[Phillip Dyson]

Originally Posted by dMores

if you look at the photo of the p990i with the flip removed, it looks just like a treo.
i think that's what they were trying to accomplish ... satisfy the previous flip-lovers AND maybe get treo-style-lovers to jump into their camp.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...=pp1&pid=10336

i'm a flip-person, though

Wow, it really looks like a nice device without the flip keypad.

I used to be a flip phone person too, but after the motorola v600 I fled to a smartphone. Which was the Audiovox 5600. I knew enough not to get the mp 220. I did vow never to go with a phone that didn't have a real OS again.

[Phillip Dyson]

Originally Posted by dMores

if you look at the photo of the p990i with the flip removed, it looks just like a treo.
i think that's what they were trying to accomplish ... satisfy the previous flip-lovers AND maybe get treo-style-lovers to jump into their camp.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...=pp1&pid=10336

i'm a flip-person, though

Wow, it really looks like a nice device without the flip keypad.

I used to be a flip phone person too, but after the motorola v600 I fled to a smartphone. Which was the Audiovox 5600. I knew enough not to get the mp 220. I did vow never to go with a phone that didn't have a real OS again.

[dMores]

friends don't let friends drive textin'



i've sent the occasional message while at the wheel.
but i was one of the first people ever on the planet to have been caught driving while telephoning by the police. cost me 30 bucks, i think it was only 5 days after the law went into effect in austria

but with the px00 you COULD text while driving.

[dskeeles]

Originally Posted by Rudolf

[ie. it's possible now to either, browse or send files (ehich is essentially the same thing) WHILE you are talking. This is not possible with the current GSM/GPRS devices. Once a GSM call is running, the GPRS channel is suspeded. Once the call is over, the GPRS channel is transparently resumed and the data transfer continues.
This device however can keep the data channel withou suspending, and STILL use the voice channel.
Calling this "feature" to multi-tasin is rather misleading however.

Yep - ISTR in the GSM spec it was something like Category A,B,C devices:

A : Voice or Data session must be torn down when switching from one to the other.
B : Data session can remain connected, but must be suspended when using voice
C : Voice and Data can be streamed simultaneously

Category B devices have been around since the days of MMS (I think the T68i was one, and maybe others before it), so it's about time they got to Category C. I suspect there have been other CatC devices before now, but not sure which. Nokia Communicator, maybe?


It's interesting to see a fair number of people sticking up for a Symbian phone on a PPC forum.. I was at the Smartphone show, in a Seminar given by a professional 'Corporate Mobilisation' company, who tailor-made solutions for companies wanting to mobilise their workforce. They had access to all handheld devices equally, and were actually called "Handheld PCs Ltd", but kept picking the P910 over other devices, in the solutions they recommended. They did state "pocketability, usability, not losing all your data if the battery dies" as being common customer requirements where the P9xx won out - but this is something that WM2005 should fix. The show was a Symbian show too, so perhaps slightly biased!

Anyway - next quarter should see the P990, kJam/Wizard, and Nokia E71 all playing in roughly the same space, and roughly neck-and-neck in functionality. I'm looking at the kJam in the expectation that the Microsoft OS will let me integrate it into the home a lot more closely (Media Extender, for example). Should be fun!


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[phs]

Originally Posted by PetiteFlower

Yes for heaven's sake, please don't text and drive! That's even worse then talking on the phone!

i DON'T text and drive, heck, I don't even have a car. What I'm saying is a phone with two keypads make a lot of sense in a market where people text a lot. Most people around here find a numeric keypad better for texting than a QWERTY.

[phs]

Originally Posted by dskeeles

It's interesting to see a fair number of people sticking up for a Symbian phone on a PPC forum..

One thing going for Symbian is that you can install tons of apps without slowing down; why did they have to invent pesky DLLs in "C:\Windows", or windows registry? Why can't we go back to DOS, where the apps can be
as simple one EXE file?

Also, who needs a phone that you have to soft reset every day?

Here's hoping that the price of the XDA mini falls to rock bottom ...

[dMores]

Originally Posted by phs

Also, who needs a phone that you have to soft reset every day?

oh that's just not true. my pocketpc didn't need a daily reset, and that was with the ppc OS, the one before ppc2002.

to be fair, my p900 does sometimes freeze up or act weird and requires me to "hard reset" it. meaning i turn it off and back on.

this happens roughly every 3 months. better than my ppc, but still not completely worry-free.

[phs]

Originally Posted by dMores

oh that's just not true. my pocketpc didn't need a daily reset, and that was with the ppc OS, the one before ppc2002.

I guess it depends on what the PocketPC is used for.

I have an iPaq 2210. I used to use bluetooth a lot for sending SMS; to do that, I had to do several soft resets every day. Now I don't use it anymore for sending SMS.

I have a new Symbian phone. Now I use my iPaq 2210 to transfer apps, themes, images, etc. to the phone via bluetooth. I've been doing this everyday for the past couple of days, and probably get tired soon. To do all that transferring, I still do several soft resets everyday.

I also use a bluetooth keyboard for typing on my iPaq, I also use a bluetooth dial-up modem for emailing with my iPaq. Guess what? More often than not you have to soft reset first, although not everyday, only when you need to connect.

So I wasn't exaggerating when I said I soft reset everyday .. that was even an understatement.

[phs]

Five minutes ago I plugged my iPaq 2210 to sync with my PC, just like what I've been doing the past couple of years. But unlike before, my Ipaq showed a white screen that said HP invent. Lo and behold, my 2210 is spanking new again. Bad enough that I have to soft reset every day, but now do I have to hard reset too?

Good thing I have all my Appointments, Tasks, and Contacts backed up ... on my Symbian phone!