GPS lock on this phone (N86) is really awesome.  I get GPS about 50% of the time indoors as well, and getting a fix outdoors is a matter of seconds.  Also I can confirm that the compass works with this edition of maps despite what has been written.

I can add favourites on Ovi maps on my desktop computer and then sync them and drive to them.  So convenient.

I am hoping to post a fully review of my N86, but so far no problems at all.

See the following for more info:

N86 8mp gets free Ovi Maps and Ovi Maps free navigation now

Lead researcher Professor Paul Thornalley said: “Our study suggests that compounds such as sulforaphane from broccoli may help counter processes linked to the development of vascular disease in diabete”s.

Hooray for Broccoli!

The contract I have is with 3 (Hutchinson Three UK) and as part of my contract I pay £5 extra per month for unlimited Internet, email and some other features in a package called X-series Silver. The email is provided by an application called Mobile Mail and it is a push email server and supports and email provider that allows IMAP access (it may work with POP3 but I have not tried).

The email was easier to setup but is fairly basic, even URLs entered in plain text cannot be clicked on, which is frustrating when you get sent a link to an Internet newsletter. However, the phone has no trouble downloading and opening picture files, excel or word files, as long as they are less than 250kB in which case it refuses to deal with it. According the help files, this is to save on data access charges, but I would prefer to make that choice myself. I could use the Googlemail app as it will run on this S60 phone, but I would need to configure Gmail to work with my domain, which I do not want to do at present.

In conclusion I am happy with Three’s web surfing and coverage but less happy with the email application. And I will look more carefully at the next phone I get to check battery life and durability as failure on these fronts makes any special features redundant.

Make sure you read the comments as they are sure to bemoan restaurants left off the list and criticise those included.

This post was edited as the link changed on the website.

I currently pay £20 per month on the lowest Flext plan. They have offered to reduce it to £15 per month, but this does not include a new phone.

However new customers are offered the same tariff for £15 per month and they get a new phone.

Each month my phonebill is over £20 due to data access charges, so I am not a terrible customer, but I am very disappointed on what has been offered.

So I shall be leaving T-mobile this week.

I wish the people at work would read this before going out for a Chinese!

It’s really frowned upon to suck or lick your chopsticks, then help yourself to more food from the shared dishes! This is unhygienic and will put fellow diners off their food. Chinese people are really particular about food hygiene.

Apparently he has just become children’s laureate:

Michael Rosen, who was today appointed children’s laureate, set out his stall for the two-year stint with a pledge to fight to bring back into classrooms a love of reading for pleasure.

The above book scan comes from the ‘Oxford Reading Tree’, see his comment about it:

“It’s taken a long time for my daughter to bring a picture book home from school because she’s been bringing home the Oxford Reading Tree day after day, week after week. The idea that that’s what the school provides to children in her class who might not encounter other books horrifies me. We don’t care about lists of words. We care about the Gruffalo. So why aren’t kids bringing home The Gruffalo?”

Anyway, belated congratulations Michael.

Clearly, I have gone with web-ready version, as you can never be too sure about whether certain colours can be rendered on certain systems. Also, why be imaginative, when you can use Helvetica as your chosen typeface?

Obviously it cost a little less than £400k, so if Seb Coe and the others are interested, I would be more than willing to provide my services.

However, I have been using Facebook this last couple of months and I think this is having a different effect on me.

But the effect is borne of jealousy. When I see old school friends and it says they work at BarCap or UBS, or they are living in New York or Singapore. Or that they are self-emplyed, I feel a little insignificant working as an employee at a small local business.

Instead of looking back on your life at 70 and having regrets and thinking of what could of been. People linking up with friends from 10 years ago are looking back sooner, at a point when they can do something about it.

Looking back and taking action now, so as to live life without regrets or false ideas of what could have been.

It has amused and bemused in equal measure in my office.