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w800i update

February 09, 2006

A while since I last posted a blog entry.

I got the w800i phone for christmas and I am very happy with it. It works very well, and the only thing missing is a phone plan* that supports GPRS to test out 90% of its features with, or even a competent phone company to begin with.

I have since got a case and the MXE-60 fast port external flash accessory for my w800i, but I will talk a little about the phones data features first.

It support IMAP4 which is great, only one problem, Telstra pre-paid plus says it supports GPRS, but it doesn't bloody work. I was able to setup sending mms, which is great and all. But when Richard tried sending me a mms on his birthday (yes Happy Birthday), my phone wouldn't recieve it (nothing wrong with my phone, telstra are nubs). I got an sms which said to go to http://www.telstra.com/info/msview . The only problem with that is that page doesn't exist. That really takes the biscuit, and affirms my position to change to vodafone when my credit expires. Sure I may have credit left, but when I have a phone which costs more than I will ever spend on credit through it, I'd rather be able to use the phones features.

The MXE-60 external flash accessory (camera flash) is great. Not as bright as some other cameras, but it really improves the quality when taking photos of near-by subjects in low light (extra light due to flash decreases exposure time required).

So yeh, it really is a nice phone and I would recommend it or the k750i to anyone who has the opportunity to own one. Its really built solid, and has the best hands free earphones of any phone out there. The quality of the camera is as good as any top of the line 2MP camera (I know cameras aren't made like that anymore, but from when 2MP was top of the line).

Every so often it does have some interface (transparency on menu) glitches, but nothing that stops the phone from working.

I also downloaded the opera midilet, which is great, but been unable to extensively use due to a lack of a GPRS service.

The calendar and contact integration with outlook is great, a single record for a single person holding multiple numbers is really convinient. The MP3 player is better than my previous NEXII, but that is to be expected (apart from the lack of WMA support).

So thats about it from me.

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