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post #1 of 18
10/12/07 at 6:59pm
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What do you have and what do you use them for?

BB 8830- Phone,PIM,E-Mail,Bathroom Browsing...

Inquiring minds want to know?
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post #2 of 18
10/13/07 at 12:28pm
I've never had a PDA & probably never will. I have my phone & that's all I need.
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post #3 of 18
10/13/07 at 7:13pm
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Lumping the smart phones in aswell. The BB8830 is the Sprint Blackberry world phone edition.
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post #4 of 18
10/14/07 at 1:42am
I use an imate pda2 with an old imate pocket pc as a backup.

Its used for mobile email/internet,phone,sms,note taking on phatpad and an engineering program for trigonometry,calcs,plus I find the camera pretty useful for quick snaps of things.....sometimes I use it to listen to music and for showing funny vids off the internet to workmates.

I love these all in one devices,if it was just a pda,I doubt I would use it....they are quite fragile though,and have rooted quite a few of them.

I'm actually eyeing up another one at the moment,an O2 XDA flame which has a 3.6" vga screen,GPU,tv out,better camera,3G blah blah blah,but have spent a bit too much money on toys lately and will probably wait a bit.
I can't stand most of the newer pda/phones with their silly sub 3 inch screens....it sort of defeats the purpose of using one over a normal phone,a couple of people at work have nokia N95's which are an awesome device,but have a screen thats too small and dont have screen qwerty keyboard,only a normal T9 type KB which takes me about half an hour to write a sentence.
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post #5 of 18
10/14/07 at 3:30am
wel my phone is a Samsung A920 (Sprint) I use it for highspeed wireless on the road ( pair it to my computer with BT) It's got a 1.3 megapixel camera which is more than enough for me for a phone camera lol.
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post #6 of 18
10/14/07 at 4:41am
I have a cingular 8525 smart phone.

WM6, touch screen, push email for gmail and whatever else I want. TXT, power point, mobile office, video, music, phone, lotts of browsing with 3g and wifi. 2mp camera, windows media player, errrrrr... almost anything you can do on a computer, it can do. I even overclocked it alittle bit.

I love my phone. It's my computer away from home. You'll see me posting from it during the evening while I'm at work.
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post #7 of 18
10/15/07 at 5:23pm
actual PDA, Dell Axim x30high, only thing I use it for now is notes at church and for playing Nethack... battery's got little life left and getting a replacement isnt worth it
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post #8 of 18
10/17/07 at 11:31pm
I had a PDA (palm) years ago. It broke some days after the warranty and I was so pissed that I hate PDAs and everything-Palm to this very day! Served me well while it lasted though...
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post #9 of 18
10/18/07 at 12:25am
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Originally Posted by GBrilliantQ View Post
I have a cingular 8525 smart phone.

WM6, touch screen, push email for gmail and whatever else I want. TXT, power point, mobile office, video, music, phone, lotts of browsing with 3g and wifi. 2mp camera, windows media player, errrrrr... almost anything you can do on a computer, it can do. I even overclocked it alittle bit.

I love my phone. It's my computer away from home. You'll see me posting from it during the evening while I'm at work.



Did you update from a WM5 device??.......is it faster...more stable,wm6 I mean
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post #10 of 18
10/18/07 at 1:47am
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Just got handed a Sprint Mogul for testing. Love being lost with what the hell to use something I see as more a toy than a tool.
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post #11 of 18
10/18/07 at 2:56am
You don't like it?
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post #12 of 18
10/18/07 at 2:58am
I installed a modded rom to WM6, included alot of nice features and programs and reg hacks, speed hacks. About 5 months ago? I love it.
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post #13 of 18
10/18/07 at 6:53pm
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It's not a matter of don't like so much a matter of how best to use it. I see I can look at spreadsheets on it but most of the spreadsheets I use are 20 columns by 2 thousand rows so that makes it painful. I guess the real problem is I'm TOO computer centric. If it doesn't do the job aswell as I usually return to the REAL thing.
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post #14 of 18
10/26/07 at 12:27am
I recently got the Sprint Centro, at $99 it's a steal. Even just for the updated versions of docs-to-go, pocket tunes and a few other programs over my old Treo 650.

But yeah, I gotta agree on the whole "doing the job as well" which is why I got an OQO. Centro takes care of email / messaging / listening to music / things that I want to do while walking down the street. I use the OQO for everything else (like writing this post) minus video games and working up large documents. I almost always have both on me, OQO in the pants pocket, Centro in the jacket pocket. Both have EV-DO service through Sprint via a stupid-cheap SERO plan

Bytheby, for anyone interested in an UMPC, OQO's are garbage. Get something like a Sony UX instead.
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post #15 of 18
10/31/07 at 3:21pm
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Originally Posted by GBrilliantQ View Post
I have a cingular 8525 smart phone. WM6, touch screen, push email for gmail and whatever else I want. TXT, power point, mobile office, video, music, phone, lotts of browsing with 3g and wifi. 2mp camera, windows media player, errrrrr... almost anything you can do on a computer, it can do. I even overclocked it alittle bit. I love my phone. It's my computer away from home. You'll see me posting from it during the evening while I'm at work.
except for the wm6, 3g and overclocking. answering email when otherwise away from office. carry around statutes and local court rules, as well. i don't use the hard keyboard as much as i thought i would, mainly use the software one.
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post #16 of 18
10/31/07 at 3:23pm
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Originally Posted by GBrilliantQ View Post
I installed a modded rom to WM6, included alot of nice features and programs and reg hacks, speed hacks. About 5 months ago? I love it.

more info (or link) on that gbq.
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post #17 of 18
10/31/07 at 3:26pm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=289

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297762

stuff like this, I really forgot what I'm using and where I found it.
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post #18 of 18
12/22/07 at 7:36pm
I have had my new O2 XDA Flame for a couple of weeks now and lovin it,640x480 3.6" VGA screen is something to behold,don't know about the goforce 5500 that they make a big deal about though,nothing seems to have native hardware support for it apart from a few demo games that you can't download anywhere.

http://www.seeo2.com/product/XdaFlam...ate/Product.vm
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