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[mfvx5jb1]

Top notch review! 75 quid upgrade fee sounds like a bargain!

Posted from my soon to be redundant E200!

[zeta101]

good review! enojoyed reading it...cant wait to get my c500

[lutzh]

congrats for the nice review and the audi - manufactured just 20 k away from where i live. matiz is your wifes car? you should change this...

:-)

cheers, lutz

[paddy_mcnulty]

Cheers for the excellent review Paul. As soon as it's out I'll get it. Fingers crossed this weekend!

[PaulOBrien]

Sadly, she drives the Audi with the baby during the week if she goes out, and I drive the Matiz to the office each day... I of course drive the Audi at the weekend

We bought the Matiz so the miles don't rack up on the Audi... and due to the fact a 0.8 litre engine is a lot cheap than a 3.0 litre one when all you do is go straight up one road at 50mph in traffic!

I'd like an Audi A2, but they're kinda overpriced, and the Matiz isn't THAT bad

P

[lutzh]

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Audi A2

they've stopped producing it because manufacturing costs where the same as on an audi a8 and the revenue was just a quarter... because i live around ingolstadt i can assure you that only audi employees drive the a2 and a hand full of non-audi people...

cheers, lutz

ps: if you wan't power + saving on fuell you should get my jeep ;-)

[Simon Desser]

Great review Paul
One question, you mention that you can add videos to MMS, but please tell me they've included the option to add (AND record) AMR voice files to MMS messages too :?:
Thanks.

[antlane]

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"]Many Smartphone users are quite passionate about T9, probably because it has been so bad in previous Smartphones! It no longer loses words - and is definitely improved - but it is not yet perfect... it defaults to some strange words sometimes!

How has T9 changed? Is one able to now go back to a word and select a different possibility using T9? Is it possible to enter a number by just holding the appropriate key down? If these two things could be implemented, it would be great. I'm not a huge texter but it would be so useful - T9 on a Nokia is a joy to use compared to Windows Smartphone!

[PaulOBrien]

I can't see the option to record AMR files.

You can't select a word you've already put in (BOO!), but you can put in a number by holding the key down

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[Simon Desser]

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"]I can't see the option to record AMR files.P

Yeah, I just read what you put in the Bug Section :cry: :cry: :cry:
(I really think that's inexcuseable :shock: )

BTW, can you add AMR files if already on your phone by browsing to the files (as you know this option doesn't work on the E200) :?:

[antlane]

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"]You can't select a word you've already put in (BOO!), but you can put in a number by holding the key down

Well thank God for small mercies! That's probably the most annoying problem of all. Now if only they could sort out the other issue!

I'm not sure how the inputting works but couldn't another company write a plugin which would provide a really decent T9 implementation?

[beersoft]

paul,

with the activesync bluetooth connection, does it still offer the "setup bluetooth activesync" even after you have had a sucessfull bluetooth sync?

its one of those small things that will get on my nerves later

later

Owen

[Simon Desser]

Paul, did you forget to attach or link to the videos :?:

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Here are some short sample videos in each format:  

Sample AVI - Sample MP4 - Sample 3GP

Thanks
Simon

[PaulOBrien]

That is theoretically possible...

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Well thank God for small mercies!  That's probably the most annoying problem of all.  Now if only they could sort out the other issue!

I'm not sure how the inputting works but couldn't another company write a plugin which would provide a really decent T9 implementation?

[PaulOBrien]

Video links fixed

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[Simon Desser]

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"]Video links fixed

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Still not working

[drblow]

Nice, thorough review m8! I might even be forced to get one now just to see what the fuss is about! Although, how on earth a release version can make it to the stores with such a massive bug that prevents you from playing games is beyond me.
I take it from the fact that there is no mention of SD card problems, that there are none? Does that mean that cards which you previously had problems with on an e200, now work OK in C500?

[crafty]

do homescreens using the orange plugin from the E200 work on the C500?

[meatgrinder]

ure sample.avi is a band link m8, should be http://smartphone.mo...view/Sample.avi your link is a small s in sample.avi, which doesnt work for me

Dave

p.s. gr8 review

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