January, 2007
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Good bye T5/Nokia… hello Treo 680! – Part 1 – Story of the migration and inital impressions
Posted on January 27th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Palm,PDA's and other smartphones.
Over the new year I had pretty much got to the point of being fed up with my starting to shows sign of failure (nav button not responding and tinny feedback when making calls!) I decided it was time to eat my words of staying away from smartphones...and trying one. After hearing very good reports of stability and less problems with the last few models of the Treo, I thought it was maybe time to pick up one. After having a pretty long standing relationship with Palm PDA's, it seemed like the logical choice to keep with the same theme given that I use many applications specific to it and couldn't be arsed or risk trying the real only other contender in the smartphone market currently, WinCE.
So why the change of heart? Well I envisioned that I would be doing alot more of the data stuff in the coming future such as mobile web browsing, RSS feeds, streaming radio ( I love you!) plus just trying to keep on top of my email on the go (and moving away from piling 100's msg's in my inbox!), heck might even try IM again. Spying the I figured it was now cheap enough to live the Mobile Connected lifestyle! But take note it is gonna be £11.50 not £7.50 as the standard service doesnt allow for data streaming.
I managed to nab a bargain from Ebay(where else?) and with 11 months on the warrenty, a rubber cover, brand new condition plus at a great price. On recieving it, I still had reservations but then after dunking in my O2 sim for a couple of days using the Treo in its fresh state (with none of my current Palm apps), it felt just right! I synched up my Treo with my existing Palm Desktop on my main PC and found that it went ahead with no problems, probably not the best idea and I should've cleaned up some of the apps before transferring it onto the Treo, but hell IÂ wanted to get stuck in! Most of the apps seemed to work ok so no worries. Except to my dismay Tom Tom! I find it unvaluable as a A-Z replacement with its A-B route finder showing the best driving AND walking routes 
I'm guessiing there would be a fix soon enough!
My biggest challenge was to try and port over my contact details from my Nokia 6270 to my Treo. Given that I had details on the phone itself (and not just the SIM) I had to find a way to move it across. After sifting through the net, it appeared that the simplest and easiest was just to use Outlook. So I synched up the address book on my Nokia with Outlook on my laptop(had built in Bluetooth), uploaded the details (no problems thus far). I then changed the Palm conduit from Palm Desktop to Outlook, so that it would synch the Treo contacts to the Outlook address book, this seemed to have worked a treat! I now had all my contact details in my Treo stored in one central location and backed up everytime I synched up!
So I been using it for almost 2 weeks solidly, whats it like? Here's the summary thus far of humble opinions and a taster for the next part.
Good
+ Text input much better on a keyboard then crappy Graffiti2
+ The speaker is powerful and perfect for doing chores whilst playing some podcasts
+ Love the feeling of being to move from reading a ebook or my mobile bloglines online to texting and setting reminders for calls all in one place! ohhhhhh the power....sweeeeeeet!
+ MMS is taken to a new level, the flow is much more quicker from recording sounds/video to sending it to unsuspecting friends
Bad
- 2.5 stereo jack!
- Need to upgrade some key software (Zlauncher, backup, Tom Tom)
- Onscreen number dialing can bit irriatating
- Battery drain is quite bad (but investigating on the you can do)
- The pad lock seems a bit weak
Well, thats it for now. Time to play a bit more...
Whilst writing, I was listening to: Pandora.com - Louis Armstrong stream
Guys who likes their sticks
Posted on January 12th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Other gaming, humour.
Maybe it was because did I spent too much time in Brighton, but I somehow found the tagline of quite interesting:
"For boys who like boys who like joysticks!"
lol!
Mario Kart keychains
Posted on January 11th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Nintendo DS, Other gaming.
Whilst browsing thru I noticed some cool link to a shop selling some cool key chains on . Would go great with some .
Cool little cafe in Earls Court, Troubadour.
Posted on January 10th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Drinking, London gems.
So after gaming and some pub grub last sunday going out on the , we stumbled upon a really cool little cafe whilst trying to find a Starbucks to accomodate all 15 of us. Walking from South Kensignton to Earls Court in our failed search, we finally found a little cafe called Troubadour (), 265 Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JA.
I have gotta say the decor is fantastic! Perfect for romantic couple/small groups get together with its creaky wooden floors, charming ornaments and candle lit surroundings (really impressed by its authentic creaking door!). We ended up getting our own little area although the table configuration was more suited for couples and really small groups, there was probably larger tables taken up around the place but we couldnt complain having our booth. Looking around it reminded me of cafe's you would find in the countryside over the continent somehow. Good stuff!
The menu seemed ok but what grabbed our attention was the B.O.G.O.F (buy one get one free) deals till 7.30pm on cocktails, so Dot and I started off the fashion by buying a couple. The quality was ok, nothing to write home about but at the price we really couldnt complain (Singapore Sling, yummy!). A peculair feature of such a cafe is the uni-sex type toilets (someone's been watching Ally Mcbeal I thinks...) and going by others trying the food menu, the deserts got a high thumbs up!
Anyways, if you ever swinging by Earls Court or in the area. Check it out!
My DS
Posted on January 10th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Nintendo DS.
Hello all, this on the the DS category....
Hello world!
Posted on January 10th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Commentary.
Well this is officially my first post! Unfortuntely I'm really quite ill with the flu and can't be arsed with anything too earth shattering to say. As you may have noticed I am using Wordpress, so if there are any other Wordpress users are there who can give us any tips, drop us some comments below. Don't forget to use the number entry thing as well (trying to cut down on spam).
So this is ill joe signing off...