It's also quite heavy but although it doesn't come out well in the picture one of the things that is cool is once you get past all the issues of syncing it up then you can view .ppt, .pdf, .xls and .doc on it and with the reasonable screen they are quite viewable.
To get it to think about working you need to get the Activesync 4.0 developer preview version otherwise no drivers for it, after that it's plain (ish) sailing for any techy geek to get it working over bluetooth and IR (euch but i had to test it) although I still have one bug where Activesync refuses to actually sync over USB, however I don't care as would rather use BT.
It's a little sluggish performance wise but the camera features are fun with various modes including a neat panoramic mode, not on a level with autostich but combining the two should be cool so will try that and post to my flickr account soon. Would like to see the same features as Image store in the Nokia software to make life easier but should be ok, can simply sync over BT and they will be on laptop for stitching and posting :)
Video is good on full screen on the clips tried so far, will maybe try a full DVD rip to SD and see how that looks, Media player works fine and finds music ok, however you have to manually select memory card when playing them, oh and the two little speakers at the front are RUBBISH even for small speakers, however put some decent headphones in the standard jack and the quality is pretty damn good, on a par with the C500, HTC employ decent (for phones) audio circuitry it seems.
The best bit is that when you recieve a call the music pauses and when the call is finished the music resumes , now that is a feature I wanted for ages in a device like this :)
Swapping business cards works well over BT, IR but a glaring omission again is the lack of ability to send a contact to someone else via SMS !
that's it for now so will post some more later if i find out anything else fun and new or odd
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