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Anyone else got one of these?
Anyone else finding that whilst in theory it's a fantastic bit of kit, the battery life renders it useless?
I'm now on my second one in two weeks
as they thought the fault was with the unit itself but this one is the same, fully charged at 4pm, if I make 4-5 calls (a minute or so each at the most), use the GPRS for 5 minutes and then leave the thing on standby overnight, the battery is 
by 11am the next day 
Alan.
Anyone else finding that whilst in theory it's a fantastic bit of kit, the battery life renders it useless?
I'm now on my second one in two weeks
as they thought the fault was with the unit itself but this one is the same, fully charged at 4pm, if I make 4-5 calls (a minute or so each at the most), use the GPRS for 5 minutes and then leave the thing on standby overnight, the battery is by 11am the next day Alan.
I have one. I have to say it is a cool bit of kit, but does have some issues.
Battery life is short, typicaly I need to charge it every night, but thats not too much of an issue as I just pop it in its docking station.
I love the fact it syncs with outlook, as I use this for my diary in work and at home. I do not like how it syncs Tasks, as it only takes the Task title and not the bdy of the task, which for me is useless.
The Contacts manager is good, the ability to get to pop3 email acounts is good, and the web browser, which is slow is handy.
Also, screen real estate is small which can be a pain.
All in all it is a useful tool that has some quirks that could be improved upon.
David
>> Edited by david010167 on Thursday 20th February 09:58
Battery life is short, typicaly I need to charge it every night, but thats not too much of an issue as I just pop it in its docking station.
I love the fact it syncs with outlook, as I use this for my diary in work and at home. I do not like how it syncs Tasks, as it only takes the Task title and not the bdy of the task, which for me is useless.
The Contacts manager is good, the ability to get to pop3 email acounts is good, and the web browser, which is slow is handy.
Also, screen real estate is small which can be a pain.
All in all it is a useful tool that has some quirks that could be improved upon.
David
>> Edited by david010167 on Thursday 20th February 09:58
I have one and find it pretty useable and good toy.. the mp3 and video playback is pretty 'wow' inspiring. There is a site www.modaco.com/smartphone thats worth looking at. Aparently Orange are providing an update any day that should help deal with the battery problem.
I've got one and after the first few days of playing with the various facilities I only really use it as phone. As I have got Outlook Express at home and am not allowed to synch with works computers that facility has turned out to be pretty useless and the battery life is atrocious - wish I had just bought a decent Nokia. 
I also use the:
www.coolsmartphone.com/index.htm
site which is good
The UK Update come out on Monday 24th, and is supposed to help the battery life. I already have this update, having installed the Danish version a few weeks back. Yes it helps battery life, but it is still an issue. The best part of the update is a seperate Application for taking photos.
David
www.coolsmartphone.com/index.htm
site which is good
The UK Update come out on Monday 24th, and is supposed to help the battery life. I already have this update, having installed the Danish version a few weeks back. Yes it helps battery life, but it is still an issue. The best part of the update is a seperate Application for taking photos.
David
Thanks for the links guys!
Ok so I'll wait and see if the update helps.
Also, hopefully there will be a few bits and pieces of kit released soon, like a long-life battery (surely they could *double* the thickness of the current one?) and a mains "charger-only" lead so it doesn't have to be put back in the cradle to charge.
I really do like the thing, just not really a viable business tool for me at the moment due to the battery life issue, I mean you can't even buy a car charger for the bl00dy thing at the moment
Alan.
Alan.
Ok so I'll wait and see if the update helps.
Also, hopefully there will be a few bits and pieces of kit released soon, like a long-life battery (surely they could *double* the thickness of the current one?) and a mains "charger-only" lead so it doesn't have to be put back in the cradle to charge.
I really do like the thing, just not really a viable business tool for me at the moment due to the battery life issue, I mean you can't even buy a car charger for the bl00dy thing at the moment
Alan.
Alan.
If it's any consolation the Nokia 7650 has got problems - mine states high battery charge for a couple of days then suddenly completely runs out of juice, usually during a call. I think this new wave of devices have come to market a bit early due to intense pressure on the manufacturers from the netwroks to try and get some more cash in. Hence the stuff's not fully tested and all the gucci software such as Windows for Mobiles and Symbian and the applciations have different power requirements but the hardware is the normal phone hardware grafted onto it.
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