- Psion to Mac Conversions

- Answers from Steve Townsend # 697

- File viewers/converters for EPOC5,

- 5MX Battery Problem

- 5MX vs 9500

- 9290-5mx via IrDA

- answer to Kevin Thorne - Nokia 9500 & 5 MX

- Anybody using a 9500 in the US?

Date: 27 Feb 2005 05:07:29 +0100
From: Greg Crayford <address truncated>
Subject: Psion to Mac Conversions

on 27/2/05 11:01 AM, Timothy Williams at<address truncated>BR>wrote:

> I transfer files from my Mac (OS 10.3.8, via JPL2PsionLink and a Keyspan
> connector)

Išve very interested in doing this, Timothy, but could find no mention of
the software with a google search. Where did you get it from?

Cheers

Greg Crayford
Wellington, New Zealand

Date: 27 Feb 2005 08:13:27 +0100
From: Vlad A <address truncated>
Subject: Answers from Steve Townsend # 697

> Itamar Engelsman and Steve Townsend wrote on 25.2.2005 19:51:

> found that one or
> two bits out of every few KB would randomly change, and that this > occured in a regular pattern....I don't believe it was actually
> ever fixed

This description sound similar to the problem I (and others) had with switching CF between the 5 and othe computers...

What kind of specialist could answer that question?...


> Besides a netPad *is* basically a colour 5mx without keyboard.

Can you attach a keyboard to it in any way?

Steve and Itamar, many thanks!

best,

vlad a

Date: 27 Feb 2005 11:28:55 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: File viewers/converters for EPOC5,

After receipt of the first set of answers I have now sent 3 further questions to Steve and trust we will receive his answers in due course.    Just to remind you all, Steve is not reading the digest and any follow-up questions will have to be sent in again to "itamar<at>post.com".

Answer to: Christopher Holly

Re.: File viewers/converters for EPOC5 - Third party software like nConvert from Neuon will do that for you.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 27 Feb 2005 11:52:31 +0100
From: Patrick Warner <address truncated>
Subject: 5MX Battery Problem

>Patrick, I have a similar problem with the batteries on my old 5mx.  I >think the hinge is weakening, so the back round cover is not holding the >batteries tightly against the connections.  I've toyed with the idea of >.....

Thanks Susan - I'll monitor the digest to see whether anyone has any other ideas. May end up just having to send it off for repair but we will see...

Cheers
Patrick.

Date: 27 Feb 2005 11:52:31 +0100
From: Patrick Warner <address truncated>
Subject: 5MX vs 9500

>Patrick, the inability to view very small fonts on the Calendar application >(it's not called Agenda on the Nokia) is one of the things that frustrates >me most!  One of my favourite/most useful views on the 5mx was the Busy >view - you could see 4 weeks in one go.  Not so on the 9500, only 1 week at >a time and with a screen with such brilliant reolution capability this is >just a crime in my book!  Week view isn't too brilliant either as you can't >zoom down to a low enough font to see more than 3 entries per day.  It's >the same in the Email app too.  So on the 9500 you actually see LESS >information per screen view than on a 5mx - this on a machine with a far >superior screen.....aarrggh!  Some may see this as a minor niggle but to me >Calendar is central to everything I do and I just have to accept I'll >always have to do lots of what should have been unneccesary scrolling. >Symbian please note this!


Thanks for the info Kevin.

Do you know whether anyone has released any 3rd party apps to provide additional agenda views with higher zoom level?

>Incidentally, has anyone on the Digest actually gone back to a 5mx after >finding out none of the modern machines satisfied their needs?  Wouldn't >that be an interesting article?

Close actually - I do own an Pocket PC HP5550 which I intended to convert over to, but I could never bring myself to leave the 5MX as the 5550 was just way too many compromises on functionality that I found useful, and also it seems to be not very stable - it crashed several times and wiped all my data whereas my 5MX has never (touch wood!) done that.  That brings out a good question - what's the 9500 like for stability / reliability?  Does it crash a lot?

Thanks
Patrick.

Date: 28 Feb 2005 09:44:14 +0100
From: Ashoni <address truncated>
Subject: 9290-5mx via IrDA

I cannot seem to send any files from 9290 to 5mx or vice versa via
infra red EXCEPT contacts - & even then, the notes field from 9290 is
not sent to 5mx

Any workarounds or other experience?

Date: 28 Feb 2005 15:28:07 +0100
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: answer to Kevin Thorne - Nokia 9500 & 5 MX

Dear Kevin,
In digest 698, you wrote:

"Incidentally, has anyone on the Digest actually gone back to a 5mx after
finding out none of the modern machines satisfied their needs?  Wouldn't
that be an interesting article?"

Yes, it would be very interesting indeed. My MC 218 (the clone to the 5
MX)is really creaking after 3 1/2 years (I bought it new on sale when the
5MX was already out of business) and a repair and I am thinking about the
Nokias 9500/9300. I tried to side my MC 218 with a Palm Zire 72 (I wrote
about this on the digest) only to ship back the Palm after 10 days.
I read all the reviews on the 9500/9300, which seem to me mostly positive,
and played a bit with the dummy models of both in a couple of shops.
I am not fully decided. What holds me back is:

1. The 9500 opens on a fixed angle, about 130°. This results in a strongly
un-natural angle looking at the screen when the 9500 sits on a table - like
it should be used. Bad. The 9300 is way better, as the screen opens on any
angle, up to full 180°. This was not a problem with the 5MX, in view of its
particular opening mechanism.
2. The 9500 (as the previous 9210) seems to be a bit of a wrong form-factor.
It is too small (keyboard! Screen) for a full replacement to a 5 MX or to a
HP Jornada, that is, something that aims to replace a real laptop in some
applications. But is is too large and heavy as a
carrying-everywhere-always-on-you smartphone.
3. The 9300 (closed) is perhaps more coherent. It is a smartphone, certainly
smarter in OS than a series 60 (pace, on this point, with previous
contributors!!!). But, then, when you look at the screen and keyboard, it is
really small! Can I do some real typing on it? Can I work on a worksheet?
4. I am put off by the absence of the touch screen in both. I understand the
issue of protecting the screen, but I am used to a keyboard + a pointing
device in a computer(a mouse with two buttons on a PC, a mouse with one
button on a Mac, and a stylus on a Psion).

So far, I can only google rumors of a future ghost Nokia communicator with
also a touchscreen or a series 90 (ā la 7710) with a clamshell desing and
integral keyboard. A bit faint hope, to be honest.

Any views? Am I too much of a pessimist? Any defence for the Nokias? = I
would be very happy if the 9500/9300 were better than I think, for I would
be happier to buy one - and stay happy - than complaining and getting
nothing in the end.

Regards to everybody on the digest list,

Franco COZZANI
Brussels

Date: 1 Mar 2005 13:51:44 +0100
From: Christopher Holly <address truncated>
Subject: Anybody using a 9500 in the US?

Some day I will own a cell phone. The Nokia 9500 may be the one. Ddo any of the US cell providers work with it? As you can tell by the questions, I don't have a clue on cell phones work in the US, but I gather you can't just go out and buy your own phone and expect it to work with the provider you choose.

Chris Holly
Bloomington, Indiana
USA