Hi Beagle,
I totally agree. I do not see they sell it anymore, yet I see it all over, just as you say.
A very good feature on some newer Nokia phones, including the 6310i, is the "time limited profile". I have one profile called "Sleep", which has all signals turned off, also vibrating function. The display flashing is all that remain. When I want to sleep and not be disturbed, I set use the temp profile in night mode to end at the time I think it be reasonable I can be reached again. Then the alarm time to when I really need to get up. In this way, I sleep a lot better knowing my phone cannot disturb me, and I do not have to wake up early to turn the phone on, it does so from the temp profile.
For my Nokia 6310i, I use a shortcut of menu 3-3-3-3, that gets me straight to where I enter the time (the night profile must be profile number 3).
Also very useful!
Regarding GPRS and weather. I use sms and a subscription to
www.wxsupport.com because I find it so troublesome with GPRS. First one has to find an operator in the country who supports GPRS. Then all the local settings must be installed. Finally, when connecting, it says "establish GPRS subsription first" which I have. Bldooy useless! WHY can't they just enable it for all networks, make the phone find one that works automatically, instead of all that techno cpra!
I don't want GPRS for WAP, I want it to check email on my notebook. Presently I use internet cafes (still necessary in the year 2005!), or a rare time wireless when it cost less than overprice.