The Positive Thread

[orb3000]

Hi all Uni owners!

We have several threads regarding solving problems, newbies questions, new ROM´s, etc. so...
I decided to create this thread with the only intention of sharing good and positive comments about your Uni´s.

How you get it?
Why you prefer it from other devices?
The most amazing thing you ever done with it?

Just a few examples...

Here the one!
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[rightintourheart]

Hi I would like to tell thts its an amazing device(more amazing with the custom Roms available)special thanx 2 TOMAL... seems u can do everything with it..
N though everythins amazin abt it the most amazing thing I find is I use it as my remote control 4 my ac,tv,dvd and virtually all devices thru its IR port!!

[kazparov]

i bought mine because it looks and feels like a real miniature laptop, and i love it, super fast and never lets you down

[boxchevy]

I have been wanting one for a long time. I didnt want to pay those crazy initial prices back in '05 since Im in the US. :)

I caught a good deal on Ebay. Broke USB port. :( Hoping to get that fixed soon. So I bought another :)

Customization, full keyboard, rotating screen, and its my mini laptop.

Best thing is hard to choose.

Either the chicks I have picked up with it :)

or how the haters be when Im playing Super Mario Bros. or Zelda :cool:

[PaulKen]

It isn't difficult to be positive about the Uni.

I bought an Athena on Ebay three weeks ago, tempted by TV out, faster processor, USB host capability and bigger screen. (I give talks using Powerpoint at church, I am a Christian.)

Sure it will do a few things that Uni won't do but at a price! As an everyday machine the Uni wins for me.

There are a few dark clouds on the horizon. Cooks WILL move on to newer devices. That is where the action is. As I write these are the numbers viewing the following forums.

Diamond 429
Blackstone 478
Dream 365
Universal 47

I am a machinist, not qualified in any of the computing sciences, neither am I familiar with what is happening at the "sharp end" of rom development on this site, so correct me if I am wrong.

WM 6.5 is out now so there will be no more 6.1 builds. Eventually 6.5 will be replaced by 7.

The new OS is designed for the newer hardware. There is a gap opening up. I believe it is going to get harder and harder for the cooks left with us to get these newer roms to run on a Uni. In my experience 6.5 does not seem to run as well as 6.1. It is not only because most Unis have only 64Mb of ram. I am flashing roms to my Athena which has plenty of ram left after flashing and so far none of those 6.5 roms are as reliable as the 6.1 AP4 rom.

As I say I am not an expert so please correct me if I am wrong.

Having said that...

I am using Tomals 8.9 rom and my Uni could not run any better. 3-4 days without a soft reset. Are the newer devices even as good as this? (please comment)

I use this device. It is a PDA and a phone. It is not a machine for flashing roms and that is why it has a future. It is a great piece of hardware. Big screen, 5 row keyboard etc etc etc you have heard it all before. I have dropped it, sat on it, spilled stuff on it, given it to kids to watch video on (was I mad?:eek:) took it apart to clean metal filings out of it (the speaker magnets kept it off the boards.) and it still keeps going. Its armour plated.

If we never get another rom, if we never get another application, the developers on this site have given us all a great (the greatest?) device plus years of fun tweaking it and it cost us NOTHING. Any money they made was given to them as a donation and I am sure nobody gave up their day job.

So thank you to all the developers past and present who gave us what we have today. If you move on to a new device and forum we wish you well.

This thread is about positives for the Universal.

On TV there are commercials for the 3rd generation iPh**e. (Sorry for my bad language) What is the "latest feature" on this best selling "smartphone"?

VIDEO.

If this is the benchmark, the Universal owner has nothing to envy. Even the new WM devices, what do they do our Uni doesn't do? Not much. I look forward to years of service, God willing, from my two Unis. Love them!:D

[orb3000]

Bump!

Come on Uni owners!
Is this little post the only positive things you can say about your Universal?
I´m sure you have more nice things to say!

[enigma1nz]

I got my first Uni for... wait for it... NZD$18, which, at the time was around USD$10. You can only imagine the state one buys a Uni in for that much, haha.
Not to worry, I got it assembled, fixed and working. Many more Unis in various state of disarray, disrepair and disassembly followed. Such is my job, obviously.
At the moment I own 2 complete Unis (and 2 in parts, just in case :)), one had been assembled by me from 4 different broken units and actually is a hybrid of Imate/HTC/02/Dopod versions and is fitted with black keyboard with blue backlight from O2, waiting for the brand new black body which is going to be purchased as soon as the FX improves. I call it my baby and have no intentions of ever parting with it. It's the main Uni that is set up and running for my everyday needs, another is there to test new ROMs on.

I have other phones, quite a few, in fact (again, due to the nature of my job - can't resist getting some poor crashed invalid for next to nothing and making it perfect and working again), WM, Symbian and flash OS, resistive and capacitive touch screens, insanely expensive and old cheapies, I use them on a regular basis in addition to my Uni.

Thanks to TOMAL (formerly known as Ranju) - kept me interested and excited all this time. :)

[enigma1nz]

I clicked 'had chance to change but kept it', although I would also like to mention, that another one for me would be clicking 'If it dies, I'll get another one'

The most amazing story about my Uni: I was robbed once and my bag with everything inside, including my baby-Uni, the keys to the business, house, 2 cars etc, wallet with everything, bluetooth headset, SD cards and other bits and pieces - EVERYTHING was taken! Obviously, I was in a terrible state, cancelled my credit cards, called the police, changed the locks on the business, because I couldn't even leave work. The worst part was that my car was at the back in my personal parking space and I couldn't even leave the business to go and check if it was taken! Most of all I was sad to have my Uni stolen (see previous post). Somehow everything else that was in that bag didn't matter as much.

Anyway, the next day I got a call from a lotto shop next door, telling me they have my bag and found me because there was this 'little silver machine, like a computer' inside with my details on it. Yep, it was my Uni. What do you know - EVERYTHING inside the bag was still inside and the only things taken were my cancelled credit cards. The dumb thieves didn't take my Uni and here it is, still with me!!!!

[orb3000]

I left the poll for all to choose several options.

My most amazing expirience with Uni was:

I was in a taxi to airport at 5am, so I was kind of sleepy, I arrived to airport and leave the taxi and my Uni was there!!
I did not noticed untill after 15 min, so I run like hell to go downsatairs where taxis leaves airport, so I saw my ex-taxi, I run because he was just starting to move, I stop him and my Uni was in the same place I left on passengers seat!!!!!

I was ready to loose my flight to Bangkok to recover my Uni!!!
It was amazing!! I got it back!
All this story happened in one of the most populated cities in the globe: Mexico City: 22 million!
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Other time I left my Uni on the table of a restaurant (Too much drinks :) ) and when I was leaving the place, the waiter came and said to me: "Hey you forgot your calculator"..... LOL it was true!
I´m sure if he noticed the amazing device he found perhaps he will not give it to me!

[PaulKen]

I left the poll for all to choose several options.

excellent idea. I voted 1,2 and 4 :D

[tomal]

My wife never liked my Uni. From her point of view, I'm simply carrying a brick. :)

If someone gives her an opportunity to destroy anything...whatever she likes I'm sure she will destroy my Uni at first place, LOL.

[-Jonny-]

I had to replace my Psion Revo. This was excellent device - small, stylish with good keyboard. I decided to buy device with phone and computer in one... so after research I went for the Universal.

I needed

Good keyboard (taking notes during church service - PaulKen, I'll have to attend one of yours! :D)
Plenty of additional memory (my revo had no SD slot, and I wanted SD because it was swappable with my then phone (MMC) and camera).
Flash upgradeable (like my MP3 player, just means the device never goes out of date!)
Large screen. Very useful for many things, but especially for sharing with others. Now we're in a digital photo age, I hardly every was able to show my photo's to people in person unless printing them all off, so best way get a big screen!
Something which I can put my Bible (translations) and commentries on. Again needing storage as well.
Navigation. If you're gonna spend out on navigation, what's the point in buying a dedicated device - better to get a PPC which you can do so many other things on (and again, you need a screen large enough that you can actually see it!)
Sync diary with filter for work/church/personal
Play games (at least Yahzee for wife :))
Camera - I always carry my PDA around with me, but not always my camera. So I always get shots that I would otherwise miss out on.
Carryable - not necessarily top pocket stuff, but can at least fit in a pocket somewhere (before I was carying a PDA + Phone)
Did I say large screen, and useable keyboard. Sorry, just had to rub it in :cool:
Oh, and as for 'if my Uni dies'...

bought new digitizer to replace scratched one (... now use screen protection)
bought another Uni to replace broken screen and will keep for parts
bought another Uni to upgrade to 128MB (will be selling 64MB uni soon to reclaim some costs)
So I voted that if my Uni died I'd buy another one...

But also, I haven't got enought money to buy another one. I now have my eye on the Rhodium. But I'm waiting until I see it eBay for about £100-£150. So I'll most probably see you all there in about 5 years! Until then, my Uni will do me good.

[orb3000]

I think it´s worth to keep this thread alive!

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