Like so many other Cell phone carriers, Helio has encumbered their devices with draconian restrictions in an attempt to steer their (apparently cash hemorrhaging) customers into overpriced proprietary media downloads. The Fin (and many other Helio Kit) are plenty capable of decoding mp3s and playing arbitrary media as a ringtone or other event notification; the fact that you can’t do this out of the box is possibly the greatest annoyance conceived of in the history of cellular technology. Fret not though, the no-custom media restriction can be bypassed by tricking the phone into thinking your custom media is from a source within the network. Specifically, the Fin will allow ringtones to be set as MPEG-4 3gpp videos: videos it thinks are from other camera phones or taken itself. Continue reading ‘Setting Up Helio’s Samsung Fin with Mac OS X (part 2: Creating ringtones)’
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So I’ve recently signed up with Helio as my primary cell phone service. And, even though Helio’s Samsung phones have about the worst compatibility and support for Mac OS X, I’m stubborn and I’ll be damned if I’m not gonna use my new Fin with my Mac. This article details some of the hurdles I had to overcome to get my data flowing from my MacBook Pro to my Helio Fin. Hopefully it’ll save you some time. This first part covers bluetooth pairing and transferring of contacts from a Mac to the Helio Fin.
Continue reading ‘Setting Up Helio’s Samsung Fin with Mac OS X (part 1)’
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