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Help me people (wait for P990 or get k-jam?) |
Mad_Bob
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Well I know that there isn't long left, but I am getting tierd of waiting for the P990, and I am getting very tempted by the looks and design as well as the features of the XDA Mini S, Qtek 9100,K-JAM
Anybody care to take a look and give their views, I have never had a Windows Mobile Device, and Im sure that Masseur will convince me to get this, but I want to get more opinions first.
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masseur
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get the k-jam! 
seriously though, I am also curious as to which I will choose once I get the P990 in my hands, but if you don't want to wait 2 or 3 months then you can get a great alternative right now with all the features the P990 has (ok, well not the card scanning abilty I guess)
the k-jam has great battery life, a large clear screen, full and very much usable keyboard on which I can type very fast now etc etc
btw, I put Opera 8.5 on my k-jam yesterday after all the hype (I think te P990 comes with opera  , but actually I still prefer in the pocket internet explorer with SPB plus extensions
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Mad_Bob
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There is one or 2 things Im wondering about though, and who better to ask than Mr Windows Mobile Himself... lol.
1) Restoring the OS, as operating systems do sometomes stop working for whatever reason, is there a way to restore windows back to factory settings should anything happen, because the SEUS is a big advantage for SE mobiles. Is there anything like this on Windows based phones/PDA's, a CD or somthing?. The paople in the shop new nothing about this.
2) Is it easy to install things like codecs etc as with the PC versions of windows, i.e for playing DivX etc.
If there is a resore option and you can install codecs etc, then I think I am pretty much sold on this device.
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masseur
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1) yes. just do a hard reset. this fully reloads the operating system from a portion of memory that cannot be corrupted.
on the k-jam this means pressing and holding the connectivity button (top left side) and voice dial button (top right side) while pressing the stylus into the soft reset button (middle right side)
I have never had a windows mobile or pocketpc device that this failed to get the machine working on
but, if a firmware upgrade fails in the middle then yes also, there is the ability to do the firmware upgrade again from your pc
I have heard of "paperweights" being created during the update process but this is much much rarer since microsoft changed the way the firmware update is done when windows mobile 2003 came available
2) I don't install codecs because the free player that I use (TCPMP - The Core Pocket Media Player, previously known as betaplayer) plays anything I have so far encoded. I use pocket DVD studio which does it all in one step
there is a faq about windows media player 10 mobile here but unfortunately I cannot access the TCPMP site from work but I believe there is codec info there too
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I dont know an awefull lot about Windows Mobile so it may be a little unfair but from the Windows Mobiles I have seen I dont care for them, the P910 always won me over and Im sure the P990 will be great. Also dont forget the rumoured P1120! 
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p990, dont listen to masseur he loves his imates (which are crap in my opinion) sonyericsson p seies rock and the p990 more so
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masseur
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yes, but people keep giving generalisations like that without giving actual reasons as to why the P series is better (for you), which really doesnt help him to make his decision
please give some specifics as to why you say one is better than the other, and in what situations etc etc, then I can at least counter those points:-) or even, maybe, agree!
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EastCoastStar
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i would go for the jam... the p990 isnt appealing to me personally
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shrz
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not sure how much bigger the xda exec is to the xda mini, but i went from a p900 to a xda exec, at first it was very impressive but for what the p900 can do for its size and the ease of use, i soon dumped the exec for my trusty p900, even though there are lots of apps for the windows mobile platform, i seem to prefer the way UIQ does em also the exec was forever crashing when running apps, even with enough mem, a problem i never had with the p900,
maybe im forever tainted by SE's evil but the P990 is gonna be everything i need in a phone/pda in a very small package. |
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Bob, you gotta get the P9 man 
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skydiver
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On 2006-01-03 17:28:05, masseur wrote:
yes, but people keep giving generalisations like that without giving actual reasons as to why the P series is better (for you), which really doesnt help him to make his decision
please give some specifics as to why you say one is better than the other, and in what situations etc etc, then I can at least counter those points:-) or even, maybe, agree!
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i will have a go
Symbian was designed to be a phone from the start, now im not saying that makes it better but it is definitely the logical way to go.
If you need your device to be a phone first.
i.e
batt (dont start saying my imate last two days or other stuff like that as i use both and my p will last a good 5 days as a phone. ( notice the PHONE bit please )
so as a conclusion i think the p series IS a much better Phone .
Now to the pda part yes you are right i think WM does have more power than SYM based phones due to the prossesors the programs and so on but that is not to say that they are better at it.
I remember an old comarison between a bbc micro and a pentium based pc both running word processor software and yes the pc had a spell check/grammar and so on but in all test was slower than the bbc micro at doing the job at hand.
I Know that the p990 will do every job your WM based phone will do how fancy it does or how fast it does it doent make it any worse at doing it
so as a pda conclusion if you have a job that needs to be done and thats it go for WM it will probebly do it faster and fancy-er .
but if that job has to be done again tommorow without charging and so on go for the p990 because at least you will still have your phone.
at the end.
example
If i wanted to watch a film i would choose the WM but if i wanted to watch the full serise of the lord of the rings and still have a phone then it has to be the P
FINAL CONCLUSION
For me and my usage it has to be the p ( it will always get me out of trouble  ) |
upper
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STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!! hehe
Do not get the k-jam if your thinking about watching videos or any sort of vedio that is, i bough one purely for entertainment only, mp3 was good but when it came to watching vedios it was choppy and sometime you lost a sound although i converted the vedio for Pocket PC and the video stopped too, its the lack of CPU man it is 195Mhz only  . so operating the media (Windows Media) was slow. So i gave mine back in 10 days after i bought it, and noooooooo regrets at all, i felt cool afterwards .
Take my word for it, if you want somethink small and powerfull go for the I-mate Jam thats one small powerfull bunny than the k-jam, the k-jam should be ashamed of it self.
massuer is probably cursing me now are yah?
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Good things come to those who wait.
If you like the P-series stay with it. Otherwise with the msm devices you will just have the feeling of another computer at the end of the day.
Tough times don't last, tough people do!
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upper
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yes yes yes, i will recommend the p990 over the k-jam anytime, i'll write my name on it. dont get me wrong the k-jam was good but not for entertainment its just rediculous slow, it will spoil your viewing pleasure , like pirate films do.
mmm one point i was tempted to get the Archos av500 the screen quality on that was nothink like it i ever seen on a pocket media player, screen quality was better than my TV or computer if that makes sense.
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Mad_Bob
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Sorry people but I got it. Its been ok so far but odd. I will give the media a go and see what happens. Cheers for the opinions. I will get the P Series as well if it proves as good as it sounds.
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