microphone." when using salling clicker, pleese can you explain how this is done step by step. Would be so very grateful...
Actually, I was horribly, horribly wrong. There's no such functionality for that right now.
Posted by: Unxmaal at February 18, 2004 11:03 AMThis is a free alternative to Sailing Clicker:
http://www.irowan.com/romeo/
seems to work well.
Posted by: ben at March 20, 2004 08:54 PM