Leopard - the good and bad

My reviews so far:
The good -
• Finder is amazing - awesome way to see files without the need to launch apps
• Icons look great (the actual image)
• printing is a amazing now - the features and how to handle the files
• new dock looks cool and the new menu bar's translucent look
• Seems a little faster on the MacPro
• When highlighting text in a website and then holding down control, you can launch google maps without having to type the address in the field - good tim saver
• neat clipping feature for dashboard in safari
• stacks are awesome
• spaces are cool
The bad -
• AOL's re-sizing of windows doesn't work
• All embedded HTML in emails on AOL doesn't work
• Google Maps don't work
• The Graphic images of Apple's own Apps are blurry in cover flow in the finder
(Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, Apple Q Admin, Q MAster, Color App, DVD Studio Pro, LiveType, Motion, Soundtrack Pro)
• Where's Sherlock? Such a great App that had so much potential.
• wish there was a way to hide a group in address book for when you need it
i still need to mess with time machine
i give it 4 out 5 stars out of the box... (for those who care)

Ok add one more strange piece
If you disconnect the power supply the PB goes dead. but
Shutdown disconnect power supply.
Restart from battery
PB starts fine runs down relatively quickly
Reconnect the power supply but no change
redisconnect the power supply with the battery at 45% shuts down again
It's like a switch that doesn't want to open???
Enio

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N97 v20 Firmware the good and bad

Ok, so I've been laying with the new firmware for a day now and to all of those that haven't yet, and are experiencing issues, PLEASE, back your phone up and do a hard reset.
Then restore only essential things like contacts, pictures, videos etc. Not settings, these you can redo.
A hard reset will NOT delete any data stored on the mass memory.
I reckon it is essential to do the hard reset, this is a big firmware release, why not do nice a format and start from scratch? It is well worth it.
So the good:
Kinetic scrolling everywhere is bliss, I have 515 contacts and it scrolls beautifully. The only time I have some shudder is if my finger is a not perfectly dry. If it shudders, try scrolling with a fingernail, it seems to work for me.
Overall speed and responsiveness. The phone is a joy to operate now. Going from the menu button to the main menu and into settings or apps is now almost instantaneous.
Typing a message with the qwerty keyboard closed is much easier now. Before, the touch screen used to miss keypresses and I'd have to go back and retype the word slower which drove me nuts and I had to use the qwerty keyboard everytime I wanted to type a message.
Holding a key to bring up it's corresponding number is a welcome addition. The number change key is right on the bottom right of the keyboard which is awkward when you are typing quickly or typing a password with combinations of numbers and letters
When you hide the widgets on the home screen using a sideways swipe, the clock now stays, so you can neaten up your desktop but still see the time. I didn't like this at first, but it seems pretty logical. Although I would perhaps have moved the time and date to a smaller font and pushed it up to the top near the signal or battery strength indicators.
Browsing photo's is very nice now. The gallery is quick to load and once you open a picture you can easily browse with a side swipe.
The Accuweather widget seems to behave itself now.
The not so good:
There are some updates that seem to have been forgotten.
Where is Ovi maps 3.1?
Where are the letters on the dialer screen?
We are still waiting for Skype [Though this wasn't listed in v20 firmware]
Facebook app is still the same. I saw a video where it was mentioned that the FB app was updated. It's still not possible to upload videos or see your notifications.
For those having Issues with Ovi store and scrolling, you need to update it.
So thats it. v20 firmware is the firmware that should have been shipped with the phone, I doubt then that there would be so many gripes with it.
Once again folks, PLEASE do a hard reset, most of your issue post update will probably be resolved this way, but do not restore your settings, just contacts, pictures, messages etc.

SimonGie wrote:
Facebook app is still the same. I saw a video where it was mentioned that the FB app was updated. It's still not possible to upload videos or see your notifications.
I've notice the Facebook App seems a lot slower. especially when loading up your friends list Now takes 30secs+. Any attempt to navigate elsewhere causes the app to freeze up
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My Upgrade to Froyo Experience: The Good and the Bad.

I received a phone call that Verizon was pushing Froyo out, so I was happy, got home from work and started the download, It stated a size of 100 MB and an estimated download time of 15 minutes. The first clue that things may not be quite right was the 45-50 minutes it took to download. I tried to install and within 30 seconds my little droid friend gave up and told me update failed. I tried twice more same results and gave up that night.
Next day during a break I stopped in what I thought was an ideal area my 3g reception was at a max 5 bars and downloaded the update in 16 minutes, Again my little droid friend quit after 30 seconds, again the update failed, reason previous update failed. Yes, I am very disappointed but I have to make a living, so back to work. Later same day I called Verizon Tech support and I am told to do a Factory Reset: Beware when you do this your phone goes back to the state it was in when you opened the new box it came in, you have nothing; EXCEPT THE CONTENTS OF YOUR SD CARD REMAINS INTACT.
I tried to install and again my little droid friend got tired after 30 seconds, now I have lost everything in my phone but I also know it is inevitable because the phone is "cursed". I went to Verizon after work, early evening and put my phone in the hands of a very courteous and helpful Verizon man. He said: Please be patient, I will take care of you. I was really tired after a hard day's work so I found a comfortable chair and dozed off, the A/C was really cold and it felt great. When he returned he handed me a new phone and said, I am sorry for the delay your old phone was defective, I already installed your contacts and then together we reinstalled my paid apps and set up my email accounts.I walked out with my new phone with Froyo and was finally feeling better. Since then I have systematically been testing the phone's functions and have being happily surprised with the improvements both small and large:
GPS locks under 1 minute every time.
Flash works very well in almost 100% of the sites I chose for testing.
Phone is faster during transitions, searches and OS functions.
Average Quadrant Score Before: 890 After 990.
Camera and Recorder have added little features that are nice, try it and you will see,
The extra fonts are nice, but for my poor eyesight original is best.
Battery life remains a question mark, my normal pattern was phone on for 12 hours, light to medium use I return home with 60-70% left. My first full Froyo day was yesterday and I was trying to restore my "looks", apps and testing everything I could think of. With what I consider to be heavy usage I came home after 11 hours with 41% remaining in my battery, it seems to me acceptable.
I will update this post as I discover both good and bad, so far life after Froyo has been all positive.

I like the new notification background and the ability to turn mobile data off and auto rotation if I like
I like how when receiving text messages it notes a count on the icon as to how many new are there
Not sure if this was the way it was before but in contacts if I swipe a contact in the list horizontally it brings up a quick call or email icon. Kind of cool
New scene modes for dawn, dusk and such is nice in the camera
having a timer icon in the camera menu is pretty cool also
Ability to limit video for MMS option is very nice
Not to mention the fact that I can now take pictures much easier in both portrait and landscape orientation
I can view pics in a stack by thumbnail or by month the pic was taken.
Having the ability to add a numerical PIN screen password is also a nice feature
Did a benchmark test and now getting 51 fps after Froyo. Best 48.7 fps prior on my device
Still playing and trying to figure out a few things but will touch back. Hope you all enjoy the upgrade.

Goods and Bads with the 6110 Navigator

Hi
New user of this forum and a proud owner of a Nokia 6110 Navigator. I had the 6280 but after 2 SW upgrades and still problem with it, I gave up.
First impression of the 6110 is good, but I found a couple of small things that ”irritates” me.
1 – The timer function when you write “0200” and press options instead of green (call) button.
2 – The original headset is too cheap to be an expensive phone like this, should be more like Koss “plug-in-your-ear” kind of headphones, instead of the small “put-close-to-your-ear” thing that is included.
Also, the straight up cable from the top of the phone is no good. Makes the phone lie bad in the pocket. I also guessing that this cable is going to snap after a while. Why not a 90 degree “adapter” or something?
3 – When you sending an SMS, on my 6280 you could choose “last used number” or something like that, now you have to choose name, and then number, and then OK to go back to the SMS.
Well.. that’s it so far. Anyone else have goods and bads about this phone ?
mvh / regards
Timmy

hi im havin same issues!!
i went from 6280 to 6110 after i smashed it
1.first off i didnt kno of the timer option...good bcoz it was annoyin not havin a stopwatch
2. that "recent use list"...lack of it...is annoying. i just made groups of ppl i msg most
3. menu organisation is confusing
4. in call history, it only shows most recent time for that entry, ven if they rang 5 times that day, also they dont show call long eg duration of 3mins 40secs
5. on my 6280, i had a shortcut menu as mi left select button, cant do this now
6. power button is end call button, lotsa accidental turn offs
7. cant turn off start up tone
oh well i still like it

T440s - The good and the bad.

This is my honest opinion that I'm posting here so that I may assist in anyone looking to purchase a T440s. I ended up sending mine back and obtained a MacBook Pro 15 Retina, which now runs Windows 7 flawlessly. I'm not here to discuss my Mac (and I still hate Apple as a company, lol), but I want to share the good and the bad things about my T440s experience:
The good:
- Oh so stylish... I love the minimalist business-like look.
- Very light.
- Very good screen (in my opinion... I got the HD version).
- Fairly capable performance-wise. It calculated a Fibonacci(1 through 50) in C# in 20 minutes and some change, which was not as good as the other-mentioned laptop, but it was still pretty decent. It also did amazingly with VS 2013 and Blend open at the same time. No hang-ups, nothing. And that was only with 4GB RAM, since I didn't install the 8GB stick (had no time, because of the repairs... more on that later).
- Battery life is superb. Under full-on stress, which most people would never unleash on this machine, I was able to get 1 hour and 42 minutes out of it. This was done using Battery Eater. Therefore, one can easily expect 4+ hours under normal development.
- Good build, except the touchpad (more on that later).
- Amazing keyboard. I'm speechless. That thing was a dream to type on. I would compare it closely to my mechanical keyboard. Obviously, it's not as good, but I've never felt a better keyboard on a laptop.
- The fact that it has an internal and an external battery. Hot swaps with spare packs... how awesome.
- Very slim, in my opinion.
The bad:
- The touchpad is horrible. It feels like a two-cent piece of junk on a $1,500 laptop. As soon as I got it I couldn't believe it. My wife was in shock too. It was very loud, even with light clicking and the rattling sound after the click was horribly annoying. I sent it in for repair, and instead of fixing the touchpad (regardless of whether a new one was put in), they ended up misaligning the keyboard bezel, so the right side is popping up slightly as if it was forced onto the body.
Mind you, it's not like I was overly picky or anything. This is a known problem, but I didn't do my homework prior to the purchase. Also, the original gentleman on the phone (who was pretty awesome comparing to others) said himself that it was strangely loud. I clicked it very softly and he was able to hear it on his side without my phone being on speaker or anything. He tested a model next to him and I couldn't hear it. He said his touchpad was very quiet.
- The drivers for the touchpad are pretty atrocious. I was able to get it to 80% efficiency, but the cursor still jumped around when clicking once in a while. This created a lot of frustration, as things were closed or opened accidentally.
- This is not particular to the laptop, but to the company... the customer support was horrible. Most of them were polite, except the person that closed the chat session on me when I decided to question why the keyboard bezel was being replaced... and him closing the chat session was not a technical issue (I asked the next rep to explain). However, nothing got fixed and the laptop came back in worse condition than I sent it in. I mean... it's a 2-hour old laptop and it already has misalignments and a scratch. Yes, I forgot to mention that. On the right side, it appeared as if they were trying to pry it open and put a slight scratch there... not ridiculously important, because it does not alter the performance and it was not very noticeable, but when coupled with the rest of the things... yeah, no go.
Would I recommend this laptop? If you don't expect a good touchpad and never care to get it fixed, sure. I would love to own if it had a different touchpad... but I'll just revisit this idea in five years or so. You might also get lucky and get one that doesn't have the touchpad problem, but this might be a rarity from what I see on the forums.

@bkboggy: the only solution is that you should tap gentle and softly that you won't produce a click
Maybe You should go for an on-site guarantee, that might help not sending back Yours t440s
Regards,

Skype 7.0 UI: The good and the bad

I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread about the chat UI. Sorry about that, here are two of my opinions on the new UI in 7.0.
Really good: Finally, after several years and many user complaints, I can now see my mood message in Skype's main window again.
For the last couple of years, every Skype user could see mood messages easily except the user who actually wrote them. As the author of my mood message I had to navigate to other screens to see and change it. I'm happy that this has now been fixed.
Really bad: Some come and some go: Now my Skype credit display is gone and no longer showing in the main window! This is essential information, both generally and especially when you were making a call and the credit amount was continually updated.
This information has been there for years. I can't begin to imagine in which way you thought it would be a good and helpful idea to remove this from the main window. Please bring it back in the next update, there is ample space.
To remind you, this was how it looked:
Willy

I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread about the chat UI. Sorry about that, here are two of my opinions on the new UI in 7.0.
Really good: Finally, after several years and many user complaints, I can now see my mood message in Skype's main window again.
For the last couple of years, every Skype user could see mood messages easily except the user who actually wrote them. As the author of my mood message I had to navigate to other screens to see and change it. I'm happy that this has now been fixed.
Really bad: Some come and some go: Now my Skype credit display is gone and no longer showing in the main window! This is essential information, both generally and especially when you were making a call and the credit amount was continually updated.
This information has been there for years. I can't begin to imagine in which way you thought it would be a good and helpful idea to remove this from the main window. Please bring it back in the next update, there is ample space.
To remind you, this was how it looked:
Willy

Macbook Pro threads - The good and the bad

For many weeks I waivered on if I should sell my barley 2 year old G5 now and just jump on the Intel Dual core bandwagon. I finally put the word out to all my Mac buddies that my G5 was for sale and I ordered my MBP 17 on May 9th. Days went by. My order sat in the Order Processing que for about a week. Then it sat in the Sent to Manufacturing que for another 4 days. Over the 4 days I began to obsess with all the Mac fanatic websites reading one bad thread after another all talking about how bad the noise was and the heat. many of those thread were right here on apple.com.
It drove me nuts thinking that I just bought somthing thats riddled with problems. I called Apple to find out what the delay was about. They said my order was on hold due to the fact that they now offer glossy displays and were probably wondering if I wanted mine to come with the glossy screen. I was bit annoyed because they never reached out to ask me that. I had to come to them. In a moment of feeling that I should have just waited, I canceled my order on May 19th. Based on all the bad crap I read I felt good about putting it off a little longer.
A good friend of mine bought his MBP 15 on the day it was announced. I went to go see him the yesterday. He had to send his back once for the recall but over all he loves it. The firmware update drop the temprature to a noteable difference. We used it for a while and I heard no odd noise or moo-ing. The machine was rock solid. apps were lauching wicked quick. He was installing games and ripping Movies to DVD. The hour we used it was a total blast and made me think " What the heck was I worried about?"
I'm over my obsession with my worries and will be ordering a MBP 15 in another week or so. I wanted to share this story with you guys because I heard very few good stories about the MBP 15 and 17. Apple released the firmware update in response to the many people that returned there MBP. In my experience Apple has always aimed to give us the Mac community the ultimate buying experience. Even if there are a few bumps in the road, I'm confident apple will continue to pave the way of fixing them.
I will post again after I have my MBP for a few days.
Regards,
D
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.3.8)
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

There was a recall- I don't remember where I got this info but here is an Email I sent to my friend from when it became public. Sorry I can't recall the source.
Email Starts now.......................................
Users feel the pain of being early adopters, thankfully Apple gives hope
Apple has been doing quite well lately, especially when it comes to drumming up support for new products. It's MacBook Pro is no exception to the rule -- but rightly so. The popular notebook has been receiving praise from various publications and orders have been flying.
Despite its popularity as a "must have" Apple product, the MacBook Pro is encountering a lot of issues. Many users are reporting similar issues to the ones I pointed out. To recap from my blog:
AirPort does not automatically rejoin a preferred network after waking up from sleep mode. This does not happen with my PowerBook. Settings are the same.
AirPort would drop down to nearly 1 block randomly once in a while. This also does not happen with my PowerBook.
At the lowest screen brightness setting (one block), the LCD's backlight flickers noticeably. This is pretty annoying.
Heat is a big issue. The MacBook Pro gets so hot that I cannot place it on my lap if I'm wearing shorts. And even if I am wearing pants (instead of shorts), it's still very uncomfortable. Using the AC power, the palm rest area becomes very warm, and the area above the F keys is very hot. I do not notice this with the PowerBook.
We have confirmed with several MacBook Pro owners that these problems do in fact exist, and are not just isolated issues. While being at the forefront of technology is great, early adopters often find themselves with products that have shipped with a few quirks yet to be addressed.
I spoke with Apple over the weekend, and to my surprise, some of the issues are well known. Known well enough in fact, that Appe has already started addressing these issues in updated MacBook Pros. According to Apple, it has begun replacing the mainboard inside its MacBook Pros with a new revision.
It calls the udpated product "revision D", which is indentifiable by product serial number.
Serial numbers starting with W8611: revision D Serial numbers starting with W8610: revision C Apple said that revision D MacBook Pros have many issues addressed and improvements made, including fixes to the above mentioned issues. We were also able to get a hold of a MacBook Pro that just arrived during the week with a serial number starting with W8612, which did not exhibit any of the above issues. Many users are also reporting that their MacBook Pros become extremely hot to handle, especially in the area above the F keys and underneath the notebook itself. In fact, my MacBook Pro gets so hot that placing it in your hands is almost unbearable, and leaving it on a bare lap is next to impossible. According to Apple, the MacBook Pro should never become hot to the point of being uncomfortable. The representative I spoke to said "that should not happen. If it is, bring back your MacBook Pro and we'll give you an updated version."
Besides the problems that we are seeing, other users are also reporting that their MacBook Pros create a very uncomfortable whining noise, which is fixed by launching a widget or by using PhotoBooth -- oddly enough this solves the problem until the next reboot.
Those who are having issues with their MacBook Pros should first check for the identifying serial number, and then contact Apple to address the issue.

IPod 160GB - the good and the bad new

I received my iPod 160GB this morning. Here are some of my first impressions.
The good news:
I was a bit worried about speed issues and/or crashing as posted on this forum, but my iPod seems to work without any major speed issues, and I haven't encountered any crash so-far. The content is about 60GB of music, lots of covers, 2 movies, agenda and contacts. Even cover flow has a very acceptable speed (faster than on my dual G5 PowerMac), though I wonder its suitability with an amount of covers associated with 160GB of music. The only performance issue I encounter when I go back to the main menu, where arbitrary cover art is shown using Ken Burn effects. I guess a bit of caching can solve this issue.
The bad news:
Sound quality. The good thing is that it's more crisp than the iPod Video 5G 60GB (more loudness > 8kHz) adding to a pronunced sort of accuracy with cymbals and percussion beats, but a bit too crisp from a timbre standpoint of view (reminds me a bit of my iPod 3G). It also has less energy in the lower mid-range (200-800Hz), so it misses some push and harmonics. Overall this results in a less harmonic sound, less spatial (the scene is inside your head instead of around your head), a bit too much emphasis on high treble, and "less silence between the notes". It sounds more technical, and less acoustical/realistic. The output of my PowerMac G5 resembles the iPod Video much more than the iPod Classic. I suspect there is a mismatch in the group delay of the treble, where the treble arrives "faster" than the lower frequencies. That's a typical error in DA-conversion and filtering, that can be fixed by FIR filtering, or masked by a slight attenuation (0.1-0.3dB of treble starting from 8kHz).
Some say it is a small issue, but I think it is a huge issue.
Annoyances/strange things:
- Sound quality. A bit more natural and acoustical instead of technical.
- When the screen blanks during playing, it shows a clock, and a battery indicator. When music plays I'd like to see where in the track I am, what number is playing etc., without having to touch the iPod to wake its screen up.
- EU sound limit. With my Sennheiser HD650 and some soft recordings, it is too soft. I hope for a fast update of GoPod, to be able to accomplish normal sound levels.
- Clicker hardly audible through the headphones.
- Everywhere album art in the main menu, except for the "Now Playing" menu, which only shows a title.
Some bugs:
- The time shown when the screen blanks is always in US (no AM/PM!) format instead of the selected 24h format in the preferences.
- The date is always shown in US format (m/d/y instead of d/m/y).
- Home addresses and office addresses in the address book are all mentioned as home address on the iPod.
- The camera connector doesn't work.
- Equalizer heavily distorting. It is amazing that this is the case since the 1G iPod, and nothing has ever been done to fix this.
I hope a firmware update will solve things quickly. Especially the sound quality issue should be solved; this is the primary reason to buy an iPod.
Marc

As an audio engineer I must disagree with your conclusions regarding severity of the issue. The variations found (0.1dB) are simply too small to amount to anything significant. 1dB is DEFINED as the smallest volume change that a human can perceive, and 0.1dB is a variation far smaller than batch discrepancies in any group of identical speakers or headphones you care to name.
Furthermore, the so-called “incorrect timing response” is EXACTLY what one SHOULD see given a small change in treble response - this is systems engineering 101, folks. The time and frequency domains are different reflections of the same behavior.
I will add that this “timing response” is far more linear and of a smaller magnitude than any mechanical device (speaker, headphone) you will find on the planet. These mechanical necessities will simply swamp any small variation in the electronics.
As to spatial effects - I will step into deeper waters here and state that any that exist in 2 channel recordings are subject to an awful lot of much larger forces, such as room acoustics, headphone behaviors, and a lot of psychology. Spatial data simply is so poorly represented in 2 channel audio that when it seems to work it is often as not a fluke - the data just isn’t there in a reliable form. When we have recordings that actually represent multi-channel, multi-direction room reflections and multi-channel, multi-direction playback systems we might have something, but not today.
So, is the iPod perfect? No. But I sincerely doubt that these changes are in fact audible, even given good quality headphones. I have listened to far too many pieces of gear to believe that.

Good and bad things about Bridge CS6 Beta

The good thing first: No memory leaks anymore. No crashing, no freezing, no write errors when running Bridge scripts on large numbers of image files. Ah—what a relief!
In comparison this this, the bad things are just trifles. First—when selecting the exposure data to show up under each thumbnail then the aperture number will get rounded down to the nearest integer. So, for example, apertures of f/1.4, f/1.7, f/2, f/2.8, f/3.5, f/5.6, f/6.3, f/6.7 will get presented as 1.0, 1.0, 2.0, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.0, respectively. In the EXIF data, the aperture numbers are correct, and Camera Raw 7.0 will display the correct numbers. Second—when starting Bridge CS6 or Photoshop CS6 then the monitor will get switched off for a brief moment. The screen goes completely black for two seconds or so, then returns as if it was in stand-by mode. It's nothing severe but very annoying.
Windows XP (32 bit) SP3; CPU Athlon Dual-Core 64 X2 6000+; RAM 4 GB installed, 3 GB used; graphic card AMD Radeon HD 2600 Pro (AMD Catalyst Display Driver from March 2012 installed); monitor Dell Ultra-Sharp 2407WFP-HC (24", 1920×1200 px) connected via DVI, no second monitor.

PECourtejoie wrote:
What camera produced the files?
Doesn't matter. I have files from two different cameras, Sony A900 and Leica M9, all shot in both JPEG and raw format (ARW for the Sony; DNG 1.0 for the Leica). The issue occurs with the thumbnails of both the JPEG and raw files. For the very same files, the issue is not there in Bridge CS5.
PECourtejoie wrote:
It's often good to run the latest ones.
Well ... the previous version of the display driver actually was the latest, at the time of installing CS6 Beta. The current driver version came out only two days ago.

Some good and bad news...

The bad news... My 15'' MBP (week 22) has a few issues, some more serious than others (kernal issues).
The good news... Apple Australia are replacing it for me.
With all the negative posts on this forum regarding Apple I must say I am very pleased with the level of customer service I recieved from Apple. They were very polite and did not question my request once, actually they suggested a replacement over it being fixed!
One question I do have though is what is happening to all these MBPs that are being returned? I hope they are just not being reimaged and sent out again? I woudl be a little disapointed if I received a refurbished MBP if I payed top dollar for it.
Anyway, congrats to Apple Australia for their excellent customer service.

it will have whatever is wrong with it fixed and be sold as a refurb.

Group MMS - The good and the bad

While Group MMS on the iphone is a cool features sometimes, other times it is VERY annoying. Why can I not remove myself from a group mms? Turning group MMS off does nothing except receive the text individually rather than in one text. Clearly this "feature" wasn't thought though far enough. Not to mention non-iphone users get the joy of have no choice to exclude themselves from these conversations and recieve these all individually. I wish this feature was never implemented in the first place

Cancel your texting plan. It's a total ripoff anyway. Heck, AT&T even charges $5/month just to disable texting completely! It's either that or pay-per-message. I get one or two spam messages a month, which comes out to well less than $1, so I just leave it like that - I don't pay to have it fully disabled but I don't have a plan, either.
I use Google Voice for texting. I also use GV for all my calls, with my iPhone number set up as a "forwarding phone" - works great, gives me far more control, and all SMS is free. Anyone who simply has to send me a picture, video, or sound file can fire it off to my email address - and anyone from whom I care to receive such a thing has my email address, not just my phone number.
Texting, including media messaging, is great for "dumb" phones. But for iPhones and other devices with Push-enabled email, I just don't see the point. And since "texts" can be sent to email addresses, and email can be sent to phone numbers if you know the correct gateway (the "@blah-blah-blah.com" part"), I try to stay as far away from actual "texting" as possible.

Zen Style M300 - good and bad I'm afraid!

Neat, easy to operate, clear (though small) screen.
I can li've with it as it works OK for the price - BUT it really needs firmware updates and co-operation with OSs and Apps:
. Has anybody at Creative heard of Linux? If you Google 'Linux' you'll find that there are many millions of us who use it now. If you are confused by the number of distributions you could do worse than ensuring that your products function well with Ubuntu. Please contribute to the Linux community by providing info to allow your players to be recognised by Rhythmbox, Banshee etc (as older ipods are). In the meantime give clear instructions as to how to operate the M300 with say Ubuntu / Banshee. Files that are hidden in Windows appear in Linux - you should have stored all config files in a Config folder - not the root. At least your device appears as two USB attached storage devices so I can add files in Linux easily.
2. You MUST implement bookmarking (both in Music and on SDCard. If I listen to a podcast or audiobook I need to come back to the same place - after listening to other stuff. The device does not even remember where you are on the SDCard if you pause before shutdown. This then needs new menus 'Bookmarks' in Music and SDCard.
3. Playlists are a shambles - why insist on Unicode / Winamp? The Unicode step stops synching and complicates updating playlists horribly. There is no Winamp for Linux - and you don't publish exactly how you want the playlist format to be as far as I can see. Why not implement a Now Playing queue so you can select a number of files that will get queued for playing? Then you could add a menu item the the Now Playing menu to Save As a playlist (OK you would have to name it something - maybe just 'Playlist date time'). You can't make playlists for the SDCard files.
4. Your user guide is very poor - loads of pages with just a few lines on each. It doesn't even say clearly how to arrange files and folders in Music:
I found out by trial & error that the player isn't fussy - it just sees all files in Music - however for sanity it is best to arrange with folders Artist - Album - Files. The SDCard listings just see filenames not ID3 track names - really bad for podcasts that often have horrible long filenames.
5. On the subject of ID3 - would it do any harm to mention that the player only understands ID3v2.3? It took me a huge search on the web to find out why your player did not read the mp3 data - and lists as Unknown Artist, Unknown Album - that was in ID3v2.4. In Linux I can easily change the tags to v2.3 - but it is annoying to have to do so.
(to engineers at Creative: ID3v2.4 was created in the year 2000 - do keep up!)
6. The SDCard MUST integrate into main memory - it is so clunky not having the same facilities for it as in the Music folder. This must be so that you can charge more for M300s with more basic memory!
To sum up:
When you create web pages you test them thoroughly with different browsers - and when you create devices like the M300 you must test them and make sure that non-technical users can operate them easily in Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux Ubuntu, Mac OS: in each case with a good free app available for the synching. Nowadays we use devices with a whole range of systems at home and at work.
I wish you'd sent me a pre-production model to give you this feedback a few months ago!
If I sound irritated - I am - mainly because its a lovely little player with some hugely irritating characteristics.
OK - top firmware update requset: bookmarks!

Hi,
Thank you for the feedback.

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