Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 6th Dec 2006 23:41 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Our friends over at Hi-Mobile sent us in for a review two items this last week: the velerable LG Chocolate KG800 and an add-on camera flash accessory for Sony Ericsson fast-port phones. Check in for more.
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The Video Clip...
by Wintermute (4.28) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 00:27 UTC
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The video 3gp video clip works for me:

I used Media Player Classic with ffdshow. Works fine.

The phone itself seems kind of sucks, the design seems nice, but the features are kind of disappointing. Style over subustance, IMHO.

Anyone know of Symbian OS based smartphone with a good looking design? Think of Nokia E series but with a slicker design. Being in the $300 - $400 range would also help.

RE: The Video Clip...
by Eugenia (Staff) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 00:33 UTC in reply to "The Video Clip..."
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>I used Media Player Classic with ffdshow. Works fine.

It does not work for me. I have ffdshow and WMP11 and it doesn't work here. However, ffdshow is not as standard as Real and as QuickTime is for 3GP on people's computers (or even as popular as VLC is lately). And the LG video just doesn't work on any of these apps, while ALL the other phones I have reviewed the last 2 years work just fine. Apple has made sure that 3GP and MPEG4 works well on QuickTime, so I am inclined to believe based on these facts that the bug is LG's. Maybe ffdshow go around LG's bugs in order to be able to be compatible with them.

>Anyone know of Symbian OS based smartphone with a good looking design?

ALL the Symbian S60 3.0 devices are here, take your pick:
http://my-symbian.com/s60v3/compare.php (only devices missing from that list are the N75/N95 which are not out yet)

and here is the Symbian UIQ 3.0 devices:
http://my-symbian.com/uiq3/compare.php

Edited 2006-12-07 00:39

RE: The Video Clip...
by Eugenia (Staff) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 00:50 UTC in reply to "The Video Clip..."
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I downloaded MP Classic too btw, and fddshow is installed and enabled in the external filters. The video just doesn't work here.

RE[2]: The Video Clip...
by Wintermute (4.28) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 02:39 UTC in reply to "RE: The Video Clip..."
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Hmm, maybe its because of Quicktime/Real alternative? But if Quicktime alternative works, so should the real version of Quciktime.

Other than a matroska splitter and an Xvid codec I don't think I have any 3rd party codecs installed. This is kind of wierd.

The comparison chart is quite useful, thanks for that.

RE[2]: The Video Clip...
by lvikstro (1) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 05:43 UTC in reply to "RE: The Video Clip..."
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I seems to play in the Nokia Multimedia Player (comes with Nokia PCSuite) but as you already mentioned it doesn't play in anything else. How long is the clip supposed to be? It says 11:26 in NMP but only plays for about 6 seconds.

The chocolates are relatively unreliable
by halfmanhalfamazing (3.44) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 02:41 UTC
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At least the ones that verizon wireless carries. Not the worst phone in the world, but if you care about reliability, you'd bet an 8300 instead.... which largely has the same features.

Man..... How I do miss the startac. :-(

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The CDMA version on Verizon is not the same as the GSM version.

chauvinism much?
by AdamW (3.4) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 06:55 UTC
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"But probably it would the average housewife who wants to show off to her also desperate housewife girlfriend."

I'm going to take a wild shot here and guess that the guy who wrote this isn't married.

Or if he is, that he won't be for very _long_.

RE: chauvinism much?
by Eugenia (Staff) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 07:04 UTC in reply to "chauvinism much?"
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> that the guy who wrote this isn't married.

You can find if this is true by clicking at the name of the article's author. ;-)

You will find that he is a she, and that she is happily married. More over, what it's written is what it is. No power user in his right mind would buy that phone.

Edited 2006-12-07 07:06

RE[2]: chauvinism much?
by AdamW (3.4) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 17:03 UTC in reply to "RE: chauvinism much?"
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That part of it is right. The other part of it is straight up patronizing sexism.

RE[3]: chauvinism much?
by Eugenia (Staff) on Thu 7th Dec 2006 20:01 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: chauvinism much?"
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Or, just FUNNY. And true.