8 posts tagged “wom world”

In all the years that Waterloo was London's Eurostar terminal I caught the cross-Channel train from there a grand total of ZERO times.  Shame really as Waterloo's my 'local' London station, it's where trains from my town terminate - with the fast services whisking me there in as little as 40 minutes.

Now, in just a matter of a few weeks I've been on two return trips on the Eurostar from their new location, St Pancras International.  The first one was last month to Brussels courtesy of Nokia WOM World and the latest, Paris this past weekend, courtesy of Eurostar's Little Break, Big Difference (more on that in a future post).

St Pancras is a far nicer station than Waterloo - but it's a bit of a pain to get to for those of us travelling from towns south west of London.  It doesn't help that the Tube's a little on the confusing side to say the least (but then I'm easily confused!)  Anyway, back to the trips themselves...

Brussels had been the shortest time I'd ever spent in a foreign country, at barely 24 hours.  Well, that was until last Saturday - I went to Paris for the day.  Yes, the DAY!  Which is, when you think about it, y'know, kinda nuts!  The Eurostar does indeed make a big difference - can you imagine attempting the same by plane or by ferry and coach?

I hate long, boring, wordy posts - so I'll leave this one as it is.  I'll attempt to humourously go into more detail in a future post - that is, of course, if I can be arsed.  Anyway, I'll leave you with a bunch of pictures taken of y'know, stuff in Paris.  All shot on a Samsung i8910 - making the most of that 8 MP camera it sports.

I got papped at the last MGoL so I papped back this time.  So there Donna (from WOM World)!

The host with the most... Mr Whatley(dude)...

And um, ones I took on my ill fated walk to Waterloo in time for last train (maybe had I got a taxi, maybe had I not stopped to take pictures, maybe had I realised that there is no service after 1.05am from Waterloo - damn you National Rail Enquiries website and your promise of a 2.38am train!)...

Last night at Mobile Geeks of London the two Nokia Eseries devices were, quite literally, weighed up by some of the guys (and girls) at WOM World and moi.

Did they weigh the same, or did the E71 weigh more?  The jury is still out on that one.  Does it really matter?  No, not in the least.  I did quite like the E63 in red, for what it's worth.

Yes, as strange as that seems there are some that I admire.  One being Mark Curtis - CEO of Handmade Mobile (they're the guys responsible for Flirtomatic).

Actually admire might be a tad strong, I'm only going on an exchange between him, Ewan MacLeod and myself over at Mobile Industry Review, what Tomi T Ahonen said in his Amazon review of Mark's book 'Distraction – Being Human in the Digital Age' and a podcast interview MIR's Ewan did recently (comment section being where the exchange took place).

That book does look interesting (hint, hint) even if it is now 3 years old.  Remember mobile years are like dog years, they're not the same as human years.  Three mobile years may as well be a decade.  Things handsets do now simply weren't possible back then, so if the synopsis and review are anything to go by Mark is some kind of sage!

Incidentally, just before I typed this I was chatting to a nice young lady (I'm not just saying that as she told me she'd be checking out my blog tomorrow, honest!) on Flirtomatic on the E71 WOM World kindly sent me.  I'd say using that site is the best way to give the qwerty keyboard a thorough workout!

Maybe that's a bit extreme, I'll let the guy from DHL pick it up.  I'll stand tall, all the while trying to keep the tears and sadness inside (I can't let the 'Classic' see me cry, I have to be strong!)

Yep, you guessed it - WOM World want "my" Nokia 6220 Classic back.  I always knew this day would come.  I just couldn't have guessed how attached we'd become.

Expect the mother-of-all round-ups fairly soon.  But, as you've probably guessed, I give this phone a thumbs up.  There's more to it than that and it's not a phone for everyone but that's the general gist of it.

The Register has a piece entitled 'Nokia: Our Community is the best money can buy'

It's a wide ranging look at Nokia and its interaction with the world at large.  Near the end of the piece they look at the Ambassador program.  Maybe they've got a bit of a point there, I don't know.  I'm not part of that, but I do get trial devices from them via WOM World and have had a few S60 freebies as well.  It doesn't stop me from criticising their products or services though.  And WOM World continue to loan me items even if what I write isn't the most flattering.

Whether giving the likes of me a freebie or a device to trial is value for money for Nokia is open to debate.  I have no idea how many people read my blog.  I've got Statcounter, but I don't believe that's set up right and it doesn't count RSS feeds or when posts end up elsewhere somehow or other.

I should be receiving an N800 this week from the good people at WOM World.  I know, I should've asked about the N810!  Still, I like to see what affordable tech is out there and the N800 currently fits that bill as it's available at a penny under £150 (roughly $300) so it should be interesting finding out what that kinda money buys.

Will it help me cope without my Eee PC?  And for those that know anything about Nokia's tablets, what do I need to know to get the most out of one?

I now have in my possession the rather nice N95 8GB (cheers to the also rather nice Siobhan at WOM World for said phone device).

I'm now nearly 24 hours into my two week trial and it's been er, interesting.  The phone is great, the screen is big and bright, nice and clear.  Navigating the menus is lightening quick (at least compared to my N73) and it's a pleasure being able to have so many applications running at the same time without the phone slowing to a halt or shutting down a bunch of them.  I could go on, and will, later.

There are some bad points though and these include the frustrating and confusing variety of download sources on the device.  Having everything available from one place might be a bit easier.  Getting Nokia Internet Radio was unbelievably difficult and will be the subject of a future post.  And, Nokia Sports Tracker kept crashing yesterday for no apparent reason.