bat400 wrote:
Or it might result in you being able to use the phone in the way it was intended. But rules are rules, and I'm sorry for being a naughty boy. I was only trying to offer a glimmer of hope to those poor souls who have Tesco product codes. I guess there is no hope.
I also lost patience and (emboldened by your reported success) went for the "unofficial" method. I figured that, reluctant though I was to invalidate the warranty, that warranty probably wasn't worth much from a company that couldn't even ship out updates to its customers in the first place.
On the one hand, I'm angry about having to go to these lengths to get an update that was supposed to have been available to me nearly six months ago -- never mind FP1, my unlocked unbranded 700 never got the earlier 111.030 update (and I had wanted that one).
On the other hand... a Nokia 700 with FP1 is a really nice phone. It's hard to stay angry for long.
Neat, thin form factor, excellent screen, expandable storage and replaceable battery, physical buttons all well placed. Immaculately built... in Hungary, where Nokia laid off most of their workers at the end of last year.
With Belle FP1 and the faster clock speed it's smooth, straightforward and enjoyable to use. Sure there are some extra things I could still do with (integrated notifications of new email for example) but it's for the first time a phone I could actually recommend to friends who liked the size and construction... running on an operating system cut adrift in February last year and effectively canned with Nokia's last round of layoffs.
Not so many apps for it, but a number of nice smooth Qt-based ones, including a few very slick and useful apps from Nokia, and it's an attractive device for a Qt developer like me to think of developing for... if only there was an ecosystem around it and if only future devices were compatible... and if Nokia hadn't abandoned Qt in their platform strategy twice, once with the switch to WP7 and again when refocusing on S40 a month ago.
Yep, the 700 is a wonderful example of what might have been. I'm tempted to buy another as a spare, just because I like it so much and its future is so plainly bleak. I wonder how many of the services on it would stop working if Nokia went under?
