Hanging on the telephone
Jun. 30th, 2005 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaMy mobile phone is beginning to disintegrate - if you ring me up, and you can hear me but I don't be able to hear you, then don't worry. This is currently one of its normal modes of operation. Some of the keys stick, and it crashes occasionally.
Yesterday I ran Vodafone to see what they might offer me as an upgrade. I can have another Motorola (no thanks, I'd rather use some tin cans and a bit of string), a Sharp (plausible) or the one I'm currently favouring, a Sony Ericsson V800.
Has anyone out there got a V800, or used one in anger ? Got anything to say about it ?
It seems to satisfy my major requirements, ie it's clamshell, it should function as a modem, it has an infrared port (woo, wasn't expecting that one), and it appears to make calls and send messages. I might like the buttons to be bigger (there's all that space, why make them so damn small!?) and I've heard reports from one user that the camera isn't nearly as good as you'd expect for 1.3 megapixel. The phone itself is pretty ugly, but then I think that about most phones - I have no idea why phone designers can't make a sensible, nice-looking unit any more.
I'd like to know if the V800's PC synchronisation stuff is any cop. And indeed whether it would actually do what it says (unlike my current phone, which doesn't do what it says.)
My memories of my last Sony Ericsson phone suggest that the predictive text should be competent (unlike the prediction on my current Motorola which sucks donkeys). The games stuff, downloadable ringtones, blah de blah de blah I don't give a flying stuff about.
Yesterday I ran Vodafone to see what they might offer me as an upgrade. I can have another Motorola (no thanks, I'd rather use some tin cans and a bit of string), a Sharp (plausible) or the one I'm currently favouring, a Sony Ericsson V800.
Has anyone out there got a V800, or used one in anger ? Got anything to say about it ?
It seems to satisfy my major requirements, ie it's clamshell, it should function as a modem, it has an infrared port (woo, wasn't expecting that one), and it appears to make calls and send messages. I might like the buttons to be bigger (there's all that space, why make them so damn small!?) and I've heard reports from one user that the camera isn't nearly as good as you'd expect for 1.3 megapixel. The phone itself is pretty ugly, but then I think that about most phones - I have no idea why phone designers can't make a sensible, nice-looking unit any more.
I'd like to know if the V800's PC synchronisation stuff is any cop. And indeed whether it would actually do what it says (unlike my current phone, which doesn't do what it says.)
My memories of my last Sony Ericsson phone suggest that the predictive text should be competent (unlike the prediction on my current Motorola which sucks donkeys). The games stuff, downloadable ringtones, blah de blah de blah I don't give a flying stuff about.
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Date: 2005-06-30 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-30 04:16 pm (UTC)Annoying that they're not planning to fix it, though. Seems particularly foot-shooting of Symbian, too, given that Mac users are probably more likely than most to spend shedloads of money on shiny tech...
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Date: 2005-06-30 07:13 pm (UTC)Dunno - what's the increase in development cost in supporting Mac, if Mac were supported, what proportion of total sales would be to Mac users who don't also have a PC, do the math. Symbian have never claimed to be in it other than for the money...
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Date: 2005-07-01 07:14 am (UTC)Shydar is a black-belt in geek-fu, and can write machine code with his teeth. Before breakfast.
I suspect his mobile devices are far too scared of him to do anything but sync perfectly.
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Date: 2005-07-01 11:40 am (UTC)I do seem to have had a particularly good run with sync good behaviour though :)
*thanks