More phone saga

[andrewducker]

My replacement phone arrived yesterday - just the body, as I had to keep the back cover, battery and SIM card. I put it all together, powered it up, made a phone call and was delighted to actually have a decent volume out of it for the first time in months. I then paired it with the PDA and got a decent connection to the internet on _that_ for the first time ever. I'm more and more convinced that I got a faulty handset last time. Then it dropped the connection. Repeatedly. Then it locked up. And locked up again. And again. It seemed to lock up every time I closed it (it's a clamshell), or the screensaver went on.

So I phoned them and they're sending me _another_ replacement handset. Sometime between 1pm and 5pm. Which is why I can't have a bath yet, in case they turn up in the next half hour...

So, in summation, avoid Motorola phones at all costs. My next one's going to be a 3G Nokia 6630, once they get them back in stock...

Comments

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

The 6630 is an excellent phone. It can also run handy applications such as putty and AgileMessenger IM client (both free) on the phone itself.

Downsides are

- No second camera for video calls (carry a mirror)
- Camera quality is a little poor in low light
- No serial port profile for bluetooth

[andrewducker]

What is the serial port profile necessary for? Does that mean I wouldn't be able to use it to connect my PDA to the internet?

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

Connecting a pda is fine, but finding drivers can be tricky. I'm using 6600 drivers as I think all Symbian phones have the same bluetooth modem profile. The modem profile is used for pda/laptop connectivity whereas the serial port profile is used for some third party applications.

Examples are:
Bemused - for controlling winamp, powerpoint etc over bluetooth
Oxygen Phone Manager (although it works with Widcomm bluetooth drivers but nox XP SP2)

I think some applications can open an outgoing serial port from the phone if they contain their own driver, its the incoming port thats missing