Saturday, October 08, 2005

Samsung PM-a840

I got a new Samsung phone. It is light, small, and more nicely designed than most of their products. Some things it does poorly are photos and hand writing recognition. The manual is very incomplete. The Sprint website supposedly has a feature that will allow me to enter my contacts there but I wasn't able to use it yesterday.
Update: It turns out they were migrating their website. There was no information on this- they just let the site hang. After the move it was still not clear. There was an address book under PCS mail but it didn't show any way to sync with phone. After calling Sprint it turns out that this is done under the Voice dialing section. Sync is not currently working there- it looks like due to the website move.
I get better reception with this phone- the old one was nearly unusable in the house. I had to go to specific locations (which changed day-to-day) and stay there to make the call. This still occurs but is better.

Phone continues to work well. The voice memo comes in handy- although there is a limit of 10 memos. The features I use are phone, memo, and alarm.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Firefox bookmark issues

  • Can't edit or delete a bookmark that you find by searching. Fixed in 1.5. Some others may be fixed too.
  • Bookmarks Manager can't detect duplicates.
  • Delete button doesn't work.
  • Can't paste into a new folder. It is unclear to me how to move bookmarks into a new folder.
  • Undo doesn't work. It says "undo new separator" but separator stays there.