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.
LONDON, April 11
I am keen to try out Skype on the E650.
So the E650 looks interesting... I wonder if it will be up to the job of Moblog reporting? I'm just waiting for Orange to credit me with my old points (that were used for the Sony Ericsson w810i) and for them to bring this phone to market. I still have to test the Sony Ericsson MBR-100 Bluetooth music receiver that I have with a HTC phone. Hopefully I'll do that this week.
