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Useful Applications for Smartphone?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-is-a-phone-not-a-phone dept.

merlinbasenji asks: "I've recently purchased an Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone for Cingular, and I'm looking for suggestions for good applications like: calendars, browsers, games, email client, etc. Anyone have a favorite, or had a bad experience with specific applications?"

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  1. My cost on this bad boy... by knewter · · Score: 5, Funny

    TCPMP is a great media player that can handle DivX. Then there's some Windows app that downsamples video files to fit the screen rather well. Pick up a 1Gig miniSD card online for $60 and the phone is extremely more useful. Then use Yahoo!Music to pull a gig of music onto the device at will - that part is rather convenient. I've got a single Family Guy episode on there right now, just because I don't really use it as well as it could be.

    And this is totally OT, but...

    I managed to snag a new one of these for $20 and a three hour conversation with Cingular, because they were trying to sell me a Star Wars sound-injector (lots of demand, I guess, for sounding like you're friends with Chewbacca) with the prefurb I was ordering (they would add it to my basket after I verified my order without any notification they were doing so, and that pissed me off). Anyway, I worked my way up the ladder to the resolutions department.

    Me: There is no chance I will use this device. Let me order the prefurb without sending me the $40 Chewbacca toy.

    Cingular/ATT: I can't sell you the prefurb without sending that item. But you can return it!

    Me: I'd like to do that, preemptively.

    CATT: Oh, you'll have to send it back to us once we ship it out.

    Me: ...

    CATT: Sir?

    Me: Seriously, you're going to cost yourself greater than $20 to sell me a $20 refurb phone, and waste man hours handling a return?

    CATT: It's how the bundle works, sir.

    Me: I'd feel morally reprehensible doing business with you if you're that stupid. I'll buy a Sprint phone.

    CATT: No, no no! Tell you what, I'll send you a NEW one for the same price, so you don't have to return the Star Wars thingie.

    Me: ...

    CATT: Sir?

    Me: Nevermind, I can do business with idiots. Thanks. Send it on.

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    -knewter