The Mr Nutcase Review Part 1 - Ordering

Hi all.

A few weeks back we received an email from phone and tablet custom case manufacturers Mr Nutcase to see about a review we jumped onto it like tigger on a big bounce!

Mr Nutcase has a wide selection of the most popular phone cases available, with everything from Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry to iPhone custom cases they have it all for the major manufacturers, including many budget devices too. It was quite refreshing to see so many models supported, I'd like a bit of love for the Alcatel or Mobile carriers OEM Devices but I understand that's not always possible.

Why two part I hear you say! Well it's simple, I've just ordered the case now so it's best to explain how the ordering process went to you all without wake up fuzzybrain tomorrow, plus I'm an idiot who may forget to do write this bit otherwise.

On visiting the site you're presented with a friendly site with an easy to follow interface and clear, but stern instructions and warnings along the way so you don't make any mistakes. The only two complaints I have are the page layout, at a screen resolution of 1280 by 1024 i have to scroll down a lot to change the lower settings. additionally I dislike clip art. It reminds me of the (crashtastic) good old days of Office 95...... Thankfully there is not a lot of clip art so it's something many will not play with. I think so far that's the only complaint, but I bet some people like it. Talking on here about it is one thing but seeing an order placed is better. so I've actually filmed me creating an order for you to see how easy it is. The case you see here is the case we'll be reviewing in the next 24-48 hours or so. I'm in the good books with the wife too now, thanks Mr Nutcase.


The ordering process was simple and easy. As long as you understand how images work and understand placement at certain times to avoid camera, speaker and button cut-outs on crucial points on your case all will be fantastic. For image editing in a simple fashion, Paint in windows7 may be able to help or free software the Gimp could do the job splendidly well.

So far Mr Nutcase have done well in my eyes. We'll see how the case comes through and how much theJess likes it when the case arrives.

What sort of case would you order?

Paul.

Throwback Thursday

Well. This is a strange one today,

This week I was given my fathers old cellphone today and thought I'd give you a treat from 2003. Here is the Nokia 3510i.

A pioneering device from when Nokia acutally made hardcore devices for all sectors, what makes this device more epic is it's one of the first Symbian s40 colour devices sold in the masses, including the variants for CDMA and AMPS, yes many versions were created.
On top of this it was also one of the first phones I knew of that came in with either a mono (3510) or colour (3510i) display and Polyphonic(marketing buzzwork for Midi music files)

This phone has been shelved since my father passed away, but surprisingly on sunday when i charged it it worked fantastically. And has lasted on one charge since.

The screen is clear and bright, well as bright as any nokia was in 2003. The only thing missing which i will be sorting if i can find my fbus data cables is Snake.

The point of this post is the memories. My old man struggled with technology, where i feel he would have thrived now as things get easier to use over time. But he did get a good easy to use device.

Now onto a question for you.

What older device do you miss or still use to this day?
Paul.

P.S. This phone is going to be a special project device for a post i've got on Dadzclub.

Hey! Tesco Mobile repair center!

Backstory:

He showed it to me with a similar mark on the screen a few weeks back. I told him to be careful with it while i call Vodafone/Huawei for advice on the matter. as while the bubble was there it was pushing down on the phone causing damage to the display.

On phoning Vodafone they advised me it's a common issue and would be repaired under a standard warranty. Woohoo!  As we'd bought it from a Tesco store I knew It was them who would have the last say but wanted Vodafone's thoughts on it. To Tesco we will go the following day!

Overnight it vanished. That day the screen broke, with lines down one side of the screen. There was no cracking or damage to the gorilla glass I assume this bubble increased in size causing a chip on film for the LCD to fail. 

Tesco's phone shop Dunstable have been fantastic throughout they could see the problem and the people we spoke to on the phone in the mini store were also fab. If only they could have booked the phone in for repair and sent it from story It would save the Royal mail cock up.

Royal mail lost the phone, or the phone was lost in a backlog. 

Found last week, so I guess it was backlogs. It was fixed and sent back. in a flimsy jiffybag. I kid you not a standard thin jiffy bag, compared to me posting it in wrapped in three jiffy bags for protection that's a fail! 

It came back to us Thursday and by Friday morning the air bubble had come back!  So it was off to Tesco again. The phone was obviously not repaired properly. On talking to a lovely lady It was suggested i "post it in sooner next time" When i explained it went missing in the post or was stuck in tesco's backlog she apologized, re-booked it in and promised me all will be sorted properly this time! 

I genuinely hope so as I've had to buy my son a £15 vdafone alcatel budget phone (he's in love with it mind you) to keep him connected to his friends. So I'm out of pocket for this. But spare phones are useful the way things are going!

However the bubble vanished again this morning. So I've informed tesco of this. I just hope they repair the issue properly. it looks like the bond between the gorilla glass, digitisr and LCD is too weak, the phone makes noise in your hand too. A sign of poor build quality. Which is a shame as the phone is awesome bar the screen issue. Made more annoying as we've already upgraded his line to a decent sim only deal, we could have got a new phone for him if we knew this would happen! 

I've read about it on Vodafone's Eform, Modaco forums, private blogs, the lady i spoke to at tesco's today, and many other online pages. some suggest pushing the back some say get it swapped. 

But PLEASE Tesco. Fix it properly this time! For the sake of a 13 year old who needs his phone to keep him going (trust me on this please)

Pauil 

Sad to be leaving you Nokia

It's time to move on. 

I'm sorry, Nokia. I truly am saddened by this decision.

I've sold my E6 and C3-01 and purchased a Huawei Ascend P1s( the s does not stand for 'Sorry. Not 4g')

Why have I done this you may ask, what's made a Nokia purist (as called by some) move to android. An OS which i hated in the LG optimus1?

Here's the situation. I've owned Nokia phones since the emergence of GSM devices in the UK and loved and hated them in some cases. But since the move to Windows phone with Elop. They've made (in my eyes) a humongous mess of things.

I wanted the pureview. however Nokia sold the WP7 platform to the networks over the 41megapixel-oversampling megaphone with Symbian which people wanted. leaving many lost for words.
Then decided to ditch this technology and make a different tech for lumia handsets with the same name.

Then the marketing. The pureview 808 was used for allsorts of photographic goodness, sadly most of this was highlighted by sites like Symbian tweet, all about Symbian and others.
When the lumia was marketed they were using films shot on the N8 to advertise the lumia 800. (every day on* channel five for a few weeks) many thought the lumia made these films/productions when the aging N8 was the star.
Whereas now they hide behind a professional film crew and photoshop to demonstrate the lumia 920's power without using the lumia's sensor. That sucks balls.

The final nail in the coffin was the face current lumia owners could not update to Windows phone 8, but are still "supported with windows phone7.7" or something silly. Also apple style marketing BS on why the lumia 920 does not have SD functionality sounds pathetic unless your an apple fanboi.

At this same time unlocked/vanilla Symbian belle devices are stuck waiting for updates to fix bugs that previous updates caused. and telling us the same BS, then claiming the device is network branded (i won it in a compo, it's vanilla according to your repair team)


Sadly Nokia. I see why Ricky Cadden and Dr Rita El Khoury Both got fed up with Nokia, causing them to close the site they both ran together (with a lot of awesome writers), Symbian-guru.com  With quotes like these From Ricky "I can’t continue to support a manufacturer who puts out such craptastic ‘flagships’ as the N97, and who expects me to use services that even most of Nokia’s own employees don’t use"
and from Rita, "I swear I could get a VISA, buy an airplane ticket, travel to Texas and talk to Ricky in person before Nokia Messaging for IM loads and opens a conversation with him on my N97 Mini." In their Final blogpost on Symbian guru (archived) I really suggest you read it, as it's a scary insight into the woes of the average symbian user. This should have been the wake up call to Nokia. But it seems this was not. Especially looking back at the mess they made of the belle updates, (E6 users have been forgot about once. Then it happened again this month)
 (Note: this part of the post has been edited)


Well for the next 2 year i'm staying on Android. (currently Ice cream Sandwich) and while I am. Please nokia listen to the fat git who Loves Symbian and Nokia. Being on android makes me feel like i'm cheating on you. but I have no choice. I only have my E71 left here as the floozy phone for blog events i attend.

you have two years to turn it around. make Nokia amazeballs again please. Right now it looks impressive, but still looks uncertain for many people.

I still love you nokia. that will never end. but for now it's time for us to take some time apart.

Paul

Thanks to Ricky Cadden and Dr Rita El Khoury for allowing me to quote them over on the archive at  Symbian-guru

Drop them a visit at MobileRNR, Rickycadden.com Or Phonearena