Two months later and I'm STILL loving my Omnia II. I apologize for the giant lapse in posts as I've been busy with work and social life and the blog kinda faded away into the back of my mind for awhile. Needless to say in the time I've been gone I've found some neat things to share with you! Before I start though, I'd just like to say thank you to the two people who commented, love to see that people find what I write interesting. Always a bonus.
First off, to answer the comments: Allreader still works great in winmo 6.5 I've not had any issues with it myself and am currently reading "A Song for Arbonne" by Guy Gavriel Kay. So far, so good. As for your comment about divx playback, I'll be the first to admit I'm not much of a videophile, and am not sure how to go about finding out the bitrate for the videos on my phone. Max resolution though is 800x600 as thats the cap of the display itself which on a small screen is still brilliantly crisp unless standing in direct sunlight then the reflective screen is kind of lack luster...
For the other commenter I did some research as I myself have voice mail included in my bundle with bell and haven't had the need for an answering machine app and came up with iSecretary which seems to be rather full featured from what I can see Only used it once with a test call from myself but worked like a charm, not quite voice mail quality but not bad.
As for things I've found and started using a lot for myself, I've grabbed Skyfire browser, YouTubeplay, PDAcraft Paint and Windows Media Center Remote.
Skyfire so far is an awesome browser if you're on WiFi as it gives you a fully rendered webpage and pretends you're a desktop, this browser will DESTROY your data usage if you aren't careful. It has full Java and flash support (with the correct updates downloaded for winmo 6.5, easily available on a quick google search) and is amazing for browsing those pages that require you to "mouse-over" to get to certain menus. Also Skyfire supports "Save Target as" and "Save Picture As". That is a VERY useful feature to have on a mobile browser, I've not found a way to do that with either Internet Explorer or Opera, but I may just be missing something so don't hold me to those two missing that feature.
YouTubePlay is also a very useful app that I use all the time it allows you to browse and view YouTube videos quickly and easily in its own app non-Dependant on a secondary web browser like the "YouTube" app that comes shipped with the phone. It also allows for the download of said YouTube videos and can launch previously saved videos from inside itself without having to switch to your media player. Now the player itself is missing some major features like the ability to seek or rewind. As an ADDED bonus youtubeplay can extract the audio of a YouTube video as an MP3 file and save it to your phone (music videos anyone?).
PDAcraft Paint I won't bother giving a full paragraph review as its just a simple MSPaint port. But it can draw circles, use fill and spray can and all your oldies. Yay for MSPaint ports!
The last app I've downloaded, Windows Media Center Remote I've only had since yesterday morning and as of yet haven't been able to get it to work correctly but from the forums where I snagged the program people say it does indeed work once you've got it properly configured and theres reports that yes it does work with both Winmo 6.5 and the Omnia II so I'm holding out hope for it and will keep poking at it. It's supposed to be able to allow you to pause, play, rewind, skip and control volume etc of any computer running windows media center on your network, for example, my Media Center PC. I can get it to connect and it brings up my keys but crashes promptly as soon as I touch any button.
Anyways, I encourage you to KEEP COMMENTING I may take awhile to get back to you but I SWEAR I will eventually. Thanks for reading and I guess thats all for now. Now I'm off to fiddling with that remote app. Hope this works.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Week Two; I'm Lovin It
Well week two has gone by and I've learned a few more things about this phone. Some are pretty neat and a few are just a bit frustrating.
I'll start with the good and talk about the AMAZING camera this phone has. Originally I just thought, "Ooh, five mega pixel camera! Not too shabby," and left it at that. It's so much more then that! This baby is chalk full of useful features such as smile detection, panoramic, macro focus, and even an "Action" mode where you can point the camera at something moving like a kid playing soccer and whenever the kid happens to pop into focus the camera automatically snaps a photo. I've added a few photos at the bottom of this post showing the clarity of the above mentioned camera.
The camera also has the really neat feature of "Smart reader" mode where you can use it to scan in business cards or even translate a word you snap a picture of into another language! How cool is that!
I've also started using the Mobile Office suite included with the Omnia II. I've been playing with both excel and word a lot these last few days and some of the things they can do are great. Excel is just like the desktop version, charts and all. It also seems to run really smoothly with the occasional hiccup here and there while trying to scroll (they are tiny scroll bars). Word on the other hand is missing a few important features like page breaks and a few other formatting features but you can still do the basics; bold, italicize, underline, all of the align functions work, bulleting, font and color changing etc etc.
Another neat thing I've so quickly grown to love is the ability to install whatever I want! Instead of being bound to the app-store I can go to sites like Freeware Pocket PC, The Microsoft Downloads page, Smartphone Freeware, Windows Mobile 6 Software or the thousands of others like them and grab all the free games, utilities, tools and thing-a-ma-bobs I want!
So far I've installed closed to 30 programs and only one have I paid for. Of those thirty, three are definitely worth a mention. Zenonia is the first I'll mention, the only paid software I've downloaded. The game plays like a cross between Diablo II with its skill tree system and Legend of Zelda (the old school gameboy ones not the newish 3d ones) and has been absorbing MUCH of my time. O2Compass is another great app and it's also free. It gives you a compass to work with so long as your windows mobile phone has a built in digital compass (Hey, don't laugh not very many phones that have a built in compass actually have a way to view said compass out of the box), a spirit level, a flashlight app that works off your cameras "flash" LEDs, and a metal detector... the last one I'm not a hundred percent sure how it works, but it seems pretty accurate. Then theres PHM RegEdit, which is a Registry Editor, 'nuff said there.
This isn't a super phone however as even it has its bugs. Sadly this week the bug once more deals with web browsing. I've found the included opera browser crashes on anything with a large amount of images which bumps me back to using IE. Last week I mentioned despite being single touch not having to use clumsy safari seemed to balance that, I am now missing multi touch so hard. At least in opera there was a dropdown menu to do most of the things you could with multi touch just by tapping and holding on the screen for a couple seconds. This sort of exists in IE but things like selection mode and zoom can only be accessed via the menu at the bottom of screen which takes about five seconds to navigate. That time adds up when copying quotes from a website.
I almost forgot to mention that yesterday I actually had to reboot my phone as it was starting to slow down... Strange that even windows phones have that issue. For future reference however, that issue can be side-stepped via using task manager to close the inevitable avalanche of processes and keeping track of what's running in the background so the crash was kind of my fault. What can ya do?
At the end of week two I am still VERY thrilled over the Omnia and don't think I'll be thinking of changing back to an iPhone any time soon.
Notes: Below are some of the example pictures mentioned above
Lilly (fullsize)
Lilly (small)
Mimir (fullsize)
Mimir (small)
Panorama (The girl at the center was moving during the shot so shes a little blurred, that was my bad didn't give anyone a heads up about the shot)
I'll start with the good and talk about the AMAZING camera this phone has. Originally I just thought, "Ooh, five mega pixel camera! Not too shabby," and left it at that. It's so much more then that! This baby is chalk full of useful features such as smile detection, panoramic, macro focus, and even an "Action" mode where you can point the camera at something moving like a kid playing soccer and whenever the kid happens to pop into focus the camera automatically snaps a photo. I've added a few photos at the bottom of this post showing the clarity of the above mentioned camera.
The camera also has the really neat feature of "Smart reader" mode where you can use it to scan in business cards or even translate a word you snap a picture of into another language! How cool is that!
I've also started using the Mobile Office suite included with the Omnia II. I've been playing with both excel and word a lot these last few days and some of the things they can do are great. Excel is just like the desktop version, charts and all. It also seems to run really smoothly with the occasional hiccup here and there while trying to scroll (they are tiny scroll bars). Word on the other hand is missing a few important features like page breaks and a few other formatting features but you can still do the basics; bold, italicize, underline, all of the align functions work, bulleting, font and color changing etc etc.
Another neat thing I've so quickly grown to love is the ability to install whatever I want! Instead of being bound to the app-store I can go to sites like Freeware Pocket PC, The Microsoft Downloads page, Smartphone Freeware, Windows Mobile 6 Software or the thousands of others like them and grab all the free games, utilities, tools and thing-a-ma-bobs I want!
So far I've installed closed to 30 programs and only one have I paid for. Of those thirty, three are definitely worth a mention. Zenonia is the first I'll mention, the only paid software I've downloaded. The game plays like a cross between Diablo II with its skill tree system and Legend of Zelda (the old school gameboy ones not the newish 3d ones) and has been absorbing MUCH of my time. O2Compass is another great app and it's also free. It gives you a compass to work with so long as your windows mobile phone has a built in digital compass (Hey, don't laugh not very many phones that have a built in compass actually have a way to view said compass out of the box), a spirit level, a flashlight app that works off your cameras "flash" LEDs, and a metal detector... the last one I'm not a hundred percent sure how it works, but it seems pretty accurate. Then theres PHM RegEdit, which is a Registry Editor, 'nuff said there.
This isn't a super phone however as even it has its bugs. Sadly this week the bug once more deals with web browsing. I've found the included opera browser crashes on anything with a large amount of images which bumps me back to using IE. Last week I mentioned despite being single touch not having to use clumsy safari seemed to balance that, I am now missing multi touch so hard. At least in opera there was a dropdown menu to do most of the things you could with multi touch just by tapping and holding on the screen for a couple seconds. This sort of exists in IE but things like selection mode and zoom can only be accessed via the menu at the bottom of screen which takes about five seconds to navigate. That time adds up when copying quotes from a website.
I almost forgot to mention that yesterday I actually had to reboot my phone as it was starting to slow down... Strange that even windows phones have that issue. For future reference however, that issue can be side-stepped via using task manager to close the inevitable avalanche of processes and keeping track of what's running in the background so the crash was kind of my fault. What can ya do?
At the end of week two I am still VERY thrilled over the Omnia and don't think I'll be thinking of changing back to an iPhone any time soon.
Notes: Below are some of the example pictures mentioned above
Lilly (fullsize)
Lilly (small)
Mimir (fullsize)
Mimir (small)
Panorama (The girl at the center was moving during the shot so shes a little blurred, that was my bad didn't give anyone a heads up about the shot)
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