Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Review N70 + Yahoo: Trying out Yahoo! oneSearch™ shortcut on my Nokia N70: Greeted by an error message.


Yahoo! oneSearch™ shortcut.
Get faster answers on your Nokia phone.


I just entered my Smart telephone number and Yahoo texted me the link to get the Yahoo Mobile Services.
I've had the N70 for 2 years so Yahoo is not built in. Result:

Sorry the Page you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Yahoo Error Code 004 Cannot retrieve Source.

I then clicked on the Yahoo link and selected Download Yahoo Go 3.0! (761 KB).
It opened another site where I had to scroll down to ACTUALLY download the thing.
Install Yahoo Go? Y/N
Im beginning to think that a WINDOWS programmer created the Series 60 Nokia OS.
Too many questions!
It's now installing.
I'm actually not sure of ONE SEARCH and Go is the same thing. But I'm trying it out anyway.
Who did these product names? They're so hard to understand.

Okay, It said, Close Browser and Open it again.
Very Windows.
This N70 with Smart is taking its sweet time CLOSING DOWN.
Remember, I'm not interested in using Yahoo as a Mobile Start Page. I want that oneSearch.
I now go to Menu --< My Own and select Yahoo Go!
Allow Yahoo Go to access network?
Select Network
You can see how it's going to be impossible for people to use this on a MASS SCALE.
TOO MANY QUESTIONS and all I wanted to do was do a search for the new IPOD NANO 4G!
Select Your Country
WOW. Isn't that kinda obvious from the LOCATION DATA the phone has of the cell sites?
Accept or Decline TOS (Terms of Service)
Do you have a Yahoo ID? Yes/No
Enter Username and Password
Select Access Point
Signing in.
It says It can connect my email to the phone. I'm not interested and it's not giving me a choice but to wait.
This feels like one of those INFO windows give to entertain you during a long install.
It's still signing in.
Ok. That wasn't what I expected to have on my phone.
Eventually I went back to the phone's Yahoo menu and selected OneSearch
It installed and now it's working!!!
Search that works faster than you can type.
One click access to search. Now I can see that the 3G is working so I have to turn it off because I will be charged.

But I install the Messenger portion first before I do that.
It asks me for username and password.
It's taking time to Sign In

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