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I've been contemplating getting a P1i for a while now, very good value for money (£249 new on play.com).
I've just been wondering how you get on with the qwerty keypad. I know its different for everyone, it's just that I text and e-mail frequently, so its quite a big selling point for me.
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Posted: 2008-04-11 14:32:07
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Yes, it's a great phone, that's for sure
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Posted: 2008-04-11 14:36:21
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It's probably easier to agree with it if you're used to writing on a keyboard.. But unless you have sea- lion flippers for hands, it's nearly perfect. Definitively one of the best things about the phone.
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Posted: 2008-04-11 14:41:51
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i agree with nipsen the keypad is excellent you get so used to it reall quick i actually spend more time on my phone now, with the old p-series phones i have always taken the flip of but i love the way i use it more n more over the virtual keypad, buy one and never look back
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Posted: 2008-04-11 15:02:00
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On 2008-04-11 14:41:51, Nipsen wrote:
It's probably easier to agree with it if you're used to writing on a keyboard.. But unless you have sea- lion flippers for hands, it's nearly perfect. Definitively one of the best things about the phone.
Thats me out then. Damn that genetic research program and my flippers!
Thats cool then, hopefully i'll be able to text and e-mail easily. Would you say the navigation system is intuitive? (I'm a UIQ newbie).
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Posted: 2008-04-11 15:05:46
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No it's true I don't look back, only forward.......apart from occasional nostalgia when I see my lady using my old P910....a P910 running UIQ3.3 - ah what a joy that would be - oh how I miss the 5way jogdial.....sigh
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Posted: 2008-04-11 15:09:11
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buy one and never look back
Yeah, you'll always look forward - for the next fw update
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Posted: 2008-04-11 15:52:17
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On 2008-04-11 15:05:46, sandy4464 wrote:
Thats cool then, hopefully i'll be able to text and e-mail easily. Would you say the navigation system is intuitive? (I'm a UIQ newbie).
There's probably more different opinions on that one. It's simplistic and effective in my opinion. The problem is lack of functions, and some of the SE custom menus that suddenly won't use certain input you'd expect. For example, the arrows should do skip forward and backwards in the month/week calendar view - but they don't. So suddenly you have a similar- looking menu compared to every other leaf- menu, but without the convenient controls. Same with the media- player - why shouldn't there be stop/pause/skip functions on the keyboard when you have the media- player open? And that one can apparently be fixed by just putting the scancodes into the skin- definition - because there's hooks there for the jog- dial and any other key already.
So not to discourage you, or anything *cough* - but none of these extremely simple fixes have been taken care of by SE so far, almost a year after the phone hit the shelves. And they're not responding in any meaningful way to their customers - through support, or officially - and by all accounts not unofficially either. In fact, we don't even know if the tennis- sponsors know the damned bugs and serious lacks exist. If I'm right, we're going to see the bugs again on the new g- series, but we'll have to wait and see about that, of course.
But basically, you're stuck with these things, and they won't be fixed - ever. So try the phone - and if you really think you can use the functions it has - and that this will outweigh the negatives and the absence of support from SE - then sure.. it's a good phone.. Probably even the best smartphone available (as long as you don't own a mobile power- plant, and don't mind the phone rebooting at least a couple of times a week, and so on). But that's just because of the sad state the smartphone market is in right now...
edit:@@myth: lol. Right.
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Posted: 2008-04-11 16:09:25
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I bought one about a month ago and love it.
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Posted: 2008-04-11 16:23:50
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I've had mine since October '07, and I'm liking it.
Pros:
Looks smart
Large-ish screen
Decent built in email support
WiFi
Qwerty (once you get used to it)
Customisable easily (see replacing MBM's and Fonts)
Runs TomTom
Cons:
Can be a bit chuggy, even on latest fw. Worst is accessing a new SMS from the alert, goes through all the Messaging app screens s l o w l y :|
WiFi is B only, and sometimes doesn't seem to pick up settings via DHCP
Built in browser seems slow to me, even over wifi.
Overall I'm happy with it. I think I'd perhaps go WM next as I do some .net development already and I like the idea of writing apps for it; I've never really gotten round to learning Java or the Symbian stuff properly. If MS would port the .NET Compact Framework to UIQ I'd be happy
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Posted: 2008-04-11 17:04:09
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