so i’m resigned to probably having to take my iphone back and exchange it for some other pda. i’m thinking about the HTC FUZE, because it’s got a touch screen and does a whole bunch of other stuff.
i have to find out it if it does have good uconnectivity (my new word). other HTC phones seem to be okay. otherwise, there’s just your basic blackberry.
i’ve never had a pda. i’m pretty lo-tech. blackberries apparently connect fine. the HTC can accept my music, but all my digital music is downloaded to itunes, from the apple music store, will this work on a windows mobile 6.1 operating system music player?
i hate windows. i can use it, but i hate it. what’s my best option here?
So, you only have Apple all over your house. I know I saw.
You have your entire music on iTunes.
You want something PDA like.
You want a touch screen.
You don’t want windows.
You have an iPhone.
The obvious answer is…HTFU and get the iPhone to do what you want it to do.
“I missed this if you already explained it by why are you returning it? If there are technical issues I might be able to help.”
while the iphone is bluetooth enabled, since its inception, and really since upgrading to the 2.0 opsys, the iphone is incompatible with uconnect. when i’m in my office, apple rules. but when i’m my car, my car rules. chrysler trumps apple away from home, apple trumps chrysler at home.
apple either cannot fix, will not fix, has not fixed, or refuses to acknowledge, that the problem seems to be in its opsys or firmware. maybe it’s just low priority for them. in any case, the uconnect system in my car(s) works exceptionally well, and my pda must handshake with it. many other phones work fine with uconnect, including my old motorola razr. but i’m upgrading to a pda, so need one that has all the enviable features, yet works with uconnect.
hence, my unhappy decision to take my iphone (just purchased 18 hours ago) back and turn it in for something that will work. unless apple knows something i don’t know, which i’m only very happy to be educated about.
Dan,
According to this review - http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/htc-fuze-at-t/4505-6452_7-33378478.html the Fuze (what HTC originally called the Touch Pro) doesn’t have a standard headphone jack so if you have some headphones / earphones you like I’d make sure they work with this phone before committing - or switch to ones that work.
I suspect that if you don’t like Windows on the desktop, you really may not like it on the small screen. The rap on Windows Mobile (what MS used to call Windows CE) is that the interface has never been sufficiently redesigned from it’s desktop big brother to make it as usable as user interfaces from other vendors (Palm, Nokia, RIM). In recognition of this, Microsoft has recently announced Windows Mobile 6.5 which is supposed to be easier to use, but the HTC Fuze runs Windows Mobile 6.1, not 6.5.
As to your questions about itunes music there appears to be good news -
so am i better off just with a blackberry? should i forget the music thing, and just find a good pda that has internet, cellular telephony, and leave it there?
I’ve looked through various support forums about this and with the current iPhone firmware (2.2, 2.2.1) the results are not encouraging. According to some posts, there were problems with iphone 2.0 firmware + uconnect, these were fixed with the 2.1 firmware but broken again since 2.2.
The problem appears to be with an interaction of a piece of the iphone bluetooth security software and uconnect’s attempt to proactively retrieve new contacts from the iphone. Two workarounds have been noted, neither terribly attractive:
remove all the contacts from your iphone. Diagnostically useful but utterly impractical.
downgrade the iphone firnmware to 2.1. Technically possible but not something I’d recommend for anybody that isn’t pretty tech-savvy.
uconnect is built into my car. the phone signal from the person to whom i’m talking plays over the stereo. it works quite nicely, much better than any other hands free system i’ve used. so, uconnect stays. i either need apple to fix the problem in its iphone operating system, or i need another pda.
Bummer. I love my iPhone. I’ve had a Blackberry and a Microsoft Mobile phone and the iPhone is leaps and bounds better. The apps on it are fantastic.
I wish I could help. I personally wouldn’t give it up but that is just me. I’m not in the car enough to rationalize changing phones to make it compatable with my car.
I do not know about WM 6.1, but WM 5.9 is F$%#$%#% slow.
I have a Motorola Q with WM 5.9 and Good Messaging (Motorola Blackberry equivalent) and while Good Messaging and is ok, WM 5.9 is $#$@$#@ slow. I sometimes have to wait switching between screens, or sometimes to make a phone call…