Hey people, I have a question if I may...
I have a p7500 for my mum and she has a sim card she uses. Now with the recent voice call patch now functional, I want her to use this as her main phone, however, using a tablet as a phone out and about can be quite inconvenient.
Here lies the question. I am after a device, preferably bluetooth, which can be used as a functioning handset.
I. E. It has a mic and a speaker, a touch screen to dial numbers and text, basically all the phone features, but without the phone... This will allow my mum to use the smaller phone type device to make calls and texts while out and use the tablet as normal when in the house
Now some of you may be thinking that this device cannot exist! But there is something similar out there, the Samsung Yepp yp-p2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_YEPP#YP-P2
The only drawback this has is its lack of an internal speaker thus requiring the use of headphones, which isn't ideal...
Your thoughts?
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skaif said:
I want her to use this as her main phone
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And what does your mum want?
What you're suggesting seems like a whole lot of aggro for a gaint step backwards. Buy her a cheap phone, it'll be far easier.
If you want to persist maybe you could connect a hands free car kit to her shopping trolley. Battery might be a bit heavy though
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HTH
Thanks for this pointless reply
Ideally my mum would like 2 devices which share the same number. Now it's not possible to clone the sim, I am looking at alternatives
I already have bought her a cheap phone, but this means she cannot use the sim in the tablet, which means she cannot use 3g which means she cannot call or text from the tablet. She gets 3gb worth of data a month and this is going to waste at the moment.
In terms of your opinion and attempted humor, thanks, its funny. :-[
In terms of going a step backwards, connecting a tab to a handset? Really? In the future if you have no value to add, please refrain from posting
It's people like you who are giving the xda community a bad name
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Is it just me, or is there a shameless reseblance between the HD and the new Acer F900?
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lol i smell and HTC lawsuit underway haha
yeah but you know, with a touchscreen only device, there is little left to imagination...
at least it has tri band 3g. htc really went awry in reducing the range of supported bands in their latest handsets
Actually, the acer has a cleaner square look to it...
I wonder if they have managed to gid rid of the annoying fingerprints issue, looks cleaner as galaxys said
yes, but it does have a proper stylus... the touchHD one gets pretty uncomfortable after a while.
farkah said:
yes, but it does have a proper stylus... the touchHD one gets pretty uncomfortable after a while.
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Try and limit my time on stylus anyhow, don't use it to much to be honest unless and using file explorer or changing my registry
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Try and limit my time on stylus anyhow, don't use it to much to be honest unless and using file explorer or changing my registry
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At least 3 weeks ago I last pulled out the stylus.
jouh said:
At least 3 weeks ago I last pulled out the stylus.
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Thats the way to do it!!!!
Curiosity, what apps do you have installed for keyboard, file exporer etc?
I use the stylus to write quite a bit as the recognition is much faster than I can input using fingerkeyboard2 etc. For serious remote terminal, i use my bluetooth folding keyboard but that doesn't get much use. The stylus was the winning feature for me, something else over the iphone and others. I also use remote desktops and having a pointer is priceless.
For the most part though, i'll admit i never use the stylus with day to day messaging, phone calling etc ... but is sooo handy to have.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/04/asus-eee-pad-slider-and-transformer-are-here-for-those-that-can/
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Not sure what I think
EDIT: posted in wrong forum *sigh* Mods feel free to do what you wish
I think it is an underpowered netbook.
Looks ok but I think I will stick to my netbook.
I will stick with pure Google experience tablet ... The one without customization ... The one that will receive update directly ... The one that is BLESSED by Google!
I don't know which one, probably the XOOM ... The Motorola Android tablet.
I really can't understand the success of tablets. I see their potential as a casual browsing device, but they fill a hole between phones and computers which wasn't all that gaping. They are completely a luxury object, without the nature of practicality and necessity which phones and traditional computers have, and at the overblown price some are sold at, its a wonder they shift so many units.
But the weirdest thing, I think, is rear facing cameras on tablets. I mean, who wants to whip out a device the size of a book or larger to take a photo? And yet it seems to go unquestioned, even celebrated.
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Tablet is nice ... more portable compare to laptop ... and bigger screen compare to mobile phone.
I need one and I need one now
Because I can see me using it in the couch ... bed ... sofa ... etc.
And yes, I don't need rear camera .... and give me WIFI only ...
No wifi only = no deal ...
Corvidd said:
I really can't understand the success of tablets. I see their potential as a casual browsing device, but they fill a hole between phones and computers which wasn't all that gaping. They are completely a luxury object, without the nature of practicality and necessity which phones and traditional computers have, and at the overblown price some are sold at, its a wonder they shift so many units.
But the weirdest thing, I think, is rear facing cameras on tablets. I mean, who wants to whip out a device the size of a book or larger to take a photo? And yet it seems to go unquestioned, even celebrated.
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I was having dinner with one of my buddy and he was showing off his APP from his IPHONE and said that he can see everybody's real time location by typing in the phone number. Of course being me, i said "Yeah Right". So he type in my number and i was shocked that he was able to pick up my location within 10seconds. I asked what this app is called. His respond was...HELL NO I WON'T TELL YOU LOL...so now i am so eager to find out if anybody in here know this APP Name? Anybody?
Don't worry, this is impossible. Since you were having dinner with him, he probably just showed you the GPS position of his phone.
Have him use a persons number that isn't around.
Actually..that was my first thought, but i was wrong he showed me everything, but the name of the app
Its called iTrack and its a prank app. Location is the iPhone users current location
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I forget ... I think latitude? will find all your gmail friends .. I tired it for like 2 seconds, cause didn't want the wife to know where I was... yes I had an iphone at the time, wife had a droid
edit.... might be this ? http://techpp.com/2009/12/24/how-to-track-a-cell-phone-number/
Completely illegal, not impossible tho. He proably didnt show you the name of the app because you could google it and find out it was a gag & you just got duped!!!!
Google latitude does the actual track real time. If enabled on both devices. HTC hero won't work with it. Tried and tested.
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yeah bro, you got punked lol
Did you know that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary? Seriously, go look! http://m-w.com.
Omg thats nuts !!
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Did you know that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary? Seriously, go look! http://m-w.com.
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Probably a stoopid thread, but I can honestly say that this thing rocks!
Every smarty phone I've had to date had multiple things that made me go ARGGGGGHH.
my SIII has done everything I've asked of it. Bluetooth, data reception, wifi, phone reception etc has all been spot on.
Usually at some point on my previous phones I'd go.....wtf !?! But honestly, I have not said that yet. I've found that if it was unfamiliar or different than my previous phones, I usually like it once I figure it out.
Now Tmo's reception......not so good.
But I like Tmo though. After many bad experiences with other carriers, they've been a pleasure, over all, to deal with.
Positive rant over........
True. This phone is excellent. A joy to use and even after I have all my apps and settings loaded it is still lightning fast. Oh and the camera is great.
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Well that s4 proceessor handles a lot of that too. Qualcomm deserves some credit.
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ickster said:
Probably a stoopid thread, but I can honestly say that this thing rocks!
Every smarty phone I've had to date had multiple things that made me go ARGGGGGHH.
my SIII has done everything I've asked of it. Bluetooth, data reception, wifi, phone reception etc has all been spot on.
Usually at some point on my previous phones I'd go.....wtf !?! But honestly, I have not said that yet. I've found that if it was unfamiliar or different than my previous phones, I usually like it once I figure it out.
Now Tmo's reception......not so good.
But I like Tmo though. After many bad experiences with other carriers, they've been a pleasure, over all, to deal with.
Positive rant over........
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A different experience compared to our G2x's isn't it? Loving mine so far. You're in Texas so you may like this. I found a nice case at the T-Mobile store that is silver. Combined with the blue phone it looks great and is Dallas Cowboys colors!
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Well, mine won't do wifi tethering, FM radio, toggle LTE, or several other things. But that's all thanks to AT&T, not the phone itself
Can you help me please, as I don't really know about these things.
I found a HD2 on eBay UK, number: 160877136223 - I can't add a link as xda doesn't allow it.
My partners HD2 started failing about a month ago and thought I'd buy her a new one.
What do you think? Bargain? x
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Looks good & clean, how much is it if it's this one http://tinyurl.com/96j2tuq
have you considered other models? why the HD2 again?
Its a great phone and it looks good grats!
http://tinyurl.com/96j2tuq
Thanks mengfei that's the one (as your link shows) and currently only for eBay bidding/auction style only, so only time will tell how much I get it for, as most of the others are either heavily used or terrible sales lots. I've contacted the seller, who has been very friendly and and will happily allow me to collect it from him, as I'm local to his location in East London.
My partner always goes on about how good her HD2 is and (from what I remember) switches between Windows and Android often. I've been using a Huawei Ascend G300 for about a month now and though it's brilliant, her HD2 (when it worked) still would do better, so a new one would be best I feel.
The bids are still very low for it and the additional accessories will go down a treat for me, lol!
Does xda have a G300 forum, as I have some questions about it?
Actually it really a good phone no wait it's a Legendary phone the HD2!
with so may custom ROMs out there & yes you can even dual boot from it.
IF you can get it brand new at around $230 then it's a good buy since used ones go for around $150
http://tinyurl.com/96j2tuq
Thanks mengfei, the phone is new, has all basic accessories, some warranty even and more bits. It's currently still at a very low price, includes free recorded delivery and only a few hours left!! So I'm very hopeful to get at a bargain!!
Wish me luck everyone
Hey! If u want to buy this phone, and if u like this phone; don't put urself in a standarts like "typical female blonde" u r extraordinary person. U'll feel it when u have the legend believe me. (my english is bad sorry ^^)