Not much new on the scene, but the phone is still working fine
I haven't really been checking on what's new regarding the E650. I've just been jogged a little by a comment on this blog. The phone is still fine and in good working order. I am using the internet on it from time to time, but honestly I'm never too far from a computer and browsing on a phone is the pits.
My only complaint is that the little rubberised tab covering the USB charger socket keeps on popping out. I'm tempted to just pull it off.
My HTC case arrived. See this post for details. It didn't take 15 days like promised, it was more like 4 months. I had almost forgotten that I had asked for one. It is good though and it does the job well keeping the phone safe and clean.
I did have an issue with Orange, my operator. I had taken out a data package, then realised that it would be gone in two days. I upgraded to the expensive 20MB/month plan only to discover that I used 22MB in my first month. This seemed to be eaten up by emails alone.
I had set my phone to check my Gmail account too often (a few times per hour) and the data consumed just checking the account was quite a bit. I now check the account a couple of times a day and my data usage is less than 5MB per month.
My only complaint is that the little rubberised tab covering the USB charger socket keeps on popping out. I'm tempted to just pull it off.
My HTC case arrived. See this post for details. It didn't take 15 days like promised, it was more like 4 months. I had almost forgotten that I had asked for one. It is good though and it does the job well keeping the phone safe and clean.
I did have an issue with Orange, my operator. I had taken out a data package, then realised that it would be gone in two days. I upgraded to the expensive 20MB/month plan only to discover that I used 22MB in my first month. This seemed to be eaten up by emails alone.
I had set my phone to check my Gmail account too often (a few times per hour) and the data consumed just checking the account was quite a bit. I now check the account a couple of times a day and my data usage is less than 5MB per month.
Hi there Doug,
I apprecaite this isn't the most relevant place to put this but, it's an ermm advice thing really.
You appear to be the only post on the net (post 3 on http://www.trustedreviews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2136), whereby any talks of successfully pairing the HTC s710 with the Sony mbr 100 thingy.
I've had murders with mine.
It only pairs if I don't type any passcode in, whatsover (is this right, yours the same, or do you think I've got moody Sony).
Anyway the next bit is how does one actually get any music out.
I've tried with one sample mp3, which windows converted to an m4p !
This track on it's own failed to beam.
However, you've managed to transmit playlists, have you not, in your car.
There doesn't appear to be any way of doing this from the Windows media player, within the HTC, nor the other media player..
Oh bums, am I missing something..
The Holy Grail was get this and don't laugh to be able to stream BBC archive (yep including Dad's Army! lol) to my home hifi, but Real Player for windows mobile.. errm no...
I'd settle for just one tune at this point.. My HTC has even got a 1GB card on it..
I know, you're not tech support, but given you've actually managed to get the two bl**dy things to work, I wondered if you had any real world tips...
I did get Wifi working on the HTC, wrote this whole thing out only to find that the word verification (ransom note) didn't display, so arrrgg to that, also....!
Posted by m00nster | 25 November 2007 15:29
Hi m00nster,
Sorry to hear about your woes.
If you pair the Sony Ericsson MB100 to the phone, you have to put the MB100 into search mode first. Hold down the button for at least 6 second from the off position. It will flash green and red. ON the phone, in Bluetooth Devices, select Add new device... it searches... finds the MBR100, select next... enter passcode '0000', then next, then OK once found, then next, then make sure Wireless Stereo is checked and click done.
I then go to the Audio manager and play my music. Sometimes it doesn't work first time. Not sure why. I try again and usually it works second go if not the first.
If you turn on Bluetooth, select the device that is already paired, you will be asked the passcode, but it doesn't work. I re-pair it each time. Takes just about the same time.
It works with Audio Manager and Windows Media player.
Trouble with Bluetooth is that only one device works at one time. In the car, I find myself using the Bluetooth headset more than the MBR100 unfortunately.
In an ideal world, this MBR100 should be on a trickle charge in the car, it should recognise your phone when you get in and you should just have to click play to have your music play through the car's hi-fi. No pairing or connecting...
Posted by Doug | 26 November 2007 20:06
Doug, apols for the delay in my response.
However having finally gotten round to having another fiddle, I have to say that you Sir are a God amongst men.
I do in fact report that upon following your instructions I have finally managed to get the two devices not only to agree to be in the same room with each other, but to mate in fact. Mate with such glorious compatability that they do now indeed make sweet music together.
Although there are two ironies to this, both of which I feel are justifiable jokes played on the vain and those of us who feel we are soooooo clever..
Joke one is that for all my talk of wifi this, blue tooth that and convergence the other, that actual range of the two devices doesn't quite reach my kitchen, so now rather than now having to walk all the way down my hall to my lounge, I have now gained the luxury of being able to leave the phone thing half way down the corridor.
On top of that and despite some believe me serious fiddling I cannot receive nor stream BBC Real audio files, via the Windows mobile, crippled device.. All this so I might listen to Dad's Army, on a Sat morning mind!
Addtionally, I discover that in all my hitech discoveries the blasted phone doens't have an FM radio built in so I can't even use it on the bus in the morning.
The final and sweetest irony in my opinon is that the actual reason I wasn't able to pair the two devices in the first place was because,
A) it's most likely bought mostly by men in their late 20's and for those who think that they're still with it (such as myself), those in their late 30's. Such groups who have the greatest degree of colourblindness and therefore can't easily tell red from green on little LED's
B) You were very kind about this but to finally realise that I hadn't been able to get them working because it was a case of RTFM (read the f**king manual) did make me laugh. Especially so in the light of all this clever, clever tech talk.
Hold the button down for 6 seconds and wait for rapidly flashing alternatively coloured lights.........
I can do nothing but smile after all this.. I seriously shouldn't be allowed to have i) ideas nor be allowed to shop on ii) Ebay...
Hell, I even got the size of duvet cover required wrong recently and that was in a street market!
It'a wifi device to broadcast from my PC I need, or a phone that will take real media, with 11g and has an FM radio. See I've got the bug, but won't let it lie......
Back on Ebay the phone goes me thinks.... (getting exchange server to work, Office documents, that keyboard, come on and really that case, I've got one as well, but would you really. I mean isn't it a bit, errrm 'gay'?)
I was looking at the Nokia N810, but that's for Linux nuts to tinker with, it isn't a phone and doesn't have FM either....
Or the SonyEric p990i, but that's only 801.11b, why! and although it runs on Symbian, it looks like another trial to get real player working on that either. Basicall, if it doesn't fun at least XP, it ain't gonna do it, from what I can work out. I mean why should I spend 200+ quid for a box with wires hanging out of it and then have to fiddle with files I've never heard of myself!
Doug I thank you, I really do..... One simply can't legislate for stupidity (in my case that is!), can one...
Plus if you really are in both France and the UK then that's even more exotic and yet another reason to be both bitter and jealouse, lol.
Yours Peter
Posted by m00nster | 01 December 2007 23:47