Further Adventures With The Nokia 5300

...or "Fuck Steve Jobs in his beady little eyes."

After much consideration, and some cajoling on the part of T-Mobile, we decided to re-up our contract and get some new phones.  I may have covered this.  Boots ended up with a Motorola W490 because it was immensely cute and claimed 7.5 hours of talk time.  Did I mention that the psychic described her as "soft spoken" when she was trying to focus on her?  Did I mention that she is not?  But I digress.

I picked up the Nokia 5300, which looked like a cute little music phone.  It does have a bit more of a Fisher-Price feel to it than the Motorola, but it purports to have this thingy that lets me broadcast music to a mini-jack using bluetooth.  I ought to test that, because that ended up being one of the selling points.  My nice stereo ended up in our study, and between the fact that there's also a laundry room and a cat box in that area of the house, we more or less abandoned it as an area for actually being productive.

Lo and behold, the Nokia 5300 doesn't work with iSync (for my contacts and to-do items), and there does not appear to be any viable way to move music from a Mac to the phone.  Because we're all supposed to let Steve be our guiding light and embrace his entire black turtleneck lifestyle.  Of course.  Everything works fine as long as you indulge his thwarted monopolistic impulses, but every time you want a little bit of heterogeneity, it comes back to bite you.

STEVE JOBS IS THE HENRY FORD OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

Screw him.  And screw Nokia.  They've put together an OSX media transfer bundle, but sadly it's still in beta and my freaking phone isn't supported.  A (presumably later) version of the MusicXpress phone is supported, but it's not offered by T-Mobile.  Grumble. Luckily, at least I found someone who coded an iSync plugin, so that issue's squared away.  I am enough of a dweeb that I am looking forward to having access to my to-do items from my phone.