Hi guys

I live in Taiwan and I can confirm the P3702 has identical hardward to the Diamond (e.g. 128MB + 64MB RAM). It's merely a different case design, ala T-Mobile's version, for those who don't want something too fancy (although all the adverts over here are for the Diamond version).

If you're curious, you can view the P3702 at one of Taiwan's largest online stores: http://shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=item&am...EAA2H-A27237124 (beware, there's a lot of Flash and images on the site, so it may take a while to load). It's the same the price as the normal Diamond (GBP394 unlocked).

Kind regards

Hi guys

I live in Taiwan and I can confirm the P3702 has identical hardward to the Diamond (e.g. 128MB + 64MB RAM). It's merely a different case design, ala T-Mobile's version, for those who don't want something too fancy (although all the adverts over here are for the Diamond version).

If you're curious, you can view the P3702 at one of Taiwan's largest online stores: http://shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=item&am...EAA2H-A27237124 (beware, there's a lot of Flash and images on the site, so it may take a while to load). It's the same the price as the normal Diamond (GBP394 unlocked).

Kind regards

Copy both files to the phone, Run the E72 Unlock first, run the other one 2nd then reboot the phone. Pretty much anything can install now, but I would recommend also downloading and installing Microsoft's Security Configuration Manager. This will allow you to set the security on your phone to completely off if you wish.

Ah but how to make them auto-change... ;)

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I wonder if this would prove a good replacement for my Vox (slightly worse-for-wear now) as I don't use the keyboard on it?

Shame they only do it in red!!

It looks a bit slow in the video Paul - would you say it was comparable to the Vox? I think it has a slightly faster processor than the Vox.

Have u tried Skype on this? I wonder if it's able to run it smoothly and whether it's got the speaker problem as other windows mobile devices?

Back in January I unboxed the teeny-tiny BenQ E72 Smartphone. Packing half decent specs...

• Windows Mobile 6 standard
• TI OMAP1030 260 MHz CPU
• Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900MHz
• 2" QVGA screen
• 2.0MP Camera
• 128MB ROM / 64MB RAM
• microSD expansion
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• WiFi with optional UMA support
• 108mm x 46.3mm x 13.8mm (it's small!)
• 88g

...the E72 is a pretty smart little device in a world largely devoid of Smartphones. The E72 is particularly interesting as eXpansys are now offering it at a bargain £99.99 [aff], and that's before the £10 MoDaCo voucher discount!

I don't have mine any more, but I do like to have a Smartphone around as a backup device, or when I need a device that is super-small to take to the pub. Anyone else have one of these babies?

P

Mine arrived this morning .... some things are a great spec, others are a bit lacking.

Micros SD card slot ... but only up to 2GB
Wifi - Excellent
Bluetooth - Excellent
2MP Camera - Actually not too bad, id say probably better than that on the TyTN II

However it only has GPRS and EDGE at times ... it doesn't have 3G and certainly doesn't have HSDPA.

I was planning on using it as a pub phone, and putting my T-Mobile sim in there, and letting hosted exchange sync my calendar and contacts on there. But after using it for a while, I think I might use it as a replacement for my work handset, and let try to get it synchronising with Lotus Notes via USB ... so I've got a copy of fairly recent emails and calendar when Im out and about.

Are there any more reviews of this phone? Has anyone purchased one and is it available anywhere besides the auction site?

Found them!! Many thanks Petr

The card works a treat now and Ithink the phone is great. If you ever hear of a upgrade to winmo 6.1 maybe let me know...

Arthur.

here we go .... :-)

here we go .... :-)

Hello everyone ,
I Just got the E72 from Ebay, came directly from Taiwan within 4 days after payment to Europe.

It is a really small device, Im very satisfied with it. Battery life is 2 days, but depends on how much I use the phone (Wifi,BT,MP3etc..)

Up to 8 GB SDHC card with applied patch is fine. Looks really cool.
Preinstalled is Facade Homescreen, Java, IM Mundu,MSN Messenger, 2D barcode reader

I have installed skype on my own, works fine on Wifi, but the sound is coming from the rear speaker.

First I thought it might be a problem, but then I have found a solution:

Put your phone the other way around with the back speaker on your ear and set the volume down. Yes, the mic will be on the other side (lower side, which is now on top with display facing outwards), but it is sensitive enough to make a clear phone call via SKYPE.


But there are also some things I am not very excited about:

- the screen is very reflexive, very hard to read on direct sun

- sound volume in headphones is low, maybe a registry problem

- phone is locked (u cannot tweak your phone so much), but 90% of apps installed --- ) ok
In attachment you will find some pictures. Rainbow and my Parrot B
Bye Petr 

Edit: on the side of the phone is *rec button, this will start vito audio notes

Me too I had the disappearing memory problem and when I used Oxios or SKTools to clean up memory, I lost cellphone function (no network detected/selectable - SMS still worked) so I had to reboot. Now I have replaced the Htc Home screen by a custom made one (see below) and my memory problems seem to have gone or are far less at least. I now can also free up memory without any problem

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Hi =)

As many of you probably have seen there are a lot of videos of "hacked" S730's with their built-in GPSes in use arround (for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTHO86--VHM )

Strictly legally, modding your phone to use the GPS isnt illegal so I hope this post won't be deleted, though it might void the warranty...

I was just wondering if anyone has tried this? And if so is the GPS worth trying?

Could this be related to the video playback issues caused by those missing drivers?

Perhaps a relevant question: Does this only occur with tracks encoded in 192+ bps? Or also with lower quality tracks?

Is your phone still operational? If it is press the start button, select the icon named Expert then the icon Clear Storage. Enter 1234 when prompted.

Have you tried reformatting your storage card?

How is this workaround holding up? anyone else try it? I think I want to order one of these phones, but not until I know I'll actually be able to use it with my apps.

I had a similar issue some time back on a SP5 Smartphone and found it was an application I had installed (cannot remember which one) which was stressing Windows Media Player out. I uninstalled it and the problem never reoccurred. I don't know if this helps at all....

for hard reset of your device, you can follow the above option, or if your phone crashed, you can: Shut down your phone, press both softbuttons and hold them down while turning on your phone, hold the until a message appears asking you to press send to hard reset your phone. follow onscreen intructions

Rope, I hear what you say, but I shouldn't have to download a 3rd part app to make it work.

I like IE and since it is part of the OS it should work.

I had a HTC S620 with WM% and that did not suffer the same problems as the Dash with WM6 does.

I'm not even sure in IE is the culprit.

As an example I tried to start the camera earlier and it couldn't due to low memory.
Closing all the apps does not return all the memory. A reboot is required.

Crap really.

I have finally heard back from HTC on this as of yesterday, below is there response, verbatim. I am hopeful that we get a fix soon, but am still not sure they completely get it.


"Thank you for contacting HTC Europe regarding a query about the memory error.



This is now a known issue on which we are working to find a solution.



At the moment I could suggest you to perform a hard reset and keep aware of what could be causing the problem."




Has anyone else heard of anything of found a way to really fix the problem, not just run close apps all the time?

Hello all,

I bought a HTC S730 (european) and also have the memory problem. So contacted HTC support several times and send emails. They came back explaining that the phone has ram and rom and how the birds and the bee's work. After several emails explaining the ram problem, memory going down after using the phone, they finally came back with the answer: Please backup your phone-data and hard reset the phone!!!

Well, after this 'great advise' I thought I'd better call the support line. After an interrogation and asking my imei number from the phone they finally wanted to answer my question about the memory.
Then they said that I installed too many programms on the phone and that was giving the problems, when I responded I had nothing installed they told me it was because of the too many big emails that were in my inbox. I assured them that there were only a few and this couldn't be the problem, then they asked me to wait........

After 5 minutes holding they said they had a lot of S710's lying around and they all work fine and told me that is basically the same phone.
I managed explain them why it was not and to please check on a s730, then they told me that they did not have one. So they asked me to hold again......

When she came back on the line after another 5 minutes they told me that there were no firmwares in the works as this was not a known problem to HTC and she couldn't make a note of it because this problem was not acknowledged by HTC. I asked her to at least make a note of my complaint, but she answered she could not leave support-tickets open...
She also added not to worry, because a technical person in her team told her that even if the memory in the task manager shows 9mb free, the missing mb's are actually there, only the task manager doesn't refresh it properly.

Now my hope is, maybe somebody on this forum has a contact in HTC higher up that actually has some Idea if this problem will be addressed or officially will be real in the near future.

Hoping for some positive news,

RJB