OK, now I've got your attention!!
Am looking for a Smartphone, with the following attributes, and was wondering what you chaps with the brains would recommend?
Windows Mobile 5
Candy Bar form
FM Radio
Wi-Fi would be nice but not essential.
Thanks for your helps guys. Just don't want to waste my cash and buy a turkey.
Anyone?
dont think any new ones with those specs have been released since you asked last
http://forum.xda-developers.com:80/viewtopic.php?t=60673&highlight=fm
but anyway the one who know the most is the guy called search
he's the mon!
Greetings all:
Firstly: Thanks to all for such a great place to come and find soooo much info. I am addicted to it all.
Second: I am totally NEW to all this and I am still trying to understand alot of the terminology, items, methods, and so on.
Third: I have a ton of questions as I am a sponge and soak up info rapidly, and I want to know all I can because I am quickly developing an incredible hunger for the PDA/Smartphone arena.
Lastly, and the reason for the body armor, I have a noob question: When I read about and see the term "radio" or "radio ROM", what does that mean exactly, ya know in easy to grasp speak. I can see you ready to fire bullets at the new guy for such a question, but I really have no idea, let alone why the need to possibly update the ROM for it.
My thanks in advance for the direction.
Cheers all, and keep up such a great forum community.
Chris
Radio is what effects your signal strength, receiving sms messages, mms messages, phone calls, etc.
Jeepers, I do feel like a dope. Thanks Madcap. Please if you would, does upgrading the ROM serve to improve upon said functions? And is there a baseline that most use to gauge improvments to the radio.
I read alot about the 1.41.00.10 ROM in another thread. Some users reported a decline in performance. Was that something the measured with website, or tool.
Or rather was it something they measured as a matter of comparison to earlier ROM performance.?
I am wondering myself thru this all just exactly how would I gauge when to make upgrades etc, and how to tell if said upgrade was a performance boost?
Obviously from what I read, most users try something and go back if no improvements came out of it. But again, is there a software prog. or website to take before and after readings?
Being new is rather uncomfortable here.........
Thanks again for the speedy reply to my original question.
Depends on what your device is... I dunno what you have... wizard, hermes, artemis.. ??
Ok first off.........GO SOX...........MASSACHUSETTS !!!!!!!!!!!!......................
Ok, I just got a few new phones. I am on Tmo with a Wing. I purchased an unlocked 8525. I also ordered Cingular service with the Samsung Blackjack just to test them out and see if I might switch over. I have 30 days to decide and compare it to Tmo in terms of service and data/internet access.
Messing around here today, reading and such I thought to play a bit with ROM stuff., I followed the guide listed in the WiKi and got my........and bear with me cause these terms are Greek to me.......... SPL to 2.10.01.....and my radio ROM to 1.41.00.10.
I plan to test the Cingular SIM in the Blackjack for service. But also plan to put the Cing SIM in the unlock 8525 and test the service there as well. How will I know if the 1.41 is better than the 1.16 (?) it had on it before I updated? etc. Is there some way of getting numbers or readings? Follow me so far.
Ya know.....play FEAR with an NVIDIA 7900 and check FPS for say 40. Put in an NVIDIA 8800GTX and play and find out you get 98 FPS. Clearly a diffrence you see in "hard numbers". Boy.......rambling now....but you get the drill.
the Sox are losing right now 3-0 against oakland in the 4th .. .. when you have a 12 game lead in the AL east u can afford to lose a few though .. ...
The 8525 is a Hermes.. read the Wiki on how to upgrade a hermes, also check the Wiki to find out what the Wing and black jack are...I'm not sure.
Understood, but how can I tell if my phone is performing better with this 1.41 new radio ROM, over an earlier version or rather over the version that is going to come installed with the Blackjack?
I, not unlike others, want to get the best poss. performance out of the 8525, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that Cing. beats Tmo in terms of cell clarity, better coverage and faster data for internet etc. I am also poss making the move because Cing has 3G (?) and Tmo doesent yet. And, when Tmo does bring it about I have read that it will operate on diff freq. making the unlocked phones of today unusable so to speak. Thats it in a nutshell........and my desire to get the most performance from my equipment.
And lead or not, I dont feel they can give up one here or there. I have that summer slump fear ya know.
yeah well, right now the Sox couldn't hit a beachball.
Only way you can find out which has better performance is to test them over a period of time... compare them in places where ur signal is usually pretty choppy
Damn.........I thought it would come down to that.........I wanted an easier, smoother way out. Oh well........I will test away.
Any thoughts on Cin over Tmo or vise/versa.
Ha.......beachball..........good lord.........
I can tell you that where I live, Cingular is much better. But it can really vary on your location. I'm on the opposite side of the country from you though. With radio quality, there really is no standard, or way to gauge it with hard numbers. you'll just have to use trial and error. Good luck! It can be fun (and trying sometimes) to learn more abort your device.
I'm in the Boston area and T-Mobile has been great just as good if not better than Cingular.
This is just the type of input I was hoping to see posted. Really guys, I appreciate it.
Hi guys/gals,
I'm going to be getting a work mobile in a few weeks on the O2 network in the UK. I was thinking of a blackberry but then saw the XDA's (HTC). I don't really need a PDA but its a works phone and having excel would make my job a lot easier as I don't have a laptop but need some access to excel in the warehouse, as well as outlook and messenger when I'm out on site.
Now the 2 that's I'm looking at are the XDA Stellar (http://www.my-xda.com/devices/xda_stellar.jsp) and Orbit 2 (http://www.my-xda.com/devices/xda_orbit2.jsp). The problem is that they are just re-branded on the O2 network and I cant figure out which are the related HTC phones. So could someone tell me which are which so i can do some more research.
I have been reading review and seems the Stellar is a better PDA/phone as its got the slide out KB. But typical O2, i cant really tell what are the differences as one pages says one thing and the other something else.
Does the stellar have a touch screen like the orbit, with the same funtionality?
Both do Wifi and GPS?
can i get tomtom software for the XDA?
whats the battery life like on both phones? (I have heard horror stories when using 3G or WiFi with a sub 4 hour battery life)
Can u 'image' the OS and stuff like u can on a PC to back up everything? (i ask because I do like to have a play and its nice to know u can get it back to factory settings again)
any helpful links u peeps might have to gimmi a help deciding? reviews, guides ect ?
Sorry for all the questions. I really like the look of them but have never had a chance to use one so I thought i would be best to ask soem people who know the in's and out's.
thanks for the help i hope to receive!!!
Peace
SN
ha haa..
no help but i sorted it out anyway. Stellar/TyTn II is the plan.
Hi everyone, has anyone ever used a free live internet radio site? I’m using www.myradiomix.com lately, it’s good though I was wondering if someone know’s about a better one
Hey guys, my name is Sean and I'm from Pittsburgh PA.
So I believe I found the right place here at xda-dev. I just got a Touch Pro2 with sprint. The guy I bought the phone from offered me one with newer firmware but I told him I wanted the one with the oldest (in case some vulnerabilities were patched), so I think it is WM 6.1 or something, definitely not 6.5. Anyways, when I go to setting -> about is says TouchFLO 3D 2.1.38416.1; what other information can I find as to my version that may be of use to me?
I am sorry I am such a newb at this. Basically, I want to get the most out of my phone as possible (hell, it cost me 300$ [no rebate since I have an older data plan]) and do not even know where to start. There is so much information on these forums I am having a hard time making sense out of it. If anyone could give me some information as to how to figure out what I can do or some recommendations I would very much appreciate it. Thanks
-Sean
edit: I have been looking through the wiki and faqs so please give me a bit more insight other than steering me to their direction. Thanks again
I suggest you look on ppcgeeks for more cdma based TP2 information. Most of the people on the tp2 section there are sprint users.
thanks
thanks for the advice. ill check it out.
you're going to want to upgrade to 6.5, you can do so much more! and check out ppcgeeks.com.
So a few days back I installed mightyrom and about 20 cabs. Wasn't that difficult once i figured it out. Thanks for pointing me to ppcgeeks.
That's about it, but, what kind of stuff do you guys put on your tp2?
my personal favorite is slingbox, nothing like having a portable cable box that makes calls .
is it possible to play netflix's watch instantly on the tp2? That would be awesome.