Is there really a big delay when opening/closing the keyboard?

[fire00]

yes every day there is the same question and thing I'm doing, looking to the web for news about new MS mobile devices..and now thinking about buying the Vox. But the only thing so far I couldn't live with is that there should be big delay when opening or closing the keyboard.

How do you rate this?

[chybinj]

Its a few seconds...maybe more if you have many apps running in the backround, but then everything runs slow when thats happening on any WM device... dosent bother me...

Regards - John

[puerrican85]

To be honest in my opinion its not as bad as other make it seem, as long you keep tabs on the programs you have running in the background every now and not running with only 1mb free memory then you shouldn't have a problem. One tip you can try is disabling the sound it plays when switching views in the settings. Made the switch slightly faster in my opinion.

[lullog]

Without the Sound it is maybe 2 times faster..

[fire00]

thanks guys for your prompt answers!!

Do you have a clou whether the important progs like PocketInformant or AgendaOne are running without problems in landscape mode?

[chybinj]

thanks guys for your prompt answers!!

Do you have a clou whether the important progs like PocketInformant or AgendaOne are running without problems in landscape mode?

I use AgendaOne and I haev not had an issue with it switching orientation. However Documents to Go has a problem as does SmartPhoneNotes - they will not fill the screen, you get a scroll-bar on the righe, pretty much making it still portrate..

John

[fire00]

hi John

I thought one doesn't need smartphonenotes anymore as WM6 should have its own notes taking application?

As well as Office Mobile (doc, xls, ppt) should be on board, isn't ?

[zen123]

I really don't see what the fuss is about speed of the screen rotation. Its not like it takes several minutes. Approx 1-3 seconds depending on what's running in the background is perfectly fine.

[fire00]

hi guys, I don't want to make the Vox bad, I'm asking because I had the same issue with HTC Hermes, which was also quite ok after I disabled the sound. It also depends on how many applications are installed, loaded in memory, how much memory is free etc. But reading one of the serious reviews like the one from mobile-review - I rather ask for opinions of users before I buy it.

Thank you all

Can somebody tell how is it with the mobile office? Is it really not included with Vox as I read also somewhere? And is there a mobile note application synchronizing with Outlook?

[pinussen]

Can somebody tell how is it with the mobile office? Is it really not included with Vox as I read also somewhere?

I have it installed. It includes, adobe reader LE, Excel Mobile, Calculator, Powerpoint Mobile, Voice notes and Word Mobile.

rgrds
Björn

[fire00]

You can edit existing documents but you cannot create ones, correct?

How about the notes application - possible to synchronize them with desktop?

[chybinj]

hi John

I thought one doesn't need smartphonenotes anymore as WM6 should have its own notes taking application?

As well as Office Mobile (doc, xls, ppt) should be on board, isn't ?

Yes it has them...but WM6 does not allow for creation of new items in Office Mobile (although there is a hack to get around that) but I personally find Documents to Go a better offering than what MS gives you. I have word docs sent via email that dont load in Word mobile (on WM5 or WM6) yet have no problem in DTG...

There is also a 3rd party notes app - but no way to Sync to Outlook, thus I use SmartPhoneNotes.

Regards - John

[chybinj]

I have it installed. It includes, adobe reader LE, Excel Mobile, Calculator, Powerpoint Mobile, Voice notes and Word Mobile.

rgrds
Björn

You know...not to go way off topic here, but I thought I was going crazy one night because I could not figure out why there was no Calculator on the VOX...it never crossed my mind that it would be under "Office Mobile".... Since I never go in there with DTG installed - makes no sense at all to me for it to be in there...

My 2 cents :-)

John

[fire00]

:-)

this is really a place one should go to - getting answers by like-minded people.

RE notes / synchronization - you know that there is a new beta out there of phatnotes by phatware? It supports WM6, might be a solution also for the landscape issue with smartphonenotes described by John...?

[pinussen]

You know...not to go way off topic here, but I thought I was going crazy one night because I could not figure out why there was no Calculator on the VOX...it never crossed my mind that it would be under "Office Mobile".... Since I never go in there with DTG installed - makes no sense at all to me for it to be in there...

My 2 cents :-)

John

Hehe.. had the same problem, I had to hunt around for it a while before finding it.

rgrds
Björn

[chybinj]

:-)

this is really a place one should go to - getting answers by like-minded people.

RE notes / synchronization - you know that there is a new beta out there of phatnotes by phatware? It supports WM6, might be a solution also for the landscape issue with smartphonenotes described by John...?

Didn't know about it to be honest, will have to swing by their site and look it up.

I guess I should note that DTG and Smartphonenotes are landscape aware, I used them just fine on my BlackJack...and I noticed today actually that if you start them in landscape mode they auto-rotate just fine....its only when you start in portrait mode that they go whacky...

Take care - John