Cool!

Finally, I can control my WM5 phone the way I could control my Symbian phone!

Now I’m curious. What did the Symbian based phone do that WM5 didn’t? Is there anything Spb missed that they should’v added?

I’ve not used a Symbian device for more than about 10 minutes so the more info the better~!

I joined the beta testing for this fairly late in the process but I honestly couldn’t find anything to get excited about. I bought Spb Mobile Shell shortly after it was released and it already has most of the features of this app. I use O2 Plus for profiles and it’s a lot more feature filled than the Phone Suite profiles applet.

It’s a gross understatement to say that “white-listing” each and every one of my clients, friends, and family does not appeal.

There was one tiny feature that I don’t have in any other app which was nice: on my call log it showed contact photos. Nice feature but not worth 2MB of my storage.

Melvyn, what do you mean by white listing?

Doug

Brandon’s review points out the flaw in the “Call Filtering” feature:

“The only thing I think that’s missing here is to have it automagically whitelist your contacts. Unfortunately at this time you have to manually select who is on the whitelist.”

Whitelisting is the opposite of blacklisting.

When you blacklist you keep that person from being able to ring your phone. Whitelisting is only allowing certain persons to be able to ring you. Sort of like a pre-approved caller list. Everyone else goes straight to voicemail.

I understand the concept perfectly. Your review makes clear the point that if you want to whitelist you’re going to have to spend a long time setting up the list.

Meanwhile…. there’s another review at pocketnow:
http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=reviews&id=946

That reviewer points out a couple of features I missed in my brief play and I’m tempted to reinstall to have another experiment with the app. I like the timed/scheduled profile switching. It’s something I’ve wanted for a long time and which (in my experience) is buggy and unreliable in O2 Plus.

The “Call reject with SMS message” feature looks good but AFAIK it’s in the free Mobile Secretary app from Microsoft. Since Mobile Secretary is already in my ROM, I’ll save nothing by uninstalling it.

Brandon,

For UIQ2 there was an application called MagicProfiles Pro that let you:

Create multiple profiles (like up to 11 of them).

Each profile allowed customization of:

ring and alarm tones and volume
use of white and/ or blacklists
fully automated SMS response to the activated list and all other callers
scheduling of profile changes
automated profile change based on location (cell tower ID)
automated profile changes based on key words or symbols in agenda entries (I used *f in my calendar to trigger flight mode and *m to trigger silent mode for scheduled meetings)
bluetooth status
radio (phone) status
and multiple other settings

What Phone Suite is missing is integration of what it offers (profile, blacklist, sms response…). That is what Magic Profiles is so good at. What pS does offer that MP didn’t is backlight settings (you couldn’t get there with Symbian 7.x, over which UIQ2.x was laid).

I have emailed my suggestions to SPB.

Regarding what Symbian phones do/ did that WM phones didn’t/ don’t. Ha! You’re kidding, right?

Simply put, Symbian Phones – 4 years ago – did what WM5 phones do now and what Palm phones never did. That said, the gap has closed tremendously in terms of stability and capabilities. Since there are no Symbian offerings with a keyboard that support the US 3G bandwidths, it is a WM5 phone for me now. But, my 8525 doesn’t particularly do more than my 4-year old P910a did – multi-media apps not withstanding. One huge advantage that WM phones have, though is better integration/ synchronization w/ Outlook.

I love these “my old device did everything your newfangled plaything dreams of” type post. Makes me reminisce about my Psion 5mx which had a word processor that is still ahead of the current Windows Mobile crop of WP apps. The database on that device also had speed, stability, and usability that more “modern” db apps can only wish for. Also, both of those fine applications were pre-installed. Ah the past……

I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Psions… never owned one. Seems everyone who did loved them.

Richard … thanks for the info.

Have you looked at the new offering from SBSH – PhoneWeaver?

http://www.sbsh.net/products/phoneweaver/

Seems like it has some profiles power!!!

I hope Spb can develop a tool like O2′s Dial Wizard for IIi (run Win98SE). I don’t like the Dial Wizard for O2 WM5 because many good features are missing. I would be more than happy to share what is good about O2 IIi Dial Wizard, please email me. Thank you.

ops, sorry, a typo in my previous message, I meant Win2003SE, not 98SE.

some of the O2 IIi Dial Wizard features:
O2 Dial Wizard – Introduction

The O2 Dial Wizard is an easy-to-use dialer application that cuts down on the number of steps needed to make a local or overseas call. It enables faster and simpler dialling from your O2 device. With this application, you no longer need to store the same phone number in different formats with different dial prefixes to make a call from your Contacts database. There is also no need for you to key in a long list of prefix digits like calling card numbers, PIN and access numbers to make a call using a calling card. The O2 Dial Wizard does it all for you. All you have to do is to locate the contact name from the dial pad and press the Dial Wizard key. Dial Wizard will call up all the necessary dialing sequence.

This software is provided to you ‘As Is’ and does not come with any warranties, expressed or implied. As such, we do not guarantee that it will be non-infringing, free from glitches, or suitable for sale.

How to download
If you have already registered your Xda IIs, Xda II mini, Xda IIi, please use “O2 Connect” on your device to download O2 Dial Wizard.

What do Symbian phones give you that WM phones don’t? An archaic, unintuitive, hard to use interface that you spend more time learning than actually using. WM works the same way as your desktop PC (same general layout as Windows and any other modern GUI-based OS) so if you can use your desktop PC, you can use a WM phone. Everyone knows what a Start button is.

Symbian? Very pretty screen. Bugger me if you can actually find anything useful on the damned things. Plus, virtually none of them come with a touch-screen, so you’re forced to use the navigation pad to move around.

Hi,

I own a Qtec9600 with WM 5.0 . I just can not find group SMS feature on it? Can you advise if I have to buy extra application .
thnx

works good in conjunction with spb mobile shell