That is, an interesting way of saying “I have a new phone that doesn’t require a concerted weights training regime for several months before you can begin carrying it around with you”.
Nothing amazing, it’s a fairly average looking Sony Ericsson V630i. My rationale in buying it was that it’s not as though it’s part of the same business units as the DRM morons, anyway, and actively subverts their cause by offering MP3 & WMA support, instead of retarded ATRAC specialness. It does use an M2 card instead of microSD, though, which is a bit of a shame.
Its PC Syncing is adequate, though obviously not up to the Windows Mobile perfection to which I am accustomed :P
Mostly I just wanted PC syncing to make contact transfer painless. The “PDA” functionality (if one even dare call it that) is very much a secondary thing: I’m vaguely considering buying a Palm, but not until I’ve got my head around this completely. It’s rather on the usable side, but the interface is obviously more limited than a touch screen would ever be.
It cost me… nothing, on a Vodafone contract. I didn’t mind that because I’m not locked into the handset for the contract length — I can unlock it from the Vodafone network today if I want, without any charge, and stick my (3G, but, alas, I’ve only got partial 3G coverage at my house — with both 3 and Vodafone/Optus, haven’t tested Telstra — so there’s not a great deal of UTMS going down here at the minute — regular triband GSM wins out) SIM into any other phone.
Yes, that’s right, petty 3 users. I can change phones without having to go grovelling to my network provider. Howdyalikethathuh? *gloats* :)
Anyway. It’s still good fun. It also has an MP3 player, but the probably-prohibitive cost of M2 media for this thing, combined with the supremely uncomfortable bundled headphones (they’re designed for like, elephants or something) and lack of regular 3.5mm jack (*tear*) mean it’s not likely to get used much. ‘cept to say it supports WMA & MP3 ringtones, which is about as much fun as I had with the iPaq, only Windows Media Player actually supports this as a media device.
Yes, friends, that too is irony.
ohhh it’s cool.. except i was expecting a palm type one.
well my reccomendation, not that you’ll listen because i don’t know much about it, is to get my palm! because it’s coooooooool & you can buy it from ebay. so do it!! it’s awesome.… i’m going to go & look at the video of the fireworks & tell you how it goes.
but yeah, pretty cool, you’ll have to get used to pressing buttons! :O
p.s. go me for my first comment on your blog! =]
Yeah I’m thinking about something like that, mostly because Tim showed me his playing video & I was… sufficiently impressed with its power.
One of my co-workers wants to buy one so he can carry around a demo-reel with him everywhere — obviously that’s not enough to justify carrying another kind of media player if you weren’t going to anyway, but a PDA is something that gets taken all kinds of places so it’s not really a big leap to use it for that as well.
I’m slowly remembering how T9 messaging works, which is… proving interesting :P
Yay for commentings!
I can put my sim into another (unlocked) phone… i just cant put another sim into my phone :P
Yup, but you can’t sell your phone to someone else & buy another one and start using it, either, because it’s locked eternally to 3’s crappiness… that was more what I was getting at. Also, you CAN’T put your SIM into another unlocked phone if that phone isn’t UTMS capable. I’ve been through the ordeal of that several times with different people at 3 last time I was looking for a new provider — they’re not interested in your giving them money if it’s not in one of their own devices. Which is fine, until a phone dies for a couple of days and the only replacement on hand only does GSM, or whatever. It’s a retarded & technically unsound way of doing things IMO. Shrug :P
My pick for a super-phone is the BlackBerry. The new ones are really cute and powerful. I played with a Pearl today, and everything just works. And… it’s really small.
My 8100 is pretty cool, and when you plug it in to the laptop it becomes a 3G Broadband speed tethered modem. Doubly cool.
Good to hear they’re getting smaller :) Personally I’m not a huge fan of keyboarded mobile communication things (as opposed to regular mobiles or fully-fledged PDA devices) because you can only really type at small button speed (or, I can, with limited practice) and because they cost about as a much as a fully-fledged touch-screen type thing, which seem to be a lot easier & flexible as an interface than pretty much anything else on the market.
This Sony Ericsson thing will work as a 3G/UTMS or regular GPRS/GSM modem, too, which is useful. Either by supplied USB cable or Bluetooth, but if you’re maxing out a UTMS link then using Bluetooth might be slowing things down a bit. I’m still discovering new things about it, which is fun :)
My first PDA was a ‘Palm Pilot Professional’ in 1998. I loved it, and then upgraded to another Palm (actually an IBM Work Pad Vx rebadge), which was great. However, when I first came across the BlackBerry I saw an integration between phone and PDA that the Palm couldn’t match (even the Trio, which was a tempter for me.) The push email was amazing, and the keyboard actually was very good. My original BB was an 7100g, and I recently got a 8707g (oops – not an 8100 as I said in the previous post.) I find that I can type with the keyboard much faster than I could with the old Palm. But having a full QWERTY keyboard makes a real difference.
On another note, what do you use as a spam/rude word blocker for your comments? I’ve got mine on moderator approve, but if I’m slow then it all gets a bit held up.