- Spelling Dictionaries

- Re: Email programs for Symbian UIQ

- Content of the Digest

- 9500 questions

- Connect 5mx to data projector?

- Re: nConvert working again, 9500 questions

- Recovering Agenda file

- Nokia 9500 Review,

- Repairing corrupted Agenda file,

- Re: Content of the Digest

- Search for a mobile phone

- Re: Nokia 7710

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004
From: Digest administrator
Subject: Spelling Dictionaries

Spelling dictionaries

I would be grateful to know if there are available spelling dictionaries in other languages to use for Psion 5MX/Series 7 Word other than the standard English one. Particularly: French, Spanish, Italian and German.

Victor WArenr"


With best regards
Manuel Campos G.
The Digest Team

Date: 10 Dec 2004 22:18:52 +0000
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Email programs for Symbian UIQ

Dear Itamar,

<< ... With the built-in email program you have several usual boxes like inbox, sent, draft, and you can also add your own boxes. A disadvantage is that you can see only one mailbox at a time and if you want to seen another one you have to first logg off, switch to the other mailbox and start again ... >>

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by having to log off as I retrieve e-mail from multiple remote mailboxes in a single GPRS or GSM-Data communication session using my P800. What I do is that I launch the Messages application and tap on the name of on one of my local inboxes. The local inbox is opened and I see its contents on screen. I then tap the [Get & Send] button, the P800 asks for the type of connection and I select (say) the GPRS one. The P800 establishes an Internet connection via GPRS, connects to the POP3 server, logs in, retrieves the headers of waiting mail and logs off again. I can then go back to the main screen of the Messages application, tap on the name of the second local inbox, tap on the [Get & Send] button .... etc. When I've retrieved all headers from my remote mailboxes I tap the GPRS connection icon at the bottom of the screen and choose "Disconnect".

<< ... A disadvantage is that you have to connect for each action separately, which means that if you deleted some emails, you want to download some headers and send some email, you connect 3 times to the server instead of once ... >>

It's not clear from your description whether you refer to the third-party Emailview application or the Messages application. What follows may therefore be for the record, but you don't have to log-in separately with Messages.

The way Messages interacts with remote mailboxes is a kind of synchronisation. When you retrieve a header or a header plus message the 'original' remains in your remote mailbox. It's only removed from your mailbox when you delete the header or header plus message in your local inbox. What's more, these deletions are 'pending' till the next connection with the remote mailbox. So, when you tap the [Get & Send] button at a later stage the Messages application:
a) Removes messages from your remote mailbox that have been deleted in your local inbox,
b) Retrieves messages which headers you've marked for retrieval, and,
c) Retrieves the headers from the messages that have landed in your remote mailbox since the last connection.

As any message that has not been deleted from your local inbox remains in your remote mailbox you can retrieve them using your desktop or laptop computer. It's therefore perfectly possible to keep using a desktop computer as your main e-mail and e-mail archive system. In case the desktop computer automatically removes messages from your remote mailbox once it has retrieved them the synchronisation mechanism of the P800's Messages application kicks in. The above steps (a) to (c) can thus be extended with:
d) Removes headers and/or headers plus messages from your local inbox that are no longer in your remote mailbox.

What hasn't been mentioned above are the e-mails you've written and are ready for despatch. The button isn't called [Get & Send] for nothing so that we can add another step to the four above:
e) Sends the messages that are in your local outbox.

<< Profimail is a third party program ...  The main advantage above the built-in program is that you can have several mailboxes which will all show in the same main view of the program >>

It's not necessarily an advantage to have a single unified in-box. I've subscribed to a few electronic newsletters and the press services of such companies as Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola, etc. and use a Tiscali mailbox specifically for this purpose. On my P800 the newsletters and press releases are therefore kept separate while these would be mixed with private and other e-mail when using Profimail. As the screen of
the P800 is relatively small you can easily loose the overview. Reason why I prefer the separate inboxes of the standard Messages application while I've no problem with a unified inbox on my Apple PowerBook.

<< However, you can effect different actions in one connections like sending messages, deleting others and downloading yet others again >>

As you can with the standard Messages application (See above).

<< A problem with all programs is the reading of attachments, in particular faxes that come as TIFF files. The built-in viewer is extremely poor and does not even have a proper zoom facillity. I can't read the text at all ... >>

I've had no problems reading the few faxes I've forwarded as .TIF files via e-mail using the standard Pictures application. OK, it takes a lot of scrolling as you're effectively viewing a black and white 'photograph' of an A4 size page on a small screen. But that's par for the course when using a P800. Could be that the faxes I received were easier to read as they were computer generated rather than scanned and sent using a traditional fax machine.

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Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

Date: 10 Dec 2004 22:21:05 +0000
From: Roy Roger <address truncated>
Subject: Content of the Digest

Answer to:Itamar Engelsman, London, UK

Whatever you do please never change the Digest. It keeps me sane reading the great information and the Members with PMT who argue with each other must be nurtured to argue more - its a good laugh at their expense and just goes to show that we men have a menopause too !

Regards - Roy. R, Essex, UK
MC218 , Ericsson Mc12 and mc16 + 20 cellphones since 1985 ( 20 of the damn things)

Date: 11 Dec 2004 08:31:00 +0000
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: 9500 questions

To Kevin:
Yes, the 9500 can write Word 2000 files directly, yes it can print to file. But I'm pretty sure my old 9210 could as well.

And I've been using it to surf via Wi-Fi for the last week now - utterly great! Especially on someone else's Internet bill (but we won't go there!)

Calendar fonts are the same as those on the 9210, but at least the functionality's all there.

To Manuel:
You shouldn't have reposted that AAS review text. It's copyrighted. Please, in future, just post the hyperlinks to articles that Ewan and I write. Thanks.

To Itamar:
Great. I'm really enjoying it and noticing all sorts of improvements over the 9210i. I'm planning an article on 3-Lib detailing everything. I still don't like the keyboard as much, though. I personally don't miss Spell, but I'm sure some people will.

Cheers ____________________________________________________________________
Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/
Software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones
Also PocketInfo, useful files - http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/pocketinfo Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to:
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Date: 11 Dec 2004 09:39:17 +0000
From: Eir <address truncated>
Subject: Connect 5mx to data projector?

Hello all,

Does anyone know of a way to connect a 5mx to a data projector?

Would it be possible to send screen shots via IRDA to the projector?

Are there any IRDA to Bluetooth adapters that could help with this function?

There appears to be a compact flash adapter (Colorgraphic CF Voyager VGA Card) for use with PDAs for this purpose, but there does not seem to be any 5mx software to drive it. 

I had been anticipating replacing my 5mx with a Nokia 9500 so that I would not need to lug my laptop around along with my data projector, but the reviews do not seem to give the 9500 a thumbs up as a 5mx replacement.

Many thanks for all the useful info in this digest.

Regards,
Martin O'Neill


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Date: 11 Dec 2004 09:53:50 +0000
From: Owen H. Morgan <address truncated>
Subject: Re: nConvert working again, 9500 questions

Howdy!

Kevin Thorne wrote (> ):

> As suggested by a few Digestees I've uninstalled
> my copy of nConvert and then reinstalled it and
> that has now solved the problem of it not being
> able to convert my EPOC Word documents to RTF
> types.  I don't know why this worked - can only
> guess at a corrupted file somewhere within the
> app?

nConvert sometimes does funny things. When I first attempt to select an image file conversions, I get a choice of two identical converters, and whichever one I select, it always crashes with a "display may temporarily be incomplete" message. The second time I try, I do not get the choice of converters and then it works. This suddenly started happening a while after the application was installed. When I installed it on my Mako, it also worked as expected for a couple of months, then suddenly it started behaving the same way as it does on the 5mx.

> It's the same as on the 9210 give or
> take a couple of minor changes so it's a shame
> Nokia only give you relatively large fonts and
> thus less detail to be viewed without scrolling.
> Oh well, we can't have everything :-(

On ER5, you can install extra fonts. Maybe the same is true of the Nokia?

Owen

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Date: 11 Dec 2004 15:40:10 +0000
From: Howard Weissman <address truncated>
Subject: Recovering Agenda file

Reply to Michael Kosarin <address truncated>
Subject: Repairing corrupted Agenda file

Presumining a Series 5mx (you did not specify)    I'd suggest importing into Word. Only catch is recovering schedule information.

I'm also based in NYC. Email me off-list if you would like me to try recovery.

Howard
NYC

Date: 12 Dec 2004 01:47:03 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9500 Review,

Answer to: Manuel Campos Galvan

Re.: Nokia 9500 Review - Is there no copy right on the articles on All Symbian ?  Are we allowed to just copy these articles and reproduce them in the digest ?  I don't know but just wonder .... .

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 12 Dec 2004 01:47:05 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Repairing corrupted Agenda file,

Answer to: Michael Kosarin

Re.: Repairing corrupted Agenda file - Sorry I can't help you, but you wrote "Backup of backup goes months back".    I would jus  tlike to remind you all that very regular back-ups are absolutely essential when working with PDA's, whether a Psion or any other make. Personally my mBook is backed-up at least twice a week and my P910 at least 3 times a week, and I should really be doing it every other day (just lazy). Don't leave it more than a few days between back-up's !!

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 12 Dec 2004 09:07:48 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Content of the Digest

Antony Booth wrote:
> It might also be useful if members would submit opinion on both
> the benefits and drawbacks of such a solution

Your proposed system certainly sounds better for nearly everyone.  What mainly worries me is that (a) it sounds like an awful lot of effort to implement reliably, and (b) it would need a dedicated (internet) server running 24-7 (which would require money).

For point (a), I wonder if there are any existing open source efforts which are close to our needs?
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Chris Handley

Date: 12 Dec 2004 18:42:39 +0000
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Search for a mobile phone

Hi Symbian-OS-freaks,
a relative of mine is looking for a mobile phone wit the following features:
- Voice recording
- MP3 player
- Voice dialing
- Infrared to PC
- Handsfree speaking and listening
- Symbian OS.

What you can recommend?

--
Thank in advance for your reply
and
Best Regards
Rolf Vonau
http://home.arcor.de/rhvonau/index.htm

Date: 12 Dec 2004 22:07:16 +0000
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Nokia 7710

Dear Franco,

<< The fact that an Apple Powerbook 17" provides a more spectacular mobile viewing experience but has a correspondingly larger footprint than a Nokia 9300 falls in what I call the subjective/objective realm. With this I mean that not everybody has the same needs of portability, ergonomics, time to boot etc. This is the subjective part. But everybody - I guess - would agree that the first is better than the second in some well defined applications and viceversa. And that is the objective part >>

Though I don't necessarily disagree with the above I think that one aspect tends to be overlooked : the intentions of the manufacturer of the product in question. When the aim is to build an entry-level smartphone, for example, you're not going to give it a features list stretching from London to Tokyo. The features list will be relatively short. What such a smartphone then needs to be judged upon is whether it has the features belonging to its entry-level status and how well they're implemented. Trouble is that people sometimes ask more than can reasonably be expected from a product. They want to have features that belong to smartphones higher up the product ladder and give a negative judgment of our entry-level smartphone as it doesn't have features X, Y and Z.

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Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands