User: Operaman
These are the most recent forum messages posted by Operaman:
Re: Jealous of the form factor
Looks like there's definitely models in the works:
The Motorola XT300 has been making appearances recently:
http://www.phonedog.com/2010/08/ 30/motorola-xt300-portrait-slider-with-androi d-photos-leak-again/
http://www.itechnews.ne t/2010/08/31/motorola-xt300-android-qwerty-sl ider-videos/
Then there's the Alcatel OT-980:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/02/01 /pre-esque-slider-from-alcatel-rocks-android/
And this Motorola phone might be a per-cursor to the XT300:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/24/mo torolas-android-powered-heron-sawgrass-do/
Jealous of the form factor
I love the overall form of the device. It seems to me a vertical slider is the way to go - all the screen real estate of keyboardless phone and the one-handed typing ability of a Blackberry or Treo. Out of the dozens of identical looking Android devices out there you'd think someone would have made an Android in this shape by now.
Re: Any Android phones with "one handed" keyboard?
Thanks for the reply Fireball :-)
That should work, but I've been doing that on my Windows phone these last several months hoping I could get used to an on screen keyboard, but it drives me nuts: I have to look at the keyboard in order to type on it (no way to "touch type" on a "touch screen" since it all feels the same). I'll get to the end of a sentence and look up at what I've typed ...
Any Android phones with "one handed" keyboard?
Used the Phone Finder and haven't been able to find one, but want to make sure:
Are there any Android phones that have a keyboard you can use with 1 hand, like Treos and Blackberries do?
One of the things I really miss about my PalmOS Treo was the ability to type on it one handed. The phone I use now (a Windows mobile 6.1 one) has a slide out keyboard that I thought I'd like better, but so often I ...
Really, no headphone jack?
Does this really not have a headphone jack (2.5mm or 3.5mm)?
Re: VZW Version When?
Just to make sure I understand this - since it's a CDMA phone, if you buy one it will work with Verizon, correct? Just they don't have them for sale directly at the Verizon stores?
Re: E61 vs. Wizard?
I'd be much more interested in the E61.
Windows Mobile seems horribly unstable.
Just look at the problems people are having with the Treo 700w for just one example:
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/p _forum.php?p=811
Personally, having my phone "crash" is extremely high on my "not to do" list.
Looks like the first WiFi phone with a non-Windows OS
Looks like the first WiFi phone with a non-Windows OS
Spellcheck gone?
I saw last time I posted a few days/weeks ago that the spellcheck was acting pretty strange - it said every word in my entire post was misspelled etc for some odd abbreviation.
I know Rich said he was going to work on the spellcheck before to make it recognize words like "PhoneScoop" and other common words that haven't made it into Merriam-Webster's yet.
I wonder if the spellcheck's gone for good or just disabled for the moment?
It's no biggie at ...
Any obvious advantages over the "Blue Angel"? (Siemens SX66, etc, etc, etc)
Any obvious advantages/disadvantages over the existing "Blue Angel" (which is really designed by HTC, but distrubited under at least 300 different names and makers)?
I havn't tried compared dimensions & weight or claimed battery life.
Bluetooth version may be different too and of course CPU & memories.
But the core functionality seems the same to me...
a Blue Angel online community
I just stumbled across something of a Blue Angel user community.
There seem to be a lot more questions and complaints than answers and explainations at this point, but it looks like a good thing to read up on if you're considering buying one of these things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/vi ewforum.php?f=23&topicdays=0&start=150
... wouldn't it open up all kinds of possibilities to have wifi on your phone??
Re: Moto misses the mark... again!
Hey! Funny you should mention that.
My Betamax VCR has burned out.
Anyone got any good leads on getting a new one?
"Consumer" Infrared (CIR) ?
As if this phone doesn't do enough as it is...
But does anyone know how powerful the infrared port is?
Can it function with the range of a typical TV remote so that it can take advantage of the TV/VCR/etc remote software that's available for PocketPC?
Or is it "standard IR" meaning it has a range of about 2 feet and while it COULD run the software to function as a TV remote, if you have to be 2 feet away, what's ...
WiFi for the Treo 650!! ...well, kinda
There is something very special going on over at TreoCentral.com.
http://www.treocentral.co m/content/Stories/502-1.htm
Some very gifted people (chief among these, "Shadowmite") who happen to have some very appropriate and specialized skills have miraculously been at the right place at the right time to help each other accomplish something quite special.
Just last night, (Dec 15, 2004, about 11pm EST) they managed to hack the T5 (a PDA) driver released with PalmOne's new SDIO WiFi card so that it will work, roughly, with the ...
WiFi for the Treo 650!! ...well, kinda
There is something very special going on over at TreoCentral.com.
http://www.treocentral.co m/content/Stories/502-1.htm
Some very gifted people (chief among these, "Shadowmite") who happen to have some very appropriate and specialized skills have miraculously been at the right place at the right time to help each other accomplish something quite special.
Just last night, (Dec 15, 2004, about 11pm EST) they managed to hack the T5 (a PDA) driver released with PalmOne's new SDIO WiFi card so that it will work, roughly, with the ...
Re: In what ways are Cingular's models crippled?
Ha!
Dropping the phone "feature" would be a rather bold maneuver for a wireless phone carrier!
I suppose the camera is physically not there?
It would look so bad if the camera was visible on the device, but disabled through software.
And what a weird feature to disable!
Are they trying to save $?
The way cameras are showing up on every phone out there these days, you'd think they were cheap enough to make no difference to the seller.
Maybe they're just targeting those folks ...
In what ways are Cingular's models crippled?
The phone sure is on Cingular's website:
http://onlinestoref.cingular.com/ webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ES_PROD_PHONE_DETAI LS.jsp?phoneid=496253&storeId=10851&catalogId =10851&langId=-1&storeAlias=albalb&svcAreaId= SBC&subOrderId=1&isPostpaid=true&bogoSubOrder Id=0&pageFrom=ES_PHONES
I entered the zipcode "12345" to get to that page. So apparently Cingular is one of those many-faced companies who treat people differently depending on where their bill address is. So your mileage may vary :-/
Anyway, there's no mention of a camera on that page.
Are there any other features that aren't implemented on Cingular's model?
I suppose of course that any of these bought through Cingular will be locked and you couldn't transfer service ...
WiFi / 802.11 SDIO cards?
I think a couple companies are making SDIO WiFi cards these days.
(Maybe San Disk?)
Anyway, has any tried one of these on this phone?
If so, how'd it go?
eBay phones & gotchas
There always seems to be that "new super great phone" that's ALMOST released, but isn't quite out yet.
I took a peak on eBay for one of these phones - one that's supposed to come out in Europe this month and the US by mid next year.
(the Motorola MPx, or as the eBay people seem to call it, the MPx-300. I guess it was released in Europe under that name?).
Anyway, some of these eBay auctions strongly reek of "too good ...
MPx 300
These things have definitely cropped up on eBay.
(some for a staggering amount of money!)
Here's on example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl l?ViewItem&category=64355&item=5736642302&rd= 1
What's the deal exactly?
Are GSM phones really so simple that you can pull any ol' GSM phone from anywhere, switch that SIM chip out and you've got a working phone in the US?
I know I've asked this before and been told "Yes", but it just so feels like there should be a catch.
Maybe I'll search thru the "Techs & Trends" forum and maybe ask ...
Re: Lame keyboard layout...
I hear what you're saying and I totally agree.
Of course I've never had my hands on this thing, but the keyboard layout does LOOK like it's sacrificed some practicality for the "artsy fartsy" "feature".
Re: How frusterating!
The Kyocera Koi KX2?
It's a tiny bit bigger than the Audiovox 8910 (according to the specs anyway. Do these things measure with or without the antenna anyway?) which is what they're pushing at my local Verizon store:
Koi: 3.94" x 1.97" x 0.98"
8910: 3.90" x 1.80" x 0.90"
And the Koi claims to have less battery life too.
But then these claims aren't always reality ;-)
And of course Kyocera's not announced plans to leave the market either.
I'm going to ...
Re: How frusterating!
I've considered it, but I've got so little confidence in Microsoft that I don't think I will.
Just the thought of my phone being hacked into by some automated worm-robot-program disgusts me.
I've had enough headaches rebuilding Windows boxes.
I'd rather not have to worry about running firewalls on my phone and licensing anti-virus software for it and keeping all of that updated.
At this point I'm probably going to go with a "dumbphone" under Verizon.
I've went from a huge laundry list of ...
Re: Samsung SCH-A650 vs. Audiovox CDM-8600: which better?
That's a question I'd love to see an answer to.
My situation's similar to yours ... except I havn't bought a tihng yet :-)
This phone's the smallest tri-band Verizon phone with speakerphone and that makes it tempting.
And a friend just got the SCH-A650 last week. (He has no complaints yet, but hey, he's in Atlanta, GA. You're going to get service there even if you're only using tooth fillings and an aluminum beanie!)
Well worded post, btw :-)
Re: RINGTONES Downloads
I agree - it's *amazing* that phone that can't deal with MP3s could deal with one with just a changed extension.
MP3 and MIDI are about as far apart as you can go encoding wise! It's like speaking Chinese or speaking C++; the "languages" don't even work at the same level.
Re: Battery life... bad?
Of course all kinds of things can influence battery time.
But those things shouldn't be affecting the numbers you see listed as "talk time" and "standby time".
There SHOULD be some standardized tests for those things, else why bother reporting the numbers at all?
"My car gets like 9 million miles to the gallon! ... As long as it's just idling and in free fall. On Jupiter. With a down draft of 35mph. And it's pointed down." ;-)
How frusterating!
This is exactly what Phonescoop is perfect for.
This so looks like the perfect phone on paper.
It has every major feature I'm looking for.
Not only that, it's that ONLY phone in production that has every major feature I'm looking for.
But then you glance in the forums and there's the real measure of the phone.
It's a lemon.
Sigh.
With GSM phones, the number of phones with my wanted feature-list was taking days to go thru.
With Verizon phones, this one is about it!
And I ...
Re: Battery life... bad?
Great! Buying a cell phone is complete voodoo!
No one's going to the sickeningly intense lengths to measure phones' reception (if they are, they aren't publishing it) and something as easily measurable as battery life is being measured by marketers apparently wearing beer-goggles.
Might as well just go w/ whatever free phone the yahoos in the store at the strip mall are handing out.
:-/
-- O
"Dude, are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know anymore."
Re: Availability timeline?
It's a GSM phone; shouldn't it work w/ any GSM carrier? (Cingular/AT&T Wireless, etc?)
Could a platform be added to the Phone Finder?
Looks like a tiny handful of phones run (or will run when they're released) on Linux.
The Motorola E680 is the one I'm thinking of.
Could Rich or someone add Linux to the Platform/OS section of the 3 Phone Finders?
On a total other side note, I kinda like the "Check Spelling" feature for posting.
Could the names of the manufacturers and carriers and technologies be added to it as valid words?
Prolly a huge list of things really...
All those different companies, words like ...
Re: question answers
Man I can't imagine this working (especially with the charger!), BUT have you tried hooking a USB hub up to that miniUSB port to see how it handles the multiple connections?
With my luck, the phone would flip out and it'd then die in the middle the bios flash I did to try to fix it ;-)
As for USB hosting, the Glossary here at Phonescoop mentions that some devices do it and they call it USB OTG (On The Go) ...
Re: I actually own this phone
Oh yeah, one more question:
How do you like where they put the number keys?
Looks like they did it just to be cute and "different" and it kinda looks like a pain in the arse.
Is there actually some functionality gain by putting them on the side of the phone?
Is it annoying?
Re: I actually own this phone
What a wonderfully complete response!
All the ups and downs, and heck, you even threw in some photos!
I've finally decided to get a cell phone like the rest of the world.
Being the kind of person I am, I'm trying to get a device that will give me as many other tools as I can get and pack it into a package I don't mind carrying around.
This SX1 keeps coming up for the reasons you well know
- it has ...
Re: Bigger than I expected
Is the phone really that big?
The dimensions listed here on Phonescoop make it seem small!
Here it is compared to the Siemiens SX1 (which is reviewed as small:
6260: 4.02" x 1.93" x 0.91" = 7.060326
cubic inches
SX1: 4.29" x 2.20" x 0.75" = 7.0785
cubic inches
Reviews? Impressions?
I'm kinda asking the same questions cai asked back in June and never got an answer to - does anyone actually have this phone?
It's got some nice specs!
Bluetooth, USB, Symbian, an expansion slot, the obligatory camera, and even a little FM radio.
And best of all, it's pretty small.
But it's got the numbers off to the side in a really goofy way.
Seems like it'd be a pain to use, esp in the dark.
Re: "Data-capable"
I've never heard of a hardware USB-Ethernet converter.
Seems like that'd be a really wierd gadget for some reason, but I can't think of any reason why it couldn't exist, other than there are usually settings involved with an Ethernet device (speed, duplex, flow control) that you'd need to be able to adjust somehow.
I think some cell phones do Wi-Fi (802.11b(or a or g)).
If your client PCs also had Wi-Fi network cards, I wonder if you could run some sort ...
Some co.'s not listed here on PhoneScoop?
There's a phone listed here:
http://www.mphone.co.uk/pda/sp3i.html
It's an "i-Mate SP3i" by a "mPhone Ltd".
(I guess that co. really loveS mEssed uP caPs, eH?)
There's no mention of mPhone Ltd here on PhoneScoop.
I guess it's probably a non-US company and PhoneScoop only covers the US ones?
I think I asked this same question just yesterday, but just to hammer down the point:
if a phone is a GSM phone with the right frequency support and it's a brand new phone straight from the factory (with ...
Re: A phone with "Java" and a memory card and no mp3 player??
Excellent! Just as I'd hoped!
Man, someone should slap their developers or marketers on the wrist!
Seems like sticking a Java mp3 player on the phone at the factory would add a rather sought after feature to phones like this at practically no cost to the maker.
Maybe then it'd start competing with more expensive phones or something.
Or they fear the support costs of people who can't figure out how to work it.
Re: Carriers and phones
Ah, I see the difference in the 2 different photo-sending scenarios. Thanks.
I wonder if anyone's written a "BREW for Java" implementation yet? ;-)
Re: "Data-capable"
If you had a modem that connected to a PC via a USB port, could you connect a wireless router to that?
This would be the chain of devices, and this represents a connection "":
Internet modem router(wireless or not) PC
Now, let's get more specific on what type of connection:
Internet modem router(wireless or not) PC
Here, I'm wondering if a "data-capable" cell phone could work as the "modem".
Note this means that the cell phone would never directly ...
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