Guest Pagemakers Posted June 7, 2006 Report Posted June 7, 2006 I FAR prefer the smartphone OS to PPC. My SP5 has been at the doctors last week to be fixed and I had to use my JasJar and I HATED it with a passion. SP5's home tomorrow :)
Guest shadamehr Posted June 7, 2006 Report Posted June 7, 2006 Dare I go even more off topic with this, but as the debate has moved over to Nokias, let me have everyone cursing me by saying that for the last week, I have been playing around with a Nokia 6280 as my primary phone ("just to see"). And dare I even mutter it, but the only thing i have found lacking is the same old nokia series 40 issue of calendar items not sync'ing. It still can't, and probably never will, be possible to do logical repeats on a Series 40 Nokia (that is items that repeat a certain DAY of the month, like every third thursday, as opposed to by DATE of the month, i.e. every 23rd). Were it not for this, I could get by with it as my main phone, so easy is everything else on it. Now move on to, the N80... that's a GENUINE proposition... 'Cos that CAN do full logical repeats (though maybe still not creatable on the phone, but they can be sync'ed over from PC). It has a truly beautiful screen - I was playing with one for real last night at the Bryan Adams concert (where I was backstage doing emergency radio comms to Stadium Control Room), with a resolution of 415x372 or similar. The three Megapixel camera, whilst not S.E. standard, is still a billion billion miles beyond ANY Windows based device camera- when will they EVER get that right, and stop playing catch up - the NEW Windows devices coming out, will have a 2MP camera, just when the key players are now jumping to 3.2 - this truly disappoints me with windows). And it plays .wma files too now. As well as 802.11g flavour wi-fi... 3G... Quad Band GSM too... EDGE... uPnp with Media streaming inbuilt - how cool... Document viewers etc... Email attachment viewing... And full any file format sending, even if not viewable on the phone... Now... yes we KNOW its not a WINDOWS device... But when can we finally start talking about other devices as being truly Smart smartphones... Surely thats got to be it...? Me wants one!
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 I had a N80 for about a week... still went back to my JAMin! If you're a power PIM/mail user (as I am), then only Windows Mobile cuts it. P
Guest Pagemakers Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Against Paul's better advice I had an N60 (i think that's what its called). Horrid thing. Cumbersome, slow, infuriating OS.
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 That was an N70 you had actually :) It was horrible (I had one too to have a play with Orange TV), the N80 is miles better, but still not enough to make me switch camps... P
Guest Pagemakers Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 N70.....That's how much of an impression if left!
Guest Pondrew Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 ...the N80 is miles better, but still not enough to make me switch camps... P The day you switch camps Paul is the day we send a retrieval team to bring you back and undo the brain washing you've obviously come under... :)
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Haha! Having just this second played with a Hermes... I WANT! :) P
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Haha, finally the device to make me give up my JAMin... :) P
Guest dearsina Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Released in July, eh? Anybody care for a little gentleman's wager that we won't be seeing C700s until we see Xmas decorations in the shop windows?
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Released in July, eh? Anybody care for a little gentleman's wager that we won't be seeing C700s until we see Xmas decorations in the shop windows? LOL! :) P
Guest sporkguy Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 That's a 'smartphone' not a 'Smartphone' actually... :) P I honestly can't see the big deal about a capital letter or not - they both perform smart tasks, they both have installable apps (usually by the same companies) - they both rock.
Guest Dr Who Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Haha! Having just this second played with a Hermes... I WANT! :) P How big did it feel in the hand. (Hang on a minute, that sounds a bit ooo-er, sorry 'bout that).
Guest FragMeister Posted June 8, 2006 Report Posted June 8, 2006 Interestingly, the specifications of the HTC Hermes are slightly tweaked for full release, with the addition of Start / OK hardware buttons, a MiniSD instead of a Transflash slot, and a Samsung processor boosted from 300MHz to 400MHz. Paul, From your recent contact with the Hermes can you confirm the memory card slot. 99% of articles say that the Hermes has a microSD (transflash) but then it was said at the start of this topic that it is a MINI-SD.
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 12, 2006 Report Posted June 12, 2006 Sadly, contrary to my original sources, it appears to be TransFlash :) P
Guest elhornet Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 Well, I was about to leave Orange this week as I wanted a Vario. If they are getting it, I may be tempted to stay?
Guest Saif Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 Well, I was about to leave Orange this week as I wanted a Vario. If they are getting it, I may be tempted to stay? in the same dilema as you. Been looking at the FlexT & Web'n'Walk plans and find it more attractive than my current Select 750 on Orange. But T still haven't got the best handsets and I know I would be gutted if I got the vario only for a better handset to turn up in a couple of weeks... though don't want to miss out on the
Guest argh Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 Released in July, eh? Anybody care for a little gentleman's wager that we won't be seeing C700s until we see Xmas decorations in the shop windows? So early August then <_<
Guest elhornet Posted June 14, 2006 Report Posted June 14, 2006 Does Orange plan on limiting any of its functions?
Guest Monolithix (MVP) Posted June 16, 2006 Report Posted June 16, 2006 I honestly can't see the big deal about a capital letter or not - they both perform smart tasks, they both have installable apps (usually by the same companies) - they both rock. Pre-Windows Mobile, Microsoft's software on PDA's was called PocketPC, and on smartphones called Smartphone :) Post-WM it became Windows Mobile for PPC and Windows Mobile for Smartphone... Just FYI :)
Guest pd.ryder Posted June 17, 2006 Report Posted June 17, 2006 Haha! Having just this second played with a Hermes... I WANT! :) P Is a review on it's way? Did you get a 'release model' that's already been messed with by Orange or was it a propper HTC device? It'd be nice if it had miniSD - saves me having to buy a new card :)
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