My MMS works

After a quick test, I've discovered that I can now blog by sending an email thru MMS to Blogger. Sua-ku u may ask - if you are not aware of my current predicament.

It's all because of the 2 SIM cards that I'm holding.

For those who've not been following my postings, I have M1 as my mobile line and Singtel broadband as my internet connection. After getting my 500v, everytime I wanted to go online; I had to take out my M1 card and put in e Singtel card. AND I'd to do that when I blog.

Surely there should be a better way than this.

So I experimented and discovered that sending an sms to e blog's private email (without sending to go@blogger.com) works as well.

Now I can blog thru both of my cards. Hopefully it'll reduce the number of SIM swaps.

3.5G doesn't work in mrt

It seems that Singtel's HSDPA or 3.5G network doesn't work in e mrt.

I used to surf using my K750i but this was limited to GPRS speeds.

Lately I got a Treo 500v which supports UMTS to replace e K750i as using GPRS was simply too slow. After a couple of days of use, it seems that whenever e train goes into e tunnel after bishan station, e network indicator would switch from 3G to G. This meant that e 3G connection was lost.

I wonder if it's my phone or that 3G is not supported underground?

I'm SMART at last

After weeks of research, I finally got myself (or rather my wife bought on my behalf) a Treo 500v ($299) at the PC show yesterday. My wife also got herself the waterproof Olympus camera at $499.

Instead of a Sony Ericsson K660i, K850i, Samsung i450, U700, I'd finally settled on a smartphone instead since I thought it was good value-for-money.

Perhaps I'll upgrade my cameraphone once my contract ends.