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

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.

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.

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

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

Seems like it has some profiles power!!!

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

Doug

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.

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

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