My girlfriend just got an iPhone 4 with Telus, but she was very disappointed that they didn't have the Nexus One. I told her she should get the desire if she wants the Nexus, as they are very similar.
One thing she likes about the iPhone 4 is that she can use her skype account (to make calls to other skype users AND phones (as she pays skype monthly for that service) with it.
I just wanted to ask if anyone knew if the Desire can do this as well, or not?
Found out. Not available as of Sep 28, 2010. Disappointing.
Fring can make Skype calls to your Skype contacts. I dont know if you will see Skype for Android on a general market basis any time soon. It sucks, I know.
In July, Fring disabled Skype support, and as far as i'm aware have not reenabled it.
I won't be a Skype customer for much longer if they don't release a proper voip solution for Android.
Currently they are more interested in carrier lockins, which is why you can only get VOIP Skype on Verizon. Some other operators, eg 3 in the UK, still offer a form of Skype Lite, but for most of us Skype is a closed door.
Regards, Dave
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Has anyone got any news on this topic, 02 say January?
How about a search on this site? A great number of us have been using BB service since 1.72.181 came out.
BB for Blue Angel... not XDAII
Dear k_kirk,
I believe that houssie was looking for BB for Blue Angel (since he posted his question on the BA forum), not for the XDAII serie (an 1.72 is clearly an XDAII rom).
I am looking for that too.
You're right of course. Apologies to Houssi & all offended.
I've been in touch with O2 who advise they are planning on a ROM upgrade at the beginning of next year to include Blackberry Support for the XDA IIs.
I was in a store in Glasgow and they advised to download the XDA II rom as this is effectively the same(!) but needless to say I didnt download it and sought advice from O2 Data support.
T-Mobile are only pushing Blackberry on the RIM devices at present, no idea if they are planning on extending to the MDA and Orange are just trialling Blackberry with the business customers at present - again no information on the SPV.
On a sidenote, it took almost 6 phone calls to various "customer service" individuals until I got a definitive answer.
Also, does anyone know if Vodafone are releasing their version anytime soon as the Company I work for use Vodafone and I'm pretty sure they'd be interested in it.
Thanks
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justa little note that i have a xda2 device with blackberry on it. could someone tell me what its for?
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T-Mobile are only pushing Blackberry on the RIM devices at present, no idea if they are planning on extending to the MDA and Orange are just trialling Blackberry with the business customers at present - again no information on the SPV.
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FWIW, T-Mobile DE just released the BlackBerry Connect software for their MDA II's, so hopefully that's a good sign for the rest of the T-Mobile international companies!
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justa little note that i have a xda2 device with blackberry on it. could someone tell me what its for?
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Its 'push' software for email, it'll send your mail rather than having to dial up and sync with your mail account
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Blackberry and XDA IIs
Is there an alternative to Blackberry for the XDA IIs in the meantime. I was using BB on my XDA and is was excellent - having just upgraded to the IIs, and found no Blackberry I'm in a slight dilemma.
celtic
See this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=14927
Unfortunately, the demo its offering appears to be scheduled retrieve rather than push - although if you go onto the smartner website, O2 UK is listed as being a partner. Strangely enough there's nothing on the O2 website about them or the service.
I've signed up to the demo and it seems ok, although I'm not convinced.
Oh and the demo will only allow you IMAP or Pop3 access, no desktop client or anything for corporate email.
Maybe once O2 offer it properly it will be a proper push service.
Have you looked at O2's xmail? Again its a retrieval service, although they're offering a 3 month free trial and it will hook into your existing exchange environment by way of a desktop connector - downside is that your pc has to be on permanently for the service to stay connected.
http://www.o2.co.uk/xmail
Cheers
Ok, I'll give the smartner a bash - got to be worth trying for three monthst - by then, maybe BB will be available on the IIs
Thanks
Ahhhhh.....seems to work....interesting.
Only allows one email account though :-( Shame!!!!
Give xmail a bash - its not restricted to O2 customers from what I've read in the [email protected] on the pages, and you can add up to two other accounts to that for it to poll them for you.
Just about to test it meself, I'll let you know what happens - problem [email protected] got is that my SSL certificate is self signed and their servers dont like it - time to enable non-ssl comms i think.
Added my home email to the xmail profile, but it still only accesses the part of the setup thats connected to the desktop connector.
It is possible to access the other mail via the web portal, but not much point since I can just configure it via pocket inbox.
Roll on Blackberry
Tried xmail when it first came out - was a bit flaky to say the least. And of course you needed the desktop client to be running for your XDA to get the mail!!!! Which is no good for me.
Like you say - bring on the BB rom update - cannot be that far away now really - especially as it works on the XDA II - how different can it be!!!!!
t-mobile releases blackberry for MDA III
t-mobile has released an update to the MDA III with blackberry i"m using it and it's great note that the rom is 1.22.01GER I tried loading the cab to the english 1.22.00 wwe but it doesn't work. iT DOES DOWNLOADING OF ATTACHMENTS and calendar updates over the air.
I take it you have subscribed to a T-mobile blackberry data plan?
Oooooo sounds interesting...not sure I want to learn German though for the use of Blackberry!!!!!
Yes, the 02 version on XDA II will do attachments too - very cool indeed.
We just need 02 to get themselves into gear and release a rom update!
Not sure if you've seen it elsewhere on the site, but apparently O2 havent arranged a support contract with RIM, so until they do I suspect we may be waiting.
But if they can do it for the XDA II then they must have something in place for it!!!!!
I have emailed a few people I know at 02 this evening to try and establish what the state of play is.
Quite frankly the more I think about it, I can see me sending the IIs back to them within 14days!!!
I am currently a Blackberry user and a former iPAQ user. With the Blue Angel now supporting Blackberry Connect, I will finally be able to have a Blackberry and a real MS PDA all in one.
I called O2 to confirm that the XDA II supports Blackberry. I was told that the XDA does but the XDA II does not and will never.
Can I just update the XDA II software to get the Blackberry Connect?
Thanks.
I'd phone back and hope you get someone else.
As I understand it the XDA doesn't support blackberry, the XDAII does (as I have it working on one) and the XDAiis will support it in early 2005 (supposedly).
I'm waiting on the XDAiis Blackberry Connect myself as I have two devices sat here useless without it (or at least useless in so far as I could have bought XDAII's and a WiFi SD card)
On http://www.my-xda.com site, the XDA II supports Blackberry but no mention of Blackberry on the XDA IIi/s pages.
In the O2 Business brochure that I picked up from the O2 shop yesterday, it says "Blackberry Connectivity Coming Soon" for both the IIs and IIi.
That is the problem I always had with O2, depending on who you speak you get different answers.
nadimg said:
On http://www.my-xda.com site, the XDA II supports Blackberry but no mention of Blackberry on the XDA IIi/s pages.
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http://www.my-xda.com/xda2s_what.html
There's a bit just down the page which says:
Coming soon... From early 2005 the Xda IIs will support BlackBerry® connectivity so your email messages can be automatically pushed to your Xda IIs - with no dial-up and no waiting. Come back to this site soon for more information.
So it's there, which makes it even more suprising the guys on the phone don't know about it. Might be worth reading it back out to them when you phone
I've quoted the website in numerous emails to o2 data support.
the problem is that they have had a lot of compatibility issues between the device and RIM which apparently they are working on.
If I hear anything I'll let you all know.
I went into deatil with Blackberry on this @ TechED and also since then. They called me backn in response to my inquireies @ TechED. They even got a Cingular Rep to call me back and that was amazing in itself. The Cingular Rep gave me another contact and I have left him a VM (today).
I personally saw it working on an O2 Blue Angel @ Teched, I played with it a while, maybe I should have ROM dumped it but I was there for legitamate business and getting kicked out would not have been wise on my part.
Anyway, Yes it works on it!!!
Blackberry is going to contiue not giving us the SW, while Cingular is back in bed with GoodLink, so by the time Microsofts solution has fully matured, Blackberry is going to wonder where all of their clients went. Seems to me that they would hold onto us and keep the revenue flowing for as long as posible. Bad move on Blackberry's part in my opinion.
Raptor
With my current O2 Blackberry, I used the Vodafone realease to upgrade to version 4.0 from 3.7. In 4.0 there were some new Internet features that were not available in 3.7.
I used the Vodafone upgrade as O2, just like the XDA II x software, is always a few months behind. In the case of Blackberry it is 6 months and counting.
Can I proceed the same way with the XDA IIs? That is can I use the latest T-Mobile MDA softare to upgrade the O2 XDA IIs?
I don't really mind having a T-Mobile user interface as long as the BB Connect works.
Thanks.
Dunno
I've got the T-Mobile software on mine. It talks to the PC no problem and it becomes my blackberry device but I can't get GPRS connection.
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...but I can't get GPRS connection.
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You need to set the APN to blackberry.net and have O2 give you access to it (for a fee).
Sorry for being dense but how do I set the apn?
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Sorry for being dense but how do I set the apn?
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No idea. I am still using the Blackberry 7230. The XDA IIs is still in the box. I should start setting it up later this week or next week.
Check out this link:
http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail.asp?r=50&a=224
This was written when the BB Connect was only released with T-Mobile Germany.
Note that to use BB, O2 will need to add the BB Bolt-On to your plan.
OK ta, will give it a go tomorrow and let you know how I get on. I wouldn't have thought that T-Mobile will want to play ball though as I'm not there customer and am trying to get a competitors device to work using their software. But again will give it a go tomorrow.
I've already got BB on my plan, it's a sim card from a 7730 that I want to use in the XDA.
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i am on O2 network in the UK.
now HTC desire has the conference calling (3 way calling) ability, but i am not able to do so.
i talked to O2 CS people and they don't know about it and i looked at online forums and it seems conference calling is only available to iphone tariffs.
is there any way that i can use the facility from my desire, without changing the tariff??
thanks
I have the same problem although I have a HTC Diamond, well Ignito now (still the same phone) The phone supports conference calling in the way an iphone does, yet O2 have a very silly set up with their own version of conference calling which has charges and certain numbers to call and codes, blah blah.
They only offer the more standard conference call to iphone.....
I don't think there is a solution available.
Hi,
I live in Canada but managed to get a zune HD over a year ago. I also setup a USA addressed live ID and purchase zune pass cards in the US(buddy in US does it for me)...
If I get a WP7 is this going to work with the USA live id or will it see I'm matched with a Canadian cell phone provider and disallow the zune pass to work?
Thanks.
LIP
I've seen posts where others are using US based ID's and CC's to access the Marketplace from non WP7 countries. So my guess is you'll be OK.
somebody has to be the guinea pig...
If I could get a dell venue pro up here in Canada...or even get the samsung unit from somewhere other than Rogers(Robbers) I would be all over it...I'll get this phone anyway...I think in the long term it will be one of the better platforms, if not the best.
I haven't had any problems yet.
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somebody has to be the guinea pig...
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My US Zune Pass ran out 2 months ago, but I still have my old laptop setup to work with it. So added my UK Omnia7 and linked to the US ID, without any problems.
I could sync MP3's, Videos even Zune Pass sub'd music to the phone. All played fine except the sub'd music, that wanted to check my usage rights.
And the phone it worked fine too, sync'd with my US hotmail account while still using my UK sim card.
So the zune pass (subscription music) doesn't seem to work for you ZaForD?
Anyone outside of USA (anyone who resides where zune pass does not officially work) have a zune pass working on their wp7 phone?
Im going to be moving to spain here pretty soon for 9 months and am curious if anyone knows anything about plans and usage over there. I haven't seen a single carrier that offers unlimited texting (most are 9c per text). Considering I text like a mad man that's not gonna work.
Any experience here?
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Where are you moving from?
Where are you going to be texting the most?
If you are from the US or Canada, the BEST/Cheapest thing to do before moving would be: Get a Google Voice number, and give all of your friends that number.... or transfer your soon-to-be dormant cell number that everyone has to Google Voice... then find a texting plan there (probably a prepaid plan) for all your Spanish friends.
This way, you can continue to text all your US and Canada friends for free on google voice, and then have local texting in Spain for whatever the Spanish rates are. If you get yourself "GrooveIP" or another VOiP app, you can also call US and Canada numbers for free if you have a good data or wifi connection.
lafrad said:
Where are you moving from?
Where are you going to be texting the most?
If you are from the US or Canada, the BEST/Cheapest thing to do before moving would be: Get a Google Voice number, and give all of your friends that number.... or transfer your soon-to-be dormant cell number that everyone has to Google Voice... then find a texting plan there (probably a prepaid plan) for all your Spanish friends.
This way, you can continue to text all your US and Canada friends for free on google voice, and then have local texting in Spain for whatever the Spanish rates are. If you get yourself "GrooveIP" or another VOiP app, you can also call US and Canada numbers for free if you have a good data or wifi connection.
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That's actually a really good idea, I have a Google Voice number but I had forgotten I can port my current number to GV. I was planning on using WhatsApp for keeping in contact with home but GV is way better. Thanks for the idea!
I'm moving from California to Madrid, although it was a great idea, the phone number wasn't really my main concern. My biggest problem as of now is finding out if spain has a (preferably prepaid) plan that has unltd texting, much like my tmobile prepaid does now.
I know there are TONS of carriers out in Madrid which makes searching a little bit hard, which is why I thought I'd ask you guys
also, porting my number to GV will eliminate MMS abilities right?
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also, porting my number to GV will eliminate MMS abilities right?
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Unfortunately at this time, yes.
However friends can just use your email to send stuff to.
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There's movistar (telefonica), orange and vodafone. Those are the main ones. There are also smaller ones but text and data is really expensive in Spain.
Oh and avoid vodafone at all costs.
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Unfortunately at this time, yes
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Not entirely true. You can receive picture mail from Google voice but it just gets forwarded to Gmail. They don't need to send to Gmail unless they want to. As far as sending yea you can't through Google voice. I hope that made sense.
There are plans with 350 SMS/month (to Spain), data (500MB at HDSPA+ speed, limited at 2G after that) and calls (350min) for 40€.
But if you want cheaper plans you must consider:
-Pepephone 651MB at 6'90€ + calls at 2'7 c€/min (Vodafone based)
-Simyo 650MB at 6'85€ + calls at 3 c€/min (Orange based)
Spain has a very good coverage of 3G data, nobody uses SMS here now. Whatsapp its recommended.
buginside said:
There are plans with 350 SMS/month (to Spain), data (500MB at HDSPA+ speed, limited at 2G after that) and calls (350min) for 40€.
But if you want cheaper plans you must consider:
-Pepephone 651MB at 6'90€ + calls at 2'7 c€/min (Vodafone based)
-Simyo 650MB at 6'85€ + calls at 3 c€/min (Orange based)
Spain has a very good coverage of 3G data, nobody uses SMS here now. Whatsapp its recommended.
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Perfect, exactly the kind of response I was looking for. So nobody texts there meaning everybody calls or everybody uses whatsapp?
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greensnow said:
Perfect, exactly the kind of response I was looking for. So nobody texts there meaning everybody calls or everybody uses whatsapp?
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Yes, that is correct.
i wish the US was like that, US carriers suck, they only pay attention to extremely large markets and then they over charge for the stupidest things.