As for your questions, there is indeed (on the 9500, at least) a $ symbol on the “4″ key along with a € symbol.

The Acrobat reader, for a mobile version actually works quite well. I’ve been using it mainly for reading books from Project Guttenberg and haven’t had any problems. Since you asked, though, I’ve tried it with more compicated file (a brochure) and although it takes longer to load, once it’s done so navigating round the document isn’t irritatingly slow.

Hope that helps!

I’m interested in purchasing the 9500 or the 9300 for use in the US. Silly question, can you enter a $ symbol? I checked the manual briefly but couldnt find.

Also, have you tried the Acrobat PDF viewer on this? How is it?

Thanks

Do you have any other accounts you can test it with?

I also tried connecting to my mail account via the MESSAGING Program. If you said you didn’t have problem, I do have a problem.

I used the SETTINGS WIZARD to configure my EMAIL: Country=Philippines, ISP=Yahoo Mail, Internet access point=Easy WLAN. Then I Press on the CONFIGURE (Command Key) to key-in my *User name & *Password.

Once I finished the set-up, I have added my Yahoo Mail Account on the MESSAGING Program. I checked the settings and the E-mail account type is POP3, Outgoing e-mail server is smtp.mail.yahoo.com, Incoming e-mail server is pop.mail.yahoo.com Use SMTP authentication is YES.

I cannot retrieve, send, and go online using this MESSAGING Program. There is a Pop-Out Message that it cannot proceed.

ian_simeon wrote:

Can anyone solve this problem.

Truly yours,
Ian

My only guess would be that the Yahoo attachement system isn’t compatible with the Symbian file system. I haven’t had any problems attaching files to messages sent using the “Messaging” program on the phone.

Im curious about the example photgraph. Gidleigh Park by chance?

No, it’s my family’s house in West Sussex.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/thedoctor/house.jpg

I own a N9500 which I purchased here in the Philippines (Asia-Pacific). I use the WiFi / WLAN to connect to the internet and check my yahoo email (Free account, http://mail.yahoo.com). The browser is capable of loading the full web page. Once I have signed-in, I could read my messages and download messages with attachment/s and save them either on the Memory Card or Device Memory. I could also start composing messages. I am able to send message in plain text but I encountered problems when sending with attachment, say, a single jpeg file (less than 100kb).

Once I click on the ATTACH button, the browser opens another window wherein I could browse the file that I would like to attach. If I click on the BROWSE button, a Pop-Out Message appears that instructs me to browse for the file to be attached. Once a file is selected, it will be paste on the FIELD. The ATTACH button should be click if I wanted to confirm message with attachment or if not the CANCEL button. The ATTACH button doesn’t work and I cannot proceed attaching the file. In order to continue with the message, I have to click on the CANCEL button.

In short, the problem is that I can send messages only in plain text (this for yahoo account). It is much worst with my free hotmail account, I cannot compose messages.

Can anyone solve this problem.

Truly yours,
Ian

I once owned a Treo 180g (the graffiti version), which was -upon purchase- the perfect device for me: I manage lots of appointments, 1.000 contacts, notes and tasks, I’m a pure PIM-user and carry a pda and phone 5 days/week, 12hrs/day. Although the idea was a catch (acceptable size/weight, flip cover, vibrating alarm with an actual switch (!), reliable Palm OS, good mono screen, fair battery life,…) it appeared to be a total nightmare. It took me hundreds of hard resets and two replacements from the vendor before I gave up.
I switched to the XDA1 and was fairly happy, mostly because of the stability of WM. I’ve used it for 16 months and crashed it 6 weeks ago (unprotected screens…). I seriously considered the Treo 600 but the experience was just too bad, and I went to the Jam/Compact/QtekS100.
Apart from battery life, I find the screen to be acceptable, the size super, and using BT for the handsfree carkit + using the PIM at the same times works great. I might have actually found a good device…

MattCatt (Cassioppeia E115 > Compaq iPAQ3630 > Palm Vx > Psion Revo > Treo 180g > XDAI > hp 1940 > QtekS100(XDA Compact)…

A few other updates about the phone; my replacement phone arrived a while ago and so far it’s been working perfectly. Whilst the catch is definitely looser than it was when fresh out of the box, it doesn’t seem to be getting any worse *crosses fingers*.

I also got the new version of Nokia’s PC Suite and the bluetooth function is very much improved over the previous version and connects pretty much as soon as you bring your phone within range.

One last thing is the IP passthrough feature which (as advertised) allows you to access the internet connection of a connected computer via bluetooth, cable or ad-hoc wifi. Unfortunately, Nokia haven’t actually released the PC drivers for it yet….

Article wrote:

As for Real Player, all I can say is that Real Networks have successfully managed to condense all of the user-unfriendliness and idiocy of their desktop version into a nasty little pill for the 9500.

My sentiments exactly . They manage this in all their versions, and thus had the privilege of being the first deleted from the ROM of my T3!

danielg wrote:

Symbian is big in Europe, but I think it has too many flavors (series 40, series 60, series 80, 90…etc)

Just a note, all those Series 40, 60 etc are GUI developed by Nokia. Series 40 runs on top of Nokia’s proprietary OS while Series 60 and the rest runs on top of Symbian OS.

During my brief period with Series 60 and UIQ, it seems there are alot of promises with the OS. I can’t wait till it develops properly. As smartphone OSes goes these are the best. I can’t handle WM for Smartphone and my JAM’s Pocket PC PE can’t handle one handed usage much.

Secondly, whilst PocketPC is very good for multimedia and variety of applications, after playing with the Jam’s big prother; the PDA2K, over a few days I found that using the phone, bluetooth and WLAN frequently seemes to be more than the thing can stand and I had to shove the stylus in it with alarming regularity…

Okay, it doesn’t have WiFi (which I don’t use), but is really packed with interesting stuff, and, rather important to me, runs Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition v.4.21. It’s got Bluetooth, SD-slot, 1.3megapix camera, IR, touchscreen in prtrait or landscape mode, etc, etc.

Review:
http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-magician-live-en.shtml

No complaints yet!

http://x.msmobiles.com/portal/high-res-images/3gsm2005/mda-iv-compared-4.jpg
http://x.msmobiles.com/portal/high-res-images/3gsm2005/mda-iv-compared-7.jpg

It may be shorter but it’s much wider.

The Doctor wrote:

I think you’re missing the point sightly…

Firstly, it takes a rather large leap of imagination to say that the 9500 is the size of a sub-notebook since it’s comparable in weight and size to most PocketPC PDAs whilst having almost all the same features plus a phone and proper keyboard built in. The only other device I can think of with a very similar feature set is the forthcoming HTC design that T-Mobile has announced and that’s no twinkle-toes…

(Just to be a pedant, it’s the 7710 that runs Series 90. The 9500 runs Series 80.)

You’e right about the Series 80 of course. But the forthcoming MDAIII/HTC is MUCH smaller than this clunker. I still wouldn’t try jamming it in my pocket of course.

Firstly, it takes a rather large leap of imagination to say that the 9500 is the size of a sub-notebook since it’s comparable in weight and size to most PocketPC PDAs whilst having almost all the same features plus a phone and proper keyboard built in. The only other device I can think of with a very similar feature set is the forthcoming HTC design that T-Mobile has announced and that’s no twinkle-toes…

(Just to be a pedant, it’s the 7710 that runs Series 90. The 9500 runs Series 80.)