Nokia 6131 Black

• Slim, stylish fold design with innovative, one-hand push-to-open operation
• Dual displays: 16-million "true" colours inside and 262,144 colours outside
• Active standby on enhanced Series 40 UI
• Light indication on outer display for missed calls/SMS/calendar reminders
• 1.3-megapixel camera with full-screen viewfinder for both main and outer display
• Email with attachments
• XHTML browser
• Enhanced messaging with recently used contacts and groups
• Clearly separated keys for easy dialing and messaging
• MP3 player and FM stereo radio with Visual Radio
• Fast browsing and downloads with EDGE
• MicroSD memory cards available as enhancements (optional)

Full Specifications of the Nokia 6131

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE coverage on up to five continents (GSM 850/900/1800/1900)
• Automatic switching between bands

• Weight: 102 g
• Dimensions: 92 x 48 x 20 mm

• Main display: Active TFT QVGA display supports up to 16,777,216 colours (320 x 240 pixels, 2.2 inches)
• Outer display: Active TFT display supports up to 262,144 colours (128 x 160 pixels, 1.36 inches)
  - Light indication on outer display for missed calls/SMS/calendar reminders
• Clearly separated keys for easy dialing and messaging
• Demo mode (phone demo without SIM card)

• 1.3-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom (1280 x 960 pixel resolution)
• Full-screen viewfinder for both main and outer display
• Camera key for taking pictures
• PictBridge printing via USB cable

• Simplified messaging with recently used contacts log and groups
• Email: Access your work and private email accounts; supports SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 protocols. Support for attachments (Java version)
• Xpress audio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devices
• MMS OMA 1.2: Combine image, video, text, and voice clips and send as an MMS to a compatible phone or PC; use MMS to tell your story with a multi-slide presentation. The MMS OMA 1.2 specification allows you to send/receive messages up to 300 kB in size.
• Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
• Predictive text input: Support for all major languages in Europe and Asia-Pacific
• Presence: Includes Wireless Village, Instant Messaging, and Dynamic phonebook; know someone's status before you call

• MP3 player supporting formats including MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, H.263, H.264 (eAAC+ only playback no streaming)
• Improved audio quality with new speaker
• FM stereo radio with Visual Radio
• Video streaming (3GPP)
• Video ringing tones
• MIDI ringing tones up to 64 polyphonies

• Combo memory with 32 MB flash and 16 MB RAM - about 11 MB user data (11 MB user memory: 10 MB for gallery and applications, 1 MB for contacts, notes, calendar entries)
• Hotswap microSD memory card slot supporting up to 2GB microSD memory cards (available as enhancements) **

• Java™ MIDP 2.0 with over-the-air download of Java-based applications and games
• Wireless presenter (PC application on webpage)
• Nokia Sensor application for improved networking
• Games: 3D Soccer and Snake

• Nokia PC Suite with USB, Bluetooth and IrDa connectivity
• Pop-Port™ interface with USB
• Local/remote SyncML data synchronization

• Integrated XHTML browser
• Smart content download - OMA Digital rights management 1.0

• EDGE (EGPRS)*: Class 10, download up to 236.8 kbps
• GPRS: (General Packet Radio Service)*: Class 10, download up to 85.6 kbps

• Manage your time and information with the enhanced calendar, and view your notes on the new active standby mode
• Organizer with calendar, to-do list, notes and calculator
• Alarm clock, Countdown timer (normal and interval timer)

• Speed dialing
• Logs: Keeps lists of your dialed, received, and missed calls
• Automatic answer (works with headset or car kit only)
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert, call timer

• Push to talk: Select the person or group you want to talk to and press the Push to talk key (long press of volume up key) to communicate
• Enhanced voice dialing with SIND: Speaker-independent name dialing on long press volume down key
• Integrated handsfree speaker with new high quality speaker for better audio experience
• Voice commands
• Voice recorder

Specifications

Testing the Waters

Flavored water's new-found popularity is encouraging, because water is the single most important nutrient for your body, regulating temperature and filtering out waste, and it makes up 60% of your weight. Ready to take the flavored plunge? Here's my three-step plan for healthfully navigating the sea of options.

1. Avoid sugar and artificial sweeteners

Flavored waters are typically sweetened with natural sugarcane or fructose (fruit sugar) rather than high fructose corn syrup, the sweetener found in soda that's linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes. But some 16-ounce bottles provide as many as 180 calories, just 20 shy of a same-size Coca-Cola Classic. That's important because research shows that caloric beverages aren't filling. When Purdue University scientists fed two groups the same number of calories from either soda or jelly beans for 28 days, the candy group naturally compensated by eating less food—while the soda group did not. In the end, the jellybean eaters' weights stayed the same, but the soda group gained weight. If you don't burn it off, a bottle-a-day habit can add 19 pounds to your frame over a year.

And artificial sweeteners aren't the solution. When researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio followed more than 1,000 people for 8 years, they found that on average, for each diet soft drink consumed per day, the chances of becoming overweight or obese jumped about 37%. This is probably due to an interesting phenomenon other studies have found: Even "fake" sugars increase the preference for sweets.

2. Keep it natural

We think of water as pure, but even waters that seem wholesome can be loaded with artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives (I call them "Twinkie" waters). Look beyond the label and check the ingredient list. You may see plenty of words more reminiscent of a chemistry lab than a mountain spring, such as sodium hexametaphosphate (a flavor protector also used in ceramics), sodium benzoate (a preservative and precursor to benzene, acknowledged by the FDA as a known cancer-causing substance), and ETDA (a stabilizer used in laundry detergents). Only buy brands that have terms you recognize.

3. Beware of health promises

You've probably seen flavored waters that promise to calm you or boost energy. They are typically fortified with vitamins, minerals, caffeine, and herbs like passion flower. But some don't have studies to back their claims. One supposed metabolism-boosting water, for example, offers no published studies using the water itself, nor is there evidence that the key ingredient is effective for weight loss. Also, waters that are heavily fortified with vitamins and minerals may actually suppress your immune system if your combined vitamin/mineral intake from food and these waters boosts you over acceptable limits.

Bottom line: Don't look to waters to meet nutrient needs or provide benefits above and beyond hydration. Water itself is pretty great on its own!

Eat smart today!

My 4 Favorite Flavored Waters

Each of these bottled brands keeps it simple. They're calorie free with just a hint of natural flavoring to entertain your tastebuds.

1. Ayala flavors include Jasmine Vanilla, Ginger Lemon Peel, and Cloves Cardamom Cinnamon

2. Hint flavors include Pomegranate Tangerine, Raspberry Lime, and Cucumber

3. Metromint flavors include Peppermint, Spearmint, and Chocolatemint

4. Wateroos flavors include Apple, Berry, and Grape

Jazz Up Plain Water

For a cheaper—and just as tasty—alternative, try these do-it-yourself tips:

Tangy

Squeeze in wedges of lemon, lime, tangerine, or pink grapefruit, or mix water with unsweetened infused herbal-flavored tea.

Sweet

Chill with cubes made from 100% juice, bits of real fruit, citrus zest, and spices, or add a splash of 100% juice such as white grape or apple.

Spicy

Stir in fresh mint, lemongrass, or grated ginger.

Triggers are certain foods, situations and feelings that prompt us to overeat and gain weight or prevent current or future weight loss. Different people have different triggers when on a diet. For some people boredom is a trigger, for others it's stress; for some people it's a party, for others it's being alone. People bottom line need much better food nutrition. No matter what your individual triggers are they bar your way to successful weight loss. If you have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight before, one of the things that have prevented your success was that you never learned to identify or control the trigger foods, situations and feelings that cause unconscious overeating. You never turned "I'm out of control" into "No, I'm in control".

See if you can relate to this pattern: It starts out slowly. Something prompts you to eat some of the foods you cut back on while you were dieting. Perhaps you are at a movie, or feelings stressed, or simply smell some freshly backed cookies. You feel a little deprived because of your dieting and so you decide to just treat yourself with certain foods you used to eat when you felt stressed. Believing you are in total control of those foods now, you test the waters and decide to have "just a little bit" of them. However, "just a little bit" pretty soon grows to be, "a little bit more" and then rapidly progresses to "a lot more". Before you know it, you are right back where you are started in terms of food control. Then your weight starts inching upwards.

The trip-up point is this patter is where you cannot recognize that certain foods you "gave up" while dieting are not foods you can just start eating again once you have lost weight. The realities are that certain foods, especially eaten at certain places or while experiencing specific feelings, have the power to control you.

How to Turn "I'm out of control" into "No, I'm in control.

Like any behavioral change, learning how to control triggers is a process. Awareness of the influence of triggers and acknowledgement that they are deterring you from your weight loss goals is the starting point for this process. After that, it can be broken down into four steps to help to understand how to lose weight and keep it off for good.

1) Identify
Identifying the foods, situations and feelings that trigger unconscious overeating is your first step. The best way to do this is by using a journal. You can divide it up into three sections for each of your trigger foods, situations and feelings, or just note everything in one place.

2) Decide
Once you have identified a number of trigger foods, feelings and situations, your next step is to decide that you are going to learn to control them. Believe in your ability to do this.

3) Stop
The best way to control your triggers and increate food nutrition, therefore, is to consistently stop responding to them. Not just for a day, a week or a month. Not just while you are trying to lose weight, but until you can control the conditioned eating habit, and in some cases this may mean permanently. True control means that you, not the trigger decides where, when, and what you will eat. On the other hand, if you have a problem say for instance eating popcorn at the movies, not responding to the trigger does not mean you can never eat popcorn again.

4) Practice
Controlling weight loss triggers takes practice. Now that you have an understanding of triggers, put into effect what you have learned. Use the following as examples.

* Trigger Situations
- Write a statement describing the trigger situation. Phrase it in the past tense: "I used to eat while watching TV".

* Trigger Foods
- Write down what your favorite foods were as a child, a teenager, a young adult, and now. Have they changed? For most people they do, which tells us that taste buds can change over time and with choice. Think about how you learned to like the taste of alcohol for example!

* Trigger Feelings
- write down several of your trigger feelings and state why you respond to the food in that way. For example, "I eat after a stressful situation because food calms me."

Remember, weight loss and maintaining a diet involves dealing with triggers to stay aware and think before you eat. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. 

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