Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Next week, I will be posting my review of the Fujitsu Siemens Loox T830 Pocket PC. :( In advance of this, this thread is an opportunity for you to ask me anything at all about the device, and i'll try and answer it! What the T830 loses in looks and for having a square screen, it makes up for in spec... - 416MHz Intel Processor - 3G connectivity + EDGE - SiRFstar III GPS - 802.11b/g WiFi - Dual Cameras, including 2MP camera with autofocus - 128MB ROM / 64MB RAM - USB host mode! - Full size SD slot - 3.5mm headphone port - QWERTY thumboard - 1530mAh battery Wow! :rolleyes: P PS It comes with a cradle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 I like the looks, cradle good, battery better, but no HSDPA! :rolleyes: (yes I realise we were spoilt when the HTC Hermes introduced us to mobile broadband but come on...!) Oh, and surely a square screen resolution is going to have BIG implications for software compatibility...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 It's also huge :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_d Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 It's also huge :rolleyes: P How much bigger is it than the new Treo that shares the same stupid square screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Fujitsu T830: 64mm x 126mm x 21mm Treo 750v: 58mm x 111mm x 23mm P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_d Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Fujitsu T830: 64mm x 126mm x 21mm Treo 750v: 58mm x 111mm x 23mm P Mmmm whilst I'm no fan of super-model sized phones, it would need to have a very good keypad to make it worth consideration with the small screen and that size. Is it stunning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Define stunning :rolleyes: Stunning specs, for sure, i'll let you know in a day or so when i've used it for a bit how i'm getting on! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gsm122448 Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Phew, I thought this one had fallen off the radar. I've been using this device for about three days so far, and much to my surprise I haven't found the square screen to be a hinderence yet. If you think about it, the on-screen keyboard on a 320x240 san-keyboard device takes up the bottom third of the screen anyway! The keys on the keyboard are really tiny, but amazingly it's one of the best keyboards on this kind of device I've experienced, erroneous key-presses are non existent. Looking forward to the review Paul, it'll be interesting to see what you make of the phone. PS. CameraAware works great on it :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 :( I've just installed CamerAware, but although the green GPS LED is flashing, CamerAware isn't displaying any kind of satellite status ;) I'm just hoping it's a bit lethargic before it's first fix, and not that I have a duff unit! :rolleyes: Might go and try iGo on it in a minute :) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 A friend of mine who also has just received one noted 'It's very German'. Sums up the device perfectly I think :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest m@... Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Whats the keyboard like compaired to the treo? When you do some more images can we please have a side by side against the treo? Ta! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Of course m@ :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gsm122448 Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 :( I've just installed CamerAware, but although the green GPS LED is flashing, CamerAware isn't displaying any kind of satellite status ;) I'm just hoping it's a bit lethargic before it's first fix, and not that I have a duff unit! :rolleyes: Might go and try iGo on it in a minute :) P I also had this problem but with TomTom when I first installed it. A hard-reset soon fixed that now it's working perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Hard reset? How! Soft reset, how too :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 A hard reset fixed that, yay! :rolleyes: Changing from the default theme to the default windows theme makes the screen look WAY better too. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest richard_d Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 If the keyboard is stunning then Perhaps the small screen is a fair trade but I wonder if they'd made it even taller (or wider) and squeezed in a full size screen it might have been more appealing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 A couple of quick pics as requested, apologies about the quality, they're just quick snaps :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 A couple of quick pics as requested, apologies about the quality, they're just quick snaps :rolleyes: P It's huge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 If I had a pound for every time i'd heard that :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Check it out :rolleyes: http://www.modaco.com/MoDaCo-Videocast-ish...33-t248112.html P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gsm122448 Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 A hard reset fixed that, yay! :rolleyes: Changing from the default theme to the default windows theme makes the screen look WAY better too. P Glad you found out about the hard reset, took me a while to figure out where the reset button. I still don't understand why on a Windows Mobile phone they made the reset button such a pain to get to! Agreed on the windows theme change...also better if you change the default text size down one notch as well. Probably the most annoying thing I'm finding about the phone is those damn flashing LEDs...try sleeping with the phone in your bedroom :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Doh, yeah, I was worried about that... tweak time :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 I also applied the AKU23clock tweak to get rid of the battery bar at the top and put the clock back... (attached). PAKU23Clock.noUPX.CAB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skeese Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 (edited) Does this have MSN messenger? Does it have an option for WPA-PSK connection for wlan? Edited November 4, 2006 by Skeese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix (MVP) Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Its...horrible. But the specs are nice, just need a car now to make full use of cameraware ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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