Using opera on a 3 6680

weeslip

Just bought a 6680 from 3. Everything is grand so far. however, i am unable to get opera to connect. Anyone had any luck.

When i install opera it launches fine and wants to do a test. It asks me to choos e one of my connection profiles. I have two options - 3 & 3mms - regardless of which one i choose i am unable to get a connection. Any help appreciated as the 3 browser is poor to say the very least.

Cheers

BuffyBot

I'd imagine it's due to 3 now allowing customers to access anything outside of their "walled garden". The only web content you can get with 3 is what 3 offers you.

weeslip

is that the official line from them, surely some work arounds must be in place. would be pretty miffed if that was the case. real bummer

Blaster99

It is definitely the official line. They have a white list, but God knows what's on it. Presumably particular sites they want to link to or whatever.

I have to say I saw no point in buying the 6680 with 3 as you can't do any of the internetie stuff with it. In fact, the whole 3G thing is pretty pointless with 3 as you can't access any content other that whatever ****e they want to peddle. I only went with them for the call savings.

BuffyBot

is that the official line from them

Yup.

weeslip

so no way around this, any way to proxy access through a 3 approved site. Or can these 3 phones be flashed at all?

theothernt

Hi,

It's the same situation in the UK. If there was a way around it, I'm sure someone would have found it by now. The simple fact is that your phone runs on the 3 network. They control your internet access. They only allow you to see the content they want.

Flashing your phone, etc won't make a difference. For *full* internet access you'll change network to O2, Meteor or Vodafone. That said, regular internet access via a mobile phone is very expensive! Do check the GRPS / 3G data costs before switching!

- Neil

bpmurray

I went to 3 and when I realized that they didn't have Internet access, I told them to keep their service & give me my money back. If you've only been there for 14 days or less, I think you can switch.

Sam Vimes

i like 3's wall garden. the only time i ever used gprs were when it connected in my pocket and charged me loads. can't happen anymore

Jam Man

My friend in the UK can now access other sites on 3 like Ebay etc.

He pays a monthly amount (£2.50) and that grants full access to all the sites they allow access to.

This is what the UK website says:

With Mobile Web Sites you can get more news & entertainment from the likes of the BBC and Sky – but that’s not all.

You can bid and track on auction sites like eBay, compare prices and buy CD’s & books on sites like Amazon or even log-on to MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail.

Finding Mobile Web Sites is easy – each handset has a Top 5 list of the most popular sites as well as grouping by categories such as News, Entertainment & Sport.


They also have a 'suggest a site' bit on their UK website so maybe we'll see that over here soon?

weeslip

yes, i have spoken to the 3 helpdesk about this and they are saying that it is being tested for the irish market but no dates yet. Seemingly it took three years to roll it out for the uk market, which i find very strange.

Does anybody now anyone working for three in ireland. I would like to speak with somebody with a more focused view on three ireland and not a very sexy but pretty unhelpful scottish voice.

weeslip

and its not just not being able to access other sites that annoys me. The wealth of applications for the series 60 platform is amazing, but a good deal less so when you rule out those that require and active internet access point.

The phone and browsing speed really are amazing, gives us the chance to use all the capabilities of the phone and next generation network. I will pay you for the pleasure. I'll pay my 45 euro for 400 any time minutes and would love to get 5mb of data for 10 euro. I think three are going to do themselves serious damage if they keep restricting users choice to pretty useless video clips and annoying ringtone download for 3 euros. None of which i will ever buy.


Sorry - rant now nearly over.

BuffyBot

I would like to speak with somebody with a more focused view on three ireland and not a very sexy but pretty unhelpful scottish voice.

As their customer support is based there, I doubt you'll have much luck elsewhere.

1huge1

ya 3 ireland has a lot to do to catch up with there Uk counterparts
come on look at the websites

www.three.co.uk
www.three.ie or www.3ireland.ie (both get you to the same site)

Blaster99

weeslip wrote:

Does anybody now anyone working for three in ireland. I would like to speak with somebody with a more focused view on three ireland and not a very sexy but pretty unhelpful scottish voice.

3 has no presence in Ireland, it's all run from the UK. This is presumably how they can deliver the prices; no unnecessary overheads to cover this little piddly market.

weeslip

they must have an address somewhere in ireland. Surely they need some presence in the country. I see a waterford man is the ceo but i cannot find any mentiond of an office. Does anybody have any idea of where they are based??

Or even better anybody know anyone working for them?

BuffyBot

They have an office in Dublin, the address in on the website - however, no support is done from there - I suspect it's a bare bones operation.

Blaster99

I wonder how many sq ft that PO Box is.

1huge1

i think thats were they post the bill and thats it

weeslip

yeah, a po box isn't an address i can call around to and vent :-). I spoke to a techie in scotland and he's going to see if they are actually testing internet access in Ireland and if so if they need any help :-). No harm in trying.

WetDaddy

Well, it might seem a little off-topic, but I managed to share my DSL connection with my 6680 across bluetooth. Nokia had previously decided / been told by the operators that they weren't to allow TCP/IP traffic to be transmitted via bluetooth's on some their handsets.

All so the operators could charge you an arm and a leg in GPRS and 3G data!

It was more out of curiosity than anything else. It's not really hugely useful cos of bluetooth's limited range except for checking things like teletext when I'm downstairs at the teletext-less TV or browsing the web in the jacks

One thing it is good for, however, is updating the phone's applications using auto-updates, etc. So if you want to do that, you might check it out these links:

http://web.singnet.com.sg/~kinston/Bluetooth%20Internet.htm
http://gnubox.dnsalias.org/gnubox/sharing.html
http://gnubox.dnsalias.org/gnubox/
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mraento/symbian/bt-ap.html

It's a little messy and can take some fidgeting, but if you're interested in it have a crack. And drop me a PM if you get stuck. Essentially, what Nokia did they stopped new Access Points being set up via the phone's UI. What I did was set up a bluetooth connection as an Access Point and emulating a serial port direct data cable connection to the PC, I enabled IP routing on my desktop and presto, Bob's rummaging around in your Aunt's closet while she's off in Marbella with the girls.

I'm with Vodafone. Never knew that about 3's limiting of net browsing. Pretty sucky, really.

weeslip

thanks for the info , its good to know that it is open to some form of hacking.