The "New Toys" Thread

[IceBone]

I just played with the new Omnia today and damn, it's fast! The settings dialogues are still like I expected, but that's what Android is for.

[PaSSoA]

Originally Posted by Devon

I got a new phone on the weekend, the SE W980, I love it!!

How's the phone? My girl's thinking of getting that.. but the last Sony Ericsson I used was a K700i and have been using WinMo since. So not too sure if the usability have improved. The K700i was pretty buggy and slow

Originally Posted by IceBone

I just played with the new Omnia today and damn, it's fast! The settings dialogues are still like I expected, but that's what Android is for.

Yup, the Omnia is pretty cool. Loving it more each day I use it. Fortunately it has nice customisations that make the crappy WinMo look and perform better.

[Vltros]

Originally Posted by Devon

I got a new phone on the weekend, the SE W980, I love it!!

I hate you...

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by klankymen

crazy expensive? I paid like 800 for my 24" back in the days.... 400 is hella cheap.

Well I'm poor.

[Kip_6666]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Well I'm poor.

Get a job! Then you can buy all kinds of useless crap

[IceBone]

With some magical commodity called money.

[Andrew911tt]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Well I'm poor.

You run the 15,362 (according to Alexa) most visited website on the web

How can you be poor?

[CyberMonkey]

Well, maybe the fact that he is "poor" is one of the reasons this website is still popular. Nobody likes ads.

[vRS]

Originally Posted by Devon

I got a new phone on the weekend, the SE W980, I love it!!

Nice phone. Was looking at it the other week, 3.2mp camera isn't it?

[Prost264]

Originally Posted by Yaco

I think the reason I hate the touch screen is due to my huge fingers.

PROS:
Great camera features and quality.
Not a bad browser.
The display looks amazing.
Extra battery is available.
Real 3.5mm headset.
Battery life is better than expected for a large touch screen.
Scrolling is good, after getting used to.

CONS:
No streaming of music.
Laggy music player.
Music interface tries to be a Ipod copy-cat without the ease of use.
Drag n' drop "desktop" is useless, unless I haven't done it properly.
Bad for anyone with large fingers.
Hard to text and drive.... (I would never!)
Camera button is used for too many things (like switching between video mode; image trying to take a photo and it switches to video).

Prost264, add your own review so others have two opinions.

Well I agree the camera is great, but I also agree that the camera button is ridiculous. You have to scroll through a million options before you get to what you want.

The drag and drop desktop isn't useless, if you put the essentials that you want on the desktop it serves a purpose. I personally don't use it because I try to keep it as clean as possible.

My main issue with the phone is how much I didn't count on missing having physical buttons. Sometimes nothing works better than a real button. I know its bad to do but if you drive a lot and use your phone, forget the 9700 or any touchscreen.

Other than missing physical buttons. This phone is very good. I honestly only use a few of its features, such as phone, texting, and pictures, but it does it all well. When I had the internet free for the first month it worked well, but the browser had problems with selecting items on websites. From what I can tell from using the iPod Touch the Apple browser works much better.

Once you get used to the virtual keyboard it works very well. Once I turned off the "vibrate every time you touch the screen" feature I felt like the keyboard was much more responsive and less laggy than before. I have fat guy fingers and even I can use the keyboard without making a mistake. Sure you have to take your time at first but after maybe a few weeks of using it you can use it with no problems.

Sorry my thoughts are all over the place, but there it is. Its a good phone and worth the $140 I paid.

[IceBone]

I much prefer the HTC diamond's interface.

[Prost264]

I think I would just have a problem with any touchscreen phone. I need some buttons to press dammit.

[Shawn]

I finally managed to find a Samsung Omnia in Vancouver and buy it - I'm very skeptical of buying unlocked import phones off the web.

It was pretty hectic. First I call the store and they tell me they have two left, and I drive over but by then they're both gone. Then I came home and a few hours later they call and say they have one left because the other guy had decided on a Nokia E61 or something like that - his loss. But she tells me she's closing up shop soon.

I jet out the door, with 25 minutes until closing. I had to go to a part of town I'm not too familiar with, and I needed to stop at two bank machines (my daily withdrawal limit is like $500). Anyway, long story short I made it there right at 7 o'clock and pick up my super awesome black i900 16GB.

I come home all excited to unbox it... but when I did that, I realized there was no manuals or CDs (which is normal for a gray market import over here) and most importantly no adapter for the UK style outlet plug. You can imagine how pissed I was, especially as the device had emptied the tiny bit of juice left in the car.

Luckily my dad happened to have one of those international adapters that I'm using for now, until I call the store tomorrow and ask them why a $750 phone doesn't come with the necessary $3 hardware so you can power it.

Sorry for the long writeup... I'm just very excited, tired and a little pissed off at the same time. I'll attach a decent pic when I take all the protective covers off and maybe load some eye candy... though I have to say, Samsung's customizations really do eliminate the need to encounter WinMo 6.1 unless you're running a 3rd party app or changing some settings.

[viilaaja@pt cruiser]

this G5 is my new baby, after my older (lidl typhoon optical mouse) went dead in the middle of schoolday.



cost about 48eur, but i'm getting the feel of this thing and liking it alot.

[Edmond Blackadder]

The Sony TG3E HD camcorder, my favourit toy I have bought for some years as it looks cool, it works well and I use it a lot.

[Crazyjeeper]

Originally Posted by viilaaja@pt cruiser

this G5 is my new baby, after my older (lidl typhoon optical mouse) went dead in the middle of schoolday.



cost about 48eur, but i'm getting the feel of this thing and liking it alot.

to the club.

[Edmond Blackadder]

Originally Posted by XeroState

Just got this with my scholarship [there way of saying sorry for not mailing the letter in July when I got it.. haha]



Just the 8GB first gen one but hey, for free and a 3600 dollar scholarship I'm more than happy to accept it

I got the 8GB as well, I have nearly filled it up with hard rock music and freebies

[viilaaja@pt cruiser]

Originally Posted by Crazyjeeper

to the club.

Thanks

btw i have noticed that his beast took 30mins of my laptop battery when i'm on battery powered
last one didn't, as it was so crappy