Oooh, oohh just got my XDA Exec and it's lurvly

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Just got my XDA Exec for £149 at £19 per month. Should be able to sell my MDA Compact to recoup some of that.

I can't believe how perfect this phone is. On the MDA I bought a wifi card but was always a little miffed that it wasn't internal. The MDA camera was a bit poo when it came to the crunch and it never felt like it had enough storage.

The XDA Exec on the other hand, wow, storage aplenty, connectivity overload, an absolutely beautiful screen.

It's really not that big either, being used to having my MDA in an aluminium case as the screen needed protection, this is overall the same thickness as it doesn't need screen protection.

The O2 software is actually pretty good and doesn't seem to clog the system up. Just discovered O2 Active which alters the today screen to be a bit more useful. I always thought the today screen was a bit rigid and lacking in function, with O2 Active you get a lot of the nice-to-haves you used to have to download extra apps for.

Wifi seems pretty damn good and combined with Internet Explorers ability to go full screen makes surfing enjoyable. When I used to use the Sandisk Wifi card in the SD slot of the MDA I was always having to turn images off and pray that large tabular pages didn't exhaust some limit IE seemed to have. These forums could take up to a minute to load one page. I'm pleased to say the combination of the usability of the new IE, better processor and memory in the XDA Exec and a wifi card that actually seems to run at 11b speeds means the forums are perfectly usable if not enjoyable.

That'll do for now, there have been a few reviews but thought I'd add my 2p as I think the deal O2 currently have on is superb.
 
Have one too, but I don't like it at all. The VGA mode is pretty cool though, but the screen remains to small to do anything useful with it. Mine will prolly end up on ebay in a week or so.
 
Buttons said:
Mine's 1MB which is about 30 minutes surfing at most, I'm just using wifi.

Yeah I don't see myself doing too much surfing, but i fancy using with copilot live and also using it for some pocketpc stuff i'm developing that makes frequent webservice calls. I guess I'll go for the 3mb upgraded and see how I get on.
 
Just got TomTom working in VGA resolution by the way. The detail is fantastic while still having an excellent refresh rate.

Roads are curved rather than angular now!
 
Buttons said:
Just got TomTom working in VGA resolution by the way. The detail is fantastic while still having an excellent refresh rate.

Roads are curved rather than angular now!

Sorry to dig up an old thread :p

How did you do this? I have TomTom working on my Exec and the screen is running in VGA mode... but I cant say I got any more detail in TomTom.
 
Noxis said:
I am using a program called OzVGA to do it. But becareful coz you have to also add a bunch of DLL files otherwise it will not work after a soft reset and you will have to wipe your phone.

Read here on a guy who (like me :p) did it wrong and fixed it:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=37781&highlight=ozvga

Thanks, but those threads are really hard to follow. Don't suppose you could just tell me exactly what I need to do lol :p
 
pinkaardvark said:
Thanks, but those threads are really hard to follow. Don't suppose you could just tell me exactly what I need to do lol :p
pinkaardvark, check the second to last post in the thread provided.
 
pinkaardvark said:
Thanks, but those threads are really hard to follow. Don't suppose you could just tell me exactly what I need to do lol :p

Tell me about it - that thread is the best out of them with the raw details needed.
 
I've dropped mine a couple of times, but no adverse effects so far *touches wood*. The folding screen adds a lot of protection, and i managed to break my svpm2000's screen.
 
nah i had a light impact from walking into a table with it in my pocket (closed properly) but i didn't check it until the morning after and it was cracked.
 
Hi all

any of you had boot or softreset problem with this phone based pda with it being win mobile 5 . a lot of other pda`s only seem to be having problem with windows mobile 5.
 
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