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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
On 2008-09-23 19:59:19, pinguino2 wrote:
On 2008-09-23 05:59:45, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Oh god her voice is terrible.
"I just love this giant touchscreen"
"See how I've added the time and weather forecast for Bridgetown Barbadoes? I'm going there soon."
"Looking through my photos is really cool"
Aaaaaaah! Shut up! She sounds like a computer voice.
HA HA HA it is a computer voice!... you are like friend who argues with the lady voice in his GPS turn by turn. lol
Haha, I can imagine myself arguing with a GPS voice. That sounds a lot like me.
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Posted: 2008-09-24 02:36:53
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It'd be even funny if the GPS argued back: "I TOLD you TURN LEFT! You didn't listen to me and now look what you've done, ran up the arse of that Mercedes. I also told you to renew your insurance, I suppose you didn't do that either?"
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Posted: 2008-09-24 02:57:26
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Heh heh, lucky I don't have a GPS then eh? Not much use for one in little old New Zealand.
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Posted: 2008-09-24 03:01:47
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On 2008-09-24 03:01:47, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Heh heh, lucky I don't have a GPS then eh? Not much use for one in little old New Zealand.
Yeah, you can see all of New Zealand from the top of Mt Victoria can't you?
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Posted: 2008-09-24 06:23:44
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On 2008-09-24 00:42:00, Creid wrote:
as a loyal uiq-er, i dont know a lot about wm. . . was browsing all the apps you can get and im very impressed. can you installed any wm app ? can you install pocket pc apps ? and what apps and games do people rate ? cheers
Yep, you can install pretty much any app designed for Windows Mobile Professional (the current name for Windows Mobile with a touchscreen, as opposed to WM Standard meant for candybar phones) or Pocket PC, which these devices were previously known as. Obviously you might hit the odd compatibility problem with some of the older software, particularly with the slightly non-standard screen of the X1, but most well-written software should adapt all right. There is a massive back catalogue of software out there, including a lot of good freeware, and the totally open standard is definitely a strength of WM.
On 2008-09-23 19:09:32, Caspa wrote:
Right... serious question now...
Whats the likelyhood that we will see Blackberry Connect support for it?
My boss has said that its gotta use BB otherwise its a no no as the Active Sync users in the company are costing way to much!
BB Connect on WM6.1?
The software is definitely available -
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/[....]enabled/os.jsp#tab_tab_windows - the rest is just down to the networks.
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Posted: 2008-09-24 08:28:32
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There is a massive amount of freeware available, far more than s60, and about a billion times more than UIQ.
Some of it's crap, but a large proportion is high quality freeware.
It's this factor which really seals the deal for me on WM and why I've never really considered SE UIQ, or even s60 (let alone the fact it doesn't have a touchscreen as yet)
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Posted: 2008-09-24 08:59:01
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Thanks Boinng... I had seen that its possible but there seems to be no concrete information on whether it will be on the X1... Hopefully SE will have it as a download on their site as they do with the UIQ phones... I see that Motorola have done so with the Q thing...
They say its network dependant but it seems to be like that in the US whereas in the UK it seems to be more down to the manufacturer... I suppose I could summise that its Network and Manufacturer dependant so as long as the handset is approved that bit is taken care of...
My only worry is the fact that SE may not see it as relevant due to WM and Exchange etc as well as the fact that Nokia have stopped supporting it on their devices such as the E71!
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Posted: 2008-09-24 11:12:33
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On 2008-09-24 02:21:33, max_wedge wrote:
On 2008-09-23 18:01:43, Nitro Fan wrote:
Realistic concerns? well I see this as a realistic concern
as for camera quality
It will be the same crap as all camera phones, The key element in any camera is the lens and most camera phones lens's are dog pooh if you want a camera buy a camera not a phone!
I'm not saying your concern itself isn't serious, just that the likelyhood that the X1 won't support HWR is EXTREMELY LOW, and for now, until anyone says any different, you should consider that it does support HWR and double check when it comes out before buying it to be sure. You can then concentrate on finding answers to questions that are more unclear.
Look, the fact is EVERY SINGLE WM PHONE to-date supports HWR, so you simply can't rely on the fact some dodgy marketing website didn't mention HWR as evidence that X1 may not support HWR (when every other WM phone does).
Of course it will support HWR. you can gloat on the "I'm not as smart as a 5th grader" thread if I'm wrong
btw, about camera lenses, I agree partially however you can't really separate lenses and sensors. If either is poor the other makes little difference.
Hi Max-wedge,
I agree with you on the sensors V lens's in proper camera's (I recommend the Pentax K10 "little bit of bragging there" sorry: smile: ), but with the small size and poor quality of the lens in mobile phones it really doesn't make quite so much difference in a mobile phone.
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Posted: 2008-09-24 12:55:50
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On 2008-09-24 02:36:53, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
On 2008-09-23 19:59:19, pinguino2 wrote:
On 2008-09-23 05:59:45, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Oh god her voice is terrible.
"I just love this giant touchscreen"
"See how I've added the time and weather forecast for Bridgetown Barbadoes? I'm going there soon."
"Looking through my photos is really cool"
Aaaaaaah! Shut up! She sounds like a computer voice.
HA HA HA it is a computer voice!... you are like friend who argues with the lady voice in his GPS turn by turn. lol
Haha, I can imagine myself arguing with a GPS voice. That sounds a lot like me.
I am glad its not just me that argues with the b***dy things, my TomTom was trying to take me a route I knew was wrong the other day (I only had it on to keep me alert to any new speed camera's sorry SAFETY camera's SIC)
I wrote to TomTom yesterday, to see if I could remove my TT sw from my P1 and transfer my TT licence to an X1 if I buy it, and this was the response I got from TomTom this morning:
"I am just asking you to verify if you are using Navigator 6?(Which I do) If this is the case, then unfortunately the Sony Ericsson Experia X1 is not supported and therefore will not work.
With Best Regards
Lindsay R.
The TomTom Customer Support Team"
So what to do now? maybe it will be supported in the future who knows, or perhaps TomTom are going to bring out a newer version?
But either way as far as I know TomTom does not support internal GPS units so I would still have to use my superb Holux M1200 unit as well, (the M1200 has great battery life, and is so tiny you never really have to think about it either round your neck or in your pocket and works brilliantly with my P1 but for some reason not my W960 maybe it can only be paired with one device at a time who knows!)
The Google stuff is fine for round town on foot, but not in the same league as TomTom and its traffic and Speed Camera plugins when using it in a vehicle. Does anyone know yet if the Wayfinder system will work on the X1 using it's internal GPS ?
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[ This Message was edited by: Nitro Fan on 2008-09-24 12:14 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-24 13:12:19
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@ Nitro-fan - Navigator 6 is available for WM6.1 and works perfectly on Windows Mobile, and by extension the X1 - and yes, it will support an internal GPS (or aGPS) too. Some recent HTC handsets have even come with Navigator 7 installed, and in fact both TT6 and TT7 have been widely "ripped" from the devices and shared across the web through sites like XDA Developers (there is a ongoing philosophical debate over whether this counts as "warez" if the maps themselves, which is the bit you pay for, aren't included - certainly TomTom have made no effort to stop the software being distributed on its own).
The difficulty for you (from memory) is that your own TT6 maps will be registered to a device code unique to your P1 - so although you can easily install the TT6 software on your X1, you'll need to persuade TomTom to give you a new registration code to use your maps on the X1.
Of course, there are other approaches. The maps are the key to all this, not the software itself.
[ This Message was edited by: Boinng on 2008-09-24 12:37 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-24 13:33:09
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