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Forum for Phones Show Chat and Phones Show listeners and viewers.

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The Phones Show Chat

Two more of the great chat show podcasts are now available from Steve Litchfield & Co.
Phones Show Chat 58 – covers the Nokia N8, Acer Stream, the Nokia X3 and much more.
Phones Show Chat 59 – covers the Nokia X3, Sony Ericsson X10 Mini-Pro, Google Nexus One, the Nokia N8 and much more.
These great podcasts are a highly recommended way of keeping up to speed with the latest smartphones and gadgets. They’re interesting, fun and informative 🙂 🙂 🙂

The Phone Show (Video) & Phone Chat (Audio)

I’ve known Steve Litchfield for what must be about 18 years! Since he soon become one of the biggest names amongst Psion Palmtop enthusiasts. Steve these days produces some really great video and audio shows covering reviews etc on a wide range of smartphones; accompanied by Tim Salmon and a group number of other contributors.

The Phone Show (Video)
Programme: 122, 07/10/10 – Nokia N8, Motorola Flipout.
Programme: 121, 22/09/10 – New phones galore, Android v Symbian… the real world.
Programme: 120, 11/09/10 – The Top 5 720p-shooting smartphones, Nokia E5.

Note – many more great, informative and interesting video podcasts are available from http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/sshow/

The Phone Show (Audio Chat)
Chat No. 57, 04/10/10 – Nokia N8 (Symbian), HTC Desire (Android) and more…
Chat No. 56, 27/09/10 – Nokia E63, Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Flipout, Sony Ericsson X10 Mini and more…
Chat No. 55, 20/09/10 – Nokia E7, Kev abandons the iPhone 4! and more….

Note – more many great, informative and interesting audio podcasts are available from http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/sshow/chat.html

Highly recommended! 🙂 🙂 🙂

CoPilot 8 ‘Live’ on an iPhone, Part.3

CoPilot Info Bar is a very nice feature that I particularly like 🙂 it gives you the facility to quickly customise the ‘Info Bar’. Showing either:
a) Destination;
b) Current Road (useful if you need to let someone know where you are);
c) Nearest Town;
d) ETA & Distance;
e) ETA & Time Remaining (my favourite :-));
f) Speed & Distance.

Nokia N97 Mini – my current smartphone

This has got to be my quickest change of devices, it must have been, within one month, I fell in love with my new Nokia E55 but then decided that I really needed a fully QWERTY keyboard mainly due to the large amount of data entry I do with a smartphone and so have now fallen for the Nokia N97 Mini. See Nokia’s (N97 Mini) Spec. Buy the way, look out for my E55 on eBay, ecuse the plug!

Ok, where shall I start… I didn’t fancy the N97 Classic due to the bad press over the scratched lens problem (even though Nokia Care Centres have a fix) also didn’t like the wasted keyboard space with the D-Pad on the left. So, the N97 Mini runs the powerful Symbian S60 5th edition and is currently at software v.11.0.045 (dated 14-01-10).

What I like best:

• The overall size (113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm @ 138g);
• The very usable full QWERTY keyboard;
• The very useful Key/Screen slide lock;
• Nice Speakers (stereo?), Volume Up/Down, Camera Key, Central 3.5mm Jack;
• Nice Touch Screen – good with finger tip or PDA stylus;
• Nice Menu Key.
• What I’ve yet to get used to….. sliding open the keyboard, practice makes perfect! 🙂
• Oh and one software plug… Ovi Maps is just great! 🙂 🙂 🙂

What am I using the N97-Mini for: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, Email, Texts, Voice Recorder, FM Radio, MP3(Music)/MP4(Video) Player, Podcasts, Web Browser, Photo/Image Album, BBC iPlayer, Camera/Video, Facebook, Skype/MSN Messenger/Twitter, SatNav, Word/Excel/PDF viewer, YouTube, London Underground Map, Dictionary, Converter, Calculator and last by no means least… Phone Calls! (I did say earlier that I considered myself a power user!) I wonder how long I’ll use the N97-Mini for???

Need some help with a Palmtop or Smartphone device?

I’ve been using Palmtop Computers and more recently Mobile Smartphones for 21 years now! Supporting users of: Symbian Smartphones, Psion Palmtops, Palm, Blackberry, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, iPhone & iPod Touch and Android devices, otherwise known as PDAs, oh AND the great new PsiXpda UMPC with:

• TECHNICAL SUPPORT & TRAINING…
• Transfer of data from old PDAs (E.g. Psion, Palm, Pocket PC etc) to new PDAs (E.g. iPhone, Blackberry etc);
• Synchronisation of PDA data (Calendar, Contacts, Tasks & Notes) with PC software (E.g. Microsoft Outlook);
• Back Up of data on to PC/Mac or memory card;
• Configuration of email;
• Advice on upgrade options and
• MORE! (BUT, PLEASE NOTE – I don’t sell PDAs/Smartphones OR repair them)

Look no further, you won’t be dissapointed! get in touch with Ozzie on +44 (0)7889 374086 or via an email to ozziehallosman [at] btinternet [dot] com, also see http://www.palmtopman.com. I trust you can understand my email address (to avoid spamming software!!!).

Symbian S60 (5th Ed) – the Main Screen

The main ‘Content’ screen on a Symbian S60 5th Edition can be easily customised enabling very useful information, application shortcuts and four quick dial contact favourites.

On my Nokia N97-Mini as shown in the screenshot:

• for starters there’s a good sized clock at the top left (analogue if preferred)-tapping on this is a shortcut to the ‘Clock’ application 🙂
• top right is the day/date-tapping on this opens the ‘Calendar’ application 🙂
• below is the current profile name-tapping on this opens up the ‘Profile’ settings, so that you can easily change profiles 🙂
• then you’ve got up to 5 areas where you can add a choice of content or a choice of shortcuts, in my case:
  1)  Upcoming Calendar appointments 🙂
  2)  Incoming emails 🙂
  3)  Application shortcuts – Calendar, Notes, Messaging, Bluetooth 🙂
  4)  Application shortcuts – Wi-Fi Connectivity, Voice Recorder, Message Reader, FM Radio 🙂
  5)  Favourite Contacts Speed Dials – (in my case) Samantha / Adam / Alicia / Home
• The bottom middle is a ‘keypad’ launcher for dialling conventional numbers, on the lowest righthand corner is a changeable hot key, in my case ‘Contacts”.

Alternatively you could hide all of this really useful information by selecting ‘Options’ and choosing ‘Hide content’; then perhaps having a nice image/photo.