Well, it has been a couple of months now that I’ve had my new Nokia 6100 cell phone on the T-Mobile network, so I thought I’d provide a quick update on how I am getting on with it:

Coverage: For the most part OK. Somewhat annoyingly though my apartment in Alameda is a dead spot (except for when I place the handset on my pillow and use the hands free cord!). Other parts of the bay area have been great for the most part (we have had calls dropped on hospital curve where AT&T was dropping calls every time, but mostly it works flawlessly). The Chandler area in Arizona was not a problem either – it worked perfectly everywhere I tried from the Phoenix airport to Chandler. Tahoe was a little hit and miss though; in the cabin we rented there was almost no signal (though that seemed to be true for all networks we had represented).

Phone: The phone has been great. It is small, light-weight and contains almost all the features I’d like. The one missing thing is the camera, which I wanted to play with more than use seriously so I didn’t mind dropping it from my list when we went shopping in favour of the small size handset. Now though I have discovered a headset + camera accessory for the 6100, so I am going to try to get one and check it out.

Customer Support: Excellent. What more can I say. My 6100 is not a T-Mobile supported/branded phone so it did not come set up with all the GPRS settings for the internet and multi-media message services. I sent them an email last night through their support website, and this morning (Sunday morning!) I had a response with all the information needed to set up both services on my phone.

According to this article in The Register a man with my name has been providing advice to the US president about national security in cyberspace and Wi-Fi networks. Seems he also had some problems getting his wireless network setup in its secure mode.

This reminded me about Googlism – the site where you can enter your name and find out who you really are. My results do include my national security advising alter-ego, but only towards the bottom of the list.

I know I said no more toilets, but this has to be seen to be believed. Check out “Kisses – the sexy urinal.”

They are still in the prototype stage, and no idea of the price is given, but they are aiming for a production run of 500 in May of this year.

Bathroom Mania, the company behind this design, also has some other designs:

• Good Morning Sunshine – a flower pot design
• Handy the towel rack
• Splish Splash – a hammock inspired bathtub
• Summertime – a beach-cabin shower design.