I have been reading on a few sites trying to get more information about the WP7. I saw that MS and Amazon signed an agreement with each other to use technology from each other. One of the things that was included supposedly was the kindle reader technology. Has anybody read anything about a kindle software for WP7? I also read that at this point syncing with outlook locally wasn't supported. Is this true? I hope that it is. I use outlook at home to manage my contacts, email, and appointments. I would hope they would have that feature.
Wouldn't make much sense, reading books on a screen with backlights is a major pain.
I think they're referring to Flash and PDF
ElAguila said:
I have been reading on a few sites trying to get more information about the WP7. I saw that MS and Amazon signed an agreement with each other to use technology from each other. One of the things that was included supposedly was the kindle reader technology..
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Yes, WP7 will have a Kindle app, just like other OS's.
Nothing has been announced re: kindle.
No, WP7 does not sync with outlook locally. I'd suggest syncing up to Windows Live (windows live outlook connector will take care of this) and then to your phone.
I know nothing has been announced yet but I had read this article:
http://www.siftwire.com/microsoft-kindle-windows-7-phone-tech-amazon-ip-deal.html
I was wondering if there were any other articles out there that made reference to this.
Windcape said:
Wouldn't make much sense, reading books on a screen with backlights is a major pain.
I think they're referring to Flash and PDF
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Amazon =/= Adobe lol
Iridox said:
Amazon =/= Adobe lol
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Oops, read it wrong there.
It is too bad they didn't get the outlook sync feature in there. I know that you can use the outlook connector but I was kind of hoping for a single sync button. Oh well.
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yes every day there is the same question and thing I'm doing, looking to the web for news about new MS mobile devices..and now thinking about buying the Vox. But the only thing so far I couldn't live with is that there should be big delay when opening or closing the keyboard.
How do you rate this?
Its a few seconds...maybe more if you have many apps running in the backround, but then everything runs slow when thats happening on any WM device... dosent bother me...
Regards - John
To be honest in my opinion its not as bad as other make it seem, as long you keep tabs on the programs you have running in the background every now and not running with only 1mb free memory then you shouldn't have a problem. One tip you can try is disabling the sound it plays when switching views in the settings. Made the switch slightly faster in my opinion.
Without the Sound it is maybe 2 times faster..
thanks guys for your prompt answers!!
Do you have a clou whether the important progs like PocketInformant or AgendaOne are running without problems in landscape mode?
fire00 said:
thanks guys for your prompt answers!!
Do you have a clou whether the important progs like PocketInformant or AgendaOne are running without problems in landscape mode?
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I use AgendaOne and I haev not had an issue with it switching orientation. However Documents to Go has a problem as does SmartPhoneNotes - they will not fill the screen, you get a scroll-bar on the righe, pretty much making it still portrate..
John
hi John
I thought one doesn't need smartphonenotes anymore as WM6 should have its own notes taking application?
As well as Office Mobile (doc, xls, ppt) should be on board, isn't ?
I really don't see what the fuss is about speed of the screen rotation. Its not like it takes several minutes. Approx 1-3 seconds depending on what's running in the background is perfectly fine.
hi guys, I don't want to make the Vox bad, I'm asking because I had the same issue with HTC Hermes, which was also quite ok after I disabled the sound. It also depends on how many applications are installed, loaded in memory, how much memory is free etc. But reading one of the serious reviews like the one from mobile-review - I rather ask for opinions of users before I buy it.
Thank you all
Can somebody tell how is it with the mobile office? Is it really not included with Vox as I read also somewhere? And is there a mobile note application synchronizing with Outlook?
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Can somebody tell how is it with the mobile office? Is it really not included with Vox as I read also somewhere?
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I have it installed. It includes, adobe reader LE, Excel Mobile, Calculator, Powerpoint Mobile, Voice notes and Word Mobile.
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You can edit existing documents but you cannot create ones, correct?
How about the notes application - possible to synchronize them with desktop?
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hi John
I thought one doesn't need smartphonenotes anymore as WM6 should have its own notes taking application?
As well as Office Mobile (doc, xls, ppt) should be on board, isn't ?
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Yes it has them...but WM6 does not allow for creation of new items in Office Mobile (although there is a hack to get around that) but I personally find Documents to Go a better offering than what MS gives you. I have word docs sent via email that dont load in Word mobile (on WM5 or WM6) yet have no problem in DTG...
There is also a 3rd party notes app - but no way to Sync to Outlook, thus I use SmartPhoneNotes.
Regards - John
pinussen said:
I have it installed. It includes, adobe reader LE, Excel Mobile, Calculator, Powerpoint Mobile, Voice notes and Word Mobile.
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Björn
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You know...not to go way off topic here, but I thought I was going crazy one night because I could not figure out why there was no Calculator on the VOX...it never crossed my mind that it would be under "Office Mobile".... Since I never go in there with DTG installed - makes no sense at all to me for it to be in there...
My 2 cents
John
this is really a place one should go to - getting answers by like-minded people.
RE notes / synchronization - you know that there is a new beta out there of phatnotes by phatware? It supports WM6, might be a solution also for the landscape issue with smartphonenotes described by John...?
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You know...not to go way off topic here, but I thought I was going crazy one night because I could not figure out why there was no Calculator on the VOX...it never crossed my mind that it would be under "Office Mobile".... Since I never go in there with DTG installed - makes no sense at all to me for it to be in there...
My 2 cents
John
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Hehe.. had the same problem, I had to hunt around for it a while before finding it.
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Björn
fire00 said:
this is really a place one should go to - getting answers by like-minded people.
RE notes / synchronization - you know that there is a new beta out there of phatnotes by phatware? It supports WM6, might be a solution also for the landscape issue with smartphonenotes described by John...?
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Didn't know about it to be honest, will have to swing by their site and look it up.
I guess I should note that DTG and Smartphonenotes are landscape aware, I used them just fine on my BlackJack...and I noticed today actually that if you start them in landscape mode they auto-rotate just fine....its only when you start in portrait mode that they go whacky...
Take care - John
Well, I'm glad I always back up stuff... I have installed Windows 7 on my laptop, and everything works well...except for syncing contacts and the calendar. It deleted everything I had on the WM unit (an Atom Life). All contacts and all appointments. It doesn't seem to work with Outlook 2003 at all. Anybody got this working, or am I just a too early adopter? I may of course set up a virtual machine with XP and run Outlook 2003 on that, but it's a bit of a hazzle.
Maybe Outlook 2003 is the problem...time to go office '07...trust me, it is so much better
Actually it's not. I really, really, really hate the interface. It's total crap, created for the mouse age and for people starting up with that version. I'm 40+ and firmly and forever stuck in the "everything worth doing is possible to do with a keyboard" age! And I have all shortcuts and menues in Office 2003 firmly in my fingers. I tried 2007 for two weeks, but I found out that I worked at least 40 % slower with that, after those weeks. That was of course better than the first few days, when everything took at least twice as long... But it still didn't seem to improve much more beyond the first week. So I went back to the image of my hard drive before I installed it.
But thanks a lot for the idea! It didn't occur to me that the problem could be there. I will try to install just Outlook 2007 and see if that helps! Maybe even the slightly newer version that comes with the Atom Life might help. I think I'll try that first. I'll let you know!
Edit: Make that slightly older... It's Outlook 2002 that comes with the Atom!
Solved! I wish everything was this easy (all though the easiest stuff can be the hardest to figure out). It only takes three steps to sync your WM unit with Windows 7 prebeta:
1. Download Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Vista.
2. Install Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Vista.
3. Sync.
That's all that was needed. I thought that was already built in, but it isn't. So now I'm syncing like crazy with my beloved Outlook 2003!
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Actually it's not. I really, really, really hate the interface. It's total crap, created for the mouse age and for people starting up with that version. I'm 40+ and firmly and forever stuck in the "everything worth doing is possible to do with a keyboard" age! And I have all shortcuts and menues in Office 2003 firmly in my fingers. I tried 2007 for two weeks, but I found out that I worked at least 40 % slower with that, after those weeks. That was of course better than the first few days, when everything took at least twice as long... But it still didn't seem to improve much more beyond the first week. So I went back to the image of my hard drive before I installed it.
But thanks a lot for the idea! It didn't occur to me that the problem could be there. I will try to install just Outlook 2007 and see if that helps! Maybe even the slightly newer version that comes with the Atom Life might help. I think I'll try that first. I'll let you know!
Edit: Make that slightly older... It's Outlook 2002 that comes with the Atom!
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Gotta agree. The biggest problem to me is having successfully mastered the way Office was, learning the new Office isn't something I want to spend my time doing.
mastiff can to provide link by pm where u got the window 7 from.
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Gotta agree. The biggest problem to me is having successfully mastered the way Office was, learning the new Office isn't something I want to spend my time doing.
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Touche! I've been using Excel for years, took me about 5 minutes to find how to protect the data !
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Touche! I've been using Excel for years, took me about 5 minutes to find how to protect the data !
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The new Word and Powerpoint interfaces are totally different.
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Well, I'm glad I always back up stuff... I have installed Windows 7 on my laptop, and everything works well...except for syncing contacts and the calendar. It deleted everything I had on the WM unit (an Atom Life). All contacts and all appointments. It doesn't seem to work with Outlook 2003 at all. Anybody got this working, or am I just a too early adopter? I may of course set up a virtual machine with XP and run Outlook 2003 on that, but it's a bit of a hazzle.
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Can you let us know where you downloaded windows 7?
Thanks,
can people not use google, torrent searches, demonoid or rapidshare searchers
well i think the above posts asking where it is answered my qustion
rorydaredkign said:
can people not use google, torrent searches, demonoid or rapidshare searchers
well i think the above posts asking where it is answered my qustion
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Hey, you don´t have to be that rude, we all know that sites, here the idea is to help, so if I ask this is to have the opinion from the one I´m asking to, so he can point me the site he downloaded and any other comments. So let´s try to be nice here.
This community is to help each other members, not to say how noob we are.
Good day to you
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Can you let us know where you downloaded windows 7?
Thanks,
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he cant answer you because the beta version of windows 7 hasnt even been released yet!
the version going round the various torrent sites has not been officially released by microsoft stay clear till official beta is released sometime in dec 2008
I found that Windows Mobile Device Center would crash every time I attempted to sync with a Windows 7 computer, the only way round this so far is to set the compatability program to Windows Vista RTM.
Now the phone happily syncs (and for some reason much faster than it did on Vista) on Windows 7 pre BETA.
Not trying to argue here but one 60 minute session of training on the Ribbon was all I needed. I have increased my productivity within Office as a result. I find that every command I need is one click away where as older versions needed multiple clicks.
The gentlemen who mentioned all keyboard controls I can't argue with but for my touch screen Office work the ribbon is bomb.
Dear all,
I am running a Samsung i780 with WM6.1. I'd like to be able to read some RSS feeds, and have had some success in the past in using the free pRSSreader. That worked really well, but there is a feature missing that I would really like to have. I'm hoping that someone here might be able to recommend a suitable reader.
The problem with pRSSreader, was that I'd read postings that I thought were interesting and then flag them to read later. However, the program wouldn't keep them for later - instead it would ditch all the postings irrespective of whether they had been flagged or not.
So I'd like a way to either make a favourite posting list or save postings that I think are interesting, so I can read through them again at a later date.
Any ideas if there are some readers on the market with this functionality?
Many thanks,
Tom.
There's one called SpeeedReader that's worth checking out if you're a Google Reader user -- it hooks into your Google Reader account so your desktop and pocket feeds stay nicely in-sync.
The only problem is that it doesn't support finger scrolling and can be a bit crashy (at least on my Kaiser).
Thanks for the suggestions!
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There's one called SpeeedReader that's worth checking out if you're a Google Reader user -- it hooks into your Google Reader account so your desktop and pocket feeds stay nicely in-sync.
The only problem is that it doesn't support finger scrolling and can be a bit crashy (at least on my Kaiser).
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Thanks for the suggestions!
I went for YomoMedia Reader in the end, as it allows one to save
interesting posts whilst on the train and since its a web app (with a
PPC application), you can then view them on your PC in their full
glory when you get into work!
Cheers, Tom.
Need help. I'm having problems making/receiving calls on my Tilt 2 and I'm thinking of upgrading. I am having a lot of problems just finding answers to some basic questions about the options available. Being a long time user of Win Mobile, I'm leaning to the WP7. Some questions that I have are:
1. Text entry. Sliding keyboard aside (I'm thinking of the Samsung Focus) is there a transcriber program? I take notes during meetings, etc., and presently either use the keyboard on the Tilt, or a 'Phatware' transcriber program.
2. Backward compatability. Will WM6.5 aps work on the new WP7? Programs like eReader, Laridian Books, Platware, etc.?
3. Is there the ability to import a Contact to a new appointment on the Calendar? Not being able to do this on the Tilt 2 has been a real pain!
4. Is there a stylis?
5. Can you watch a missed TV show from CBS, A&E, or Fox.com?
As I said, these are simple (hopefully, not stupid) questions, and thanks for what ever help or opinions are offered.
1. Microsoft OneNote to take notes. There is no handwritting recognition, just virtual keyboard (for Focus).
2. No.
3. ?
4. No.
5. Several 3rd party apps are either available or in development to watch TV shows and old seasons.
3. The calender provides the option to specify required and optional attendees for an appointment if this is what you mean.
Is the OneNote the only application? I was under the impression that Office was included, which has Word and Excel.
Also, there is some confussion about what I ment with question #3. On my Tilt 2, when creating a new appointment, there is no way to pull a name off of my Contacts list. I have to re-type the name as a new appointment, with no cross link. This has always been a real pain, and something that I can not understand why a business friendly platform can't do. In the original Tilt, you could pull up a Contact, and had a menu function that would allow you to create an new appointment with that contact, but not with the Tilt 2. This is something so simple that even my old Palm M100 would do.
An observation, it certainly appears that all platforms are full of bells and whistles, while leaving the solid old PIM functions out. Maybe I need to go back to my Franklin Planner, and a simple flip phone......
Thanks for the info. From what it sounds like, I won't be going to WP7. I'll have to look at the android/iPhone, to see if one of them will work for me.
Thanks again....
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Is the OneNote the only application? I was under the impression that Office was included, which has Word and Excel.
Also, there is some confussion about what I ment with question #3. On my Tilt 2, when creating a new appointment, there is no way to pull a name off of my Contacts list. I have to re-type the name as a new appointment, with no cross link. This has always been a real pain, and something that I can not understand why a business friendly platform can't do. In the original Tilt, you could pull up a Contact, and had a menu function that would allow you to create an new appointment with that contact, but not with the Tilt 2. This is something so simple that even my old Palm M100 would do.
An observation, it certainly appears that all platforms are full of bells and whistles, while leaving the solid old PIM functions out. Maybe I need to go back to my Franklin Planner, and a simple flip phone......
Thanks for the info. From what it sounds like, I won't be going to WP7. I'll have to look at the android/iPhone, to see if one of them will work for me.
Thanks again....
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android and iphone will be the same as wp7 in all those aspects.
the only advantage goes to android which can watch those tv shows (android has flash) but wp7 will be getting flash soon too, so it will be able to soon. iphone will never have flash.
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Is the OneNote the only application? I was under the impression that Office was included, which has Word and Excel.
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Thanks again....
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Office 2010 mobile with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote is available on all WP7 phones as far as I know...
ace10134 said:
android and iphone will be the same as wp7 in all those aspects.
the only advantage goes to android which can watch those tv shows (android has flash) but wp7 will be getting flash soon too, so it will be able to soon. iphone will never have flash.
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there is also youtube support already in windows phone, so no problem there either.
Hi there!
I don't usually start posts 'cause reading yours I find what I'm looking for. But since a long time I have a general question for a particular issue. I found people with the same trouble, but the answer is not clear for me.
Let me make an introduction:
I now own a HTC HD with Windows Mobile 6.5. I'm very satisfied with this device and OS because my needs are fully covered. I'm very comfortable with the speed boost from a custom ROM I installed and it does what I need (calls, music, photo, SMSs, GPS). The point is that this device is getting... old. It has 3 years and... well, it has received several hits... :| So I'm thinking that soon I'm going to need another one. And here's the question: which OS? I don't mind if it is Android, WP, iOS, or whatever... But I've got one essential requirement: Outlook. .... I've got about 15 mail accounts I must control, and thousands of data saved over the years saved in my Outlook on my PC. Now I only need ActiveSync to synchronize the contacts, calendar and appointments. Because of that, don't propose using Gmail or similar. I've got tons of data in my PC and lots of accounts. And I don't want/need a continuous data connection because I DON'T NEED IT and, here in Spain, the prices are abusive...
Another application I use a lot is GPS. I'm very happy with my Tomtom (fast, accurate and I update it when I want) and I HATE WIFI-GPS. What I've seen on friends devices made me hate it. I found it very poor accurate. Maybe it has improved... What do you think?
Well, I see Android and iOS devices of my friends and they didn't think Outlook sync can be done with them. Is it true? Can it be done in some way? Must I keep WM6 to do this? I can't believe that an old concern like this (Outlook is even present in Office 2013) can't be done with these modern and powerful devices!!
So that's the question: can I sync Outlook with a OS/device of nowadays? In which? If not, is there any alternative I may choose?
Thank you for your time!
The best for that purpose would be windows phone. It can be done with android/iOS but its way easier and native on windows phone.
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The best for that purpose would be windows phone. It can be done with android/iOS but its way easier and native on windows phone.
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Thank you lars1216 for throwing a bit of light.
I heard someone who said that Windows 8 won't be compatible with Outlook sync... Hope he was wrong!
So Windows Phone... OK.