Ben
15th April 2005, 02:31 AM
Using Advanced Features:
A range of viewers come bundled with the 6680 on the included memory card. Remember that when you remove the memory card these programs will no longer be accessible. If you buy a larger memory card, like I did, then I recommend using a memory card reader to copy the contents of the smaller card to the larger one. That way you wont be swapping cards every five minutes. You must format all memory cards you wish to use in the Nokia 6680 if you wish to avoid any glitches that might arise through formatting elsewhere.
While the phone can open a multitude of formats of files for your viewing, I specifically tried PDF and DOC the ones youre most likely to come across. I dont know about you, but having Power Point presentations sent to my mobile doesnt happen all too often. I immediately noticed that the Document viewer failed to show any of the embedded Word images, where as the PDF viewer displayed the PDF file perfectly. Ok, there was a lot of horizontal scrolling around the PDF, but it was all there and I was very impressed.
As well as being able to download these attachments from incoming emails, you have the ability to set up email polling. This connects automatically to your mailbox and downloads the headers of any new emails waiting. You then choose which emails to view on the handset meaning you dont pay extra for downloading SPAM. Rich text formatted emails are stripped, but hyperlinks remain. I havent tried full blown HTML email, but I assume its still viewable. Theres a trick to setting up your email, however, which is a little more complicated than Id have liked. By default, Orange especially have different Access Points that you use for each network task you want to perform. For example, your MMS is sent using a different Access Point to the one you use for Web Browsing. You can only have one Access Point open at a time, so in order to allow all my applications to work at once Ive set everything to Orange Internet thatll still work afterwards. This includes email, browsing, Agile Messenger and VRadio (Ill come to these later). Your MMS will probably have to stay with the correct access point, and some functions on Orange World probably wont work correctly using Orange Internet either the correct setting if you run into trouble is Orange GPRS WAP. A word of warning: If the application you are using is connected via an access point other than the one your Email uses then you will be disconnected every time your email polling kicks in. If you dont intend to use email polling then you dont need to worry as much.
The usual comprehensive calendar, to-do, wallet and file manager tools are also available along with many others, but if I covered all of these in this review then Id be depriving you of some serious alone-time with the instruction manual. So, Ill let you explore them for yourself. Needless to say, theres a powerful set of tools, and I doubt youll use all of them.
A range of viewers come bundled with the 6680 on the included memory card. Remember that when you remove the memory card these programs will no longer be accessible. If you buy a larger memory card, like I did, then I recommend using a memory card reader to copy the contents of the smaller card to the larger one. That way you wont be swapping cards every five minutes. You must format all memory cards you wish to use in the Nokia 6680 if you wish to avoid any glitches that might arise through formatting elsewhere.
While the phone can open a multitude of formats of files for your viewing, I specifically tried PDF and DOC the ones youre most likely to come across. I dont know about you, but having Power Point presentations sent to my mobile doesnt happen all too often. I immediately noticed that the Document viewer failed to show any of the embedded Word images, where as the PDF viewer displayed the PDF file perfectly. Ok, there was a lot of horizontal scrolling around the PDF, but it was all there and I was very impressed.
As well as being able to download these attachments from incoming emails, you have the ability to set up email polling. This connects automatically to your mailbox and downloads the headers of any new emails waiting. You then choose which emails to view on the handset meaning you dont pay extra for downloading SPAM. Rich text formatted emails are stripped, but hyperlinks remain. I havent tried full blown HTML email, but I assume its still viewable. Theres a trick to setting up your email, however, which is a little more complicated than Id have liked. By default, Orange especially have different Access Points that you use for each network task you want to perform. For example, your MMS is sent using a different Access Point to the one you use for Web Browsing. You can only have one Access Point open at a time, so in order to allow all my applications to work at once Ive set everything to Orange Internet thatll still work afterwards. This includes email, browsing, Agile Messenger and VRadio (Ill come to these later). Your MMS will probably have to stay with the correct access point, and some functions on Orange World probably wont work correctly using Orange Internet either the correct setting if you run into trouble is Orange GPRS WAP. A word of warning: If the application you are using is connected via an access point other than the one your Email uses then you will be disconnected every time your email polling kicks in. If you dont intend to use email polling then you dont need to worry as much.
The usual comprehensive calendar, to-do, wallet and file manager tools are also available along with many others, but if I covered all of these in this review then Id be depriving you of some serious alone-time with the instruction manual. So, Ill let you explore them for yourself. Needless to say, theres a powerful set of tools, and I doubt youll use all of them.