Yesterday I received my new Cingular 8125 windows mobile phone as a replacement to anothe one which I had since few weeks. The old one used to hang randomly after the phone call is done; and at times; the touch screen suddenly stops functioning . So, after calling the warrenty department, they sent a new replacement.

I used the builtin WIFI to connect to internet as I do not have the data plan yet from Cingular. I installed the following free applications to play with it as I got 2GB mini-SD card as the storage card and plenty of space left.

  • TCPMP Media Player to play DivX video songs along with free Codecs like AC-3 from its corecodec website. This is must needed to play videos that Windows Pocket version of Media Player does not support.
  • Free Vista themes from http://freewmthemes.com
  • Yahoo! Go 2.0 which is a internal version, yet to release to public; syncs both my copy and regular Yahoo! mail. Good thing I really liked about this is, I do not need a VPN to get my corp e-mails!
  • Total Commander to edit registry to have the support for Wifi-G; which is disabled by Cingular by default; instead they allow only ‘B’.
  • MagicButton Task Manager to control all currently running/open applications. This is a must have handy utility, which displays small icons on the top of today screen.
  • Pocket Putty to connect to my linux and web servers using ssh or telnet. Its real cool to work from mobile sometimes.
  • Terminal Services Client; to remotely connect to my home Windows box. It came with pre-installed.
  • PHM Pocket PC Power Toys, comes with nice tools like notepad, voice command to perform tasks, run command, reset for soft reboot, suspend, tray launcher and a task manager. I really liked this; but everytime the unit boots I get a error notice that ‘traylaunch’ can not be found; not sure it is becuase I installed on to storage card. Anyway, uninstalled it.
  • PocketNotepad; which is similar to notepad that you get on Windows; and must needed one for every day use.

Few things that I did not like in 8125; am not sure if they were rectified in 8525 which is released few months back:

  • By default the WIFI is not enabled; and when you do soft reboot; its get disabled. I could not find a way to make it auto start along with Windows. May be they disabled it becuase of battery life; but should have left with an option for end-user.
  • The screen some-times is annoy; and it never responds.
  • Overall the speed of the system when loading apps is not that great. May be I need to get adjusted.
  • I could not find a way to associate file types to open with certain applications.
  • I am not able to reach the contacts directly as in case of regular phones; either I have to use stylus or pull the keyboard. Currently I am managing with voice dials for frequent callers.
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