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Kryptik
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On 2007-03-26 14:02:56, deluded wrote:
@Kryptik bro, check out the reply I posted in the thread you mentioned. I came across a link that I thought you might find to be informative.
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Thanx boet, it has certainly proved to be quite informative. IMO some type of relationship between Esato and SE might not be a bad idea, even if only for the sake of discounts to members, for example.
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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@ hobbs, some more info. The Memory Stick Pro (Which includes the Pro Duo) has a, and I quote : "maximum theoretical capacity of 32 GB". I got mine on Bid or Buy months ago, and still very pleased with it. Just checked on Bid or Buy and you can get the 2Gb for as low as R250, but an average of R300. I usually buy according to seller reputation. Will pay R50 more if the guy has a good and long reputation rather than some cheaper stranger.
And oh, they seem to have 4Gb cards for about R600, which is not bad.
Okay, now about the practical application of the card, the advantages and the disadvantages. I got a ton of pictures on, 1000's of pictures, and it does slow down the phone.
If i take out my Pro Duo before starting the phone it will switch on in less than 30 seconds. With the memory card in it takes 3 minutes and more. Now if I remove all the pictures it will go faster. As far as I know it is the number of files on the card that affects it's performance, not the space used.
Now with the W900i, when I encode video files for my phone I can actually make them higher quality, and have longer stretches of video on. With the phone-only memory I could put a movie on,l but would have to split it in 10-15 minute sections, else Audio/Video would go badly out of sync. With the Pro Duo I can have up to 60 minutes of video before this happens. Big difference there. This means I can have a whole bunch of episodes of House or Battlestar Galactica on my Phone and it would take 1 file per one episode, instead of 3-4 files. Splitting up videos is not fun, it gets messy.
A little tip/trick with the W900i is to put your video files in your "Drive:\\MSSEMC\\Media files\\audio\\Music\\Video" folder, which means that when you make a playlist you can get to your video files. I always add my video files, or the ones that are longer than a few minutes to there, because if someone phones me in the middle of a episode of House or a movie I just go back to my walkman player, click on play, and it continues from where it was. For some reason this never worked without the memory card, and lots of people have tried this without success. So imagine having to sometimes forward 12-14 minutes to get to where you were before someone phoned you just to find you were at the end of that bit of video anyways...hehe!
I will do tests today with the size vs. lots of files thing and let you guys know what the results are. But one thing maybe worth mentioning, I find often that I run out of space on my phone and/or memory card. I have lots of various stuff I like keeping on, and am just too picky to stick to a couple of songs/albums/videos.
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francoislr
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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Okay, got a result:
I had 5 files on my memory card, each an episode of 24, but not in a format that my phone could play. These files are 380 or so in size each, thus just about filling up my memory completely.
The startup time for the phone with an empty card was just about the same as a full card filled with few big files.
So it is as I logically assumed. Many files will make a memory card start up wonderfully slow where few bigger files will not give that issue.
Now the 3 minute start-up was with about 5000 files on the memory card, including a friends psp saved games, uninstalled games, video recordings, books cut into chapters. I am backing up all my shizer on this phone, and keeping the card cleaner. I don't think that 100-500 MP3's will seriously impair a phones speed as a combination of 100's of pictures and mp3's and all little bits and pieces.
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francoislr
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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Okay, this is a good article to read. Will definitely affect the market somehow.
"Symbian speeds up smartphone OS"
http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/26/symbian_95/
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JK
Joined: Feb 24, 2005
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From: S. Africa - JOZI
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On 2007-03-26 22:49:00, brix25 wrote:
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On 2007-03-26 22:00:40, HOBBS wrote:
CAN SOMEONE TELL. ME WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN A MEMORY STICK DUO AND A MEMORY STICK PRO DUO?
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Basically the former goes up to 128MEG while the latter can go anywhere up to 2Gig- the last time I heard.
@francois: Doubt anyone will be buying both the 3rd generation consoles. Personally I like the look of all of them...I'm a current PS2 owner and I've never had any issues with it.
From the look of things we won't be getting the Wii anytime soon since the local distributor seemingly went belly-up 
@786KBR: And here I was thinking that you had somehow gotten yourself involved in the plot to kill Bob Woolmer 
 Im not that fanatical about anything lol.
I see some Indian fans are commiting suicide, its stupid but sad at the same time.
Go Sri Lanka. 
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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N73:
He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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amawanqa
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Also taken today:
He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
Nokia 5800, Sony Ericsson P1i, Nokia 7600. |
amawanqa
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N73 again, also taken today:
He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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i just got the coolest thing on my phone-a bluetooth poker:) and me and my friend tested it and it worked, and worked nicely:) i could set the game on fast, and it went fast limited only by me and my friend. so i was winning having 70 percent of the chips, if not more then the game asks for a serial to buy it. damn! i found the game on getjar.
problem, it is small screen.
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francoislr
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the problem with the small screen, it was tiny on my friends n80, like 1/4 of the screen, on mine like half. i got it to resize the text and look nice using my screen options of my application settings. i know with nokia you can resize editing the jar.
at last, a bluetooth game that works properly. i will go look for more now:) answered the question of if it is possible.
@ wanqa, nice pics:)
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Thanks swaer.
How's life in Jakarandastad?
BTW and off topic, 3 highly anticipated movies out soon..Shrek the Third, Bean's Holiday and the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie: At World's End.
He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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From: Port Elizabeth, S.Africa
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Agreed with Francois, those pix really are good Wanqa!
Francois, have you tried Bluetooth Biplanes? I got it from Dotsis, once got it working on my 6600 and 6630 but haven't had much luck on my and Mrs.K's 6680s.
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amawanqa
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Enkosi bhuti. I'm just trying to imagine how stunning the park will look when all the deciduous trees are in full bloom (soon).
The park is called Harrow Lodge Park in Hornchurch, about a 15 minute walk from our house.
Right, this weary wanqa is going to hit the sack now; I'm buggered.
Have to drop the car off early tomorrow morning by the local grease monkeys on the way in to work, for a major service.
Lekker slaap, julle.
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francoislr
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i tried bluetooth biplanes and it was more like gayplanes. it sucked:) it ran like crap and was not full screen, which caused distortion on the rest of the screen.
i found a scrabble on getjar and me and my friend played it with bluetooth, it has a crap interface, but once you have it figured out it is great. had my highest score ever, 279 vs 245 or something. absolutely great fun:)
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francoislr
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From: Pretoria, South Africa
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So judging from this, action games dont work that great with bluetooth, but i want to be proven wrong on this. slower games like poker and scrabble and such works great. the poker works with me and my buddies out on the legendary stoep:)
@ wanqa, Pretoria is good. getting winter slowly. bugger.
article about freshly ground in this weeks TIME magazine. that is great:)
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