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Guest micaels
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Some camera samples please ...

I could take some when I come home (don't have acess to the phone currently). Is there any specific pictures you want?

Posted

Here's a few examples of the 614c's camera:

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Outdoors, Daylight, No Flash

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Outdoors, Daylight, No Flash

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Indoors, Daylight, No Flash

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Indoors, Low Light, With Flash

As you can see, the camera is perfectly serviceable outdoors in daylight. As with almost every WinMo device though, the camera shows it's weakness indoors and mainly in poor light. The closeup of the parrot was taken in daylight without flash indoors and while it isn't bad, it's not great either. It really starts to fall down when using the flash which, as normal for WinMo, is a simple LED flash. Some day these WinMo cameras will be sorted out and become a match for the Nokia N-Series and SonyEricsson Cybershot phones. When they do (and WinMo 7 is out) the devices will be unbeatable!

Posted

Thanks Paul,

It uses WM6, not 6.1. I wonder the performance and battery life of this device. :D

Jim

Posted

everton2004, thanks for the pictures.

I can't believe the quality is so poor for a 3.2Mpix cam.

Jim

Posted
everton2004, thanks for the pictures.

I can't believe the quality is so poor for a 3.2Mpix cam.

Jim

That's always been the trade-off of having a WinMo device - having a sub-standard camera!

As for performance, it's pretty fast and the 256Mb ROM and 128Mb RAM means there's plenty of RAM for running multiple applications and enough space to install your critical applications to the internal storage.

Battery life is about average for a Pocket PC device. Under light use I've had just over two days before it started complaining of a low battery. Under heavy use (Wifi and HSDPA usage, phone calls, texts etc) it'll last less than a day. I've not noticed much difference between this device and my old Hermes (Vario II).

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everton2004, thanks for the pictures.

I can't believe the quality is so poor for a 3.2Mpix cam.

Jim

And just another thought - I think the issue of quality may be related to JPEG 'over compression'. Look at the file sizes - they're quite small for 3.2Mpix. Perhaps HP may do something about this in one of their updates (fingers crossed).

Guest Deric Law
Posted

Hi Paul,

Is there anyway to tweak the device volume? I missed a few call in the normal sound phone mode.

thanks

Guest Deric Law
Posted

Hi Again,

I am very new to the GPS thingy, can you explain how does it work with my hp 612 device? i had google maps application preinstall but the gps on the asset viewer show gps is disable. i had no idea how do i activate it.

do i need to install other extra softwares. or bluetooth using another external GPS device???

or do i need to pay some service provider for using agps in this device???

please let me know

thanks a lot

Guest doelie
Posted

Paul,

I am using my Ipaq 614c with push e-mail, whenever I am having phonecalls that last for more then 15 minutes they are cancelled by the Ipaq to retreive mail... :D

Is there anyway to set priorities for the services so that my phonecalls are not interrupted anymore?

Guest NuJew
Posted

Anyone can give me information on GPS Chip use in 612c?

I found 2 sources telling different

http://smartphonedb.net/index.php?m=specs&...=853&view=1

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/handhelds/0,3...1158160p,00.htm

Can I use 612C/614C as orninary GPS from sattlelite?

How many sattlelite it can receive at the same time?

I saw in data sheet that it have external GPS antenna, but I cannot

see any port on devices.

Does desktop charger available?

Thank

Guest NuJew
Posted

How many GPS sattlelite can 612c detect?

Now I consider buying 612C/Asus P750/Touch Cruise

Guest dirlan2001
Posted
How many GPS sattlelite can 612c detect?

Now I consider buying 612C/Asus P750/Touch Cruise

Hi,

Depends on what software you're using. VisualGPSce sees up to 16 satellites (11 when inside my truck) and TT6 sees about 12 (8 inside).

My opinion on the HP : http://www.modaco.com/content-page/261287/...aq-610/page/20/ post nr 26 :D

Cheers,

Dirk

Guest Paul (MVP)
Posted
Paul,

I am using my Ipaq 614c with push e-mail, whenever I am having phonecalls that last for more then 15 minutes they are cancelled by the Ipaq to retreive mail... :D

Is there anyway to set priorities for the services so that my phonecalls are not interrupted anymore?

That shouldn't happen, voice should always take priority. Oddness!

P

Guest Metoo
Posted
everton2004, thanks for the pictures.

I can't believe the quality is so poor for a 3.2Mpix cam.

Jim

The HP is worse than most other WM phones - simply because of that horrendous pink tinted stripe which seems to plague them all. Unless you're on drugs, who wants all their skies coloured purple?

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Guest mzstanny
Posted

can you add the dutch xt9 to the english version? and how do you do it?

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