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Wednesday, 30 May 2007

Proporta Alu-Leather Case

Proporta have released their first accessory for the HTC S710 (SPV E650), an alu-leather case which meets all of the usual Proporta quality standards.

The Proporta HTC s710 / Vox Series Alu-Leather Case is beautifully hand crafted to meet the exact specifications of your HTC s710 / Vox handheld. It features our trademark ‘Screen Saver System’ which uses a sheet of rigid, lightweight aircraft grade aluminium to line the case, protecting your delicate device screen from crushing and impact shocks.

The Proporta HTC s710 / Vox Series Alu-Leather Case also gives the option of a removable belt clip which allows you to wear your device whilst on the move, for quick and easy access to your mobile device.

Check it out: Proporta

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Thursday, 17 May 2007

Vodafone Germany released the VDA V aka HTC Vox

After the HTC S710, the Orange SPV E650, now we have the Vodafone VDA V. With a 24 months contract, the VDA V is available from 169,50 to 249,50 Euro. Without a contract, the SIM free and net-unlocked device is available for 429,90 Euro.

The VDA V has a German QWERTZ keyboard and as with the other phones the operating system language can be changed between the main European languages.

More info on the Vodafone site.

[via The Unwired]

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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

HTC S710 / SPV E650 case

To protect my E650, I have the phone in a nice little synthetic cloth pouch with a drawstring. It is scratch-free and relatively clean, but it's not the most practical of solutions.

If you call up HTC Europe and politely ask for a case for your HTC S710 or Orange SPV E650, they will ask for your name, address, phone number and you mobile's IMEI number - type *#06# into the keypad.

They promise to have it sent off in two weeks. Cool! HTC link on the right.

[Info via Smartphone France]

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Thursday, 10 May 2007

Bluetooth GPS working with the SPV E650



First I unlocked the phone by requesting Orange to send me an unlock script. You do that by filling in the info here.

Then I paired the Bluetooth GPS receiver that I have. It is a solar powered MediaTek 32ch BT2.3MR device. Its quite chunky as you see, but its designed to live on the dash of my car, not in my other pocket.

After running the unlock script sent via email from Orange, you have to modify the system registry as specified here in the HTC Wiki. I ran the gps6.CAB file (linked to on the page or here if you can't find it) so all the changes were done for me. It worked fine.

Then you reboot the device: Switch off then back on.

Google maps is installed by pointing the browser of your mobile device to www.google.com/gmm.

Open Google Maps and turn on GPS tracking. Works fine :-)

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Firefox will move to mobile phones... eventually


Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla, has said in an interview with APC that it is the intention of Mozilla to develop a mobile version of Firefox for mobile phones.

She said: it is not in the next weeks or months. The Mozilla Foundation's mission in life is to improve Internet experience and that is increasingly on devices other than PCs. If we're not there then we won't be able to live the kind of vision that we helped grow.

So that needs to happen. We had a small project looking at it but we decided that the right thing to do is to look first at the technology and look at our core technology and really tune it so that it's best suited for that. We are at work on that now, however it will take a while.

We are also looking at how to reflect the richness of the entire web on a small device with the current constraints and that one we don't know. There is no easy answer for that because the web is growing and the functionalities of the web are growing. We're looking closely at that one.

Read the full interview at APC

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Saturday, 5 May 2007

businessMOBILE.fr review the HTC S710 / SPV E650

businessMOBILE.fr reviews HTC S710 / SPV E650 - at least that's what they say. I get the impression from the text and the stock images that they are writing the review after reading one or two others and looking at the official spec sheet.

They give it 8/10 and complain that it is too heavy, has a slow processor and doesn't have 3G.

They do like the design, the PDA functionality, the keyboard and WM6.

Here is the review

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Thursday, 3 May 2007

MobileTechReview - reviews the HTC S710

Editor's rating (1-5): rating starrating starrating starrating star

Lisa Gade, Editor in Chief of MobileTechReview, concludes:

HTC's first Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition offering is a strong one with an ingenious design. It's an ergonomic near-delight that offers the best of candybar phone ease of use and a QWERTY keyboard. We wish the slider stayed more firmly shut, but overall we're still very pleased with the design. Windows Mobile 6 itself brings improvements that are worthwhile, though some of them require Exchange Server, so we're not saying you need rush out and buy this phone just to get the new OS. Though the networking improvements do make us mighty happy, especially on the IE and data transfer fronts. The phone has excellent battery life, a great display, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi and a camera that's actually worth using. If the HTC S710 had 3G, our star rating would have been higher.

Read the full review after the jump to: MobileTechReview .

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Wednesday, 2 May 2007

Nearly two weeks old and going fine


A couple of weeks on and I'm still happy with the SPV E650. I'm using it obviously as a phone, but also doing a little browsing, emailing and taking a few photos. Likes and dislikes, two weeks on...

Likes: Size, build quality, sound quality, connectivity.

Dislikes: Having to use Outlook to sync contacts, with Bluetooth and Wi-fi, battery limited.

I honestly have not showed this phone to any of my friends so it's not getting hyped by pride or envy. I am happy that I've got a good quality phone that works well. It does what I expected it to.

Regarding the damn sync thing though... I've twice now erased the contacts that I have on the phone. The first time, is documented below. The second time, I think that I did exactly the same thing. I didn't want the same info on the sim card and the phone, do I don't have anything on the sim card. I had re-entered all my contacts onto the phone - eventually giving in and installing Outlook on the PC. It didn't sync as it said there was a conflict of profiles. I deleted the old sync profile, and let it create a new one. It promptly then deleted my phone contacts as the default setting for the profile is do overwrite the contents of the device with the desktop items.

I now have re-entered and backed-up the contacts. Exported them to text files so I can dump outlook if anything else comes along.

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