More Gadgetations
Earlier this week, as was able to upgrade my old O2 XDAII to an O2 XDA Exec (also known as a Universal or Jasjar). What am I talking about? It’s a consolidated device, both PDA, and mobile phone rolled into one. With network connectivity options that would make any laptop owner giddy, GSM, GPRS, UMTS (3g), Bluetooth, and 802.11b (WiFi).
And I upgraded for such a cheap amount, partly for trading in my old phone, mostly because O2’s Gateway system (In Store System) calculates cell phone usage for an upgrade based on all the phones in one parent account. So, my wife’s phone, and my phone are billed under one account, so both of our usage is shown as my usage, thus making me look like an uber-user. Is that fraud? Well, no. Because the O2 representative did double check with head-office, and they corrected her, but she chose not to listen to them.
Meanwhile, I’m enjoying being able to stay connected to the hive-mind with a lovely little device, which is also running Windows Mobile 5. No more restores after resets, for me. Not with persistent storage. Whilst persistent storage does make boot times a heck of a lot slower, it’s so much more piece of mind.
What’s next, well, I guess I’m going to need some WLAN stumbling/hacking tools, and some type of shell access. Which brings me along to my pet-peev of the Windows Mobile community. Because Microsoft are money-grabbing-bastards, they seemed to have spawned an entire community of wannabe-money-grabbing-bastards. There are very few open source projects for Windows Mobile, and anything semi-useful normally cost over $14. Heck! I’ve seen themes sell for near $5! What hope is there?
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So now you have all the toys in one box… how do you take that call and make notes into your diary or notepad(.exe ;))? Do you use a bluetooth earpiece? I’m limited in that my company have given me a (bloody awful Sony Ericcson K700i, hateful thing bring back my Nokia 6310i) mobile, separate to my lifeline Palm T3. But I think given the choice I would still want the two devices to live their own lives. YMMV :)
Well, I could do with a Bluetooth earpiece. I’m hesitant on purchasing one, because I don’t want to be one of these idiots who thinks it’s a fashion statement to have a magnet permanently lodged in their ear. But yes, that would be easier. At the moment, I just put the person on to speaker phone and open up the device… Yes, the device is a bit like a Rubic’s Magic. It has three forms…
1. Closed Position - In which it can also function as a phone, but with no Caller ID. I can put speaker phone on, and then start transforming the device into another mode to take notes.
2. PDA Position - In which it can be used as a phone, with Caller ID, but face salsa gets all over the screen. Speaker phone is possible to use the screen to take notes, PDA style.
3. Keyboard Position - Speaker phone only, but I can video conference in this form, and take notes using the keyboard. Oh, and the stereo speakers come into play in this mode.