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2009-12-02
, 14:24
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#432
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Originally Posted by God
can you give a few examples of whats lackin in the phone?
I'm glad that someone is really happy about it.
But most users don't lead a life like you, so all those features are irrelevant to them. There's too much missing on this phone. It needs to adopt the regular day-to-day features.
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2009-12-02
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok
Brilliant.
Alright, so here's a quick excerpt of how this phone has changed my life already as an IT professional using all the tools available for me.
Get called at 5:30 AM this morning to fix a WebLogic problem we were having. So I answer my phone, tell the operators I'll take care of the issue and hang up.
Flip open the phone, click on my quick link to VPNC which I have loaded my .pcf file onto from my work laptop, and quickly connect to my works VPN.
Once there, I open up my terminal and ssh to the adminstrative AIX box where I have written some scripts to automate a lot of my Weblogic administration tasks.
I connect to the AIX box, fire off my script, watch as the problem resolves itself, and go back to bed for a bit.
The phone alarm kicks off at 7:20 AM. I get up, take a shower, head to work.
Sit down, link up my phone to the USB adapter connected to my laptop, and sync all my calendar information in Lotus Notes. Meanwhile I check my personal Gmail email, fire up the radio and listen to my morning radio show via headphones.
For fun, I connect my phone into work on the VPN again and open up VNC viewer to connect to my primary LDAP machine which runs on Linux, and I have KDE running on it. So I login to it with VNC Viewer on my phone and play around just because I can and show some friends at work.
Everyone, including the iphone people, are amazed.
I check my phone and see I have a brief meeting at 8:30 AM due to the beauty of the calendar entry being copied over from Lotus Notes to my phone.
My wife sends me a Google Talk IM to tell me good morning as she is off today.
This phone is UN-BELIEVABLE.
Iphone, eat your heart out.
I wonder how your battery is doing though?
. Anyway battery replacement is only £8.99 @ amazon.co.uk so no biggie.
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2009-12-02
, 14:25
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#434
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Originally Posted by God
that is a day-to-day work for me nice knowing that vpnc works flawless thats really gonna kick when i get mine next week
I'm glad that someone is really happy about it.
But most users don't lead a life like you, so all those features are irrelevant to them. There's too much missing on this phone. It needs to adopt the regular day-to-day features.
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2009-12-02
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#436
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Originally Posted by rcs1000
Sounds like me.
If you are a geek: there is no better phone. I showed mine last night to a friend who runs a software company. He went straight to the command line, typed 'vi', and then offered me £600 for my phone :-)
I don't know vi - but I still love it.
I work in shells a majority of my day and code a lot of Perl and administer *nix machines pretty much exclusively.
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2009-12-02
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#437
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Originally Posted by Enyibinakata
Actually so far the lowest my batter has gotten is half bar after about 8 hours unplugged. But a majority of the time my phone is attached via USB or plugged in while I sleep. But the 8 hours or so it lives unplugged has been fine so far. And that's with some heavy use as I can't keep my hands off it right now.
Brilliant.
I wonder how your battery is doing though?
Anyway battery replacement is only £8.99 @ amazon.co.uk so no biggie.
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2009-12-02
, 14:33
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#438
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok
Nice sci fi story. I like the parts above the best.
Everyone, including the iphone people, are amazed.
I check my phone and see I have a brief meeting at 8:30 AM due to the beauty of the calendar entry being copied over from Lotus Notes to my phone.
Everyone knows iPhone people are never impressed with other phones.
The beauty of calendar sync? Talk about 80's tech
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2009-12-02
, 14:35
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#439
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There is also vim available in the extras section. Slightly easier to use than vi. Not much different when you are familiar with the vi shortcuts.
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2009-12-02
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@ Bristol, UK
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#440
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Originally Posted by Laughingstok
So how's the keyboard for this kind of usage? I mean pipe symbol, esc key (e.g. vim), curly & square braces etcetera...
Sounds like me.
I'm assuming this is all a bit too awkward for casual use, right? emergencies only?
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I don't know vi - but I still love it.