{"id":212,"date":"2007-07-31T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:30:14","slug":"communicator-9500-two-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Communicator 9500, two years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I cancelled my order of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nokia_E90_Communicator\">E90 Communicator<\/a>. As a typical vaporware stunt,  the phone was announced over six months ago and the first retailers listed it in early June. I ordered mine right away. Two months of waiting, and my retailer says he hasn&#8217;t received any units so far .<\/p>\n<p>Ok. I decided to save the money and invest in stock markets instead. I&#8217;ll stick with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=5\">my 9500<\/a> for the foreseeable future. Some of its major problems are (1) useless wifi (too difficult to configure everytime),  (2) no spam filter in email, (3) sync with my Mac laptop does not work (it did for a little while but does no longer), etc. On the positive side, I recently updated the battery and I can still keep the stand-alone fax functionality which is notoriously absent in new Nokia models. I need the fax almost weekly to receive all kinds of papers from Finnish courts. Fax is their standard mean of communication and I cannot change that fact &#8211; regardless of what this blog&#8217;s name suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I cancelled my order of a new E90 Communicator. As a typical vaporware stunt, the phone was announced over six months ago and the first retailers listed it in early June. I ordered mine right away. Two months of waiting, and my retailer says he hasn&#8217;t received any units so far . Ok. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Communicator 9500, two years on&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}