- GPS

- Re: The Digest V1 # 926

- HTC Universal[Scanned]

- Palmtop magazine binders

- Psion Combine IT 56k+fax only reacts with OK

- HTC Universal,

Date: 7 May 2006 18:39:26 +0000
From: nic
Subject: GPS

Reply to: Vlad A<address truncated>



>> I'd like to know how you get your coordinates in your sig <<

I have a GPS.



>> there's a way of finding out coordinates without a GPS?

You can try to guess, using a 1/25,000 OS map.



As you can see on my new sig, I have changed country!



nic

N 51°29’22.4”

W 0°09’56.8”

TQ 274 783

Date: 7 May 2006 18:51:55 +0000
From: Vlad A <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 926

> Itamar wrote on 07.05.2006 21:37 Uhr:

>  I like the P910 a lot and use it daily, but replacing a 5MX it does not, nor > will IMHO the P990i.

Thanks, the news is not so bad for me. I just need the possibilty to take
and administer text notes confortably, a calendar, phone-databank, sketch, GPS-interface etc. Looking forward to the 990i...

best,

vlad

Date: 8 May 2006 08:43:17 +0000
From: Mike Woodward <address truncated>
Subject: HTC Universal[Scanned]

Reply to: Vlad A

The Psion is very good but could not create complex Excel or Word documents, so I would expect the much newer Universal to open them.

The Universal realises when it has opened a complex Word or Excel document & only then says you can only do a Save as.

I was spoiled by the Psion which allowed you to open multiple documents such as an agenda, minutes & meeting notes at the same time, I managed to minimise this by using Word on the PC to save agenda as a web page, Textmaker for the minutes & Word for my notes.

I don't travel with a printer but its nice to be able to print from your PDA without having to transfer the document to the PC.

I had to purchase the following to get the functionality I required, that's about £200 worth, it maybe peanuts compared with Palm but its very expensive compared with Psion:-

TextMaker
Planmaker
SPB Pocket Plus (decent today screen for fast access to all regular apps)
Backup Software (Activsync v4 & above does not include this)
ListPro (closest I could get to a decent outliner)
Cash Organiser 05
eWallet Password Manager

I would also like to point out to anyone thinking of moving from Symbian, most PDA software does not support incremental backups so you have to backup every file every time which can take a long time even with USB. If like me you have 1-2 GB of data you will find incremental backups via serial is a lot quicker than full backups via USB.

Mike

Date: 8 May 2006 14:53:02 +0000
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: Palmtop magazine binders

Hi all,

If anyone's short of some Palmtop binders/cases, I'm selling five on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9722595502&rd=1&sspagen
ame=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

(watch the URL wrap!)

No bids as yet, at £1 8-)

Interesting to see the chat about the HTC Universal, I've tried both this
and the smaller/slide-keyboard version (e.g. the MDA Vario). They're pretty
impressive, I prefer the smaller version, I've got the iMate K-JAM here at
the moment. My main smartphone is still the Nokia N70 though, for day-to-day
use.

I've reviewed all these devices on camera in my free video podcast, see URL
below.

Cheers
..........................
    Steve Litchfield
    http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/, with software and features for Symbian
smartphones.
    Senior writer for PDA Essentials magazine (UK) -
http://www.pda-essentials.co.uk/
    News and reviews editor for AllAboutSymbian -
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/
    Producer and presenter for the Smartphones Show -
http://www.smartphones-show.com/

Date: 9 May 2006 09:15:03 +0000
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
Subject: Psion Combine IT 56k+fax only reacts with OK

Hello everybody, I have succesfully used for 2 years a Psion Combine-IT 56k+fax modem in my
mBook. This is the modem from Pulster.de. Yesterday it stopped working. I checked the c:\logs\etel\ETEL.TXT and found
that it only reacted with OK on every AT command the Psion gave, including
the actual call with ATDT033970000. The Psion then timed out. I have not stuck it in a digital line and last week it worked fine. Have I irrepairably fried it ? How would that be possible ? I am quit annoyed with this. Any suggestions are most welcome. Yours sincerely, Thomas van der Zijden

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Date: 10 May 2006 14:14:24 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: HTC Universal,

Answer to: Nicole

Re.: HTC Universal - Not exactly. You try and work on a small PDA screen remotely on your PC at the office. You will never succeed in seeing it all and working freely. There are several very small laptops around that I could use as wlel but these are mighty expensive. I just don't see myself doing some serious working for one or two hours in a hotel room on such a small screen and keyboard (but ... typing this message on my mBook). For all other tasks the mBook is still my main choice. but, it is slowly going down hill. I replaced Route- and Streetplanner with Route66 on my P910i which runs very smoothly and gives me verbal instructions as well as recalculates the route the moment you go wrong. Slowly but surely the underlying systems get to antiquated.


Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK