Figures
After buying their Ultimate 6150 I'm not surprised. Here are problems that I consider to be basic failures in the device:
1. The back/battery cover clip glue only holds for a few weeks. I've found that I super glue it it lasts many months. I replaced it with a new back cover one time. Since that glue was just as bad as the first I've super glued it since then.
2. The OS bug in windows mobile since pocket pc 2003/2003se time where you can't have files open off the storage card though a suspend is not fixed. At least I could fix this with a registry change on my e830 but no luck with this. I figured they'd fix it with the WinMo 6.1 update. At least they did release WinMo 6.1 but it did not fix the problem! This is a huge pain!!! I can't believe any company would release a pda/phone, advertise it as a high end device, and have this bug.
3. Does not support MicroSDHC. It's sad that I'm stuck with only a 2GB card in this. My e830 had 6GB of storage with a 4GB CompactFlash and a 2GB SD.
4. One reason I got it was because it has an nvidia GoForce 5500 - which is a gpu with a lot of power for video, 3d graphics, enhanced audio, and more. There is no software that supports it!!! I even downloaded a call of duty demo or something that was supposed to support the GoForce 5500 and that doesn't run on it. The only plus from the graphics adapter is that the phone came with the vga out cable and that does work well. I have a projector at home so it's cool to use it there but I haven't had much need for that. It is impressive when you're using it to do web browsing with Opera on a full monitor. It looks like desktop PC doing web browsing. Last time I tried this it didn't work though. I don't know if a newer version of opera broke the fact that it worked with the vga out or what.
So now I guess I'm stuck. It's still a good device and it runs everything I want it to. It's just a real pain that I have to be extra careful with the back cover and I need to shut down any apps that run off the storage card, or apps with files open from the storage card, before I suspend the device. It would really be nice if it could take MicroSDHC cards. I can't believe they didn't fix that with some software patch.
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