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« on: September 14, 2007, 02:24:05 PM » |
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http://www.dopod.com/pc/product/c730_1.phpIm thinking of getting this tomorrow. No 1 factor is that it doesnt have a touchscreen and is a smartphone. 3500rmb. Any good? I need to send emails on the go, and use MSN to chat with my loooser clients.
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2007, 02:47:47 PM » |
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If you want to connect with your msn contacts then you can use any phone that will run the gizmo mobile client. www.gizmo5.comIt wont run on a b0rked phone though, hence my need for a new phone. That dopod has WM6 with Live messenger. Anyone use WM6 yet? |
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Notorious MCSE
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 07:34:35 AM » |
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I bought it.
It feels like a solid phone.
What software do you tards recommend I install ?
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Tanthalas
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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2007, 08:00:36 AM » |
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Get Fring - does a couple of messaging systems in one. Also, grab yourself a couple of better task managers, etc. There are some really nice Today screen apps for Windows Mobile.
Looking at installing a WM6 ROM on my Athena. WM5 is really stable, but WM6 has some new capabilities that I want. What's WM6 like to use?
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Aperture Science
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2007, 09:46:00 AM » |
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Tanty,
I cant really compare WM6 to anything as Ive been using Symbian and Linux phones for the past few years. Last time I used a windows device It was on Pocket Mobile or CE or something similar.
How do you install software on the WM phones, is it still via active sync? Also how do you end running programs like the browser, outlook etc.
Does leaving outlook to check for email every hour transfer a lot of data, just doing the server look up, logging in and checking for messages?
Ill look at Fring!
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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2007, 11:15:29 AM » |
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How do you install software on the WM phones, is it still via active sync?
Yep. It also, really irritatingly, leaves entries in your Add/Remove Programs list on your desktop PC as well as on the device. Also how do you end running programs like the browser, outlook etc.
If you tap the X button, the program actually minimises, as you might have noticed. On my device (WM5), holding the X button for a few seconds rather than tapping it will shut down the program. There should also be a "Running Programs" entry on your start menu, which is WM's "Task Manager," where you can switch programs, shut them down, etc. Dunno how it looks in WM6, but in every version before that, it was crap. You can get a better task manager - some really good ones exist that sit on the top navbar and are much faster to access. You can also change the behaviour of the X button from your settings screen. Does leaving outlook to check for email every hour transfer a lot of data, just doing the server look up, logging in and checking for messages?
I don't imagine so, but AFAIK Windows Mobile will not automatically shut down your 3G connection afterwards, so watch your battery life. (This may be different in WM6, or you may be able to change the setting somewhere in the OS/via a utility. Never actually looked myself.) Ill look at Fring!
It's not bad. Only used it a few times, but it does work. I used it because T-Mobile strip MSN Messenger out of Win Mobile, and there's no installer to add it back! How stupid is that? There is a Skype client for WM, and obviously it does a better job, but Fring works. Trying to find a new website to get software from. PocketGear.com used to be excellent, but they've redone the site, removed all the freeware, and gone totally commercial. It's still an excellent index of commercial software, as a search for "Task Manager" will show, but I want a new site for freeware. I found some really cool and weird free apps on there before they ripped them all off. Bah. |
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Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2007, 01:30:52 PM » |
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If you tap the X button, the program actually minimises, as you might have noticed. On my device (WM5), holding the X button for a few seconds rather than tapping it will shut down the program. There should also be a "Running Programs" entry on your start menu, which is WM's "Task Manager," where you can switch programs, shut them down, etc. Dunno how it looks in WM6, but in every version before that, it was crap.
You can get a better task manager - some really good ones exist that sit on the top navbar and are much faster to access.
You can also change the behaviour of the X button from your settings screen.
There doesnt seem to be an X button on the keypad of mine, is it in the software? I just press the return to home buttom several times and im back. Actually, in IE there doesnt appear to be an X button either... Outlook, Im on a pay as you like scheme anyway, they let me run over my allowance by upto 50rmb so I end up owing the operator (CN mobile) until I stick more money in the account so I can play around with the Outlook setings to see if it does close. This phone is a push email equipped phone, so by all means China Mobile should support it and there is a Chinese language email client built in besides outlook. As for changing languages on MS machines - I asked you this question before, and I was quite surprised to find that I could change the system language from entirely Chinese into English with no issues whatsoever. You have to play around with the locale settings though. Cheers tanty, dont have much time to play with my phone today, but maybe tomorrow! |
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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2007, 01:42:59 PM » |
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If you tap the X button, the program actually minimises, as you might have noticed. On my device (WM5), holding the X button for a few seconds rather than tapping it will shut down the program. There should also be a "Running Programs" entry on your start menu, which is WM's "Task Manager," where you can switch programs, shut them down, etc. Dunno how it looks in WM6, but in every version before that, it was crap.
You can get a better task manager - some really good ones exist that sit on the top navbar and are much faster to access.
You can also change the behaviour of the X button from your settings screen.
There doesnt seem to be an X button on the keypad of mine, is it in the software? I just press the return to home buttom several times and im back. Actually, in IE there doesnt appear to be an X button either... I was referring to the X at the top right of the program window? |
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We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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Notorious MCSE
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« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2007, 02:01:09 PM » |
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Tanty, there isnt one  |
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« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2007, 02:19:42 PM » |
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It seems I have WM 6 standard, and not proffesional  |
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Tanthalas
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« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2007, 02:30:27 PM » |
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Tanty, there isnt one Eh?? Oh well, use the task manager then. Didn't realise there were standard and pro versions in WM. |
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Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2007, 08:19:39 AM » |
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That is the correct bicycle.
Active Sync is a pile of SHITE. SHITE I SAY!
My old linux phone would let you SSH in and install what eva you wanted!
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« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2007, 11:29:20 AM » |
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Active Sync is a pile of SHITE. SHITE I SAY!
Very true. I do like Windows Mobile, but ActiveSync is rubbish. |
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We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2007, 11:34:11 AM » |
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COCK thats what I am. I was getting angry with my new phone as it kept 'loosing the time' i.e. going backwards 8 hours all the time. After a week Ive just figured out why - my PC's clock was set to Seattle time when I reinstalled Windows and I havent bothered to change it, ever. I even gave Dopod a call, giving them a right bollocking for selling SHITTY products.     |
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« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2007, 12:13:32 PM » |
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Breaking News:COCK thats what I am.
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« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2007, 07:50:09 PM » |
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I should be getting one tomorrow, but with UK spec
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« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2007, 08:04:38 AM » |
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my DOPOD C730 is buggered I put it in my back pocket, sat in car, went to school. Take phone out of pocket, LOW and BEHOLD, there are several massive black lines running across the screen! They dont make phones like they used to! |
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« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2007, 09:25:53 AM » |
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« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2007, 09:52:47 AM » |
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Well bugger me, from China too! I have actually seen these 'in the wild' so to speak, but always thought they were some tard with a really old phone that took massive bank card style sim cards and cost 50p a min to dial out. |
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« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2007, 09:53:23 AM » |
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send me one
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« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2007, 09:54:21 AM » |
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They dont make phones like they used to!
Sitting on phones has never been good for them. The only difference is you couldn't fit a Miami Vice special into your back pocket. |
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« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2007, 09:07:12 AM » |
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Took it to get repaired today, they want around 2 weeks to fix the flippin thing! Two weeks! I should have asked for a spare screen and fixed it mesel'
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