It restarts after a call - very cool improvement. There is nothing worse than having to fish the device out of your pocket after having taken a call on the ear-buds and finding the podcast (or music) you were listening to has stopped.
Still no eq, the playlist management is confusing. It seems to have abandoned ID3 tags as a method of sorting playlists so you have to either manually re-order an album or put up with having the songs out of order.
If the 'phone is fully closed (the screen is closed on the keyboard rather than spun around in PDA mode) you can still use it as the call, hang up and (crucially) the voice-dial keys are on the edges. There is also an ear piece on the exterior so as a screen-less 'phone it is fine. That was a beef with the M2000 - you got grease and sweat from your hair and face all over the screen (and if I let Sarah use it there was make-up as well!).
In "laptop" mode the hands-free works well - the tiny speakers really are stereo!
The 1.3Mpix camera is a huge improvement on the M2000 (whose camera was worse than the C500 I had before that) - the 2nd camera on the screen side is a gimic as I don't imagine I'll ever use it for 3G video calls - what a waste of data! However, if Skype enable video on their PocketPC client...
Another cool feature of the camera app is that you can tell it to only email photos on a specified account. I've set this up to only use my home email server which is only accessible SMTP-wise over the WiFi on my LAN. This means that pictures uploaded to my Flickr account don't go over the expensive 3G network (hence keeping me sweet with Ben at works who admins the 'phone accounts!). The M2000 would try and send them via the last opened email account which was invariably the work Exchange server, but sometimes (stupidly!) the text message account!
The full VGA res screen is a joy - spreadsheets are usable with a full screen of cable schedules being visable at once. The PDF app is improved as well. In Word you can see more than a dozen lines of an A4 formatted document in 12 point. IE is much more usable a result without having to reformat every screen to see which is most usable.
Final bummers - you can't flip the screen with headphones plugged in and I've had to reset it once a day when it gets slow (even though it has a 520Mhz processor!).
Overall it's the best 'phone/PDA package I've tried so far.
Still no eq, the playlist management is confusing. It seems to have abandoned ID3 tags as a method of sorting playlists so you have to either manually re-order an album or put up with having the songs out of order.
If the 'phone is fully closed (the screen is closed on the keyboard rather than spun around in PDA mode) you can still use it as the call, hang up and (crucially) the voice-dial keys are on the edges. There is also an ear piece on the exterior so as a screen-less 'phone it is fine. That was a beef with the M2000 - you got grease and sweat from your hair and face all over the screen (and if I let Sarah use it there was make-up as well!).
In "laptop" mode the hands-free works well - the tiny speakers really are stereo!
The 1.3Mpix camera is a huge improvement on the M2000 (whose camera was worse than the C500 I had before that) - the 2nd camera on the screen side is a gimic as I don't imagine I'll ever use it for 3G video calls - what a waste of data! However, if Skype enable video on their PocketPC client...
Another cool feature of the camera app is that you can tell it to only email photos on a specified account. I've set this up to only use my home email server which is only accessible SMTP-wise over the WiFi on my LAN. This means that pictures uploaded to my Flickr account don't go over the expensive 3G network (hence keeping me sweet with Ben at works who admins the 'phone accounts!). The M2000 would try and send them via the last opened email account which was invariably the work Exchange server, but sometimes (stupidly!) the text message account!
The full VGA res screen is a joy - spreadsheets are usable with a full screen of cable schedules being visable at once. The PDF app is improved as well. In Word you can see more than a dozen lines of an A4 formatted document in 12 point. IE is much more usable a result without having to reformat every screen to see which is most usable.
Final bummers - you can't flip the screen with headphones plugged in and I've had to reset it once a day when it gets slow (even though it has a 520Mhz processor!).
Overall it's the best 'phone/PDA package I've tried so far.
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