RE: FN-FORUM: XDA's

date posted 22nd July 2004 18:03

Well imagine leaving your PDA on and active for 24 hours a day...

Actually, mine lasts about 2-3 days, but the signal in our house is
bobbins, so it uses more than it would normally do. However, you need to
get into the mentality of having it synced all the time so it mostly
lives in the charger / cradle, only coming out when I go out.

I've only just started using Bluetooth so I'm not sure how that affects
things.

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
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Connor
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:05 PM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: XDA's


Hi Andy

I heard that the SPV is a bit battery hungry, how do you find it?

Regards

Andy Connor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Macnaughton-Jones" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: XDA's



The only thing I use a PDA for is a diary and contact list and I manage
them
on my PC, so rather than getting a PDA, I've gone for the phone that
does it
all option of an Orange SPV. I've so far not forgotten an appointment
and I
just enter rough details on the SPV, sync when I get home and then re-do
them in outlook to make things more manageable.

It plays a decent version of pacman / space invaders (I'd like galaxians
if
anybody can point me in the appropriate direction I'd be most grateful).
Does everything I need and now it's got a camera and bluetooth it's got
everything covered (no voice dialling though - I think that's a 3rd
party
app)

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Andrew
Barratt
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:25 AM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: XDA's



Andrew Barratt wrote:
> I have an XDA2 and to be honest it is the best thing ive bought in ...
Ever!

>How do you find it for use as a phone? I use an iPaq & P900 for the
things you mention at the moment >(satnav & a phone generally) - and the
main reason I like the P900 is that it has a decent keypad for dialling
>& sending texts.. I'd hate to have to go back to writing all texts on
the screen (which is what I ended up >doing with the P800) with the
stylus
:/

As a phone its sound quality is good, I use my with a bluetooth
handsfree
(bt jabra200) 70% of the time and it works a treat.

>Does the XDA have an 'on screen' keypad that works with your finger?
Yes,,, but some applications make there buttons smaller than others and
others make them just nice specially for driving (tomtom). The keyboard
on
screen reallistically needs the use of a stylus which is a good thing to
stop people texting and driving, but if you are a nokia baby (like I
was) this takes a little getting usesd to .. Having said that, I
wouldn't go
back ;)

For me the sum of the parts is just far superior than just "it's a
phone" or
"it's a pda".. This is a "it's a prettymucheverythingyouwant"
Plus I now have *more* pocket space as its smaller than an ipaq and a
mobile
phone.

andyb

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