yes every day there is the same question and thing I'm doing, looking to the web for news about new MS mobile devices..and now thinking about buying the Vox. But the only thing so far I couldn't live with is that there should be big delay when opening or closing the keyboard.
How do you rate this?
Its a few seconds...maybe more if you have many apps running in the backround, but then everything runs slow when thats happening on any WM device... dosent bother me...
Regards - John
To be honest in my opinion its not as bad as other make it seem, as long you keep tabs on the programs you have running in the background every now and not running with only 1mb free memory then you shouldn't have a problem. One tip you can try is disabling the sound it plays when switching views in the settings. Made the switch slightly faster in my opinion.
Without the Sound it is maybe 2 times faster..
thanks guys for your prompt answers!!
Do you have a clou whether the important progs like PocketInformant or AgendaOne are running without problems in landscape mode?
fire00 said:
thanks guys for your prompt answers!!
Do you have a clou whether the important progs like PocketInformant or AgendaOne are running without problems in landscape mode?
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I use AgendaOne and I haev not had an issue with it switching orientation. However Documents to Go has a problem as does SmartPhoneNotes - they will not fill the screen, you get a scroll-bar on the righe, pretty much making it still portrate..
John
hi John
I thought one doesn't need smartphonenotes anymore as WM6 should have its own notes taking application?
As well as Office Mobile (doc, xls, ppt) should be on board, isn't ?
I really don't see what the fuss is about speed of the screen rotation. Its not like it takes several minutes. Approx 1-3 seconds depending on what's running in the background is perfectly fine.
hi guys, I don't want to make the Vox bad, I'm asking because I had the same issue with HTC Hermes, which was also quite ok after I disabled the sound. It also depends on how many applications are installed, loaded in memory, how much memory is free etc. But reading one of the serious reviews like the one from mobile-review - I rather ask for opinions of users before I buy it.
Thank you all
Can somebody tell how is it with the mobile office? Is it really not included with Vox as I read also somewhere? And is there a mobile note application synchronizing with Outlook?
fire00 said:
Can somebody tell how is it with the mobile office? Is it really not included with Vox as I read also somewhere?
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I have it installed. It includes, adobe reader LE, Excel Mobile, Calculator, Powerpoint Mobile, Voice notes and Word Mobile.
rgrds
Björn
You can edit existing documents but you cannot create ones, correct?
How about the notes application - possible to synchronize them with desktop?
fire00 said:
hi John
I thought one doesn't need smartphonenotes anymore as WM6 should have its own notes taking application?
As well as Office Mobile (doc, xls, ppt) should be on board, isn't ?
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Yes it has them...but WM6 does not allow for creation of new items in Office Mobile (although there is a hack to get around that) but I personally find Documents to Go a better offering than what MS gives you. I have word docs sent via email that dont load in Word mobile (on WM5 or WM6) yet have no problem in DTG...
There is also a 3rd party notes app - but no way to Sync to Outlook, thus I use SmartPhoneNotes.
Regards - John
pinussen said:
I have it installed. It includes, adobe reader LE, Excel Mobile, Calculator, Powerpoint Mobile, Voice notes and Word Mobile.
rgrds
Björn
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You know...not to go way off topic here, but I thought I was going crazy one night because I could not figure out why there was no Calculator on the VOX...it never crossed my mind that it would be under "Office Mobile".... Since I never go in there with DTG installed - makes no sense at all to me for it to be in there...
My 2 cents
John
this is really a place one should go to - getting answers by like-minded people.
RE notes / synchronization - you know that there is a new beta out there of phatnotes by phatware? It supports WM6, might be a solution also for the landscape issue with smartphonenotes described by John...?
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You know...not to go way off topic here, but I thought I was going crazy one night because I could not figure out why there was no Calculator on the VOX...it never crossed my mind that it would be under "Office Mobile".... Since I never go in there with DTG installed - makes no sense at all to me for it to be in there...
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John
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Hehe.. had the same problem, I had to hunt around for it a while before finding it.
rgrds
Björn
fire00 said:
this is really a place one should go to - getting answers by like-minded people.
RE notes / synchronization - you know that there is a new beta out there of phatnotes by phatware? It supports WM6, might be a solution also for the landscape issue with smartphonenotes described by John...?
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Didn't know about it to be honest, will have to swing by their site and look it up.
I guess I should note that DTG and Smartphonenotes are landscape aware, I used them just fine on my BlackJack...and I noticed today actually that if you start them in landscape mode they auto-rotate just fine....its only when you start in portrait mode that they go whacky...
Take care - John
Anyone managed to find a decent uk weather plugin (compatible with s2u2 be great if it exists)?
Ive checked here, ppc freeware, google and not really had much luck with anything worth keeping on the phone!
Thanks
Hi. I have never had any application on my HTC S710, but I found a site called handango and bought three I found very usefull.
This is what I bought:
Chronos alarm clock
SBSH Papyrus and Facade
So when i managed to find three just by looking at handango, there must be many more that I need. So does anyone else have a application that they recomend? Post it here.
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Hi. I have never had any application on my HTC S710, but I found a site called handango and bought three I found very usefull.
This is what I bought:
Chronos alarm clock
SBSH Papyrus and Facade
So when i managed to find three just by looking at handango, there must be many more that I need. So does anyone else have a application that they recomend? Post it here.
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You should have bothered looking into the forum. There is already a thread for Vox applications.
Photo Contacts Pro is a must for me
Not because of the photo contacts, but because of the complete profiling options... and by complete I mean COMPLETE
Auto Switch profiles (also different depending on type of meeting)
Fixed time Switches (like night time peace and quiet)
Exceptions (Group exceptions (Family) or single exceptions (Wife/Girlfriend))
"Quick Profiles" like -> Quiet for the next 2 hours (for watching a movie)
etc.
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364928
you should have bought from the developers directly.
handago really rips the developers off with their huge commission.
I didnt know that. Im gona buy directly from the developers next time.
Hi folks,
I searched an hour and couldn't find anything: I want to be able to (easily) switch the today screen calendar to:
A) only show private meetings
B) show all meetings
The Nokia N70 does this nicely but I couldn't find any WM software to do the trick. I own a Nike with WM 6.1 btw.
The reason for my request is, that on weekens I would like to be spared with being reminded of meetings next week at the office - improving my work-life-balance ;-)
Anyone know of a solution?
Thanks & Best regards,
p0lDi
This is a wonderful option to be implemented into poutlook. I know you can filter your appointments by categories rather than by status.. so i assume that if you're willing to accept this it would not be that hard to write a quick script which switches between filters.
do you think that would be enough?
not sure - I would assume that the filter is not applied to the today screen, or is it? Also I use categories for other things already... But maybe I just got you wrong ;-)
Well, i assume that to filter to the today screen you'd need a seperate application... but i'm not sure.
The windows today plugin is indeed very basic with only few to no options.
You'll need a separate today plugin like SPB Diary or WebIS Pocket Informant.
I'm sure there are lits more.
Hi all
I've done a few searches and haven't come up with anything useful - is it possible to have the home page of my Topaz show a "todo" list?
Thanks
Cheers
Sing7
Hey,
Ya anyone have any insights on this? it would be great to have a todo list...
I've noticed that on the Touch HD2, there is 3 quick lauch program icons, anyone know if we can do that?
thanks,
pksm2k
Loock for taskanium, maybe is what you are loocking for...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=515586
Then there is Manila Today Page. This program displays today plug-ins in one of the TouchFLO 3D manila pages. Get it here;
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-manila-today-page.html
Below is a link to AM TasksPlus an alternative for the tasks plug-in provided by the Pocket PC manufacturer. AM TasksPlus shows compact tasks statistics or a detailed list of incomplete tasks grouped by date (Actual, Due today, Overdue and Future tasks). The list can be easily switched between the compact and detailed form.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-am-tasksplus-v1-3-5-build-1019.html
Hope this helps,
have fun