Sony Ericsson / Sony : Symbian phones : To Psion 5mx owners - how does p900 compare?
>
New Topic
>
Reply<
Esato Forum Index
>
Sony Ericsson / Sony >
Symbian phones
> To Psion 5mx owners - how does p900 compare?
Bookmark topic
Quote:
On 2003-12-29 20:14:27, music wrote:
psikey,
Since your accessing on the phone, one more quick Q. - Is it possible to get email sent to your phone when you get it but not constantly keep checking it? As im sure every time you acess the net or scan the net, you get charged gprs and is expensive...
Perhaps when you set the GPRS timeout to "never" and set the email account settings to e.g. an interval of an hour or specific times you could come close. (Assuming pop, no clue about imap.)
My provider charges a couple of cents for each hour online w/o up/downloading.
An alternative could be to have an SMS sent to you whenever you receive an email. My phone provider does this w/o extra charge, another email provider wants money but provides filters. You could then based on the first 160 char's decide whether it's worth while to go online.
H.
PS. If there were a scheduler on the P900 it could be easier...
--
Posted: 2003-12-29 23:14:20
Edit :
Quote
Thanx Hagbard.
I think the SMS provider is the best way.
Orange.co.uk use to do this, and anytimenow.com use to have this, and are going to bring it back shortly. Though im with them, gonna pester them about this!
Take care now
--
Posted: 2003-12-29 23:46:22
Edit :
Quote
Music
You can set email to auto check via GPRS and setting email to initially just download headers uses virtually no data. I frequently check my mail & only download the full email I want urgently (well I did until I subscribed to a 7MB GPRS bundle which with general WAP, email, esato & my-symbian browsing lasts me the whole month & very rarely some full web pages).
--
Posted: 2004-01-01 19:22:59
Edit :
Quote
Thanx alot man
Have a good 2004!
--
Posted: 2004-01-01 21:44:15
Edit :
Quote
I'm a die-hard psion fan, and bought the P900 as a replacement for my 5mx as it's screen died (due to the screen cable flaw) earlier this year.
I love my P900, but in terms of being able to actually work on it, its not even in the same league - on my 5mx I had both the Java and Perl interpreters, and although they were slow they meant I could work pretty much anywhere.
I also used my 5mx for telnet/ssh regularly, but I found to my dismay that the telnet apps on the 5mx are tbh, poor quality. Would it be so hard to have it rotate the display of the text to widescreen so it was usable??
Apart from that, I miss my psions keyboard - the P900 really is no replacement for my psion. Its fine as a pda, and i love the movie/mp3 playback functions, but I just *cant* work on it.
--
Posted: 2004-01-01 21:46:11
Edit :
Quote
electrichamster
The P900 works with the Pocketop keyboard, as stated above, but this keyboard is not as responsive as the Psion. However, the Stowaway is now available for the P900 and I am hoping to try this as soon as Thinkoutside send me a beta driver and I can get hold of their IR keyboard. The Stowaway has larger keys than the Pocketop but is till a compact design.
--
Posted: 2004-01-01 21:54:19
Edit :
Quote
I'm not a die-hard Ericsson or SonyEricsson man more a Psion/Symbian OS man.
I intially looked at the Nokia Communicator when it first came out but it was too big.
Going to be doing some serious looking at the new Communicator if it has a keyboard, colour, multimedia & Symbian OS and no bigger than a 5mx & preferably Revo size.
Any good sites with info on the New Communicator?
[ This Message was edited by: psikey on 2004-01-01 20:58 ]
--
Posted: 2004-01-01 21:58:12
Edit :
Quote
I had (well still have), the older Psion Series 5 which was around half the machine the mx was, but I agree with the person above who says that the Psion was more geared to being able to do work on the go (just look at the apps that it shipped with... typing thingy, spreadsheet, database etc, ok so you can buy them for the P900, but it seems like an afterthought to me)...
However, the P900 has replaced it though as far as I am concerned at the moment, since I found that I rarely carried the Psion around with me, at least with the P900, you have the phone and quite useful PDA in one place (and so serves as a replacement if this is all you requrie)... and I have always carried my phone, even when they were made in form of breeze blocks... work is done for me now when I make a concerted effort to take a laptop with me, or maybe the series 5 if battery life is important... the price of these addon keyboards just seem a little steep to me, since you need a small bank loan to buy the phone in the first place, but I suppose they would be a viable solution if i would only take the plunge, and if manufacturers would properly support the p900 to make drivers more readily available...
The new communicator does sound tantilizing, but who knows how it will finally turn out amidst the obligatory pre release hype!... Now if only Psion would go about reincarnating the Series 5 or an equivalent with a phone bolted on the back perhaps, even the old one knocks spots off these new fangled, screen only, pc in yer pocket efforts which are surely a backward move... Bring back the keyboards I say (the little onscreen ones, requiring a telescope to view and use doesn't count, naturally)... handwriting recognition, whoever thought of that !
--
Posted: 2004-01-01 22:41:06
Edit :
Quote
Quote:
On 2004-01-01 21:54:19, Jah wrote:
electrichamster
The P900 works with the Pocketop keyboard, as stated above, but this keyboard is not as responsive as the Psion. However, the Stowaway is now available for the P900 and I am hoping to try this as soon as Thinkoutside send me a beta driver and I can get hold of their IR keyboard. The Stowaway has larger keys than the Pocketop but is till a compact design.
It's also a completely seperate bit of kit, which in all probability is about the size of my old 5mx anyway - I may as well just carry the two devices!!
--
Posted: 2004-01-02 16:49:22
Edit :
Quote
This is great disscussion guys.
The type of use i use my 5mx for is whipping it out and typing
in the word app, or jotter. Sometimes i have song ideas, i need to jot
down, or compose documents. Thats why i was thinking of how cool/and easy the p900 for doing this would be.
I too liked the idea of the nokia communicator, but it was the same
size as my psion, therefore defeating the object of getting a replacement.
Is there any links to the new communicator you guys are talking of?
--
Posted: 2004-01-02 17:55:04
Edit :
Quote
New Topic
Reply
