I have always had Nokia, served me well, my present business phone is a 6310i. Paired it using BT with the TR fine, but not been able to set up a GPRS connection yet. I have placed an order for the Sony Ericsson P900, but I am not so sure now, as I already have a Clie, its only a PEG J30, but it does the job, a P900 would make that redundant!

The Sony Ericsson T630 in Frosty Silver looks nice, I think I will have to go for a Sony, just about everything else I have is Sony now!

The Sony Ericsson phones are pretty popular TR companions here, Drachen and I have T616s, gr00vy has a Z600, and bclub03 has a T630. They are more dependable than Nokia phones in terms of connectivity, I’ve never had a problem with mine. A P900 might be a bit of overkill since you already have a nice PDA and a subnotebook, a small Bluetooth-enabled phone might work out better.

[quote author=“cellery”]The Sony Ericsson phones are pretty popular TR companions here, Drachen and I have T616s, gr00vy has a Z600, and bclub03 has a T630. They are more dependable than Nokia phones in terms of connectivity, I’ve never had a problem with mine. A P900 might be a bit of overkill since you already have a nice PDA and a subnotebook,
a small Bluetooth-enabled phone might work out better.

What service are you guys using for your Erricson Phones?

gr00vy (LA) and I (NYC) are on T-Mobile while cellery is on AT&T.

Well I’ve got a P900. Maybe it is a bit overkill but if your PDA is getting a bit long in the tooth might it not be easier to carry just one device around?

Also does your PDA have Bluetooth in it or can it be added to it? I mean for me one of the most useful things is just being able to check my e-mail while I’m out. It’s nice and easy to reply if required because of pen input. I know lower phones can check e-mails but they have much smaller screens and are much harder to write a longish e-mail on.

It opens Word and Excel attachments, I can unzip files on it, I’ve got a reasonable amount of MP3Pro files on it, I’ve normally got a Video of something like South Park, Simpsons or something to watch if I’m stuck in a location with nothing much to do, etc etc.

It’s a good phone but as long as you stick with a Sony phone at least I’m sure you’ll have no troubles connecting it to your TR with bluetooth.

Thanks Fastlane, certainly a good endorsment for the P900! I think I will definatly go for a Sony E phone this time.

Adding to the list… a modest T68i on T-Mobile in DC area.

Well I did it, bought the Sony E P900, if you pick one up, you’ll want one! It’s as desirable as the TR, not tried linking via bluetooth yet, but the way its linked to other kit, I don’t see a problem. This isn’t a phone, its almost a mini TR!

I don’t know how reliable this is BUT - it looks like Verizon is finally gonna step up.  Check out the V710 accoding to this article is due in March.

http://www.phoneschat.com/forums/showthread.php?s=20781a21dacfdcefabf53ee31c344465&threadid=1290&highlight=Verizon+Bluetooth

Well I’m glad you like it Phil and great choice. Your right, it’s an amazing piece of kit.

If your interested in software for the phone and a forum like this for it then I recommend   . It’s a great site.

Also it’s one of the first phones where you can flash update the firmware from home without having to take it to a service centre. It has to be plugged into the USB dock station to do that but everything else can be done with Bluetooth. You can do that here  

Also I’d recommend getting some really cool MP3 ring tones/SMS alerts, it makes you stand out when your phone rings or you get a message

Thanks for the tips Fastlane, it’s an amazing phone, very happy with it, need some new tones, so will be taking your advice! The built in ones are highly embarrassing.

The 32 meg Sony memory stick duo at 32 meg is a bit small, I am waiting for a Sony 256 MB Memory Stick PRO Duo.

The Mp3 playback is impressive, even with the supplied headphones. The screen is excellent as can be expected from Sony. My clie is redundant! Internet works fine on GPRS as well.

Its also very light weight, I was suprised.

Phil, you don’t want to get a 256MB Duo Pro as the P900 won’t work with that. While hardware wise it can work with them the OS doesn’t support them yet at least. The biggest card it can address is a 128MB Duo. It’s a bit of a shame but then on a smart phone I find that’s plenty for me.

I use Nero to encode my MP3’s to MP3Pro as the phone supports them and it lowers the file size quite a bit. Also lower bitrates which I wouldn’t normally have on my computers sound plenty good enough on the phone. Still up to you on that one.

I mean my South Park or Simpsons clips when encoded come to about 20MB’s. The video quality is great as is the sound.

Glad you love it.

Also check Esato.com forum for P900 discussion.    I love my P900 too.  I just switch over from my T610 + CLIE UX50 combination to P900 all-in-one PDA phone   So far I love it.

Any recommendation on the softwares James?

OK lets see,

I’ve tried quite a few programs, here is my recommendations.

AgileMessenger is free and connects to AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and Jabber, very good Instant Messaging program.

IM+ also connects to the 4 major protocols only not free so Agile might be your better bet there.

If you mostly just use MSN however jMSN Pro is easily the best MSN client or just IM client around.

All the Handy products are good, I use Handy Safe for a secure area to store important information which people won’t be able to get to if I lose or have my phone stolen. It also syncs to a program you run on your computer so you can easily add entries on the computer or the phone. These are all made by a company called EpocWare.

Without a doubt you must have Opera installed on your phone. It’s free and makes browsing full websites a job.

There isn’t too much in the way of Office apps at the moment but QuickWord and QuickSheet are both Word and Excel compatiable, come together and work well enough to read documents and make small changes while your on the go, assuming you have no laptop nearby of course.

If you do a lot of driving or travelling then Wayfinder is a great app. You can either get a standalone version where you pick your locations and search or you can get the full version with a bluetooth GPS system which will guide you and talk you to your location as you drive. All the maps and directions are stored on remote servers and downloaded when required over GPRS. It’s extremely quick, uses very little data and the advantage is they support many countries.

Again because I do a lot of driving, Fuel Manager is great for storing information on how much fuel you put in your vehicle, prices, miles per gallon, etc.

WorldMate is good to get the weather for places around the world, currency convertions where it will automatically get the latest rates off the net, measurement conversations, etc. However there is a free currency converter as well which is good and also updates off the net.

Finally I have Telnet for Telnet/SSH/SSH2 support, FTP800 for FTP, Quirc for IRC (Free), Mobipocket Reader for eBooks, ZipMan for zip handling but there is a jZip I think it’s called that is free. Also SymZip looks better than ZipMan but I didn’t notice it at the time. Opps. Hehe.

Oh if you like games then there is an almost perfect Lemmings port. Unfortantely the guy that made it had to pull it only a few hours after posting it because of copyright but if you want it then there are places to find it. It’s amazing.

Other games I have on there at the moment are, Atomic (Free), Gridlock (Free), JexedP800 (Free), LoPan (Free), MobileOthello (Free), Musbel Tetris (Free), Qbubble (Free), TwinFruits (Think that was free, cannot remember to be honest), ZCheckers (Free).

Hope this helps you out. Just check out the Application list at My-Symbian for a more full list. There is an awful lot of apps considering the first UIQ device was the P800 so it’s still a relatively new platform.

Thanks fastlane, I will check on the 128 duo, its easy to get hold of as well! Its a great phone.

Thanks James.  I will definitely check them out.  I use Agile and I think it works better than IM+ for some reason (I have both actually )  I use FileMan for the advanced file manager on the top of the basic included file manager.