Re: Orange SPV M600
- From: "AJ" <b33k34@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jun 2006 03:01:26 -0700
Seven weeks living with an Orange spv m600 after a Nokia 6310i /Palm
pair (TungstenT then, briefly a T3 after i broke the TT).
2 weeks in
Finally got it synching at work yesterday. Firewall issues meant
finding a registry editor that hadn't been blocked by orange and
editing the registry. Still a bit flaky and works better with an app
called usb switch that turns on 'serial' rather than rndis mode.-
battery life better than expected. Looks like I'll get a good few days
plus the fact that it charges when synching helps
- needs some 3rd party apps. I installed a better diary/tasks app
(PIM) and a home page app for better info on missed calls. They look
like making it a lot more usable.
- having the speaker on the back means ring isnt as loud as it could be
(should have been on the side)
- still cant see colour screesn easily in sunlight but this one *is*
better than any other I've seen
- text recognition is good (block recogniser is closer to old graffiti
that the graffiti 2 that new palms use)
- web browser is good
- wifi is handy and works well
- synch is excllent for calendar and contacts but poor for notes
(doesn't sort into categories). Update - *terrible for notes*. You
can set up folders on the phone with the same names as the categories
in Outlook and then move the notes into them which makes things easier
to find BUT it means anything you create in outlook then needs manually
moving to the right folder on the device and vice versa.
- flashing led is both good and bad. It flashes green to tell you it's
on in phone mode (why does it need to flash - it's annoying?). Flashes
orange if theres a message/alert/reminder. given the screen dims as on
all colour devices) the feedback from the flashing is good but since
the light is at the top on the front you don't see it if you use a
case.
Three weeks in
Having PROPER outlook sych is a revelation. (I installed the new palm
synch software for the Tungsten T3 I had for the last month or so - it
didn't take the meeting location field across from outlook!!! Can you
believe that? A device that tells you that you've a meeting but omits
the location!). Full meeting details with attendees and notes. Great.
Overall device responsiveness is pretty poor - way slower than a Palm
T3 or even a TT. In some ways feels less responsive than a Palm V
Search (as on all microsoft desktop apps) is terrible - over a minute
to search my 800 contacts. Strangely enough the third party
replacement PIM could do the same search in about 3 seconds (but it
doesn't search the notes fields so not so clever after all). I don't
know how microsoft have got this so wrong in everything - Outlook needs
a third party tool to enable effective searching, win media player
takes an age longer than iTunes, on page search is integrated and
instant in Firefox vs popup box in IE.
Microsofts approach to directories continues to infuriate. The OS
should be thoroughly hidden unless I want to see it - mixing ringtones
and graphics in with dll and cab files just stupid.
3rd party app I've installed called 'phone alarm' is excellent- gives a
display showing missed calls. Voicemails, texts etc (which are
inexplicabally hard to get to with the core OS) plus simple profile
switching (again, not obvious in the OS) which can be made very
sophisticated (profile to switch automatically based on time, meeting
status or even potentially which cell your phone is using!). A bit
buggy though - it repeatedly bugs you with notifications even if you
dismiss them and then conversely can remove things like the voicemail
notification when you've still not listened to the messages.
Five weeks in
Phone seems to take a long time to pick up missed calls and voicemails
- the alerts seem to suddenly appear 10 minutes later. Not the best.
Getting quite irritated with the thing now. Currently thinking it's
neither a brilliant phone nor a PDA. Somehow I keep knocking or
fiddling with the volume control on the side and turning the ringer
off. I like the 'vibrate then ring' option on the ringer though.
Coming up to 8 weeks
Just stuck my main SIM card back in my 6310i. it feels so good in my
hand, comfortable against my ear. The sound quality is better. It
fits in my pocket comfortably.
For the time being I'm just going to be using the m600 as a pda with a
PAYG sim. The email and web browser are pretty good. I'm miss the
text message interface - I wonder if it's possible to write texts on
the m600 and send them via my 6310 or dial numbers from the contact
list (my old TT was pretty good at that).
I'd really like a palm again. The simple interface, the
responsiveness. Palm just need a few minor revisions - proper synch
with outlook (with the meeting location - using pocketmirror for 50usd
is an option but it shouldn't need to be), full synch of notes fields
of meetings and contacts. I wonder how well the Treo 650 works as a
phone.
.
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