Hi everyone

[Guest KeyriBhoy]

Hi everyone, Ordered my first smartphone 2 days ago the c500 from orange, I've always been into gadgets and before this had the 3510i which I managed to get html on somehow, This is what got me wanting a smartphone so gettin the c500 afew Q's

1) How do you download software, do you transfer it from pc 2 phone, through gprs or another method? How much is software?

2) Can you recommend any software? and Games?

3) how much gprs do you use a month? Does HTML take massive amounts I've asked to try oranges 4mb for a month is this too little?

4) Any kool things you can recommend with the c500 or things I should know ( I read the site founders review on it )

Thanks in advance

[Guest squall]

1. this varys, most software is transferred to the phone and run from there to install. most purchased software has a pc based installer

2. check out handango.com, they have a good selection. also www.binarys.com

3. very little, but at a guessid say a typical user will use 1 - 3 mb.

check out the faq, its a little out dated but the basics are still there

and welcome to the site :)

[Guest KeyriBhoy]

Thanks squall (ps FF8 was the best FF) I was amazed at handango a Knew smartphones could do some pc things But thats just amazing does anyone online use the dvd to phone softwares?

New Q's (as you can probly tell I am lookin forward to gettin this phone)

its an sd card slot what is that expandable upto I saw somewhere on this forumn upgrading to a 256mb was advisable it said around £45 on ebay, Do I just search for an sd card or is it specific to the phone

[Guest Disco Stu]

The C500 takes mini-SD cards and it will be a long time before they make a card too big for it to handle.

We're talking terabytes I've heard.

[Guest Confucious]

have a look at http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=119185

As for Data usage - HTML can be very heavy on data, I used 10Mb in the first month when I was trying OrangeWorld4. I sugest you use All-Locations data counter to check your usage.

Hope you enjoy your new phone :)