Hi Vox-user,
maybe not the correct forum, but after one year Vox-fan and many visits here I like to ask you. My Vox numeric keypad sometimes makes trouble now, and I think it is time for a new mobile. I am thinking about change to Android, and I like to have a smal phone - so thze Xperia Pro looks good to me.
In the last year with my Vox and this Forum I was have often modified my phone - until it was so that I LIKE IT - Changiung ROMs, changing Startmenu, insatlling nice apps and so on.
And what do you think about Android - will it be okay for me? And how about normal using - Adressbook, Syncing with Outlook or Thunderbird, sending SMS and Emails, using Calendar etc......
And how about Experia Pro (or maybe without keypad)? The size is very interesting for me (don't like big phones like Iphone). has anybody experience with the phone?
regards Odiad
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Hello to the Group,
I desperately noticed that even with the new AKU2 upgrade (Firmware version 2.x) it is still NOT possible to schedule an appointment from the calendar and invite PARTICIPANTS for a meeting !!!
(My Smartphone is a Qtek 8300.)
What the hell is the reason for it ?
The calendar on the Qtek 9000 for instance (same as the JASJAR, a PDA), which is otherwise pretty identical however DOES allow inviting people to a meeting.
With availability of DirectPush being able also to invite people directly from your mobile (Smartphone) would make really big sense.
I cannot imagine any reasonable explanation why this important calendar functionality is - still - crippled in the Smartphone version of WM5.
Was this simply forgotten by Microsoft ? or HTC ? Or is there any reason I am not aware of ?
Any chance this is repaired via an update ?
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Sorry for the unintended crossposting. Wanted to post this just to the Tornado Forum, but mistakenly had posted it to Universal.
Have you tried Papyrus?? IT is a welcome addition to the original calendar and may fix your problem.
No I have not.
I will have a look at their webpage, thanks for this hint.
However I'd like to avoid on the one hand installing a second PIM (I'm using my Qtek 8300 mainly as my business phone and not just for playing around) and secondly I am really surprised how things like that can "happen" at all.
Implementing an Appointment Scheduler which is otherwise quite the same as the one implemented on the HTC PDAs, while forgetting/removing/crippling out any way for actually inviting people to that appointment is more than strange.
Though I am otherwise really satisfied with my Smartphone (especially with the improvements of the 2.x upgrade) this is a really bad bug.
My sister has been asking me for a while to find her first electronic organizer, but knowing her I can't give something too techy and complicated. She will barely connect it to her PC very often.
Main requirements are : calendar, notes and I suppose contacts.
Camera is a plus.
Do you know of an "easy" girly phone, that is not too geek like most of the ones we have ?
like the equivalent of the Palm Zire for instance, these ones were just doing the basics if you didn't look behind the shell.
thanks.
Does she want WM5, Palm, Symbian? Does it need to have a phone and if so does it need to be 3G?
Maybe something like HP iPaq 1950?
It is a WM5 device but it's one of the basic ones, no phone / GPS / BT (has WIFI though).
It's pretty stable so no need for "tech" stuff if you only want to use it as an organizer and it is very compact.
Plus if she wants to add some games or something later that will work too.
Don't underestimate women. My beautiful wife (yes she dose read this forum ) has had XDAI, XDAII and atom. She is not very good with understanding how computers work but still manages to work all the features of ppc's. The main question would probably be the price. Here the HP version of the atom (I can't remember name) is probably the cheapest pda phone and its got all the features.
Well, I'm not sure about your sis, but as far as I know, girls look for looks on things they use. So, probably the Zire22 are small and girlish enough for her to use. I personally used both Palm and Windows PDA. In organiser wise, I find Palm's builtin PIM is better and clearer. However, unless you get the advance version of Palm PDA (eg TX), your sis maybe having problem with the handwriting 'mechanism'.
Anyway, for Windows based PDA, I think it is very basic anyway. You just key in the required field without the need to know other things. If you are to use the PIM without much of your personal requirement, you won't need to do things like reg hack And, I find that girls can seems to tolerate things that they don't know (eg, they hardly customize a PC, though they seems to like to customize a bf). The most they want to do is to make them look pink.
Ask your sis, which PDA she likes (eg the looks and size, and colour) and it may help you in choosing. Let her have a look on the PalmZ22, as I remember, there are `converted` wives with Z22. It doesn't have a camera though.
http://euro.palm.com/uk/en/products/z22/domore.html
I agree with Hanmin
the look is more important,
I will check with her first of all.
I used a Palm for years before PPC and yes.. I forgot about the letter recognition :-(
thanks for your help guys !
if u want phone capibility and camera and ability to choose the colour of the device (it comes in white, red, orange, and silver) go with the upcoming treo 680.....its palmOS based though..
i think for a very basic user windows mobile is not good. for example activesync and hotsync......
Hum, in my mind the choice will be hard
Bring her in a shop and show her the main differences about capabilites, look and ... prices...
Sometime we want a very simple things but when we discover advanced features, we want ALL ! A geek is sleeping in all of us
Have a look at the o2 Stealth.
Just wondering, any updates on this? What is the one she chosen ?
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...
My 2 cents
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
Somehow I think I broke some of the hardware because I can't answer calls anymore, whenever I try to answer/ignore it just freezes until it goes to voicemail and then tells me I have a missed call. I've flashed a few different roms, 6.1 and 6.5 and have the same problem across all of them.
I'm thinking if I should just buy another HD but they're pretty expensive because I need the T8285 (I live in the US) and it might be fun to try a new device. I'm also thinking about a Topaz or an Xperia, or maybe a Leo but they look really big so I'm not sure how I'd like it. Or maybe something else, I'm not too familiar with non-HTC phones. The features I really need are:
- Contacts/phonebook access from home screen
- Tasks access from home screen
- Calendar to keep track of events/appointments
- Phone looks cool (lol)
- GSM
- Some type of sync software to transfer contacts (and preferably tasks/calendar) to computer (like how Windows Mobile has the Windows Mobile Device Center)
Optional features I'd like but would be willing to sacrifice if necessary are:
- 3G internet (in the US)
- Weather feature like on HTC phones
- Replaceable battery
Can anyone recommend me a good phone? I don't really care what it is or how old it is as long as it has these features and is bug-free and able to answer calls. Thanks a lot!
Take a look at the Leo HD2 if you like WM...maybe a used one for better price!
Ave
Just bought a phone with WM6.1 and restored messages from my old Hermes 200 [yeh]; it's like few thousands and everytime I want to read one, system loads dozens of historical sms, what takes time and needs patience [which I, of course, lack] - but why? Isn't there any way to change it into standard sms-viewing, like it was in WM5: one click = one message, no history, no conversation, no threading? It looks better and is much more useful for me [because I don't need primitive machine to remind me what I'm talking about; I'm careful what I write ..].
Thanks in advance for any help,
mrd
The Solution
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Ave
I've done some more digging and came to the solution - this guy found it and described: inthehand.com/blogs/peterfoot/archive/2008/04/08/disable-windows-mobile-6-1-threaded-sms-view.aspx [P. Foot's solution]
In my case, it wasn't about adding new key, but changing existing one in '..\settings\oem'
Enjoy!
mdr