My E650 J+4
4 days with the SPV E650 and I'm quite happy with the phone.
There are so many ways to connect to the Internet and the computer network. I wasn't sure which is best or easiest.
The Camera has no zoom if you use the largest image setting. You need to select a smaller final image if you want to zoom at all. I suppose that as the final photo is bigger, you can 'zoom' in with Photoshop. This info wasn't written anywhere and took a bit of hunting to find.
It seems that Wi-Fi consumes battery juice like no other service so it is best to keep that on auto cut-off. It comes on or is easy to turn on from the home screen when needed. I'm not sure if the Wi-Fi is being used for the web browsing. There is no indicator that tells you if the phone is using Wi-Fi or Edge/GSM when on the web.
I can't get the mobile phone to show up on the PC network via Wi-Fi, but it can be accessed with the USB connection.
The sync system uses ActiveSync and syncs with Microsoft Outlook. I don't use that and don't really want to start. What options do I have?
I installed Skype, it works - so my Wi-Fi must be working too. I also installed Google Maps and Gmail. Maps work fine. Gmail Java program doesn't seem to work, but Gmail is set up as a messaging service and pulls email from Google every 15 minutes without my having to pull up a browser.
I managed to erase all my contacts. Dumb huh! I transferred all contacts from Sim to phone contacts, deleted all contacts on Sim then did a Sync to PC where the PC overwrote all contacts with my empty Outlook contacts folder. Great - now I see that there was a config option to prevent that. Anyway, out of all the contacts that I had, most were old contacts that probably should have been deleted long ago. I can re-enter the important ones.
So, the phone quality is good, I can use my MBR-100 Bluetooth receiver (more on that later), my Bluetooth headset and hopefully the soon-to-come Bluetooth GPS receiver.
I can moblog and easily send and receive emails. I think the look and feel is great and I hope that I get to fully understand the workings of WM6 in the near future.
There are so many ways to connect to the Internet and the computer network. I wasn't sure which is best or easiest.The Camera has no zoom if you use the largest image setting. You need to select a smaller final image if you want to zoom at all. I suppose that as the final photo is bigger, you can 'zoom' in with Photoshop. This info wasn't written anywhere and took a bit of hunting to find.
It seems that Wi-Fi consumes battery juice like no other service so it is best to keep that on auto cut-off. It comes on or is easy to turn on from the home screen when needed. I'm not sure if the Wi-Fi is being used for the web browsing. There is no indicator that tells you if the phone is using Wi-Fi or Edge/GSM when on the web.
I can't get the mobile phone to show up on the PC network via Wi-Fi, but it can be accessed with the USB connection.
The sync system uses ActiveSync and syncs with Microsoft Outlook. I don't use that and don't really want to start. What options do I have?
I installed Skype, it works - so my Wi-Fi must be working too. I also installed Google Maps and Gmail. Maps work fine. Gmail Java program doesn't seem to work, but Gmail is set up as a messaging service and pulls email from Google every 15 minutes without my having to pull up a browser.
I managed to erase all my contacts. Dumb huh! I transferred all contacts from Sim to phone contacts, deleted all contacts on Sim then did a Sync to PC where the PC overwrote all contacts with my empty Outlook contacts folder. Great - now I see that there was a config option to prevent that. Anyway, out of all the contacts that I had, most were old contacts that probably should have been deleted long ago. I can re-enter the important ones.
So, the phone quality is good, I can use my MBR-100 Bluetooth receiver (more on that later), my Bluetooth headset and hopefully the soon-to-come Bluetooth GPS receiver.
I can moblog and easily send and receive emails. I think the look and feel is great and I hope that I get to fully understand the workings of WM6 in the near future.
Hello!
Could you please explain me how did you set up your Gmail account? I got the whole thing right but apparently I can't read the emails! I press the button and nothing happens.
Maybe you could tell me your settings so I can check with mine...I might missed something.
Thanks in advance.
Posted by gbacchin | 09 June 2007 17:01
Hi, I set up Gmail, by adding my Gmail address, password, pop.googlemail.com as the Pop3 address, smtp.googlemail.com as SMTP address. It picks up Gmail ever 15 minutes and lets me know when there is something in the inbox.
Posted by Doug | 10 June 2007 21:13