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mujiburc · 27-04-2006, 06:54 PM

Hi all,

I'm really sorrt to put a dampener on this review, but I've been using the Exec now for a month and really finding it quite frustrating. I had an XDA II for 2 years and was hoping for some improvements, but the interface is slower and more cubmbersome, in short - worse. Here are some problems I have with mine...

1. I miss calls all the time. The phone doesn't start ringing straight away when there's an incoming call. You thus have fewer audible rings before being able to pick up.

2. Even if I hit the 'answer' link or the answer hardware button on the side while the phone is rining, it will just hang and then tell me I missed the call.

3. The UI response is slower than the XDA II's. Tapping the Start button often requires you to wait 2 or 3 seconds before the menu pops up. Sometimes it takes longer.

4. When tapping out a phone number using the onscreen keypad, the software will easily not register a key press. As a result, you need to hit a number twice sometimes before it appears onscreen. Sometimes, the number actually registered the first time, but because of the UI response delay you think it didn't register and end up keying in the same number twice.

5. The web browser insists on taking me to the O2 homepage when I first start it up even though I set my homepage to Yahoo in the options.

6. The email client is rubbish at synching with MS Exchange using IMAP. In my Exchange based email at work, I have hierarchies of folders e.g. Customers->Customer 1, Customer 2 etc. It will only bring in emails from the Inbox and ignore emails in subfolders. It does however bring the folder hierarchy across which makes me think MS didn't the software through very well.

7. Its stopped automatically synching up with my email server. No idea why, but I need to instigate a synch manually and then forget that it isn't going to bring anything in that has been put into subfolders.

8. When typing, you can sometimes actually go too quickly for the software - I find this astonishing considering the underlying hardware spec.

There's more but the wife is dragging me off to see some friends of hers who just had a sprog. In short, I'm questioning whether I should just go back to the XDA2, but then a keyboard is a nice bonus - albeit it adds a lot of bulk. I guess the word that somes it up for me 'disappointed'.

Thanks folks!

27-04-2006, 06:54 PM	#9 (permalink)
mujiburc Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1	Re: O2 Xda Exec Review - Part II - The Applications Hi all, I'm really sorrt to put a dampener on this review, but I've been using the Exec now for a month and really finding it quite frustrating. I had an XDA II for 2 years and was hoping for some improvements, but the interface is slower and more cubmbersome, in short - worse. Here are some problems I have with mine... 1. I miss calls all the time. The phone doesn't start ringing straight away when there's an incoming call. You thus have fewer audible rings before being able to pick up. 2. Even if I hit the 'answer' link or the answer hardware button on the side while the phone is rining, it will just hang and then tell me I missed the call. 3. The UI response is slower than the XDA II's. Tapping the Start button often requires you to wait 2 or 3 seconds before the menu pops up. Sometimes it takes longer. 4. When tapping out a phone number using the onscreen keypad, the software will easily not register a key press. As a result, you need to hit a number twice sometimes before it appears onscreen. Sometimes, the number actually registered the first time, but because of the UI response delay you think it didn't register and end up keying in the same number twice. 5. The web browser insists on taking me to the O2 homepage when I first start it up even though I set my homepage to Yahoo in the options. 6. The email client is rubbish at synching with MS Exchange using IMAP. In my Exchange based email at work, I have hierarchies of folders e.g. Customers->Customer 1, Customer 2 etc. It will only bring in emails from the Inbox and ignore emails in subfolders. It does however bring the folder hierarchy across which makes me think MS didn't the software through very well. 7. Its stopped automatically synching up with my email server. No idea why, but I need to instigate a synch manually and then forget that it isn't going to bring anything in that has been put into subfolders. 8. When typing, you can sometimes actually go too quickly for the software - I find this astonishing considering the underlying hardware spec. There's more but the wife is dragging me off to see some friends of hers who just had a sprog. In short, I'm questioning whether I should just go back to the XDA2, but then a keyboard is a nice bonus - albeit it adds a lot of bulk. I guess the word that somes it up for me 'disappointed'. Thanks folks!