new lease of life to my windows mobile 2003 phone i have been using this i-mate windows mobile (without wi-fi) for a long time. it was close to 30K when i bought it. off late i have started toying with the idea of upgrading to a new phone. but frankly, after some brief research, i could not find a worthy replacement for this workhorse especially considering that i have to shell out close to 30K for anything that can be called an upgrade. so i dropped the idea to buy a new phone and started working on ways to make this old phone more entertaining. the beauty of mobiles with OS :-) Browsing:
extremely happy with opera mini. it makes GPRS surfing cheap and fast. Yahoo IM:
i used to have "Agile Mobile" messenger, but it is no longer free. Yahoo GO does not work with my phone (WM 2003). i am currently using Palringo Vocal IM for my Yahoo IM. Fantastic but with one serious limitation: u have to close one chat window to start chatting with another contact. You-tube: I download/save you-tube videos on my laptop with this excellent Firefox add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 . The files are saved as *.flv (flex light video?). I copy them to the SD card of my phone. My phone has TCPMP player ( TCPMP) along with FLV player plugin ( SourceForge.net: TCPMP Plugin for Flash Video on PPC). All free stuff. There are softwares to convert FLV to AVI,etc. but why bother if you can play them directly. I use the free VLC media player on my laptop which plays just about any format.
Battery and memory indicator and task manager all-in-one: Vieka - Superior Technology For You (Highly recommended)
So when will I upgrade?
> large screens becomes available ( Polymer Vision - The rollable display company)
> True digital camera inside the phone (5mpx is good, but still not a replacement for my digital camera)
> 3G becomes available in India (i cant watch even youtube smoothly with the current broadband!!)
Otherwise, it will be upgrading just for the sake of upgrading! |