Posted by Kryptik
Welcome back, Wanqa. We ordered the cheery weather especially for your arrival
Thanx for the tip, Hobbs, i'm browsing Mobile9 right now, they have some pretty neat black and brushed metal themes
I'm finally starting to get used to the N73's keypad... it's been quite a mission, kept hitting the red key and exiting applications whilst typing, until i installed a very handy little app called by the astoundingly descriptive name of NoRedKeyClose
And that's exactly what it does, switches apps to the background when you inadvertently punch the red key
Do any of you guys use Fring? Set up my Skype account the other day, and remembered that Fring supports Skype, amongst others
Don't you just lurve technology??
Posted by gola
I SAW THE N96 TODAY AT SCHOOL, ONE OF THE STUDENTS HAD IT
welcome wanqs
Posted by JC08
@ wanqa, welkom terug in Suid-Afrika!
@ gola, how on earth did he get it?
Posted by GUCCI.011
Welcome back Wanqa!!:-)
Hobbs
Its great, ive been using it as my main phone this week, it amazes how much the SE UI has improved, a lot of 's60 like' apps like MobyExplorer which is a lot like X-Plore, MobilePDF, and DocViewer which are like Adobe PDF and Quickoffice. And im loving all the litte cool things SE have put in, like when booting up the phone theres a nice lil vibration followed by a Blue ring of light around the D-pad,and around the camera lense, same thing happens when booting the camera and the nice sound of the automatic camera lense opening and shutting as wel as the little 'pop' sound the Xenon flash makes when shooting a pic,HSDPA via OperaMini is insanely fast i wonder how much better it is for those paying extra for 3.6mbps, 1.8mbps is already more than fast enough,and let me not even start on the amazing screen and flash themes.
i love it.
Gola.
WOW i wonder how he got it. You must try get your hands on it bro
JC and Gola
What website do you get your phone's apps from? I found this: http://user.wap3.org it has a few nice ones.
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Posted by gola
Hey JC, i have no idea bru. I don't even think he got it on this earth
I don't know the dude, we were practically sitting in hordes at the amphitheatre during lunch, twas a crazy sight man. Oh btw, nice signature
Posted by JC08
@ gola, tx man, got the inspiration from you!
@ gucci, glad your loving your k850!
Posted by tranced
are you sure sure sure? wasnt it a copycat?
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Could maybe have been an N81?
Hi South African buddies!
Posted by Kryptik
Hiya Muhammad
i'm also wondering whether it may not have been one of the Fong Kong clones floating about... although, to be honest, it may very well have been an N96, it's not entirely outside the bounds of possibility... not when one considers the insanity, financial and otherwise, taking place next door in Zimbabwe I mean, just look at amount of dosh they need to lay out on a single 750ml bottle of beer
Posted by tranced
true true.
but it is not so common seeing a student with an ultimate phone
Posted by GUCCI.011
Tranced
Don't be so sure. Theres around 4people at my school with an N95-8GB, 3 with N82, and quite a lot with N95s,including primary school kids, ive seen a few kids in the primary school with SE K800s and a grade8 with an i-Mate Jamin and another with a SE P990, I blame MTN and their great pricing of phones.
anyway im in matric and some of my friends have some top end phones, one has both N95-8gb and N82 whilest another has a N82 and the classic SE P910. The majority at school own some kind of Nseries phone, from the N70 to N95.
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Posted by tranced
but n96 was announced these days(recently), wasnt it?
Posted by gola
Yip, definitely sure, it's not the n81 ether and those no way i can mistake that humongous 2,8" screen and the two way direction slide thingy...I was about one and half metres away, it was truly a sight ladies and gentlemen.
Posted by amawanqa
Thanks for all the (prodigal?) welcomes, guys.
@ gola:
Hmm, perhaps the oke's dad/relative is a beta tester for one of the networks, like celltech is.
Either he then took the handset on the quiet or his dad/relative breached some serious levels of work conditions there by allowing him to show it off. (the former possibility sounds more plausible though, but I'm simply speculating of course).
Just a thought..
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Posted by amawanqa
@ Hobbster:
Let me know what's your M.O. for the next week boet, if you can, as the in-laws have a whole buncha stuff planned out right up until we leave for East London next Thursday. We're already gonna be away the whole weekend to some resort near the gateway of the Cederberge, i.e. Citrusdal, plus there's the boat trip from Cape Point to the V&A Waterfront planned, then off to Paarl and Stellenbosch etc etc.
@ JC:
Will be posting the memory card off to you tomorrow, boet.
Posted by HOBBS
We might be leaving over the weekend Wangs if we can finish off some loose ends here first but I'll let you know if things change.Sounds like you have a busy week ahead of you bro.Hopefully this weather will turn soon and you can get some Cape Town sun.Hope you had a fab day today and just relaxed.
Just downloaded Nokia's Internet Radio to see whats its all about.Logged on through my Wlan connection to UK 1fm Trance and listened to about 35 seconds of that station.(awesome station by the way) Exited the app and then checked my LOG and to my suprise it had used 2.8mb's of data.Now that my friend makes listening to Internet radio an impossibility unless you have an unlimited data plan
Posted by JC08
@ ama thanks mate, will let you know when it arrives!
Posted by HOBBS
@Gucci OK dude,there are blogs out there covering the 'N95 8gb' but you wont find it using those words in your Google search toolbar.The key is to type in 'N-series blog' and there are blogs galore covering all models but most importantly my phone.Boy,do I miss my P1iblog and TheEvangelist.
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Posted by kyle_274
Hey all. My gran ordered my 8gig card. It was 20 pounds.
Anybody else excited about xgames? Thats startin 2day. I cnt wait 4 the freestyle motox
Posted by amawanqa
@ Hobbster:
Eish, what's with all the torrential downpours here in the Mother City?LOL.
Posted by HOBBS
Na.Not me Im afraid Kyle.But enjoy.
@Wangs- Its been like this for a couple of weeks now.This is nothing bud.2 weeks ago you would have cried,packed your bags and gone back home lol Hope you having a fantassssssstic day.
Wish I wasnt so up to my neck in work and had some free time to play
If you have a newspaper around,have a good look at the Property pages (which is normally a third of the newspaper) this weekend and tell me what you think of some of the prices these house are going for.Its a real education of what your home country is becoming.Rich getting richer,poor getting poorer.Hey Im sure if you had to sell your house back home and save a bit more you could most probably return and buy one of the above mentioned properties after doing the conversion.For instance I was born in Newlands Cape Town and you hardly find a house here anymore under 2 million even if its a semi detached two bedroom without much of a garden.Dont even get me started on the apartment prices.Dont know why Im talking about property to you,sometimes I just type without thought (which is what I think we should do more often,even if we step on each others toes every now and then)
Any way,get out and about as much as you can and make the most of the sights and sounds of the fairer Cape even if the weather is not allowing it.
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Posted by amawanqa
@ JC:
Sent the memory card off, boet. PostNet tracking number and branch details etc in your PM.
Posted by GUCCI.011
Hobbs
Thanx boet, will check them out,im not a big fan of blogs though they can make for some good reading sometimes.
Kyle
Il try catch them, i love the skateboarding, and the roller blading, i remember those two asians bros totaly dominating rollerblading a few years ago.
Gola
You heard the new Busta Rhymes ft. Linkin Park track? Tite thats all i can say, much better than when they collaborated with Jay-Z.
Posted by HOBBS
Just heard on the radio that a ship has run ashore in Melkbos.So if you like that kind of drama Wangs check it out and snap some shots with your 5mp LG extroardinaire.
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Posted by amawanqa
We're just 5 minutes' walk from the beach. Dang, wonder how close the ship is to Koeberg..
Will go check it out shortly, before we head off to the V&A.
Posted by Kryptik
Damn, hope that nobody's hurt on that ship.
Posted by tranced
hi all
bad news this about the ship
let's hope anybody's hurt
Posted by amawanqa
Its at Blaauwberg,and now a second trawler is stranded!Taken plenty action pics.Helicopter lifting them,some sailors jumped overboard.Paramedics attending to them.Driving off now.
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Posted by gola
GUCCI, yeah, fantastic track bru, i'm Listening to it right now
you gotta love Fort Minor, kinda reminds me of Eminem
Tranced
yeah, let's hope nobody's hurt
Posted by GUCCI.011
same here bro, ive had it on repeat for the past hour whilest doin some homework lol, ye im startin to like Fort Minor, ay i wonder whatever happened to Eminem, ever since Proof past away we aint seen Slim Shady.
Posted by Kryptik
Damn, that's hectic Wanqa! Hope everybody's ok. In better news, i've just become an uncle again, my sis had her baby daughter about an hour ago in London
Posted by tranced
congrats, kryptik
Posted by HOBBS
@Wanga See buddy,Hobbs knows where the action is.Sea Drama.I'd thought you'd like like,so I staged the whole thing.Cost me an arm an a leg on actors and props it did,especially at such short notice.I thought its raining so consistently and Wangs is most probably stuck in-doors,what could I do to entertain him and thats when I came up with 'Sea Drama' Hope you enjoyed the show. lol
Congratulation Kryptoniteandday.
Posted by kyle_274
@gucci. Yeah those bro's were gud. I didnt see the rollerbladin last year. Im not sure if its still going. The skate boardin is gud. Specially the mega ramp. Its l8r insane. Did u see jake brown's wipe out last year? Fell 50feet to the flat. The doctor said 4 most ppl the chance of survivin a 30foot fall is like 60 percent. But a 45-50 foot fall. 9 out of 10 ppl wud survive it. He basically got up and walked away like 5 mins after. He only fractured his wrist. Some internal injuries. I cnt remember wat they were
Posted by HOBBS
Have you seen DogTown Kyle? Its about skateboarding and the guys who made it happen back in the day.Nice movie.Also saw the documentary a week ago called DogTown.It was nice seen the documentary after seen the movie.
Posted by Kryptik
Thanx guys, i've provisionally named her Siphokazi until my sis and swaer make their minds up as to the new arrival's name.
Great going there, Hobbs, you've all the makings of a first class director
Have you considered a career in politics? It's much the same thing as the acting/directorial profession, smoke and mirrors, bro. If you like i can arrange to have my namesake aka your new Premier bumped from office, shouldn't be too tough to cook up a little scandal or two to get her the boot, lol
Posted by HOBBS
No thanks Krypts.Id rather be a prostitute in Hollands Red Light District pomping a 100 clients a day than become a politician.
My African name given to me is Siphosetu.I think its quite fitting.
Posted by gola
GUCCI, hows the vodaphone firmware coming along or did you ditch it?
Cöngrats Kryps
, does Siphokazi mean anything?
Posted by amawanqa
On 2008-07-31 20:04:38, HOBBS wrote:
@Wanga See buddy,Hobbs knows where the action is.Sea Drama.I'd thought you'd like like,so I staged the whole thing.Cost me an arm an a leg on actors and props it did,especially at such short notice.I thought its raining so consistently and Wangs is most probably stuck in-doors,what could I do to entertain him and thats when I came up with 'Sea Drama' Hope you enjoyed the show. lol
LMAO Hobbster, lovin' that vivid imagination, boet. 
Wow, that one trawler probably did first report problems with the engine conking out, around Melkbos. The strong current eventually beached the thing all-too-close to the first beached trawler.
The maddest part of the whole thing ws when they started jumping off the ship, once it grounded itself. To my horror and amazement, some of the sailors were dof enough to jump off into the sea BETWEEN the ship and oncoming waves on the starboard side of the ship, not the port side which was closer to the beach! The result? Some awful-looking body-slams into the ship's hull as the waves promptly took the 2 or 3 wallies who jumped off on the 'wrong side', and re-united them with this ship in a rather unceremonious way...
Fortunately, they were all seemingly in one piece... and thank God the paramedics were there already; being slammed into the propellor coulda been a whole lot nastier, even if the engine was kaput...
Will try post some pics, but I'm having hassles with the father-in-law's browser on this laptop. Will post them when we get back to the 'Yhu Kei' if I can't get round the browser settings. I did try the imageshack route, clicked the resizing option and the picture still came out full-size on esato. I promptly deleted that post, before laffen starts spitting snakes about bandwidth n' stuff, LOL. One way or another, I'll get 'em posted.
In 2 days in SA, I've already managed to take some really bril cellphone pics. bring it on!
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Posted by amawanqa
Had a lekker meal at the Santa Ana Spur by the V&A Waterfront tonight, Hobbster.
Walked into a takkie shop there called Athletes Foot (LOL). A dude there commented on the West Ham united shirt i was wearing. We got talking. Ends up he used to attend the school just down the road from where I currently teach in the UK and he knew the area so well; he even asked me about the head teacher at his former primary school, who I knew as well. Small(er) world, hey?
Ya, and just in case I still wasn't sure I was actually in SA, I noticed a shop downstairs called 'Naartjie'.. LOL.
@ Unkl Kryptik:
Congrats, boet!
No major medical costs to endure for them as well, sigh.. the good ol' NHS. Ya, tax may be 17.5 % here, but then one doesn't pay to see the quack, there's no school fees required for state schools etc.
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Posted by HOBBS
Imagine the pics you could have taken if one of the above mentioned 'Wallies' had got caught up in amongst the propeller blades.That would have been something hey.lol
Sounds like you having fun Wangs.Where you going to be tomorrow? Let me know and I can maybe stage another drama for you.Maybe a mountaintop suicide jump,a shark mauling,a city centre shootout,a helicopter plunging into the sea.Any request? Just let me know so I can book the actors and props again.lol
Posted by amawanqa
LMAO @ Hobbster. Saw one of the cops there with a P1i too. Damn internet is playing up here now, so it's back to the P1i. Tomorrow we're off to some hot springs resort near Citrusdal.Will be there until Sunday night. Dunno what kind of reception there'll be up there though...
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Posted by kyle_274
@hobbs. Yeah iv watched it, its such a gr8 movie. I hvent watched the documentery. I really want 2 watch that surfin movie. Um. I cnt remember the name. And i just watched a thing about it on top billing. Hearin my mom sayin how hot that shaun dude was wen he was younger
Posted by HOBBS
Was just thinking.Maybe Brix has had some kind of Eastern spiritual experience and has denounced his mobile,laptop,watch,electric shaver,ipod nano,designer jeans,shoes ect and is walking somewhere in the jungle eating grass and getting to know our 'maker' on a more intimate level.Hey Jungle Boy.Where you at?
Posted by GUCCI.011
WOOHOO!! Im officialy on holiday! 5WEEKS OF DOING NADA!! Time to punish the TV and the Playstation
Gola
Its all good bro, im still using the Voda firmware,and im using a preinstalled Flash Theme to hide those voda icons.
Kyle
Dam thats hectic ay, i didnt catch them last year, now i wish i did.
Posted by kyle_274
@gucci, yeah it was gr8 last year. Last night it didnt really live up 2 my expectation. But it was still gr8
Posted by HOBBS
ForKryptoniteandday NiceAppForYourN73EvenIfYouDontHaveBuiltInGPS.
http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showthread.php?t=253792
@GUCCI-LekkerVakansieBru:)
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Posted by JC08
@ Gucci, what d frack....lucky you ive got like 8 weeks of school till a week vaca...enjoy it man...
Posted by tranced
hey all
we've started a new month. here in DR we will be having our president reelected by the 16th. in that day we'll be celebrating the Restauration day also.
any news at your ends?
@kryptik: how's your new niece?
Posted by GUCCI.011
Kyle
Cool bro. Dam it i just tried to update my N81's FW, yet it still says V11 is the latest, agh anyway V11 is still fine.
Thanx guys @ Hobbs and JC
Using my N81 again reminds me why i like smartphones so much more than java ones, was great to use the K850 as my main phone though but the N81 is now my main phone again, K850 will always be close by for pic taking and listening to music via loudspeaker though.