aloideew c
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Hello Everybody,
I currently have a Samsung D600 mobile, purchased about a month ago. A great phone in many ways. I love the camera, slider function, MP3 player, screen quality to name a few. I also think the transflash memory (MicroSD) slot is slick. I also needed a quadband phone with good voice quality and bluetooth, and this phone delivered all of that.
However, as a "business use" mobile, the D600 has a couple of fatal flaws. Absolute show stoppers in my opinion. The first one involves Calendar synchronisation with MS-Outlook. The D600 with the bundled Samsung PC Studio S/W does not synch more than 15 characters (including whitespace) from the MS-Outlook SUBJECT: field to the phone. In fact, the phone itself seems to also have this limitation, which you only find out when trying to enter an appointment into the phone itself and find the subject field locks after 15 spaces/characters.
The second issue, again with calendaring, relates to the MS-Outlook LOCATION: field. It is not in the phone at all ! That is, any address you enter into MS Outlook is not transfered to the phone, and there is no place to enter it into the phone anyway. How do you know where you are going for a meeting ? This problem is an absolute cracker. Finally, and this is more minor with calendaring, the MS-Outlook DETAILS: field only copies the first 100 characters. That limitation is probably workable.
On to contacts. The phone does not allow for address fields. And PC Studio (Samsung sync S/W) does not allow you to transfer address details anyway. Again, this is a big problem for a "business use" mobile.
So, my question is this. Is there a mobile phone out there that is at least as good as the D600 in terms of screen quality, 2MP camera, MP3 player, bluetooth, quadband, MP4 player, Java games, battery life, expanable memory, phone size and general look and feel, but that does not have the calendar and contact synch issues I have outlined ? :2jump:
There are a couple of other little 'niggly' things in the D600 which are workable but it would be great if my new phone didn't have these issues....
(1) You cannot adjust the ring tone start volume higher. The first two rings of the phone are soft, which is no good if your phone is on auto-divert after 5 rings and you miss the first two rings.
(2) There is only four playlists available in the MP3 player.
(3) You cannot view pictures full screen. With video you can view full screen by pressing down '1', but interestingly, I learned this off a forum not from the manual.
(4) An Infrared port for synchronisation would be great, rather than just bluetooth or USB.
(5) The synch speed in the D600 with PC Studio is slow when compared to my old Nokia 6600 with PC Suite. Not sure why, but I would have thought USB or bluetooth would be faster than infrared, which is what I used with the 6600. Fast synch speed is important to a business user.
(6) Layout flexibility. There does seem to be a lot of options wiht screen layouts and backgrounds in the D600 when compared to some other latest generation phones my firends have like the Sony Ericcson W800i and the Motorola RAZR.
Anyway, I know this is a long post and I hope someone has some ideas and can help me. I don't want to spend another A$600 without a result :insane:
Thanks to all..............Darren.
I currently have a Samsung D600 mobile, purchased about a month ago. A great phone in many ways. I love the camera, slider function, MP3 player, screen quality to name a few. I also think the transflash memory (MicroSD) slot is slick. I also needed a quadband phone with good voice quality and bluetooth, and this phone delivered all of that.
However, as a "business use" mobile, the D600 has a couple of fatal flaws. Absolute show stoppers in my opinion. The first one involves Calendar synchronisation with MS-Outlook. The D600 with the bundled Samsung PC Studio S/W does not synch more than 15 characters (including whitespace) from the MS-Outlook SUBJECT: field to the phone. In fact, the phone itself seems to also have this limitation, which you only find out when trying to enter an appointment into the phone itself and find the subject field locks after 15 spaces/characters.
The second issue, again with calendaring, relates to the MS-Outlook LOCATION: field. It is not in the phone at all ! That is, any address you enter into MS Outlook is not transfered to the phone, and there is no place to enter it into the phone anyway. How do you know where you are going for a meeting ? This problem is an absolute cracker. Finally, and this is more minor with calendaring, the MS-Outlook DETAILS: field only copies the first 100 characters. That limitation is probably workable.
On to contacts. The phone does not allow for address fields. And PC Studio (Samsung sync S/W) does not allow you to transfer address details anyway. Again, this is a big problem for a "business use" mobile.
So, my question is this. Is there a mobile phone out there that is at least as good as the D600 in terms of screen quality, 2MP camera, MP3 player, bluetooth, quadband, MP4 player, Java games, battery life, expanable memory, phone size and general look and feel, but that does not have the calendar and contact synch issues I have outlined ? :2jump:
There are a couple of other little 'niggly' things in the D600 which are workable but it would be great if my new phone didn't have these issues....
(1) You cannot adjust the ring tone start volume higher. The first two rings of the phone are soft, which is no good if your phone is on auto-divert after 5 rings and you miss the first two rings.
(2) There is only four playlists available in the MP3 player.
(3) You cannot view pictures full screen. With video you can view full screen by pressing down '1', but interestingly, I learned this off a forum not from the manual.
(4) An Infrared port for synchronisation would be great, rather than just bluetooth or USB.
(5) The synch speed in the D600 with PC Studio is slow when compared to my old Nokia 6600 with PC Suite. Not sure why, but I would have thought USB or bluetooth would be faster than infrared, which is what I used with the 6600. Fast synch speed is important to a business user.
(6) Layout flexibility. There does seem to be a lot of options wiht screen layouts and backgrounds in the D600 when compared to some other latest generation phones my firends have like the Sony Ericcson W800i and the Motorola RAZR.
Anyway, I know this is a long post and I hope someone has some ideas and can help me. I don't want to spend another A$600 without a result :insane:
Thanks to all..............Darren.