- Questions concerning Itamar's move ...

- 5mx touchscreen problem

- Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500

- RE: touch-screen problem

- PsiWin / XP problem ... sorted

- Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500[Scanned]

- Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500, new phone Qtek 9100,

Date: 6 Dec 2006 12:22:16 +0700
From: Arabbitte <address truncated>
Subject: Questions concerning Itamar's move ...

Hi Itamar,

I've had my P910i for over 2 years now and continue to be in awe of it's abilities. The question is, are these P910i-unique or are they now generic and standard to all smartphones? Despite being very impressed with my trusty P910i, I do find myself looking enviously at the newer smartphones. So far, I have resisted the temptation to upgrade for some of the following reasons:

o SE's new UIQ platform is impressive but currently a bit immature; apparently a firmware upgrade now planned for January will address many issues.
o I want inbuilt GPS functionality. I don't really know why, but I do. Current available devices have only 240X240 screens (i.e. HP Ipaq)
o I want lots of software availability (preferably freeware!). Windows Mobile 5 is good here, but UIQ3 still has to mature further.
o Price: The price of the P990 has reduced by about 30% since it's recent introduction. The TyTn is vastly more expensive than it's non-3G predecessor. I don't want to get caught out.

With the rate of advances visible today, I'd say my ideal smartphone should be available sometime mid-next year. Watch this space!

In the meantime, and being naturally curious, I have a few questions for you concerning your own purchase (if you don't mind!):

o Did you consider a P990 or one of the other Symbian 9 phones from Nokia?
o Why didn't you get the TyTn - your phone has the same comms ability as the P910 and the newer TyTn has 3G and a 2 X CPU speed
o The P910 is a phone centric smartphone with the flip closed and a PDA centric with the flip closed - this is the killer feature for me. How does the Qtek compare
o General performance - speed, reliability, etc. Any reboots/crashes
o How is Synchronisation now performing (Based on the experiences of others I know with this phone, I'm surprised you had problems)
o Phone performance. My experience is that HTC-manufactured phones do not compare favourably from a purely phone perspective to the more sophisticated (and Ericsson derived) technology used in SE's products
o General Quality: My P910i is now a little battered but still works faultlessly. I certainly get the impression that SE put a lot of thought into it's physical construction. What's is your feeling on the Qtek.

All the best from Dublin, Ireland
Alan

Date: 6 Dec 2006 19:07:15 +0700
From: Moshe Nahir <address truncated>
Subject: 5mx touchscreen problem

To Philip Carlisle,  Susan Hoffman, David Steer, Jean Guillonneau, Nigel
Elbourne, Ian Chapple,
Chris Cooper, and "Reg":

Thanks very much for trying to help me with the touch-screen problem on my
5mx. I truly appreciate your thoughts and advice.
The news is not good, though. I tried all kinds of reset – soft, hard and in
between – to no avail. I even tried blackmail..
It looks like he problem is more serious. I think I will have to send the
5mx off for repair. If someone could recommend a place, I would greatly
appreciate it.

The amount of goodwill and generous willingness to help still left among the
Digestees is very, very impressive.
Thanks again to all who helped.

Moshe Nahir
Winnipeg, Canada

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Date: 6 Dec 2006 19:39:16 +0700
From: Chris Blyth <address truncated>
Subject: Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500

I have a Psion Netbook and a Nokia 9210 which happily talk to each other via:
PLBeam (now free) on the netbook for IR File transfer
vCal from FreEpoc for syncing Agenda (EPOC) and Calendar (ER6)
(Not perfect but gets the raw information across without the formatting)
vCard for exporting ER6 contacts to a Vcard file which can be read directly into EPOC Contacts.

Generally I use the netbook for OPL developments (export to the Nokia) and the Nokia for calendar and contact information.

Chris Blyth.

Date: 7 Dec 2006 00:35:21 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: touch-screen problem

Ian Chapple wrote:-

} another (partial) solution to your touch-screen problem is to } use Fileswitch, available from FreEPOC: the link is
} http://www.freepoc.org/viewapp.php?id=39. It won't help you
} open unstarted applications, but it *does* make switching
} between open applications much easier....

But Macro5, as well as switching between started apps, will also start apps and move to any folders, when by using cursor keys and <Enter> you can open any app or document.  Favourite documents can also be opened but pressing <Fn> + N + <A-Z, 0-9 or Space> to select 37 documents

Macro5 is always the first app, I ever install on a new EPOC Psion setup.

Alan

Date: 7 Dec 2006 11:20:13 +0700
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: PsiWin / XP problem ... sorted

I'd written:

> PsiWin works fine when I'm logged on as
> Administrator but refuses to connect when I'm logged on as a
> different user. How do I fix this?

- - -

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on this. Having been shaken out of my monomaniacal mindset (all to do with notions of having just one user with administrator rights), I went ahead and did the obvious. Which was (in case it's of any use to anyone else):

- uninstalled PsiWin
- granted myself administrator rights
- reinstalled PsiWin while logged on as myself

I'm not quite sure what someone would need to do if there was more than one user who needed PsiWin, but the question doesn't arise for me - I'm the only Psion nut in the house.

Date: 7 Dec 2006 13:58:13 +0700
From: Mike Woodward <address truncated>
Subject: Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500[Scanned]

Reply to Chris Malcolm

You should be able to beam files between the Psion & Nokia if you
install PlBeam on the Psion, if you use a common file format such as
text file.

You can also sync via a PC using Outlook which I prefer, you need to
have the Psion & Nokia sync software loaded & preferably using different
serial ports that way you can have the Nokia & Psion software loaded at
the same time, otherwise you must make sure only one is loaded as the
first to load grabs the serial port.

Mike

Date: 8 Dec 2006 00:48:28 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500, new phone Qtek 9100,

Answer to: Chris Malcolm

Re.: Communicating between Psion5mx and Nokia 9500 - You should be able to beam files accross with a program like piBeam (or something like that) but synchronising directly is hard as they are not two EPOC machines. I think your best bet would be to synchronise both via Outlook.

Answer to: Mike Dyer & Franco.Cozzani

Re.: new phone Qtek 9100 - Mike asked about the thumbboard (I don't call it a keyboard). I came from a SE P910i where the thumbboard was even smaller and I could not type with more than 1 finger while holding the phone in the other hand. With the Qtek 9100 you can hold the phone in two hands freeing the two thumbs to type, one on the left half and one on the right half. As said this speeds up the typing by almost 100%. However, I find myself using the on-screen keyboard or the letter recogniser program to write yourself on the screen. Both work quite fast, I prefer the latter.
Franco, the synchronising, once sorted, works absolutely 100% each time I connect. I don't get double entries and it is all just there (even thoug I don't need my diary details on my PC). The hard resets had more to do with the fact that during installing various programs my sound for alarms and reminders had disappeared and that took a long time to sort out.    Yes, the switch was in "my writings" as I am not prepared to update all my programs each time I upgrade to a new version of Symbian. With the WM5 phone I can run some programs I found on the internet that are 4 to 5 years old and written for PocketPC machines. Symbian make a big mistake not to allow that continuety. I would not have thought about changing. However, sofar I can say I am very happy with the phone. I think a lot of the problems of the past have now been sorted and it is quite a mature platform.  In comparison to the P910i (as you requested) :
- the phone connects to bluetooth each and every time when I get into my car, not so the P910i where I had to often restart the car to reset the bluetooth device to make contact. The phone works well, it has got speeddials and voice dial (which I did not set up yet, not so interested), the only minus is that with the P910i you had the physical keys on the outside to start dialing which this phone does not have (unless you open it up).
- The screen is clearer and of higher quality than the P910i, I did not compare it to the new UIQ 3 machines.The resolution is better. The function to turn it to landscape view is great when you need to look for example at a spreadsheet or word file and when using the thumbboard.
- The basic software is rather basic, just tlike theSymbian phones. The outlook diary and today screens are too basic for my liking and I tried two third party programs and settled for the 2nd one. Now the Today screen is useful and gives me a lot of information with one glance on the screen. The Today screen is very flexible in what you want to see or don't want to see. Contacts is also basic in that there is no sophisticated search function. You can choose the first letter and than you have to scroll which is difficult as it reacts too quick and you go past the name you wanted to look up. Also here third party programs come to the rescue and I have one integrated with the Today screen that allows to enter a name and with each additional letter the possible combinations are less until you see the name and tap it.
- Amazingly enough the phone comes without any program to back-up. You can synchronise your phone with your PC and it will save the PIM data but not the phone settings and all the additional files and programs. Again a third party program comes to the rescue and my phone is backed-up in full every morning at 6.00 am automatically and it keeps the last 3 back-ups (but for Saturday when my phone is off).
- Wifi works very well and email switches automatically to wifi when it is active. I tried to use Skype on the phone and it worked intermittantly, I think it needs a lot of memory but I had no time to play around with it more.
- Battery life is considerably better than my P910i and I had two batteries for that phone so it was not a matter of just an old battery. I go home in the evening and next day in the office I am still at over 90% of battery life.
- I had no capital investment in acquiring the phone as Vodaphone gave it to me for free (long term customer). Accordingly I don't mind that much to invest a little in programs and I think in total I will invest around $ 50.- for 3 games (chess, bridge and hearts), Today screen program with add-ons and the back-up program. All the other programs I found for free on the internet. Ah, no, I also bought Navigator 5 from TomTom on ebay for around 20 pounds. I look forward to get back to TomTom products as they were far superior to the Route66 program (anybody interested in buying it ?)

Ok, I'll wait a few weeks to give a further update on this phone, but any questions just task.


Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK