Monday, February 21, 2005

Orange SPV M2000 'phone is my new work mobile. It is a great device as it is more like a PDA (in fact it is a regular PocketPC 2003 gadget with a 'phone built in!). The killer app for me is being able to look at Excel files on the move as all my cable schedules for jobs are in that format. Here are a few notes based on the fact that I've had to re-install a couple of times now.
  • Don't use PocketMusic! On the C500 it was my favorite MP3 playing app. Now Media Player seems usable as you can now pause in the middle of a file and drag the play-point to whatever part of the recording you like (hasn't every other audio app had that for a decade?!). I found that on the two occasions the M2000 crashed so that it needed a re-build PocketMusic was the culprit.
  • Make sure you use xBackup! It does a memory backup to SD card and so if it does crash badly you can wait for five minutes while it re-builds from memory rather than having to re-install all your apps & re-configure.
  • If it looks as if it has crashed don't tug the battery because that will take it back to factory config. The recessed reset button (on the bottom) does what it says non-destructively!
  • Origional SPV & E200 chargers work with it
  • The WiFi is great! BUT if you have very poor signal Windows file transfers don't work (even though you may have some web-availability).
  • Skype! Brilliant - why pay for cell calls when you only to have walk another ten yards to find an unsecured WiFi spot and leech some bandwidth to make a Skype call! Remember Skype-Skype is free and the quality is better than a landline (and by extension better than a cell call).

More thoughts as they occour!

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