EUI 5 A Side Tournament - Part 2

Yesterday evening was match two for the E-1337s. It was definitely a tougher game than the first, but we came through and after 40 minutes we were winning.
In the actual tournament that would have given us the win, but since this was just a friendly we continued playing which ultimately resulted in our defeat.

In our defence, we were missing a number of players so could not make any substitutions, and had to borrow a player for one of the other competing teams, compared to our 10+ strong opposition who were regularly making changes.

On the whole we didn't do too badly, few more training sessions and we should be ready for the tournament start next Thursday.

EUI 5 A Side Tournament - Part 1

Last night was the first training session for the "E-1337s" computing services 5 a side team, which really showed us what sitting at a desk all day does to the fitness.

Having said that though we didn't do too badly and we did win in the end.
We did however end up with injuries to almost every player.

Not put off by the injuries, we will be training again on Thursday against the Library team, which will hopefully give us a taste of what the competition will be like.

Nokia E71 At a Glance

So now I have my E71 and have been playing with it a bit over the weekend.

At first it was a bit tricky getting used to a few things, such as locating where particular settings were hidden.
Once I finished my personalising of the phone and having dug through the menus for a while things became clearer.

This is probably the first phone where I have actually liked one of the built in themes.

I've had time to have a play with a few of the Google apps such as maps, mail and youtube; all of which are really easy to use and do not impact on the phone's performance (unlike my last phone).

I had previously read and heard that the email manager wasn't particularly nice on the eyes, but in my opinion I don't think it's that bad.

Battery life is amazing, I have been hammering the phone now for three days and still the battery has not died.

A fun quirk I found was the facility to have the phone read a message or email in a very Steven Hawking-esque voice which provides some entertainment.

All in all I would say that this was a good buy and would definitely recommend the phone to anyone. (I may later retract this statement if I find something that really irritates me about the phone).

The only difficulty I have encountered so far is joining to my wireless network at home. MAC address filtering had to be disabled and I found typing my 63 character key was a little tedious only for it to tell me it could not connect.

I have now managed to join my wireless and all is good :)

I will continue to post on my experiences with the E71, which hopefully will all be good.

Why I (Now) Dislike Freecom

I had previously had no gripes with Freecom at all. I owned an 8gb pendrive and a 16gb by them, both of which functioned perfectly for some time.
Today however, I found that my 16gb pendrive is totally dead, formatting does not fix it as the partition shortly disappears again.

Fortunately the 8gb of data that was on there is mostly backed up in other locations (thank you dropbox).

I will probably replace the now dead pendrive since having 16gb of storage capacity in the pocket is rather convenient.

I will definitely not be purchasing a Freecom pendrive.

This opinion may seem a little harsh, but at the time of writing this I am rather bitter about the loss of my data (regardless of the backup).

Nokia E71 Thoughts

At the end of the week I will be obtaining a new Nokia E71.
Hopefully this will be much more reliable and feature rich than my current phone.

My thoughts and opinion early next week ...