Yesterday (admittedly almost today as it was at 11pm-ish) I updated my Nokia E65 to the latest firmware version, now this was released ages ago but I never installed it on my phone as I didn’t see the need and I didn’t want to risk loosing all of my applications.
So I went through the process of backing everything up through the Nokia PC Suite which looks very nice now, this took quite a while but I found afterwards that it also backed up my applications which I was pleased about. I then went about installing the latest firmware which worried me a lot as I was using a slightly dodgy cable which concerned me as it could have corrupted the data or lost the link at any time which could have bricked the phone if I’m right?. Gladly it didn’t and  I now have the latest version of the firmware on my phone.

And … I’m amazed! – it seems to run much quicker and crash less now, every time I’d go into my phonebook previously I had to exit out of it again after going into a contacts details as the contacts just froze, This problem seems to have gone now. The main menu also appears to load faster.

Whilst upgrading firmware normally doesn’t worry me, it did on this occasion but not anymore, I’m pleased I did it though as its great. Now I’ve just got to get a modern phone so that I’m not installing firmware updates that are months and months old. Once I start my full time apprenticeship I’ll get a contract and therefore a nice new shiny phone (I’m thinking of the N65 8gb, E66 or E71 depending on cost)

I’ve just been reading about the new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and all I can say at this point is ‘WANT’ – It looks lovely, on a second glance it doesn’t do anything special or have anything that make is completely unique apart from a nice big screen with a good resolution and a funny arc design which makes it curve but I still want it – it looks hot and is a good icebreaker (which by now I’m sure you’ve gathered is quite important to me). It appears to be running the latest version of windows mobile, which I have absolutely no experience with but I hope it has plenty of 3^rd party applications available as they make things interesting for me.

The phone also has some good 3D rendering and abilities which I’m sure makes it a bit more fun to use (much like the iPhone). I’ve just found on wiki that its got wi-fi which is great news for me as I can see that this combined with the qwerty keyboard should make it a good little web surfer (as long as the software is able and it can render well, I would imagine that with its clever 3Dness and the resources it needs for it that it would manage web browsing rather well)

Wiki page

Nice picture