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We’ll It’s a good idea, but they should have opened up a bit and let us use our own calendar our own widgets etc. Guess they might open up in future.

 As it now I don’t see any use to me other than fancy £150 digital frame.

O2 Joggler page , PC pro review

God where do I start,  at one point we didn’t have much choice just windows mobile and blackberry. Very expensive and have to pay ton of money to use them etc ,even then they were lot of phones but still very few Os that run on the phones,

Now lots of different smart phone OSes. all got their plus and minuses sadly we can’t format and install what ever we like. All locked to the hardware.

I like  android phones looks nice and well integrate with Google services. I think palm pre is just a gimmick. I don’t like the hand control things will work for me and such a girly phone, not sure they will have it here in UK. but even i they do I wont get it.

I’m not well excited about the new iphone as well. Looks nice again very expensive if u have to go 4 that 32gb one,.

I got my self a Nokia 1200  as my 2nd pay as you go phone.very small  unlocked to any network, 7 hour talk time simple to use just pick dial. Cheap only paid £9 come with few good games and it have a LED flash light. It’s have a D pad all the features can be access in one click.

I like this little phone only going to use it when I reach my allowance on my O2 blackberry, they charge lot of money (40p/min) if  I pass my voice limit .I got  my self a ASDA mobile sim just 8p for voice call and 4 p for text message no monthly charges. It’s works out perfect for me as if I don’t go over the limit I can use the credit for next month as long as I keep calling/texting some one every three months lines should be ok. 

I guess simple pay as you is the way to go now days. as yearly contracts are very confusing and long some of them are 24months contracts. phones are like £400 on payG but on contract it could be free but end up paying more than £1000s for it. I guess if u use it a lot then worth it.

I found that annoying when you open outlook It’s open up inbox in personal folders in outlook than open up the imap inbox. You can’t remove the personal folders on outlook when using imap as Imap don’t have ability to store calendar, task data. I have found a work around though 

On outlook  tools >options >other tabs >advanced option 

Click the browse button and select the inbox from the imap folder works like a charm

UK’s computer Museum said to be starting exhibition  at July at Swindon town centre  more here 

I will visit this time for sure

here is the link for Museum of computing website

What a crapy O2 software  which will spoil  all your wifi  connections home page and proxy setting etc. I like to keep things simple

so here is the setting after connecting the sim card to the modem just plug it in let windows install it as  a modem

go to network connections click create new connections give a name eg O2 PayG  select the correct usb modem O2’s case HUAWEI mobile connect 3G modem

on the number column type :-  *99#
user name put O2web
password just password

click finish,  make sure don’t make it a default connection (unless you want that to be)

then open your browser  type https://mobilebroadbandaccess.o2.co.uk/index/products enter the phone no of the sim (which will be on the sticker of the sim card)  buy the credit and enjoy.

This setting will work with linux macs and any ver of windows (if their is driver support)

I just connected my creative Zen mp3 player to windows 7 had no issue finding it’s driver etc  windows xp wont work without loading the crapy creative software

It’s bit pricey at the moment but I can think of many reason to have this in home. Read the newspapers all my rss feeds etc on one place for every one in the family to read.

I wont buy it till the price come down to £100 or some subsidise services  we’ll see

I ended up having blackberry 8900 (with all Google apps.) works fine love it.  To get HTC magic I have to go with Vodafone  so I phoned up O2 to get a PUC code. They gave me a deal I can’t refuse. They even gave me a free USB payg mobile broadband dongle.  O well why pay more just to have a google phone. I installed all the google apps and it does look like gphone now

Video from MS technet