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Shock horror of the bill from Orange for new Treo. Basically Orange have taking tautology to new peaks by defining “Open Access” to mean ability to access WAP pages only (free for first 3 months), not clear how one knows which are WAP pages or not. Accessing internet and emails counts as GPRS which are […]
A site describing how to stop pop up ads, better late than never I guess. Federal Trade Commission
What a crazy world we live in. Two of my friends are currently on Orange contracts and they both want new Treo’s. If they want to retain their old number they will have to pay £350 for a new phone. However, Orange are actively encouraging them to become ‘new’ customers with a different number by […]
A very cunning way of plotting blogs etc on map herebritish_isles
The Treo600 just gets better each day I use it. All my friends are getting them to!. The email is so easy to set up and its really cool to check your pop3 accounts on the move. The internet is also pretty good even Nick had to admit it rendered his pages at www.babooongear.com pretty […]
Google finally sent my very cool blogger hoody as promised at takeover. A picture of me wearing it here taken with Treo600 camera
Last problem with Treo600 was when using Ptunes to listen to MP3’s and no sound was coming out – stupid me had disabled the loudspeaker with the cunning ‘silence’ switch on top of unit. Oh well Tim at www.normsoft.com the makers of Pocket-Tunes sent a smiley and said other people had contacted him as well. […]
On the Treo600 after I ticked the option in Preferences/ keyguard / on a call box. The result was I found it impossible to terminate a call (it disables the screen box) I ended up pulling the SIM card out. The manual has no entry for terminating a call. Thanks to Jay Tamboli on the […]
The new Treo600 seems about five times faster than Treo270 at doing searches etc which is very useful when you have a large database of names and messages etc (Treo270 typically took over 30 secs to search my database). The buttons feel much smaller and closer which makes pressing the option key and search key […]