E61, Baby!

Posted on 03.28.07 to Personal, Product Reviews, Technology by Joan

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It took me an ENTIRE week to get this sorted out. Was fiddling around with the E65, trying to get the service to work. And despite the fact that I did a hard reset on the phone TWICE and installing the Pfingo settings countless of times, I still couldn’t get the internet telephone portion of the program, Pfingo Talk, to work.

I brought the phone into StarHub today to do a swap. I’m now using the E61 (QWERTY keyboard I love you!) and have succesfully connected myself. The very patient tech support guy whom I’ve been bugging endlessly, Teng Siong, confirmed that it’s nothing I did wrongly on my part and very possibly because the phone’s buggy. I’m very pleased. Because I’ve been feeling very technologically incompetent the past week, thinking I messed up somewhere.

Now that it’s all sorted out, I am in the right frame of mind to talk about this brand spanking new service, Pfingo, from StarHub.

In a nutshell, Pfingo allows you to talk on the phone, SMS, check your emails, chat on MSN, read your RSS feeds through a wireless network. That means, you can make phone calls and WITHOUT your SIM card and the telephone numbers for this service begin with the number 3 (like how 6 is for landlines and 9 for mobiles).

The current active services are Pfingo Talk and Pfingo Active.

Pfingo Talk provides telephony and SMS services. Which means, if I use the internet connection to call Terence at work – it’s free. The same applies to SMSing. However, if I connect to a wireless LAN overseas and calls Terence back here in Singapore, I’ll be charged credits (which I can purchase). It’s only entirely free, anywhere in the world, if Terence and I both talk using level 3 numbers.

Pfingo Talk has a softphone which is a software you can download to your desktop. As long as you have a level 3 number, you can chat on the softphone. So it’s kinda like Skype, but this time, it’s available on a mobile phone.

Pfingo Active provides email, RSS feeds, MSN chats, remote storage and calendar services. You can log into the Pfingo portal online and update your calendar, or contacts, or other stuff in there and it will update your phone automatically. However, as this service is really new, I haven’t been able to sync the contacts I’ve uploaded into the portal into Pfingo Active in the mobile phone.

The solution to that, is to sync using the Pfingo Active desktop client which currently only works on a Windows OS. Obviously, I haven’t tried that yet because my home PC is something I only touch when I’m cleaning it. Apparently, you can sync all your Outlook contacts, emails, email boxes together with the Pfingo email client. The best thing about the email client: it’s PUSH MAIL! Just like the Blackberry. So each time an email comes in, you’ll receive it instantly, as long as you’re connected to Pfingo Active. I currently check my email on my Palm but that’s through GPRS.

I hope I’ve provided a comprehensive introduction to Pfingo. More to come when I’ve integrated the service into my lifestyle.

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