Talking Point: What do you use your phone for? |
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 Jan 20 2006, 11:50
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 Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 7 Joined: 4th January 2006 From: Moscow.Russia Member No.: 165,812 Device(s): I-Mate SP5  |
As for me I use my phone at 100%
But always use mp3 and video. |
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Jan 20 2006, 11:52
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 Addict  Group: Posters Posts: 576 Joined: 29th May 2003 From: Sale, UK Member No.: 7,007 Device(s): MDA Vario III |
My main uses for my MDA Vario are:
1. Diary - I use PocketInformant and PocketBreeze on my phone and Outlook 2003 on my work and home PCs to keep track of my diary. This is proving useful since I've just put my house up for sale and have viewing etc to keep track of. 2. Address book - I use ContactBreeze and PocketInformant for contact management on my phone and again sync with Outlook at home and work. 3. Weather forecast - I use PocketWeather to get the latest weather forecast whenever I connect to the net. 4. Internet browsing - if I quickly want to look something up on the net I use the Vario either via wifi when at home or GPRS using my web n walk contract. 5. E-mail - I rarely send e-mail, just check my mailbox, mainly for news about Notts County. There is a definite trend here towards using smartphones for getting football news. 6. Phone calls - I try to make use of my 100 minutes each month, I have paid for them afterall. I also use the phone as a point of contact for estate agents. I have yet to watch a movie on the phone and use my iPod for music. I haven't taken a photo with it either. I do have TCPMP installed on it and have Finding Nemo on its memory card, I just haven't had time to watch it yet. |
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Jan 20 2006, 12:07
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 |_-_-_-_-_-_-_|  Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,809 Joined: 31st December 2004 From: Near Norwich, UK Member No.: 104,092 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
QUOTE(Paul [MVP] @ Jan 20 2006, 00:10) Does it allow the use of Outlook Calendar? In other words, if I sync my phone with my Outlook Calendar, Papyrus will be updated? -------------------- - Tony Sutton
- My Ford Focus ST170 car - Using MDA Vario III with 6GB MicroSD card - Got Phone, GPS and WiFi together? Sign up & Make Money with Navizon! |
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Jan 20 2006, 12:12
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|_-_-_-_-_-_-_| Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,809 Joined: 31st December 2004 From: Near Norwich, UK Member No.: 104,092 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
With my SPV C500, I use it for:
* SMS - I am deaf so I rely on SMS a lot more. * E-mailing - gmail and my main email via IMAP. * Calendar - to keep track what I am doing during the day/week/month * Internet - to catch up news, research where the nearest shop/cinema/etc * GPS - Pocket Microsoft Autoroute to find where the hell I am in an unknown town.  * Games - while on train/bus/waiting. Too many games to list. * Movies - only one movie with subtitles (yes, readable!!) on my phone due to my 512MB memory card. Hoping for more in the future when I can afford a bigger memory (how big a SPV C500 can hold? 2GB?) -------------------- - Tony Sutton
- My Ford Focus ST170 car - Using MDA Vario III with 6GB MicroSD card - Got Phone, GPS and WiFi together? Sign up & Make Money with Navizon! |
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Jan 20 2006, 12:40
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 Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 203 Joined: 12th March 2005 From: Peterborough, UK Member No.: 116,742 Device(s): i-mate JAQ4 |
QUOTE(tsutton @ Jan 20 2006, 12:07) Does it allow the use of Outlook Calendar? In other words, if I sync my phone with my Outlook Calendar, Papyrus will be updated? Yes - Papyrus is a replacement for the build-in diary (and to-do) software but uses the same database, so it sync's with your desktop Outlook. -------------------- Bryan Anderson - Peterborough UK - T-Mobile - IMATE JAQ4 [ www.bryans-place.com ] [ www.emptyworld.info ] |
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Jan 20 2006, 12:41
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 Did I say that out loud? Group: News Team Posts: 4,530 Joined: 20th August 2003 From: Kent, England Member No.: 13,469 Device(s): Kaiser, Touch |
QUOTE(tsutton @ Jan 20 2006, 12:07) Does it allow the use of Outlook Calendar? In other words, if I sync my phone with my Outlook Calendar, Papyrus will be updated?  Yes it does, it's just a MUCH better interface for the built-in Calendar database I use my M500 for: Calendar (sync's with our Helpdesk system) Phone (icon shortcuts to most of my commonly used numbers on my Today screen) SMS (SMS commands for our IT systems mostly) Acrobat (for schematics and documentation) Weather forecasts Games MP3s (2+Gb ... lubberly) Video |
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Jan 20 2006, 12:44
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 Hardcore Group: Posters Posts: 1,051 Joined: 15th July 2005 From: Bolton, NW England Member No.: 139,370 Device(s): MDA Vario 3, License To Thrill |
Texting mostly....n MSN Messenger
The things you just couldnt say in a phone call for fear of giving a near by grannie a heartt attack......  Erm that it...iPAQ for most other things till i gt my VARIO/xda mini s/qtek blah blah blah... -------------------- Muay-Thai...The Art And Science Of Eight Limbs Keep Death Off The Road...Drive On The Pavement |
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Jan 20 2006, 13:11
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|_-_-_-_-_-_-_| Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,809 Joined: 31st December 2004 From: Near Norwich, UK Member No.: 104,092 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
QUOTE(brykins @ Jan 20 2006, 12:40) Yes - Papyrus is a replacement for the build-in diary (and to-do) software but uses the same database, so it sync's with your desktop Outlook. QUOTE(chucky.egg @ Jan 20 2006, 12:41) Yes it does, it's just a MUCH better interface for the built-in Calendar database Perfect, thank you. And it being free for Plus member, I got the code. Will have a play around with it! -------------------- - Tony Sutton
- My Ford Focus ST170 car - Using MDA Vario III with 6GB MicroSD card - Got Phone, GPS and WiFi together? Sign up & Make Money with Navizon! |
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Jan 20 2006, 13:28
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 Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 20th January 2006 From: Southport, UK Member No.: 168,429 Device(s): Orange SPV C550, XDA IIi |
1. Calendar/tasks
2. MP3 3. SMS 4. eBooks 5. Voice Calls 6. Emails 7. Films (usually for showing off the capabilities of the phone using TCPMP) My C550 has been a godsend, I no longer have to carry around two or three different devices. It's been everything that I hoped the XDA would be, but wasn't. I use facade as a homescreen plugin to display my outlook data so every time I turn the phone on it gets used. I also use it as an in-car MP3 player, which is why the C550 was more appropriate than the C600. I've had any number of PDAs dating right back to the original Apple Newton and I've tried all the recent phone/pda crossovers (Nokia Communicator, Ericsson R380, p800, Treo and XDAs) but my current phone is the first that meets my needs exactly. -------------------- digiReader - sport, technology, travel and lifestyle.
http://www.digireader.com/ mobile version: http://www.digireader.com/mobile |
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Jan 20 2006, 13:41
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 Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 69 Joined: 13th May 2004 Member No.: 43,222 Device(s): Vario II & SPV M500 |
QUOTE(Pulse @ Jan 20 2006, 11:34) How do you do this??????? I didnt know there was a bluetooth messenger type thing... Can someone point me in the right direction?? There is mobiluck... but you can do pretty much the same thing by creating a contact, entering your message instead of a name and then select beam contact. |
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Jan 20 2006, 13:44
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 The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,244 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Touch HD |
QUOTE(tsutton @ Jan 20 2006, 12:07) Does it allow the use of Outlook Calendar? In other words, if I sync my phone with my Outlook Calendar, Papyrus will be updated? Yes, Papyrus uses the standard on device calendar, i.e. what you sync in via Outlook or Exchange. P --------------------   |
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Jan 20 2006, 14:09
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 Staff Team Leader Group: Admin Team Posts: 17,229 Joined: 24th November 2002 From: Southampton Member No.: 53 Device(s): C550 I know its old |
Outlook and Games is about it
-------------------- 3 mobile where the words "customer" and "service" only exists in the dictionary
Smartphone and PocketPC History SPV, E100, E200, C500, C550, C600 (MoDaCo Edition), MPX200, MPX220, MIO8380, Voq Pro, Lobster 700, JasJar, Vario  New and updated Smartphone History Life's too fast can I get off and walk for a bit? I used to be top poster....... |
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Jan 20 2006, 17:57
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 12 Joined: 7th January 2006 Member No.: 166,274 Device(s): spv c550 |
I use my phone for
1 - Texting 2 - Music 3 - Portable Gaming 4 - Movies 5 - Phoning people!!
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Jan 20 2006, 18:21
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 Regular Group: Posters Posts: 87 Joined: 7th February 2004 From: Austin, TX, USA Member No.: 31,527 Device(s): BlackJack |
Wow, looks like I'm in the minority, but I use mine for making phone calls a lot. My girlfriend is currently living in another town while at grad school, so we use cell phones to avoid long distance charges on the home phone.
Also, syncing my Outlook info, most importantly contacts. Like Encece said, I only remember like 4 phone numbers now, everyone else I have to look up. Like many of you, I tend to get new phones pretty often (used to anyway). Back in the day you had to sit down with your old phone and your new phone and peck every single number into the new one. No thank you! The Smartphone platform has eliminated that problem! (As well as helping me cut back on phone purchases due to fewer options and higher prices )And I use SmartConvert for the occasional How Many Inches In A Kilometer question, etc. Disappointingly, it couldn't tell me how many pounds in a stone. That one stumped me... |
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Jan 20 2006, 19:32
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oops Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 16th February 2005 From: Manchester Member No.: 111,080 Device(s): I-Mate SP5 |
QUOTE(Dark Horse @ Jan 20 2006, 00:05) 1. Bluetooth - The smartphone BT implementation is years behind the competition. Microsoft really are being a bunch of Mcfly's here, its not like its rocket science boys. Sort it out! 2. Camera - One for HTC, listen up. If you want to shift more units, you must improve the quality of the camera. Its no good upping the pixels when the resulting picture is worse than a Nokia with a melon in front of the lens. Its not difficult. Don't be cheapskates and spend a bit of time and effort in making the camera at least half decent so we can mock the Sony Ericsson chavs with their 2MP units. I totally agree with both these points... My friend has a USB dongle @ his house, when i go round i feel jealous, when he loads it up... The amount of services discovered on his Sony W800i has compared to the 2 on my SP5 is upsetting. The camera is ok on my SP5, but like all the smartphones there useless @ night/in club HTC need to integrate a damn light onto these things!!! Again i refer to Sony ericsson but some of their features are soooo way ahead of HTC. For £300 i would expect a little more on my SP5, i love it but it wasnt worth the Cash This post has been edited by b0bby: Jan 20 2006, 19:32 --------------------  |
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Jan 20 2006, 19:38
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 Hardcore Group: Posters Posts: 1,126 Joined: 24th February 2005 From: Romania Member No.: 112,983 Device(s): HTC Touch Pro |
What do i use the phone for :
- internet (wap tp be more precise) - mp3 player - reading documents - watching videos
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Jan 20 2006, 21:31
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 14 Joined: 18th December 2005 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 163,380 Device(s): HTC S620 |
Just Like Paul - ARSENAL UPDATES here in Canada.
Xuk Guy but still loving 'The Gunners"!!! |
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Jan 20 2006, 22:07
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 Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 42 Joined: 10th March 2003 Member No.: 3,374 Device(s): Nokia N82 |
QUOTE(bradmatejo @ Jan 20 2006, 19:21) And I use SmartConvert for the occasional How Many Inches In A Kilometer question, etc. Disappointingly, it couldn't tell me how many pounds in a stone. That one stumped me... 14 I use email on my phone a lot. Also MSN and Yahoo messenger, and text messaging. Some calls, but not often. A bit of browsing when I'm looking for info, news headlines, etc. And as an alarm clock, which is a daily used feature. -------------------- Poverty is not a misfortune..... It's an injustice
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Jan 20 2006, 22:29
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 Diehard  Group: Posters Posts: 425 Joined: 11th May 2003 From: bristol uk Member No.: 5,931 Device(s): white iPhone, white htc touch |
I Have an SPV M500,
the main things I use it for are: MSN Messenger (my girlfriend has a c500 - cheaper than texts) Games (pocket pc games are really good) Videos (watching full screen converted dvd's - when i should be workin) Listening to mp3's - Have 2 gig sd card full of vid's and mp3's read the occasional ebook occasional texts occasional pictures with the camera takin notes using pocket streets when i get lost (use it like a road map) surfing the net on the move and yes..... calls too !! I am thinking of using it for: Might get a GPS receiver for it. I love my SPV M500, it is by far the best phone i have owned... and i've owned a few !!!! This post has been edited by unclelimey: Jan 20 2006, 23:02 -------------------- |
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Jan 20 2006, 22:43
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,244 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Touch HD |
As suspected, majority of use are non calling Smartphone users primarily, lol!
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