My E200 Showed Up Yesterday

[Jason Dunn]

When I was at Microsoft's Mobius conference last year, Orange committed to getting all attendees an E200. Well, mine showed up yesterday! I charged it up and am in the process of configuring it to be my primary phone. From a design point of view, I prefer the MPx200, but the E200 has Bluetooth and a camera, both of which I've been wanting to experiment with on the Smartphone platform, so I'll give it a go and see how things turn out. :-)

For you E200 owners out there, any tips for me?

[Qman]

Damn the delivery was right one the mark, if you get what I mean! :lol:

[encece]

Upgrade the phone with the new ROM if it has not been done already! Well Worth it.

[Mike Temporale]

Nice!

Wasn't Mobius a while back?

[Jason Dunn]

Damn the delivery was right one the mark, if you get what I mean! :lol:

Yeah, no doubt! :D

[encece]

Whats that mean?

[Qman]

Whats that mean?

It arrived on his birthday and I bet it was the second best gift he got
too! :wink:

[Jason Dunn]

Upgrade the phone with the new ROM if it has not been done already! Well Worth it.

Ok, how do I do that? :-) I went to Orange's site and I'm having trouble finding a support section with ROM images...hrmm.

[encece]

AAAhhhhh...oh yes! Happy Birthday Jason!
Here is my present to you! :)
http://web.orange.co.uk/yourphone/spv2/promo.html?id=SPVE200_ROMCodeUpgrade

[Mike Temporale]

Well, Encece beat me to it.... but hey: http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5200&highlight= ;)

[Jason Dunn]

AAAhhhhh...oh yes! Happy Birthday Jason!
Here is my present to you! :)
http://web.orange.co.uk/yourphone/spv2/promo.html?id=SPVE200_ROMCodeUpgrade

Sweet, thanks - downloaded, and preparing to install. I guess I shouldn't have spent that time last night setting things up on the phone. :roll:

[Kevin Daly]

I'm soooooooo envious.
Vodafone here have just released this as the i-mate Smartphone2, and I'm seriously tempted, especially since it has .NETCF in ROM (for instance, I've just finished converting an Amazon web service client app to Smartphone 2003, and it would be nice to try it on a real device :) ).

Aside from my terrible poverty however <cue violins>, I'm a bit discouraged by the fact that Vodafone NZ are unlikely to be forthcoming with ROM updates and things, although hopefully I'm wrong about that.

[Jason Dunn]

Ok, the install went ok - thanks for the tip! Hmm - is it me, or was everything not in ClearType before this ROM update?

[encece]

ClearType is turned on by default in the new ROM.

Someone at Smartease has made a solution for this.
Download : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smartease/SmarteaseShell-OrangeUK.cab

There are three options....
1) to enable/disable cleartype on the phone
2) to enable/disable cleartype in PIE
3) to enable persistent GPRS (The new update shuts it off everytime)

The update also puts icon files in the Accessories, Orange, Games and Programs folders that change the folder Icon to something different. If you like the original folder icons like I do...explore thru the PC and delete the icon files.

You can read more about it here as well.
http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=106441

[Kevin Daly]

I'm a bit discouraged by the fact that Vodafone NZ are unlikely to be forthcoming with ROM updates and things, although hopefully I'm wrong about that.

OK I admit I was depressed and that clouded my judgement. On reflection, while Vodafone are the carrier here and do look unlikely to offer upgrades, the local distributors are actually Carrier Devices, and I suspect they would.

So I'll shut up now.

[timfield]

the E200 has Bluetooth <snip>... which I've been wanting to experiment with on the Smartphone platform

If you have a Bluetooth (or Infrared) printer, you can play with our beta release of SmartPhonePrint to print out PIM data, including email, contacts, tasks, calendars. Note: the beta requires unlocked phone. Built-in support for lots of commercial and industrial printers, small footprint (<300kbytes):

Download and documentation page with screenshots:
http://www.fieldsoftware.com/smartphoneprintfull.htm

Same page without screenshots (good for viewing via GPRS):
http://www.fieldsoftware.com/smartphoneprint.htm


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[Ainvar]

I am looking at this smartphone to currently replace my Treo600 (nice device for a palm and I love the formfactor) but the palm os just plain sucks after using pocket pc (any version). I currently have a ipaq 5450 that I use mostly now as a normal pda with ebook funtions and I want to use it again when I need a full blown pda. I however want something I can take me when I dont wanna lug around the ipaq that can show the same data as what is on the ipaq without 3rd party software. Could this phone be the phone for me? I was looking at the xda 2 but that pricetag is a bit much for a phone/pda. I would love to have that mpx300 but I refuse to buy anything that moto makes since every phone I have had by them has had horrible build quality and bad support. So I was looking at this phone since it has bluetooth and a cool little digicam. I am also surious as to how the rf compares to a nokia 3650 phone.


Thanks!!