Category: Mobile phone

  • A new cellphone – Choosing phone

    Note: For the next few posts, I will cover my choice of a new mobile phone, what considerations I have made and what applications I am running through it.   As I said in my previous post, I eventually decided on getting a phone that runs Android. The question, then, was which phone to get.…

  • A new cellphone – Choosing platform

    Note: For the next few posts, I will cover my choice of a new mobile phone, what considerations I have made and what applications I am running through it.   I’ve been using my old mobile phone, a Nokia E65, for almost two years now, and I am pretty impressed with it. It has had…

  • Resolving "Packet data not available, check network services" errors

    From time to time, I am called upon to troubleshoot problems with cell phones. Mostly the solution involves telling the user to get a new phone, or publish a new configuration to the phone, but every now and again, I see problems that are slightly more complicated. The other day, a user called in, saying…

  • DME Sync: "Invalid or expired certificate"

    My employer uses DME Sync to synchronise email, calendar and contacts from Lotus Notes to mobile phones. A nifty little app, it basically connects to the webmail server, then downloads and uploads the relevant data. This makes for smooth migration from one phone to another, and means the users have the data where they need…