I have a Touch Dual for my personal email and calls and a crackberry for work. It makes me feel less shackled to work because when I am not at work I simply leave the work phone in the car or at home or whatever....the danger of having everything in one is a sort of information overload and you will find yourself sitting staring at the screen of your phone all day every day with no respite. Just a thought.

I don't know anything about this software, but it has good reviews so might be worth downloading a trial

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDet...d=NTEzMDg5MTIS1

Blackberry connect will still require the RIM software to be installed on the mailservers at work... Does anyone have a crackberry at work?

I am pretty sure that this piece of software will do what you want among a whole lot of other things

http://www.gypsii.com/

have you tried it outside? that is the message that TomTom shoves out when it can get no signal as well as when it can't find a GPS device.

If you have then here's what I would recommend. Go to Settings>System>GPS and see what port is being used in there and make sure that marries up to what TomTom thinks. Install google maps www.google.com/gmm (I think) and see if that can get a fix. If GM gets a fix then you know the problem is TomTom settings. These are set by the GPS settings snap-in in Settings>System, as above.

That should help, I hope.

This one is excellent too - same device, but bluetooth, so no cable back to phone

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=140285

Sony do one too, but I forget its name

Sprite Terminator does everything you could want it to do including locking up the phone, remote wipe, reset master password and gps tracking. Tells you when a new sim card is put in and lets you know the phone number too. Not bad for $14. Very user-friendly too. Bit late now, I know but I use it and it does give peace of mind. (I am a sports journalist with plenty of famous people's numbers, none of whom would thank me for letting their personal numbers loose in the wild!


http://www.spritesoftware.com/

Might be worth having a look at Goodsync (trial version is limited to 100 files or fewer, but full version is only $20 I think). I've not tried it, but I would have thought that if you had a load of different folders you wanted to Sync to the card, it should be able to do it. Goodsync can be triggered to run a sync when you insert a removable hard disk (or phone in this case which mounts as mass storage anyway) and it recurses files, so you shouldn't lose the folder structure. I might give it a go when I get home from work, but if someone else wants to try it out in the meantime with the trial version I would be interested to know if it's a solution or not.

Does it have a mini-usb port?

The Royaltek that is, not Mcwarre's undoubtedly comprehensive selection of women.

That said, a chick with a mini-usb port might be quite useful, but I digress.

Presumably also, you can use any mapping software you like with this, it's not tied to the Wayfinder package or anything?

I don't have the T-Mob version, but an unbranded HTC one...I don't have any sense of flimsiness - there is a bit of play between the two halves of the phone, in so much as I can push them together, but it is really minimal. I certainly don't have any scratching on the keypad - is there something in yours? A bit of grit, maybe?

I love the phone, but wish it had quadband and GPS capability.

Apart from that it is untouchable (no pun intended)

Is it a reminder in the calendar? If it only wakes you up at midnight then you could always just go to bed at five past midnight...

This is almost certainly a com port issue then - you need to go in to the Bluetooth settings and create a com port, make sure that secure connection is unchecked and then go to the GPS icon in settings and make the GPS program port the port that you just created.

Another thing to try is whether your Holux works with your mate's handset. Just to completely eliminate the Holux as the fault.

Good luck

This seems to work.... has for me anyway.

In my earlier post, I should have explained that you need to copy the certificate to your device and then find it in file explorer and click on it to install it on your device...good luck

The other tip of course is to back up your copy of outlook before you start creating new activesync connections!

There are a number of things you need in place to use Active Sync with Exchange. On the phone, you need to have the correct security certificate installed (usually available by right clicking on the login page for remote access). To access the server, you will need to give the phone the OWA address for the server - usually in the format https://servername.domain.com/owa, plus of course your user name and password. The likelihood is that your college will have locked out mobile activesync access, but I could be wrong.

If the contacts are all you want, why not simply open up outlook and save the contacts out as a .pst file. Then log on to the local machine (ie without logging on to the domain) and load the contacts in to a non-exchange connected copy of outlook. then Sync.

Hope that helps

...is not there as an option on mine. Hence why I have suggested the other fix above.

Try the SlideActions programme at http://puna.net.nz/wm6/ which amongst other things lets you lock the phone by closing the slider. It also lets you disconnect calls by closing the slider.

You can also add the lock function to the launcher on the home screen - I have an HTC device, but I assume the T-mob version has a similar today screen.

With data abroad, I find the best way is to switch it off then just turn it on once a day to pull everything down. Switch it off again and read/reply offline. then switch it back on again to send. that way you get charged only for one block of data a day. Most service providers have a lower limit when roaming of about 20k, so if your device is sending a heartbeat every minute or so to poll the server for new mail they will charge you for 20k even though you are using only 1 or 2k. It sucks but that is the way it is, doing it all in one go saves you a fortune. Don't browse unless you have to and really if you think about it if you are somewhere with a wifi signal, chances are they will have some form of net access to go with it, so you might as well use that.

With regard to the keys question, yes they are quite close together and the question to ask yourself re 20/16 keys is do you prefer an abc style keyboard or a qwerty. I fall in to the latter camp personally. I have read pretty much everything on here about the Touch Dual with regard to complaints and I have not actually suffered from any of them myself. The only thing that bothers me is that when I am on a call and I hang up I often find the clock displayed because my cheek has activated things on the screen. The only way round this appears to be to power down the screen with the on/off button when you make/receive a call but as gripes go this is pretty minor. I missed the ok button from the TyTn, but have now mapped the camera button to be an ok/close which solved that one. I have two good cameras for taking pictures and you can get in to the camera pretty quick via touchflo.

I am going to try and change your mind here, having spent the past week with a Touch Dual II (20-key version). It is truly a brilliant phone which I got to replace my Tytn. Tytn was beginning to drive me mad, running its battery down for no reason and sometimes taking more than 10 seconds to respond to button presses on the phone screen.

I am also on Vodafone and also UK based, so some of your more generic questions I can answer anyway.

So...

1. I purchased the phone from Handtec.co.uk. It was nearly £100 cheaper than anyone else out there and is a UK firm so fully protected by UK rights. I have Voda insurance, but have cancelled it after ensuring that I am covered by my household policy (I am), making me wonder why I was paying £7.95 a month to Vodafone. Of course, with Voda you get a new phone next day when there is a problem which almost certainly will not be the case with my household insurer, plus excess on policy is £100 not £25. I have told my wife not to leave her new phone on the side of the bath while bathing the kids quite as frequently as she previously had (her Tytn was replaced 4 times last year after going swimming at bathtime).

2. Keyboard on touch Dual gives you best of both worlds - full QWERTY hardware keyboard, or on screen. Must admit have not used the onscreen version that much (but no problems when I have), but the hardware keyboard is a breeze to use once you have got your head around the XT9 text recognition.

3. Wifi...are you sure you want this? By its very nature this is phone - a mobile device - so surely the important thing is that you can connect to the phone network and fast. On Vodafone you can get the data bundle (£7.50 per month for 120MB) and you would have to be going some to get through all that. Furthermore, using WIFI knocks the battery life massively. 3G and HSDPA work great for me, the latter being blazingly fast.

4. I haven't tried MMS (more likely to send pix by email than MMS), but the WAP/GPRS settings worked straight out the box - the phone went through an automatic set up routine, asked me to confirm my network was vodafone and did its merry thing in about 2 minutes.

5. You can install anything you like, the phone is pretty branding free as well with just one tiny little HTC logo in the bottom corner.

6. Media player volume is fine - but there are always third-party players if you are unhappy with it.

7. Call quality is fine. Sometimes when I am outside in really noisy traffic I struggle to hear the other party, but generally it is light years ahead of my previous PPCs.

On a separate note, the bluetooth firmware/software seems to have been dramatically improved - I had problems with the TyTn tethering to my Parrot 3100 in the car and also GPSlim BT GPS receiver - all those issues have disappeared with new phone.

In short - although I have never owned the Touch Enhanced and I am sure it is great - if you can set aside the Wifi requirement I would really look at going for the Touch Dual II it is a truly fabulous device and even my Iphone-owning, black-poloneck-wearing Machead friend looked at it and had to begrudginly admit that it was a worthy competitor to his locked-up, GPRS only, storage-limited device.

I don't know if you can achieve this, but it may be of interest. I have a private mobile phone dealer who is able to extract cash from Vodafone for upgrade codes. What this means in practice is that he tells Voda that he has upgraded me and they send him his subsidy cheque as per my upgrade code (this time round it was £170. for the service, he creams off a few quid (£20) and gives me a cheque for £150. Certainly helped to make the phone a lot cheaper. I then traded in 3 working TyTns with Envirofone for a further £50 each. Bid of admin involved all round, but suddenly the £660 bill for 2 phones was halved. Good day's work in my view.

Be interested to know what you think...

Has anyone managed to unlock the vodafone customisation on the calendar item of the Today screen on a v1605? Starting to wind me up that it only displays two items...

I have the CK3100 and it works a treat...most of the time. sometimes it doesn't hook up to the phone properly and you have to either switch off the engine to to shut down the bluetooth module in the carkit and/or soft reset the phone to get it all working. That aside, sound is much better than it was with my old XDAiis and synchronisation works perfectly of the address book (providing you have latest firm/software in the CK3100). My phone isn't a 3100, it's a v1605 (hermes) on vodafone. Hope that helps. I also use a holux GPSlim236 which takes power from my brodit cradle via a molex adapter behind the dashboard. I find the hermes connects perfectly to the GPS, whereas the XDA was a little more reticent!

well for some reason it didn't work when I did just the stylus thing, but when i did stylus and held power it did. odd.

ok got it now...maybe I didn't hold power down properly at soft reset...

Lol...definitely done it correctly - unlock and messaging appear fine, just no sign of owner info in the items list...what do you reckon?