Found it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zyk0TR6pUPA
Go to 7 mins 35.
:)
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Found it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zyk0TR6pUPA
Go to 7 mins 35.
:)
Well I spoke to T-Mob this morning and they told me they now knew pricing for it....and the advance orders were not far off the mark.
I was looking at £60 for the handset on a £42.50pcm 18month contract (although that included £7.50pcm for web n walk plus which doesn't count in lowering the handset cost as I understand it). So then I'd need insurance, and voila, £50 a month base cost and it still costs money. Grrrrr. Gone are the days when 18 months meant guaranteed free handset! I didn't have the gall to ask about a 12 month price...
Anyway, I'm still blatantly having one, and I still think the contract option will get my vote even if I treat it like credit, as I think its got to be T-Mobile for their data packages and their SIM-only deals are frankly quite poor!
Sure enough, later today, the announcement came out:
http://coolsmartphone.com/index.php?...ticle&sid=3539
So, order on Friday!
Just checked the stock levels and they are showing :bowdown:
Contractless handset is down in price:
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news3542.html
£457 down from £480 in just a couple of weeks.
Yeah, you can phone-order today from T-Mob. I just have. Flext 35 + Web N Walk plus, £42.50pcm. Kaiser was £70. And there's that £5 off your monthly line rental on anything above Flext 35 which appears on your bill according to the bloke I talked to.
Bit sore about the £70 but all in, happy! Just gotta find a 6Gb micro SD card now.....
EDIT: Right, got my Tytn II, a 6Gb card and the slingbox should be arriving tomorrow! First impressions of the phone are that its a fantastic bit of kit, the tilt screen works well and T-Mob's 3G is ace over my old Orange contract. Loving it:) Not used to the HTC Home screen, as I've got SPB PocketPlus on my other PDA which I've got really used to navigating round, but the HTC version works well for key phone functions...just need a better way to launch apps!
...only gripes so far is the tiny stylus which I've given up on in favour of a retracted pen, and there's a very small amount of flex in the phone when the tilt screen is closed, which was disconcerting when I first started using it in anger (the front panel moved ever so slightly on the hinge). All in all, love it, and highly recommend it. Will post about the slingbox when I get it working!!!
This phone is certainly on my short-list. I do like the Toshiba G900, as well. What would open my wallet up is a 5" UMPC with a keyboard. A Sony U series or OQO would do very nicely, tyvm. I don't think it will happen soon, though. That being said, HTC has just released the "Shift", so we're heading down the right lines.
I've heard of 6gb cards. Just got myself a 4gb (turned up - from eBay - and found it wasn't miniSD but microsSD... WOW!) and thought that was as high as you get, for mini/micro. Do you mind telling me where you got your 6gb card from, please?
iIRC, Slingbox is network media sharing kit. Are you planning to use that with your Kaiser? If so, HOW?
Unrelated:
I've heard there's a 4450 and a 4550 model. (Source.) Can anyone tell me the differences, if any? (Or just clarify what tha hall's goin' on...)
Sorry for being very slow you've probably sorted this long ago as 6Gb cards are pretty common but got mine (Sandisk) from MobyMemory. Play.com, Amazon - loads of big etailers have them now. If you haven't got one yet, the 8Gb cards are very close to appearing though...
Well it basically takes your home TV signal (digibox output/sky plus etc), and you plug it into your router. The magic little Slingbox then compresses your video signal, blasts it onto the interweb and then you use their viewing software on a remote PC or phone to connect to it. Then voila, you can fully control your on telly from the anywhere in the world!
Better still it comes preconfigured for lots of mainstream set top boxes (I have a Humax and it worked out of the box). So if I press 'guide' on my Kaiser when I'm connected to the Slingbox I'll see my little 7 day TV guide pop up and I can use cursor key mappings to navigate, watch recorded programs, set things to record etc. Fantastic bit of kit!!
It automatically cuts back on image quality to match the bandwidth its getting on your phone to maintain a smooth picture, and while it obviously isn't perfect the novelty of actually watching your own TV somewhere else on your phone is great! Much better than the crap 'mobile TV' offerings with channels that were dedicated to handsets being specially configured (ala Virgin Lobster). This way, you get remote access to ALL the telly you have at home!
It obviously needs a reasonably good mobile data connection but given that most broadband upload speeds are 256k (at home where your router is 'broadcasting' your signal from), modern HSDPA connections can easily cope on the receiving end - probably less effective if you're out in the middle of nowhere with poor 3G coverage.
Its a bit of a data hog so wouldn't recommend unless you're on a big data package (I'm on 3Gb). But the results are ace! I'm now sad enough to watch the news on the way to work every day rather than reading the paper :)
Oh, and takes about fifteen minutes to configure it out of the box, piece of cake!
ok, i am thinking of getting one of these soon... but i just noticed...
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It has no IR!
common, i know its a little out of date, but its still the easiest way to beam contacts and dates and bluetooth is a PITA
am i the only one that thinks this will be a problem?