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[stuart30]

Just bought one of these phones fairly cheap...just wondering if anyone has had any dealings with them.

Interested in what apps can be run on it,my ageing D600 needs retiring so thought id have a change.

Advice/Opinions welcome.

[CaptainZok]

Just bought one of these phones fairly cheap...just wondering if anyone has had any dealings with them.

Interested in what apps can be run on it,my ageing D600 needs retiring so thought id have a change.

Advice/Opinions welcome.

Had one a few years ago, my lad has it in his collection now.
It runs windows mobile aps, have a look at www.modaco.com plenty of advice on there.

[stuart30]

Just bought one of these phones fairly cheap...just wondering if anyone has had any dealings with them.

Interested in what apps can be run on it,my ageing D600 needs retiring so thought id have a change.

Advice/Opinions welcome.

Had one a few years ago, my lad has it in his collection now.
It runs windows mobile aps, have a look at www.modaco.com plenty of advice on there.

Cheers Captin....

[zirk]

Not sure if there the Silver Compaq version of the O2 Black Exec, if it is there OK, Can run wirless and 3g, the webs a bit slow on them but make up for it with the key board.

Seem to remember they rum Win Mobile 5, dont upgrade it to Win 6, your probaly Kill It. as have a lot of people in the past.  

[tunnie]

i run its bigger cousin, the SPV M3100 with a slide out qwerty keyboard, get yourself a custom rom installed.

Mines called Black Satin, and its a tweaked version of Windows Mobile 6, which is a fast improvement on 5.

Try Opera mini for a browser, websites go via Operas own transcoder, which scales sites down for mobile devices. Its also got some handy settings for disabling images. Even on a GPRS connection i can surf the forum, as quickly as on my work PC on broadband!

[stuart30]

i run its bigger cousin, the SPV M3100 with a slide out qwerty keyboard, get yourself a custom rom installed.

Mines called Black Satin, and its a tweaked version of Windows Mobile 6, which is a fast improvement on 5.

Try Opera mini for a browser, websites go via Operas own transcoder, which scales sites down for mobile devices. Its also got some handy settings for disabling images. Even on a GPRS connection i can surf the forum, as quickly as on my work PC on broadband!

Thanks tunnie thats good too know...is the software downloadable or is it a buy it jobbie.

Believe this has the keyboard that slides out the bottom and is touch screen...other than that not a clue.

[CaptainZok]

i run its bigger cousin, the SPV M3100 with a slide out qwerty keyboard, get yourself a custom rom installed.

Mines called Black Satin, and its a tweaked version of Windows Mobile 6, which is a fast improvement on 5.

Try Opera mini for a browser, websites go via Operas own transcoder, which scales sites down for mobile devices. Its also got some handy settings for disabling images. Even on a GPRS connection i can surf the forum, as quickly as on my work PC on broadband!

Thanks tunnie thats good too know...is the software downloadable or is it a buy it jobbie.

Believe this has the keyboard that slides out the bottom and is touch screen...other than that not a clue.

That's right Stuart, it runs windows ce the previous version of windows mobile but it can be upgraded.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php is a useful site for upgrade info, yours will be in the blue angel section as it's an HTC blue angel branded for orange.

[PaulW]

Ahhh the HTC BlueAngel

Good phone, I had 3...

Custom built ROM to get rid of the branding is a *MUST* if you want to have it run at a good speed...

Only gripe is the ribbon cable can wear from the sliding of the keyboard, so it messes up the touchscreen input...  That and make sure its always fully charged, the internal battery can fail randomly and cause you to lose all your settings and numbers if its not charged proper, so also essential to make regular device backups!

Other than that, a good little(big) phone

[stuart30]

Cheers guys...must say im looking forward too getting it now as just bought it on impulse that and the fact it only cost £30.

Where could i get the custom rom...ive just been told its unlocked and he"s sending a blue tooth satnav reciever as well,so assuming it can run tom tom.

Oh whats the biggest sd card that can be used or recommend size.?

[CaptainZok]

Cheers guys...must say im looking forward too getting it now as just bought it on impulse that and the fact it only cost £30.

Where could i get the custom rom...ive just been told its unlocked and he"s sending a blue tooth satnav reciever as well,so assuming it can run tom tom.

Oh whats the biggest sd card that can be used or recommend size.?

Yup ran tomtom on mine and I think 2GB is the biggest it will handle.

[PaulW]

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blueangel

All the info you will ever need

[tunnie]

Cheers guys...must say im looking forward too getting it now as just bought it on impulse that and the fact it only cost £30.

Where could i get the custom rom...ive just been told its unlocked and he"s sending a blue tooth satnav reciever as well,so assuming it can run tom tom.

Oh whats the biggest sd card that can be used or recommend size.?

Yup ran tomtom on mine and I think 2GB is the biggest it will handle.

Technically, its unlimited with custom ROMs.

I have a 8Gb in mine

[CaptainZok]

Cheers guys...must say im looking forward too getting it now as just bought it on impulse that and the fact it only cost £30.

Where could i get the custom rom...ive just been told its unlocked and he"s sending a blue tooth satnav reciever as well,so assuming it can run tom tom.

Oh whats the biggest sd card that can be used or recommend size.?

Yup ran tomtom on mine and I think 2GB is the biggest it will handle.

Technically, its unlimited with custom ROMs.

I have a 8Gb in mine

Not sure wether the blue angel can support SDHC cards with a custom rom.

[PaulW]

Cheers guys...must say im looking forward too getting it now as just bought it on impulse that and the fact it only cost £30.

Where could i get the custom rom...ive just been told its unlocked and he"s sending a blue tooth satnav reciever as well,so assuming it can run tom tom.

Oh whats the biggest sd card that can be used or recommend size.?

Yup ran tomtom on mine and I think 2GB is the biggest it will handle.

Technically, its unlimited with custom ROMs.

I have a 8Gb in mine

Not sure wether the blue angel can support SDHC cards with a custom rom.

They can't.  I tried and failed.

Tunnie, you said you have the 3100 remember, thats a different dog alltogether

[tunnie]

Cheers guys...must say im looking forward too getting it now as just bought it on impulse that and the fact it only cost £30.

Where could i get the custom rom...ive just been told its unlocked and he"s sending a blue tooth satnav reciever as well,so assuming it can run tom tom.

Oh whats the biggest sd card that can be used or recommend size.?

Yup ran tomtom on mine and I think 2GB is the biggest it will handle.

Technically, its unlimited with custom ROMs.

I have a 8Gb in mine

Not sure wether the blue angel can support SDHC cards with a custom rom.

They can't.  I tried and failed.

Tunnie, you said you have the 3100 remember, thats a different dog alltogether

Humm if its got an SD card slot should not be an issue? TB runs the same handset as me on WM5, and could not detect my 8Gb card... however my custom ROM did.

Its down to the ROM really, if it has the slot for an SD card there is no reason why it cannot in theory go to 32GB.