Guy Kewney
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07-09-2004 03:37 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 07-09-2004 03:38 AM
You surprise me when you say: "I personally hate the predictive text lookup that MS smartphones do."
If I'm going to call you, and you're in my phone book, then statistically, if I type A M N I'll have reached your number. If not, adding the E will probably fetch it.
On the phone, that's 2 6 6 and possibly an extra 3 to finalise.
What's to hate? And it will find you if I type in your first name too; and if I start entering your phone number, it will complete it with one mouse click.
"I also got rid of mine as it crashed far too often and ate batteries."
Can't argue with the battery point!
But the E200 doesn't crash. Hasn't since I switched it on, months ago.
"The reason that Nokia et al persist is simply that most people want a phone to be a phone."
Oh, absolutely right. The smartphone market is tiny, compared with the phone market.
But don't mistake the Voq for a personal phone. It's a business tool, provided by the IT department for their own purposes. You don't have marketing bimbos programming it!
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07-08-2004 07:55 PM ET (US)
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It may have some nice features... the keyboard, is a plus.
Lack of BT is a real oversight.
I personally hate the predictive text lookup that MS smartphones do. I also got rid of mine as it crashed far too often and ate batteries. The reason that Nokia et al persist is simply that most people want a phone to be a phone.
The automatic corporate GPRS thing is only as useful as your IT department letting such dangerous devices through firewalls and allowing this kind of wonderful (to the operators bottom line) automatic data retrieval. Personally I prefer to know when where and how charges are being accrued in my name.
I am currently experimenting with a P900 and am pleasantly surprised. There are some limitations (128MB max proprietory storage card) but on the whole this machine for *my* use it is probably going to replace my iPAQ as my PDA & its my phone too!
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