gazter
2nd February 2008, 11:41 PM
I currently have an nokia e61. I use it primarily for maintaining my appointments list throughout the day, adding new appointments as they are called in. This is all syncronised through an Exchange Server 2003. The exchange aspect works very well, and reliable, however, the actual 'phone' part is quite poor, dropping calls, poor transfer from 3g to 2g during calles, poor reception, and the phone having a habit of just 'going off line' and not answering any calls, while appearing to be fine.
I recently got hold of a palm 500v jsut to try it out, the phone part is excellent, however the screen, and the cut down windows mobile 6 software is woefull compared to Nokia.
Both phones have the sem resolution screen 320x240, however on the home screen of the 500v, i get very little info of much use, i get one appointment, and notice of an email (not what the emails are), on the nokia, i get two nearest appointments and two newest emails.
When i go to the emails on the E61, i get a list of ten with address, title and date, on the palm i get four all very cluttered, in the appointments i get three on the palm on the nokia i get more detail and about five or six per screen.
It seems, if i am going to realistically make the switch to a windows phone, it needs to be vga screen, a keyboard would be nice, but not essential...
Looking around for pdas with vga screens seem to be full of disapointment. You find a phone that fits the bill, like the etin x800, and find that it is full of bugs, and because of its tiny 64mb of memory is mercilessly slow.
I did for a period of time have an o2 exec, and found it a bit of a brick... When it went through one of its slow periods you could miss the phone as it got around to loading the software.
So, what out there is going to be the E61 killer?
VGA screen
Fast to use
portable without need for a wheelbarrow
good reception
Truth is out, if the Iphone supported exchange server, i would be going with that, i understand that server sync is on its way....
I recently got hold of a palm 500v jsut to try it out, the phone part is excellent, however the screen, and the cut down windows mobile 6 software is woefull compared to Nokia.
Both phones have the sem resolution screen 320x240, however on the home screen of the 500v, i get very little info of much use, i get one appointment, and notice of an email (not what the emails are), on the nokia, i get two nearest appointments and two newest emails.
When i go to the emails on the E61, i get a list of ten with address, title and date, on the palm i get four all very cluttered, in the appointments i get three on the palm on the nokia i get more detail and about five or six per screen.
It seems, if i am going to realistically make the switch to a windows phone, it needs to be vga screen, a keyboard would be nice, but not essential...
Looking around for pdas with vga screens seem to be full of disapointment. You find a phone that fits the bill, like the etin x800, and find that it is full of bugs, and because of its tiny 64mb of memory is mercilessly slow.
I did for a period of time have an o2 exec, and found it a bit of a brick... When it went through one of its slow periods you could miss the phone as it got around to loading the software.
So, what out there is going to be the E61 killer?
VGA screen
Fast to use
portable without need for a wheelbarrow
good reception
Truth is out, if the Iphone supported exchange server, i would be going with that, i understand that server sync is on its way....