[phs]

Originally Posted by Surur

This product does have things to be thrashed for e.g.

Why have 2 keyboards, making the device thicker?

Here in the text messaging capital of the planet, many shy away from PocketPC Phones because they don't have the usual phone keypad. If the thing can't let you do something as simple as send a text message while driving, then it's not worth buying. It's true ... really ...

[phs]

Originally Posted by Surur

This product does have things to be thrashed for e.g.

Why have 2 keyboards, making the device thicker?

Here in the text messaging capital of the planet, many shy away from PocketPC Phones because they don't have the usual phone keypad. If the thing can't let you do something as simple as send a text message while driving, then it's not worth buying. It's true ... really ...

[phs]

Originally Posted by hiatus

I have a Nokia Symbian phone, and I just found that software selection are limited (even Symbian UIQ) compare to palm and pocket pc.

That's surprising. I use a Nokia Series 60 (Symbian OS7, not UIQ) and I have installed (and uninstalled some) more apps than I ever did in my PocketPC. There are some pretty useful Symbian apps that, insofar as handheld devices are concerned, used to be more the domain of the PocketPC OS, like File managers; Word, Spreadsheet, and Powerpoint viewers/editors; Zip, Rar, and Tar archivers/extractors; POP/IMAP email clients; image editors; gprs counters; dictionaries and eBook readers; and even a some pretty good MP3 players. I don't like the games, though, because the screen is too small.

What sort of app were you looking for anyway?

[JvanEkris]

I must say the Handango's UIQ-section is well-filled with applications, i personally never had any problems finding an application....

Jaap

[Rudolf]

As for multi-tasking> I think they are refering to the feature that the phone no longer suspends the data transmission while you are in a call (ie. using voice capabilities) (so in fact the GSM/UMTS radio can multi-task too...)
AFAIK all PPC Phones and most of the Smartphones suspend the GPRS data transmission while you are receiving a GSM voice call.

[dMores]

nope, they say "browse the net and send/recieve files at the same time".
which, i must admit, i have never tried.
couldn't say if ppcs can do that, i don't usually send/recieve stuff while browsing.
if i'm not mistaken the gprs connection is not killed when you recieve a call, so gsm and gprs are seperately accessible for the px00.

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

[JvanEkris]

PocketPC's can do that. I did that when i was in Austria on vacation, "borrowing" some bandwith from a nearby hotel at -12 Celcius. I downloaded my RSS-feeds, fetched my E-mail (en sent it too) and browsed one site that did ot have RSS....

Jaap

[dMores]

then you were using wifi. i think what they're real proud of is the multitasking capabilities of the GPRS/UMTS connection.
wifi is something different. but who cares ... we'll see it when we get it

[Rudolf]

Originally Posted by dMores

nope, they say "browse the net and send/recieve files at the same time".
which, i must admit, i have never tried.
couldn't say if ppcs can do that, i don't usually send/recieve stuff while browsing.
if i'm not mistaken the gprs connection is not killed when you recieve a call, so gsm and gprs are seperately accessible for the px00.

Yes, but the sentence continues:
being able to (browse the Internet, send and receive files) at the same time as talking
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.

[Fishie]

Originally Posted by phs

Here in the text messaging capital of the planet, many shy away from PocketPC Phones because they don't have the usual phone keypad. If the thing can't let you do something as simple as send a text message while driving, then it's not worth buying. It's true ... really ...

You shouldnt be texting while driving as is.
Over here in Belgium you no longer are allowed to by law BTW.
Too many accidents by people distracted by their cellphones.

[PetiteFlower]

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