01-08-2003, 04:11 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Plus! Sync & Go for Pocket PC
We mentioned this a few weeks ago, but now that the Plus! Digital Media Edition is shipping, it bears mentioning again. During the promotion leading up to the launch you could pre-register and get a discount coupon. I don't know about you, but I'm still waiting for my coupon to buy the product - which is a little lame. Customers who pre-registered to buy are the ones most interested in buying the product, so they should get the coupons immediately upon launch. And it gets worse: "Payment can only be accepted from United States credit cards at this time." Tsk, tsk Microsoft - if you're going to make your first big step into electronic software distribution, you'd better make sure to include the rest of the world.
"Taking your favorite music, news, and information with you on your Pocket PC just got easier! With Plus! Sync & Go for Pocket PC, you can synchronize content quickly and easily between your desktop computer and Pocket PC. Sync & Go lets you choose the content you want to download, including Web content from Internet content providers and music and video files from Windows Media Player Media Library.
Then Sync & Go automatically synchronizes the content to your Pocket PC, so you can be sure that you always have the latest information on your device. Simple playback controls in Sync & Go for Pocket PC make it easy to locate and play back the content when you want."
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01-08-2003, 04:21 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 88
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I didn't get my coupon until 7 PM EST last night. I haven't bought it yet, because I have two PCs and I have to decide which one to install it on, ya know, because of that product activation stuff and all....
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01-08-2003, 04:21 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 12
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Plus Sync N Go
I agree with you about the credit card issue, but can't share your complaint about the coupon: it was right there in my e-mail inbox Tuesday as promised. I clicked, gave the credit card info, and downloaded without a hitch. Haven't used Sync and Go, (or anthing other than the dancers) yet, but they do tell you as you download that Sync and Go is a subscription and will be free only for an undefined period of time.
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01-08-2003, 04:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 45
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I purchased it...
Well I too revieced my coupon lastnight around 7:00 PM. I did request 3 more coupons, and they all showed up within an hour later.
But I did purchase the product and I must say it has some good "add on's" to XP. Plus the price was not bad for $14.
Now as for Sync and Go. This is a different story. I LOVE the idea of what this can do. I just have some problems with the first version of this. First, I have a 1910 so I do not know if this is just my problem or if other have this problem, but the video playback is choppy and when you go to landscape mode the audio crackles. I do not know if this is a hardware issue or software, so I would like to know what happens with other peoples PPC's.
The whole interface could be and NEEDS to be redone and the skins that come with it do not help. The "Default" skin seems to be best, but it is kinda lame. Not much color or very good looking and kinda hard to understand at first. But it has promise!
The content is not bad, and I was impressed with the amount of content that was on my PDA after syncing! I hope they add more providers of content in the future!
I have not used the "audio" side of Sync and Go. It can search your Windows Media Player and download songs that meet certain criteria.
Overall not bad. Needs some polishing. I would give it a 4 out of 5
BUT Microsoft should have released a Series 9 player for PPC :evil:
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01-08-2003, 04:42 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Originally Posted by icatar
I didn't get my coupon until 7 PM EST last night.
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Hmm - I wonder if they're doing filtering by countries, since orders can only be placed by people in the US. :?
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01-08-2003, 04:52 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,466
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Something is wrong with the check-out function. I keep getting an error message telling me I need to correct my City, State, and Zip code entry....but there is nothing wrong with what I entered.
Guess I won't be buying this software. :roll:
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01-08-2003, 05:17 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 4
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Coupon still available?
Is there a valid link to get the coupon still?
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Thanks
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01-08-2003, 05:19 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 45
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Nope. It stopped on the 6th :wink:
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01-08-2003, 05:28 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,185
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Curious if anyone is using this yet and cares to comment on the time required to sync things like video and music.
I rarely change my play lists on my SD card because it's like a half day event to get everything transfered over to it...and it's only 128MBs.
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01-08-2003, 05:31 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 45
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I just posted that I was using it :wink:
It takes about 4-5 minutes depending on how much data you want to have on your memory card. The more you want, the longer it takes and it also depends on how fast your connection is to the net.
I believe mine is at 60-80MB of data right now and that is not even half of what you can add to your device!
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