Re: Pogo description

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

Oh yes mine had a duff battery and I returned it.  Aparently it dies if you
let it go flat and thats what happened on the shelf before I bought it.

You can upgrade the OS by a PC download to an mmc card and a button
combination on boot.

I may have got a couple of the GPRS statistics wrong as I was only told it
once and not paying too much attention.

Its a bit too bulky as a phone, barely fits in a shirt breast pocket and is
rubbery and makes you sweat (yuk)  It cant handle email attachements and I
could work out how to receive or send sms's from it.  The onscreen keyboard
is great - wish I could have that on my ipaq.

Matthew  (probably remember more stuff once I hit send again.)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Pogo description


> I had a £79 pogo from cpw last week.
>
> It has no external interfacing apart from the simm card, and mmc card
slot.
> You cant connect it to a pc to sync, it connects to pogouser.com to
> syncronise its data.  Its operating system as far as I can see is
Flash
> (thats macromedia flash) so you would be able to develop for it.  One
of
the
> forums mentions that someone is developing an office suite for it.  It
only
> has diary and address book (as well as email + web browsing) aps on it
(and
> some flash games which you can add more to) and an mp3 player which
works
> from mp3 on the mmc card.  Oh theres be built in phone of course.  The
> interface that you use to access your data on the web is the exact
same
one
> that you see on the pogo with a couple of options disabled.  The touch
> screen works well with the stylus which looks a bit hypodermic.  Its
> horrible to use as a phone but I was bringing up web pages at pretty
much
> the same speed as my asdl on the pogo with gprs.
>
> My friend got an orange pay as you go simm card and asked them to
convert
it
> to the virgin tariff, then he pays no standing charge for the phone
> connection but less than £10 a month to use the gprs side of orange. 
He
> gets 5 meg of transfer a month but he's had it before christmas and is
yet
> to exceed it.  You obviously wont be downloading mp3s onto it via gprs
but
> all the web transfers are  compressed before they enter the gprs
system so
> you get several hundred pages for your 5 meg a month.
>
> Hope this helps someone...
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] pogo's
>
>
> > I have been searching to see what the OS is. I would be
interested at
that
> price just for the parts alone. I am also trying to find out which
make of
> LCD it uses and part numbers. The touchscreen is easy to interface
too.
> Would make a nice HA interface if I could get the information I need.
I
> already have a source for a small Windows CE device that may drive it.
> >
> > Dave...
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Pankaj Dhokia
> >   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >   Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:14 PM
> >   Subject: [ukha_d] pogo's
> >
> >
> >   are pogos (of the pda type) any good? going cheap at car phone
> warehouse. £80.
> >
> >
> >
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