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mwarner
Joined: Dec 23, 2003
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From: Warwickshire, England
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It is true that there are quite a few bugs listed on the front page. However, in every day use I would say that the K800 has the best initial firmware of any recent SE phone I have owned (i.e. T610, K700, K750 & K800). It has not actually crashed on me (unlike the K750, which crashed fairly regularly with R1A, and early T610 firmwares), has a much nicer UI than the K750, doesn't have the battery problems of the K700 and doesn't have the texting annoyances of the T610.
I think that people tend to think that the K800 is just a K750 with a better screen and a better camera. However, there are numerous more subtle improvements, e.g.
- The Media Player from the Walkman series
- Flight Mode support
- Mass Storage compatible, so you don't need drivers to access the contents of your phone (which is a massive improvement - finally you can show people your pictures without having to bring a set of drivers with you!)
- HTML compliant web browser
- RSS feed support, which is actually more useful than I would have anticipated
- Vastly improved, and much quicker, photo gallery
- Online Firmware Updates
- Much improved alarm handling (5 alarms, all of which can be reoccuring and have attached text or pictures)
- Copy and Paste functionality when writing text messages, MMS, email etc
- Icons next to your messages to show which ones you have replied to and which ones you haven't
I could go on. In my opinion the K800 is like an improved K750 with virtually all the niggles ironed out of it.
In case you hadn't guessed, i'm pretty pleased with it  |
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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On 2006-07-19 16:40:02, mwarner wrote:
In case you hadn't guessed, i'm pretty pleased with it
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and quite rightly too.
As our main firmware details man, you really do present the K800 in the light in which it should be seen, and that was pretty much the point of my last post though not so eloquently put!
well done, not just for the post but for all your efforts in your firmware threads
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mwarner
Joined: Dec 23, 2003
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Thank you very much. Very kind of you to say so Masseur
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darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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I agree. The k800 is not like the K750.
And to be honest the K800 has very little faults compaired to the k750.
Se Really did go to town on this phone and welldone to them. |
chrisnewman
Joined: Jun 15, 2005
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From: Lancashire, United Kingdom
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@conzepth
To be objective I have asked 3 other people who are ardent texters and none of them experienced any lag! Any other Voda firmware users experienced any lag????????? |
SE Rules
Joined: Oct 07, 2004
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From: London
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Althouhg I'm on O2, I gotta say, I'm a pretty fast typer, and I notice no lag with the K800, in fact, I find it a smoother experience than with the K750....
Cheers
Want to stretch your mind? Try this if you dare!!!Philips Diga > Nokia 3210 > Nokia 3650 >  K750 > Nokia N80 > K800 > K850 |
conzepth
Joined: Jul 25, 2005
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Well, I send about 3000 sms every month, so it's pretty annoying when the phone is so sluggish when it comes to multitapping.. It has come to the point where I consider writing sms only via myphoneexplorer instead of using the buttons on the phone. I'm not the type to complain about everything just for the sake of complaining, but I find that this phone (in its current state) is no good for sms-writing, atleast when compared to the brilliant k750i. Maybe my phone is faulty?
I'm on an unbranded phone in Norway, by the way.
I'll try to test some more, and report whatever I find out..
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gareb
Joined: Sep 05, 2002
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@mwarner
You right about K800. Me too been using T-68,T610,K700 and K750 and the best of them all right now K800.
Georgia aint no paradise. But a place I call home. |
spud_work
Joined: Jul 03, 2006
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On 2006-07-19 16:40:02, mwarner wrote:
- Mass Storage compatible, so you don't need drivers to access the contents of your phone (which is a massive improvement - finally you can show people your pictures without having to bring a set of drivers with you!)
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How does this work then? as every PC i have plugged my k800i in to has asked for drivers? |
tomchadwin
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
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@spud_work
Just refuse them all. It did that when I plugged mine in to two different machines, and I just said no to each of them. I assume it then just uses the normal XP memory stick driver. Only thing which might be confusing issues is that I still have the K750 drivers installed, but I am sure that's not it.
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mwarner
Joined: Dec 23, 2003
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@spud_work
Tom is correct - you don't need to install these drivers if you only want to access the files on the phone. The drivers are required to access the phone's functionality, not the filing system.
In terms of the texting issue that a few of us are having, I have to admit that I am a little confused.
I personally have experienced far more SMS typing errors than I would deem to be normal - most notably the phone intermittantly not recognising one of the keypresses I have made. However, I have done a few tests and it seems that the phone can keep up with pretty much any typing speed - at least most of the time.
It seems to me either the fact that I (and others) have simply not got used to the phone's keypad yet, there is some hardware issue with our keypads or that the phone itself is not reading the keypresses.
If the latter is the case then I guess it might be down to the multitasking OS and the occasional UI 'freezes' that are experienced with the phone. The keyboard, I would assume, will have some sort of buffer independant of the OS. If this gets full before the OS can read it's contents then this would result in lost characters.
Note that all the above is just pure speculation - I don't know the details of how the hardware or software is designed in the K800!
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bolo
Joined: Jul 12, 2003
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On 2006-07-03 22:59:23, SE-Naz wrote:
Has anyone noticed... when viewing pictures taken by the camera... either potraite or landscape mode that the picture looks bit fuzzy then clears up a sec or 2 later??? I noticed it when looking through the pictures...
Anyone else notice this???
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Yeah i have noticed this. I have found that i have to zoom in then out again to sharpen the pic.
But apart from that no probs as yet.... |
mwarner
Joined: Dec 23, 2003
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> the picture looks bit fuzzy then clears up a sec or 2 later???
This is intentional. The phone provides a low resolution, quickly rendered thumbnail of the picture so the user can quickly flip netween images without having to wait for a full resolution image to be rendered.
While the user is looking at the low resolution image, a high resulution image is rendered in the background and displayed in place of the low-res image as soon as it has been decoded.
This is another excellent feature of the K800. Compare the speed of flipping through the gallery of a K750 with that of a K800 and you will see what I mean - the lag is minimal. |
spud_work
Joined: Jul 03, 2006
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thanks to tomchadwin and mwarner for clearing up the issue in relation for using the k800 without drivers
Now, if only i could get opera mini to work correctly i would be 100% content. This is though, as you say, an excellent first firmware release and i am very happy with my phone
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jadler
Joined: May 27, 2003
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From: Stockholm, Sweden
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Opera Mini works great for me, usually much better than the built in browser.
http://mini.opera.com/ from computer or phone. Advanced version works fine.
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Posted: 2006-07-19 16:40
K750 > Nokia N80 > 
