My new phone
This month I come to the end of my 18 month contract with O2, so on Friday morning, while in Edinburgh waiting for my train connection to Glasgow, I upgraded my mobile phone from a Nokia 5140i to an O2 Xda Orbit.
Which I imagine in car terms is a bit like going from a Vauxhall Astra to a BMW X5.
The O2 Xda Orbit has the following features:
- Windows Mobile 5.0 (Pocket PC Phone Edition) operating system
- GSM Quad-band (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) mobile telephone
- Wireless LAN 802.11b & g
- Built-in GPS (Global Positional System) running CoPilot Live
- Integrated 2 megapixel camera
- Micro SD memory expansion slot
- MP3 and Video playback
- FM radio
- … and stuff
I’ve still to set it up properly … not least because I needed to restructure the data in my Outlook Contacts as all my phone numbers had an initial “0″ and +4401333310140 isn’t a valid telephone number. Five-hundred and ninety contacts later I’ll soon be ready to sync and install the GPS software which arrived yesterday.
Expect a review soon.
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April 18th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Hey Gareth - I predict that you’ll totally totally love the Orbit. I have the O2 XDA 2s which is one or two steps back in time from yours in time. Mobile 5.0, built-in GPS, FM radio and slightly higher pixels camera are the obvious improvements since the 2s was made. As Mrs Thatcher once famously said, ‘Just rejoice!’
April 18th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Cool. Much like my i-Mate. Only a week ago I installed Opera Mini on it and I can totally recommend it as being much better than the preinstalled IE.
The built in GPS is the one feature you’ve got that I wish I had, but I’m planning on getting a bluetooth GPS thingy anyway. Will you ever use the FM radio?
One word of warning. Don’t leave Skype on outside of wi-fi zones. I did this once by accident and then discovered £20 of credit had gone in a very short period of time. GPRS costs!