Comments on: Belated Christmas Pressies

By: scotty

scotty — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:07:26 +0000

@michael — I bought mine from MobiCiti — a generic stock, not with Vodafone logo. I know the Vodafone ones are cheaper but you would not be able to get the latest firmware unless Vodafone allows it. You could modify the product code but I am not willing to risk voiding the warranty…

By: michael

michael — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:15:02 +0000

hi scotty,
congratulation on ur new phone. I’m actually thinking to get one as well to replace my old phone.
i’m just wondering, how much you bought it?
I saw a lot seller on ebay sell it with cheaper price then retail price, but it looks like its unlocked phone from vodafone, which i reckon still got pre installed carrier software. Not sure it will be a problem or not to grab this unlocked phone. with pre installed carrier software.

By: scotty

scotty — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:42:57 +0000

@Michael — I guess you would not be able to try out Agora when Kogan has put it on indefinite delay :(

By: Michael Manning

Michael Manning — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:56:36 +0000

Congrats on the E71!
Interested to see your thoughts once it has had some bedding in.
I understand your logic in choice over the Agora – hence me owning an E61i at the moment. I ‘spose that gives me the flexibility to try out the Agora and then fall back to the older Nokia?
I will post my thoughts on the Agora once it arrives!
Cheers.

By: timhu

timhu — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:52:24 +0000

So both Optus number and VoIP number comes with the $5 a month subscription fee? That sounds almost too cheap! (not to mention the data deal is great too)

By: scotty

scotty — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:13:46 +0000

Yes. With the service I get

(1) a mobile number (0466) from Optus
(2) a VoIP number (0280) from Exetel

You’ll be able to get my mobile number from Facebook :)

By: timhu

timhu — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:11:49 +0000

Does the Exetel sim give you a GSM-network mobile number? Or is it data only?

By: scotty

scotty — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:19:24 +0000

Hehe. There are *lots* of people using Haskell and I was quite disappointed to learn that you no longer learn a FP in UNSW CSE. What a shame…

And peeking through my crystal ball I can see that FP is going to be *hot* in 2009. There will be more people coming back to Haskell, OCaml, Erlang and F# — we’ll see.

As of E71, it works brilliantly. Got my sim today (turned out the parcel did not address to me so my colleague just gave it to the techies), and is online in a few minutes. Haven’t tested it as modem though, but from what I’ve read it should be trivial.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:33:43 +0000

People still use Haskell? I hardly remember how to code them any more….

By: timhu

timhu — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:03:04 +0000

Some people (particularly UNSW grads) might not share that very last sentiment =)

Haskell, brings back memories … I think I might still have a textbook at my parents …

Woooooo E71! Do update us on how well mobile internet works! If possible, see how well it functions as a modem for laptop!

By: scotty

scotty — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:03 +0000

If performance is all that matters, everyone would be coding in ASM and nothing else :) (Argh! This WordPress blog is coded in PHP and is soooooo slow!!!)

I used to code in Haskell (like 10+ years ago) because I had to do tuts on it at uni, and Miranda before that. I am just trying to re-pickup a beautiful language.

By: Dave K

Dave K — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:17:21 +0000

But WHY?!

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=gcc