Comments on: Life with the Cocoon http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon I am me. Who are you? Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:18:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jygogatron http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon/comment-page-1#comment-7851 Jygogatron Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:03:21 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon#comment-7851 Just a wee bit about the Cocoon. The media player confuses me. While I can see why they went with MS Media player support, it being on an alarming amount of pc's (especially the pc's of the technological illitirati and luddites) but NO native iTunes support? With o2 dangling the golden carrot that is the iPhone in front of the masses this, to me at least, seems a trifle odd. And frustrating. There are a couple of 3rd party addons for iTunes to allow synching, but they are iTunes ver. dependant, and mostly unstable. I've had some bad times with this phone, which I got in-store 4 months ago. Within the first week, it stopped accepting a mains charge, and the keypad was doing funky stuff like sticking in random chars while txting, launching a browser when you least expect it... So I got the handset replaced. And the new one is broke. With the same issues. And I need to get it replaced. ( the sistuation reminds meof my first C+ code - kept goin round n round in an interesting infinite loop til drastic measures were taken...) The short of it is, o2 have said that if it is an ongoing issue, they will replace my handset each time it breaks. With another Cocoon. Which will probably break. To be replaced. Apart from that, the camera is... cheap n cheerful. No skinability, which I wouldn't use if it had it, but want to cos it doesn't. The OS is clunky and feels a bit like Win2K overdosed on demerol. To date I have found no apps on the web that let me play with the handsets OS, and o2 told me doing so was a breach of contract anyway (I called cust services, pointed out that I have an insured Cocoon handset that runs like a 3-legged dead dog, and could they kindly tell me how to hack the f*ck*r? {I once called directory enquiries whilst drunk, asking for the number of a reputable ganja dealer. They gave me the number of the local cop shop. N division. Nasty Buggers} No. Could they tell me how to get self built or freeware java apps, esp. games, onto the handset? No. Could they make my mobile Firefox work on it? No. Could they take my handset with its myriad faults, shove it up their ar*e, and give me a different model? A sagem, even? Hell no.) Anyways, enough of that. I like the phone. It just doesn't work. At the moment, I have a rather lengthy letter of complaint winging its way via snail mail to their complaints department. If anyones interested, I'll put a copy on here, and a copy of the response. Jygogatron Just a wee bit about the Cocoon. The media player confuses me. While I can see why they went with MS Media player support, it being on an alarming amount of pc’s (especially the pc’s of the technological illitirati and luddites) but NO native iTunes support? With o2 dangling the golden carrot that is the iPhone in front of the masses this, to me at least, seems a trifle odd. And frustrating. There are a couple of 3rd party addons for iTunes to allow synching, but they are iTunes ver. dependant, and mostly unstable.

I’ve had some bad times with this phone, which I got in-store 4 months ago. Within the first week, it stopped accepting a mains charge, and the keypad was doing funky stuff like sticking in random chars while txting, launching a browser when you least expect it… So I got the handset replaced. And the new one is broke. With the same issues. And I need to get it replaced. ( the sistuation reminds meof my first C+ code – kept goin round n round in an interesting infinite loop til drastic measures were taken…) The short of it is, o2 have said that if it is an ongoing issue, they will replace my handset each time it breaks. With another Cocoon. Which will probably break. To be replaced.

Apart from that, the camera is… cheap n cheerful. No skinability, which I wouldn’t use if it had it, but want to cos it doesn’t. The OS is clunky and feels a bit like Win2K overdosed on demerol. To date I have found no apps on the web that let me play with the handsets OS, and o2 told me doing so was a breach of contract anyway (I called cust services, pointed out that I have an insured Cocoon handset that runs like a 3-legged dead dog, and could they kindly tell me how to hack the f*ck*r? {I once called directory enquiries whilst drunk, asking for the number of a reputable ganja dealer. They gave me the number of the local cop shop. N division. Nasty Buggers} No. Could they tell me how to get self built or freeware java apps, esp. games, onto the handset? No. Could they make my mobile Firefox work on it? No. Could they take my handset with its myriad faults, shove it up their ar*e, and give me a different model? A sagem, even? Hell no.)

Anyways, enough of that. I like the phone. It just doesn’t work. At the moment, I have a rather lengthy letter of complaint winging its way via snail mail to their complaints department. If anyones interested, I’ll put a copy on here, and a copy of the response.

Jygogatron

]]> By: Basil http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon/comment-page-1#comment-7614 Basil Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:06:49 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon#comment-7614 Funny how all the reviews stimulated by VCCP are medicore, whilst the blogs reviewing the Cocoon before VCCP started its push were much more postive. Not sure what that says about "professional" (ie paid) bloggers. Just an observation. Funny how all the reviews stimulated by VCCP are medicore, whilst the blogs reviewing the Cocoon before VCCP started its push were much more postive. Not sure what that says about “professional” (ie paid) bloggers. Just an observation.

]]> By: Lyle http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon/comment-page-1#comment-7609 Lyle Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:55:23 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon#comment-7609 Heh, OK. Heh, OK.

]]> By: Gordon http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon/comment-page-1#comment-7605 Gordon Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:01:42 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon#comment-7605 Lyle, shush. I don't write 'professionally' here and do tend to churn out posts asap. Will correct errors later.. Lyle, shush. I don’t write ‘professionally’ here and do tend to churn out posts asap. Will correct errors later..

]]> By: Lyle http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon/comment-page-1#comment-7600 Lyle Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:35:20 +0000 http://www.onemanblogs.co.uk/index.php/archives/2007/10/12/life-with-the-cocoon#comment-7600 Still can't believe you call yourself a professional writer, though. :P "I didn’t use the camera much and, in the current climate of 5 and 7 MB models it doesn’t seem a little stingy to only offer 2MB" "As a It has most" *sigh* :P Still can’t believe you call yourself a professional writer, though. :P

“I didn’t use the camera much and, in the current climate of 5 and 7 MB models it doesn’t seem a little stingy to only offer 2MB”

“As a It has most”

*sigh* :P

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