Dr Jan’s Tips From The Top

I’m pleased to say that Nokia now allow end-users to update the firmware on their phone themselves. Previously you would have had to go to a Nokia Service Centre to get your firmware upgraded.

Right now this new service is limited to certain Nokia phone models, and you’ll probably need a Windows machine and a cable to connect your phone to the PC. Having said that, for certain models you can browse to the Nokia website with the phone and upgrade the firmware directly over the air. Now that’s slick

Here’s the link to the Nokia site:

http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/softwareupdate

I’m very pleased to say that I upgraded my 6680 last night with no fuss or trauma. The most difficult thing was synchronising my contact data with MS Outlook. This was just a precautionary measure - I’d backed up the phone memory to the memory card already.

It seems that when you synchronise your Nokia with Outlook using the Nokia PC Suite any plus signs (’+') present in your phone numbers are silently removed So now instead of lots of phone number beginning ‘+44…’ I have lots of numbers beginning ‘44…’ which of course doesn’t make sense to the phone at all. Why is this so difficult?

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