getting a O2 iQ - what next?!

[Guest colincliff]

Ok, so i'm getting a O2 iq tomorrow, which is nice. It's my first smartphone since a C500 a few years ago.

I was wondering what applictations, hacks or firmwares people suggest are good to get for this device.

Give me your top five suggestions for a new virgin O2 IQ!!

Thanks :)

[Guest chucky.egg]

Tip #1 - Practice with the search button :)

http://www.modaco.com/New-XDA-IQ-coming-so...do-t248107.html

Having had mine a while now, I'd add:

Route66 is pretty good. Not perfect. Good value for money though.

ClearVuew Document reader is a waste of money

WordPad is great

Facade and Papyrus, and CodeWallet still great

[Guest The Doctor]

WM5torage is a MUST (so much so i felt the need to make it bold AND underline :))

Other useful stuff is the A2DP hack (sticky) if you have any bluetooth stereo headphones, SmartExplorer EN from http://www.binarys.com and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 installed to storage card.

Phil

[Guest ljames28]

How do you install the framework to the storage card? I was under the impression even if you install to storage card it still puts the files in the windows folder?

[Guest colincliff]

Tip #1 - Practice with the search button :)

Thanks! obviuosly my search skills need some practice!

WM5torage looks like an excellent idea!

I remember smartexplorer from my c500 days - if i remember correctly it allowed you to send any file via bluetooth. Bluetooth transfer was one of the worst things about the c500 - i constantly had problems connecting to other phone even when my phone discovered them easily, i hope WM5 is better on that front.

and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 installed to storage card.

Forgive my ignorance but what exactly would installing NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 do? i can only find a few references to it, most saying it has to be installed on the phone.

Edited December 16, 2006 by colincliff

[Guest The Doctor]

In answer to BOTH queries relating to .NET CF2 SP1, with the addition of SP1 you can now install it to storage card saving around 4mb of precious storage memory. if you dont have .NET CF2 SP1 then some application won't run eg. cameraware, tornado power control etc etc.

Phil

[Guest looeee]

Hopefully you have a wifi router so you also might want to install some data-heavy apps. These are the ones I use:

skookum or hubdog for caching podcasts and rss

avantgo for downloading newspapers

shozu for uploading pictures to flickr

Realplayer and TCPMP for listening to streaming radio

dotnetvnc to control my desktop PC when I can't be bothered getting off the sofa

VirtualEarth and Windows Live Search for Mobile work quite nicely too

[Guest looeee]

oh and fishopolis

skype

OmapClock

CellProfileSwitcher

I'll stop there but there's loads of great (free) software for your great device

Edited December 17, 2006 by looeee

[Guest mini_man]

Sniper I can reccomend.

But seriously if you were worried about useless bluetooth transfer on the C500 then WM5 isnt that much of an improvement either.

Sniper gives you many many many more options for sending recieving etc and you can bluejack.

Look at my sig for more details

Sam

[Guest The Doctor]

Sniper I can reccomend.

But seriously if you were worried about useless bluetooth transfer on the C500 then WM5 isnt that much of an improvement either.

Sniper gives you many many many more options for sending recieving etc and you can bluejack.

Look at my sig for more details

Sam

Second that, WM5 is better but still shocking with regards to bluetooth support, sniper adds much needed functionality to the microsoft bluetooth stack.

Phil