09-23-2002, 10:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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What cool things have you done with your XDA?
http://www.pocketpcpassion.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18522
There's this great thread over at Pocket PC Passion where people are talking about the cool things they've done with their XDA or Phone Edition devices, and I wanted to start up the same thing here. What sorts of things has a connected Pocket PC enabled you to do that you weren't able to before? Got any great Phone Edition device stories? Share them...
UPDATE: Anyone with a connected Pocket PC, of any type, and a great story is welcome to jump in and share!
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09-23-2002, 10:30 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 32
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The 1st time T-Mobile saved my can...
Just a couple of days after purchasing my T-Mobile, I found myself at an association mixer, and spied a key contact across the room... a key contact who's name I totally blanked on.  ops: I yanked out my PDA and checked my Outlook contact list, but, arrrgggghhh... she wasn't there.
I braced myself for upcoming moment of awkwardness, preparing to stammer through the "How are you's" by means of strategic coughing everytime I needed to refer to this woman directly by name... but then suddendly, the light bulb of realization finally came crashing down on my head. I yanked my PDA out once again, opened up Explorer, cruised over to the association website and found the woman listed in the online directory.
I believe that was the first time I actually kissed and nuzzled my l'il T-Mobile in public... onlookers be damned. :wink:
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09-23-2002, 10:44 PM
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Contributing Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,389
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That's too good, should be a commercial... :wink:
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09-23-2002, 11:10 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 60
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I love my PPCPE.
I use the wireless for a bunch of things.
1) Check PocketPcThoughts.com for latest and greatest while in transit!
2) Chat (MSN and AOL) with co-workers and other while on the train to/from work.
3) Use the phone.
4) Reboot the phone
5) Check pop mail for latest and greatest
6) Keep myself busy while wife shops...good thing a lot of these women's stores are now providing comfortable seating areas.
7) Check movie times
Eight) Check bank account
9) Keep trying Yahoo Messenger and hope it starts working one of these days
10) Send RiteMail (www.ritemail.net) in my own writing
11) Stream RealOne NPR broadcasts and monitor my kb usage.
12) Try to see if I can exceed the max 39Kbps speed that I have experieced thus far
13) Check PocketPcThoughts.com again
14) Check my frequent flyer miles on United.com
the list goes on and on...interestingly enough, I also carry an iPaq 3955 as my "power" machine. No PIM data on it - just games, videos, music, photoalbum, etc.
I just love these things. I just got my 3955 after swapping out from a Sony Clie NR70V (not a bad machine). I keep the T in the pocket and the 3955 in the Tumi computer bag...
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~ Q on VZW --> Previously, Nokia N70 on Cingular
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09-24-2002, 12:09 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 533
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I honestly don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, as the XDA/PPC Phone Edition are awsome technologies.
BUT, most of what everyone on this board AND the PPCpassion board is doing with their XDA's can be done with a bluetooth enabled PDA and Bluetooth GPRS cell phone.....I've done a lot of it, and I use a 3835 with a Socket CF Bluetooth card (integrated antenna I might add) in an SS2 sleeve with a T68m.
Indeed, the only thing I can't do with my setup described above that can be done an a XDA/PPC Phone Edition are the ringtones......really cool stories (especially the starfleet comand one :wink: )!! Enough to make me switch gear though? No, cause eveything else I can do already, AND I'm more modular (PC card sleeve, CF card sleeve, sleeves with extra batteries, leave the ipaq at home if I don't need it, leave the phone at home if I don't need it, etc. etc. etc.). A lot more questions when you're connecting the to internet from your PDA with no protruding antennas!
Can't stress enough though: if I was just starting out in the PPC world, it would be hard to beat $299 at Amazon for a color PocketPC 2002 AND a GSM/GPRS phone. Those ringtones are awesome 8)
-Brian
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09-24-2002, 12:17 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 355
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Originally Posted by brianchris
I honestly don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, as the XDA/PPC Phone Edition are awsome technologies. BUT, most of what everyone on this board AND the PPCpassion board is doing with their XDA's can be done with a bluetooth enabled PDA and Bluetooth GPRS cell phone.....I've done a lot of it, and I use a 3835 with a Socket CF Bluetooth card (integrated antenna I might add) in an SS2 sleeve with a T68m.
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i love when people say "i don't want to xyz, but i'm going xyz now" hehe...anyway. yah, i had the same set up t68i and ipaq. the deal is you need to carry 2 things, charge 2 things, etc...since i've gone to one unit i don't think i could ever go back for quite a long time. bluetooth is neat, and i love it. but after 6 months of using bt headsets, not always connecting to the ipaq, the one unit solution is great (for me).
so i'll post my fun stories soon, i have a bunch.
cheers,
pt
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09-24-2002, 12:54 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 533
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Originally Posted by pt
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Originally Posted by brianchris
I honestly don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, as the XDA/PPC Phone Edition are awesome technologies. BUT, most of what everyone on this board AND the PPCpassion board is doing with their XDA's can be done with a bluetooth enabled PDA and Bluetooth GPRS cell phone.....I've done a lot of it, and I use a 3835 with a Socket CF Bluetooth card (integrated antenna I might add) in an SS2 sleeve with a T68m.
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I love when people say "i don't want to xyz, but i'm going xyz now" hehe...anyway. yah, i had the same set up t68i and ipaq. the deal is you need to carry 2 things, charge 2 things, etc...since i've gone to one unit i don't think i could ever go back for quite a long time. bluetooth is neat, and i love it. but after 6 months of using bt headsets, not always connecting to the ipaq, the one unit solution is great (for me).
so i'll post my fun stories soon, i have a bunch.
cheers,
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I love it when people use the word "love" sarcastically :wink:
I *know* pt, you got the jist of my point, but for others that might not of, I was making a valid point (that I could do almost everything the same as an XDA) WITHOUT the *intent* to take away from the XDA's well deserved glory. Indeed, I praised the XDA as much as I explained most of the wireless feats (being described as unique to the XDA in threads) could be done in other form factors.
About the two device argument, of course there is great benefit in one device, but there is also benefit in two devices. Are you married? If so, have you had to explain to your wife why you two can't take your phone to the store because of the 12 hour battery life and you forgot to charge it, or worse, it hard reset and it'll take you two hours of work just to get the thing working again? Screen goes out on one, you are out both your mobile and PPC while its getting serviced. These are just examples, but there are other benefits of dedicated devices. And I must repeat from my original post:
If I didn't already own a pocketpc and phone, and I was just starting out in the PPC world, it would be hard to beat a $299 XDA.
-Brian
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09-24-2002, 01:29 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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brianchris
I really think you should try using an XDA. Battery life is not a problem. Do you forget to sleep each night? Simply drop the XDA in the cradle each night...no biggie. There is a real cool factor, and satisfaction of being able to use a single device. No fiddling with Bluetooth connections. No cables. No talking into one and trying to use the other with your third hand :wink: It is very cool to put someone on speakerphone, and take a note fom them at the same time. Or, to be standing in line somewhere surfing the net, and you get a call. ALL this with one single device.
It is all far too cool!
Dave
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09-24-2002, 02:02 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 26
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As soon as they have a model with Bluetooth (for headphone set) and more Ram, I will buy one as well....
After using it for almost a year I do not want to use a phone without a Bluetooth headset anymore.
I can use the phone and take notes at the same time too:-) As a matter of fact, I don't even touch my T68 most of the time.
Frank
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brianchris
I really think you should try using an XDA. Battery life is not a problem. Do you forget to sleep each night? Simply drop the XDA in the cradle each night...no biggie. There is a real cool factor, and satisfaction of being able to use a single device. No fiddling with Bluetooth connections. No cables. No talking into one and trying to use the other with your third hand :wink: It is very cool to put someone on speakerphone, and take a note fom them at the same time. Or, to be standing in line somewhere surfing the net, and you get a call. ALL this with one single device.
It is all far too cool!
Dave
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09-24-2002, 02:43 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 533
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Originally Posted by Big Honkin' Deal
As soon as they have a model with Bluetooth (for headphone set) and more Ram, I will buy one as well....
After using it for almost a year I do not want to use a phone without a Bluetooth headset anymore.
I can use the phone and take notes at the same time too:-) As a matter of fact, I don't even touch my T68 most of the time.
Frank
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Agreed. A mobile phone without Bluetooth is just not quite a phone in my book. In the XDA, there is that SD slot, but a) I don't know if its SD-I/O capable, and b) even if it was, you couldn't use memory while your protruding SD bluetooth card was in the slot.
Also, as Frank said and I didn't make this very clear in my earlier posts, I rarely touch my T68 when using it for data on the iPaq.....that's the whole point of Bluetooth.
HOWEVER, this thread is going off course from the subject I originally posted about. Inadvertantly, I've started a (not uncommon) discussion on which is better, one device or two. The original topic of this thread was "Got any great Phone Edition device stories?" and I just pointed out 98% of those same stories are being done everyday on Bluetooth phone / PDA combos as well.....nothing unique to the XDA. Only two things so far unique to the XDA: 1) Ringtones (still way cool) and 2) integrated device, but the fact the device is integrated was not the subject of this thread. Sorry I've had a hand in derailing it ops:
-Brian
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