- E61 User's View Part 5 - Life Changing?

- Netbook question--email

- Re: netbook screen problem/small component

- Re: 1001

- NetBook on ebay & Avoiding ebay scams

- Re.: SE M600i review

- RE: Dangerous Orange E61; Using E61

- PS French connection

Date: 15 Oct 2006 19:37:38 +0000
From: "William Fuggle" <address truncated>
Subject: E61 User's View Part 5 - Life Changing?

OK, I have now got to the hardest part to write about because it is not just about features, tips and bugs!

Firstly it is not anything that the E61 does individually that is new or unique. Rather it is that the capabilities of the phone together with the maturity of various technologies and mobile phone network  vision and marketing has produced the right product at the right time for me.

How is this reflected in my use of this phone that thinks it is a pda? Well to start with the orientation of the screen, although perfectly useable as a phone is great for the usual landscape mode of a psion type pda (like 9300i and E70). But it is also small and light with useable qwerty keyboard. Fits a shirt pocket really well.

Then there is the focus on connectivity and email. I am on t-mobile with (unmetered) web'n'walk There is a dedicated email key. On a short press this jumps from whatever you are doing into the inbox of your default mailbox and long press opens a new email ready to compose. There are blackberry and other clients waiting to be installed if you have a business push email account. I do not but there is an automatic retrieval option you can set in emails where email will connect according to a time setup. I have one account set up to connect from 9 to 5 on workdays. I am connected all day via t-mobile, usually 3g. You can set it to poll for new mail at intervals if you have a pop account. But my main email is imap4 (an apple .mac account) and with this there is no need to poll as the E61 is looking in the .mac inbox all the time & when a new email hits the .mac server inbox the E61 pings and flashes a light and the header is displayed in email application (my setting to just have headers unless I open the email). This therefore acts like push email like blackberry.

As I don't have to worry about data amounts (well 1 Gb fair useage a month) I tend to just use the E61 on the web as I want during the day. For instance previously I recorded my CPD activities on paper for meetings and hand wrote reflective notes. This then was put into a folder and a return made to my professional body once a year. This body has a website so you can file this on line but you have to remember to do this back at base after attending a course etc. Now I can log onto the website in a small pocketable device and update this at the course or meeting and add my reflective notes as they occur. And the web program is very useable especially as it is 320 pixels wide. Google is also very useable especially with a proper keyboard.

Of course I use the phone to link my TomTom One to the traffic service, make notes, open and edit documents, use the diary and address book and other standard pda functions.

If I want I can link onto wifi at places such as Starbucks but if the phone signal is good enough I prefer to use 3g except at home.

Bill
Birmingham

Date: 15 Oct 2006 21:35:39 +0000
From: brudolph <address truncated>
Subject: Netbook question--email

I have all my network stuff working great now on my Netbook.  The only trouble that I have now is one that I haven't seen before in all the years using Psions.  I go to retrieve my email and it goes, at times all the way to getting headers and they don't come in.  But most of the time it goes to connecting and just stays there until it times out.  My Network card is functioning as you can see the activity light going like it always does and I can get on the internet-seems a bit slow---but it will do that.  I have done a soft reset many times and the last time a hard reset and reinstalled my OS and redid my settings.  And---I still have the same problem.  Has anyone seen this before and if so any ideas please??????



Thanks,

Bob



People will forget what you said .
People will forget what you did .
But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Date: 15 Oct 2006 21:47:19 +0000
From: "Alan Morris" <address truncated>
Subject: Re: netbook screen problem/small component

Ian Colvin <address truncated> wrote:-

} I guess I have
} nothing to lose with cleaning the cable contacts, so I'll be } looking out some brasso and giving that a go.

I had a similar problem on my 7 (or maybe nB) and had to take it apart, remove the cable from the socket and replace.  But I can't now remember how delicate the cable end was - memory not so good as one gets older!

But I did _not_ use Brasso as I would have been very concerned about the liquid getting everywhere.

However, I have a green rubber (UK) / erazer (US), the type used for ball point pens.  It's part of my electronics toolbox.  It is ideal for cleaning any edge connectors - even the gold plated types.  It's now over 30 years old and still does the job very well.

Alan Morris

Date: 16 Oct 2006 09:24:34 +0000
From: Mike Isaacs <address truncated>
Subject: Re: 1001

In message <address truncated>, The Digest <address truncated> writes
>
>Hi Mike
>We use the same program but I have to send it another way from the >others due to my isp bulk mail restrictions. I have sent you another >copy. Hope it is ok this time.
>Best regards,
>Dick
>
>========================================
> Message Received: Oct 14 2006, 09:52 AM
> From: "Mike Isaacs" <address truncated>
> To: "The Digest" <address truncated>
> Cc:
> Subject: 1001
>
> Dear Dick
>
> I'm afraid your re-send still gives the  error message " Unknown
> character in base64 encoding. The data may be unusable", and is
> unreadable.
>
> Has you started using another program to generate the Digest?
>
> Yours
>
> --
> Mike
>
>
>
Hi Dick

Thank you for your trouble.

1001 and 1002 have arrived and are both readable.  Hooray!

regards
--
Mike

Date: 16 Oct 2006 11:45:50 +0000
From: Richard Corfield <address truncated>
Subject: NetBook on ebay & Avoiding ebay scams

Hello to all Psioneers!


This forum is rare coming-together of experience and goodwill.  Many, many thanks in no particular order to Itamar, Dick, Martin (Pscience5), Rolph, Owen, Phil A, Chris H, Marcus and quite a few others.

I’m going to continue lurking and skim reading this forum as I am keeping hold of my 5mx, however I have listed my Malay netBook (plus a fair amount of other associated bits and bobs) on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=011&item=320032258658&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
    (It closes in the evening of 22nd October.)

While on the subject of eBay, here’s a slightly off-topic word to the wise:
I bought a SanDisk SD card off eBay (from phantom_packet, if you’re
interested).  One of those ebay guides caught my eye ‘cos it said, “If you
have bought a cheap memory card recently, read this!!!”.  I did, and after
a bit of a research it became fairly obvious that the card I had bought
was counterfeit.  Unless you know what you’re looking for, they are
disturbingly convincing and apparently it’s a common problem.

I would never have known it was fake unless I had looked at the website. (I confirmed its 'fakeness' because it performed badly, the packaging had
no hologram and the User guide hadn't been stapled.)

For more info on how convincing the CF card fakes can be, have a look at
this link: http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Fake_Memory_Cards

Of course you would rather avoid buying a fake card in the first place.
If you use ebay, this is a great site to check for all negative feedback
that’s been left for someone:
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=blown-z&Dirn=Received+by

Clearly when the fifth person is accusing someone of selling fake goods,
you need to think carefully about whether you want to use that seller!


Cheers,

Richard

Date: 16 Oct 2006 12:22:12 +0000
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: Re.: SE M600i review

Answer to Itamar: Itamar wrote: "I suppose that over time there will come more UIQ 3.0 software programs, but can you blame the writers ? Each time SE comes out with a new version they have to rewrite the programs again. If I was a writer, I would wait as well to seeif the platform will be succesful or not." Sorry if perhaps the nuance on my posting was lost, for I fully agree with you. All my admiration goes to the writers of excellent programs, like Solun, my favorite; if a new platform has very little SW support, certainly it is not me who puts the blame on the writers! But, still, it is a negative point of that platform if nice programmes are (for now?) missing. > Franco COZZANI > Brussels >

Date: 16 Oct 2006 20:01:51 +0000
From: "William Fuggle" <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Dangerous Orange E61; Using E61

Alan,

This is rubbish. If it was dangerous nokia would be issuing recall notices.
The orange website still says "coming soon" but my experience of orange is that they have very few smartphones except for their own-brand windows versions. There is no mention of dangers on blogs and forums so I think the problem may be personalising it for orange and cutting facilities. If you want to try it go into t-mobile, vodafone, carphonewarehouse or phones4u. Vodafone and t-mobile should let you try a real phone especially if you are interested in contract but go during week and not lunchtime.

>The reply was that it had been withdrawn as >it was unsafe to use.
>Nothing similar was available for selling.

Further to my lengthy (yawn) last post on E61 I forgot to mention that another factor in my delight in using it is the fact that it is easy to use with one hand unlike psion 5 or stylus devices like my last device: the S-E p910i.

Bill Fuggle
Birmingham, UK

Date: 17 Oct 2006 09:16:56 +0000
From:<address truncated>
Subject: PS French connection

Please note that the price is 149  euro in the German version of Pulster's home page, and 199 euro in the English version.

Axel