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@Buttoneer
All 3G phones have poor battery life. The W950 battery will not be at its optimum for about 3 weeks.
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The W950 like the M600 has a touch screen because not all functions can be used via the keyboard
I have already reported that the sound quality is best when used with the HBH-DS970
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Posted: 2006-11-13 17:43:10
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On 2006-11-13 17:43:10, Jah wrote:
@Buttoneer
All 3G phones have poor battery life. The W950 battery will not be at its optimum for about 3 weeks.
But this is at odds with the claimed figures I have seen. 250hrs standby on UMTS. You reckon you could get away with not charging for ten days?
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Excellent, thank you!
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The W950 like the M600 has a touch screen because not all functions can be used via the keyboard
I appreciate that, but I'd still like to be able to use the phone one handed. the fact that for most things I can get most of the way, but not all the way, irritates me.
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On 2006-11-13 17:43:10, Jah wrote:
I have already reported that the sound quality is best when used with the HBH-DS970
Great, except that's no good for the radio, nor does it help battery life. I don't have a problem with the sound quality anyway - the provided headset is perfectly adequate and doesn't need to be recharged every other day either.
I did consider buying one of these but overall I find bluetooth headsets more trouble than they are worth, and certainly nowhere near as convenient as the marketing men would have you believe.
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Posted: 2006-11-13 18:43:58
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@Buttoneer
I am getting nearly 2 days battery life with about 1.5 hrs of music over BT, phone on all the time and BT on 24hrs over 2 days.
The HPM-85 are the best wired headphones I used with the W950 - very loud!
HBH-DS970 can be used with FM, just plug-in the wired headset to provide the antenna and the music gets transferred to the DS970! And you can use the controls on the DS970 to switch between pre-set stations
How do you find the keyboard? I am getting used to it now after nearly a week.
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Posted: 2006-11-13 18:57:11
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Buttoneer,
As far as the battery life goes, it's great on my W950i. I'm actually suprised by how long it lasts while listining to music using my DS970 stereo bluetooth headset. I think what's putting folks off on the bttery life issue is that the level meter is actually VERY skewed.
The first 50% goes VERY quickly, but the remaining 50% lasts a really LONG time (with the last 10% lasting an AMAZINGLY long time!). Thus, I think folks are just seeing the quick movement of the battery meter in the first half and then making a snap judgment as to the whole thing being that way (when it's not).
Also, for the album art.... I have no idea why, but the silly Disc2Phone application that SE provides you with to add music to the phone doesn't support the addition of album artwork??? This is very strange since both the W850 and the W950 now support the displaying of album artwork.
In order to get album artwork on the phone, you'll need to use a program that will either embed the artwork within the proper ID tag of the song file, or you can simply manually add the artwork as a JPEG image (named "folder.jpg") to the the song's album folder on the phone's media memory. This way the Walkman player will pick up the album art (either embedded within the song files or within the "folder.jpg" image stored in the same folder as the song files on the phone) and display it for you.
Personally, I use iTunes and SyncMyPortable (www.SyncMyPortable.com) to copy all of my songs over to my W950. That way I get all of the proper folder organization set up for me and I get album artwork and M3U play lists as well. I have a new version of SyncMyPortable that I'm just about to release that now fully supports the new downloadable album artwork in iTunes v7 and the absolute paths required by the M3U playlists in the W950. It should be out in a couple of days and will work great with the W950, M600, P990, W850, etc..
I hope this helps some.
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Posted: 2006-11-13 19:12:56
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@buttoneer
"No RSS feed application in O2 version, at least. It doesn;t appear on the icon for multimedia (top left of main menu) but does appear when you move the cursor to it using the jog wheel. It looks like a bit of customising that has gone a bit wrong. "
That is totally pissing me off too, its a phone feature and one reason why i bought it ... and even tho the icon is there there is no frigin program for rss feeds thats totally shit ! and im so pissed off about it
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Posted: 2006-11-13 20:32:12
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Hi all,
IMO opinion what is even stranger re the Disc2phone software is whilst it uses grace note for Album id and track tags as you say it doesn't add the Album art. Yet when using Sonicstage which also uses Gracenote but with this combination it not only gets Album id and track details but Album art also. I can not understand why this should be especially as on the W950 SE shots it shows all the albums with the album covers, why they haven't incorporated this feature on a Walkman phone and expect us to work out your own solution is plain crazy IMO.
@Jah whilst i accept using 3G reduces battery life i think your statement of
"All 3G phones have poor battery life."
and then go to say in your next post
"I am getting nearly 2 days battery life with about 1.5 hrs of music over BT, phone on all the time and BT on 24hrs over 2 days."
I wouldn't say that is terrible and on my 3G phone admittedly with an 1100aMh Li-Polymer battery i have no issues it lasts a day easy even with heavy usage of BT, WiFi, Web browsing, Video and music play, shooting video and stills plus of course some voice calls.
Marc
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Posted: 2006-11-13 20:52:34
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@Dogmann
3G and battery life.
My wife's 2.5G K750 used to take about 5/6 days from full charged to run down and she left it on 24hrs a day. Her new 3G K800 never lasts more than 4 days. Same person, same usage levels, different phone technology.
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Posted: 2006-11-13 21:54:19
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@ Jah,
I accept 3G uses more power not to would make me a fool, but i hardly call 2-4 days even with average usage bad. Especially as i still remember my Motorola 8000s and the 3 batteries i needed to carry to last a day now that was bad battery life. Or the fact that we didn't need gym memberships if we had what was laughably called a transportable, but again here we have everyone's perception of what is acceptable or good being different. Not having a go just have a different opinion on this one.
Marc
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Posted: 2006-11-13 22:38:32
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The first 50% goes VERY quickly, but the remaining 50% lasts a really LONG time (with the last 10% lasting an AMAZINGLY long time!). Thus, I think folks are just seeing the quick movement of the battery meter in the first half and then making a snap judgment as to the whole thing being that way (when it's not).
That's useful to know, thank you OM. I'll keep an eye on that.
I had another problem with the phone today. I found that it stopped playing music and required a reboot. Symptoms were that I could flick back and forth between tracks, press play, but nothing happened. No sound. If I then used the stylus to drack the track progress bar halfway along the track, and then pressed play, the time counter would reverse back by one second for each tap of the play button. Very odd behaviour.
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Posted: 2006-11-14 00:23:46
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Battery life is shocking. I just had a quick 3G surf while the thing was plugged into the PC via USB and watched the battery deteriorate even as it charged. Ouch.
Exact same on my M600i. I wouldnt have expected any different.
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Posted: 2006-11-14 01:21:48
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