ComEnts

So, I got a call out of the blue on Thursday from my mobile phone company offering me a new phone. I'd been meaning to get in tough with them about changing my contract to something more sensible and getting a new handset for ages but I'm insanely lazy and hadn't got round to it.

So, I got a brand new Nokia 6630, which is a very cool 3G phone, 1.3 megapixel camera etc. Sweet. It's also an MP3 player so I can have mp3 ringtones... but... for some reason that didn't work? Why not? Well the greedy biatches at Vodafone decided that on their version of the OS they'd disable that feature! What utter wankers. This is basically (I think) a ruse so that they can continue selling overpriced polyphonic ringtones to people rather than just porting mp3s onto the phone from their PC. I have requested the unlock code from them so that I can do that anyway but in the meantime I found a workaround. So if anyone else has a Nokia 6630 from Vodafone and wants mp3 ringtones without unlocking do the following:

1. Get your mp3, open it in i-Tunes.
2. Select the tune in i-Tunes and in the menu choose "convert to AAC"
3. This will then save as a .mp4 file. Change the extension to .mxmf
4. Copy that renamed file to your phone. You can now select it as a ringtone. The built in mp3 player can still play it too.

Anyway, much as I think the ringtones are a rip-off, I'm a massive fan of games on phones. My old phone had backgammon which I used to play all the time. Each game lasts 5/10 mins so it's perfect for those "hanging around with a few minutes to kill" type breaks. There's a much, much better backgammon game for my new phone so I bought that pretty much straight away. Only £3 and I've already played about 40 games on it. Much better value in pence per minute than some full price PC or console games I've bought.

Busy this week, going to look at the venue for this charity gig tonight (more on that tomorrow I expect), Müf rehearsal on weds and gig thurs!