New K800i on its way what are my essentials ?

[maltloaf]

Unplanned as i wanted to go with nokias for a bit but this was the only decent option when they told me they had run out of n70's so it's on its way...

What essential downloads / apps / games / themes / tweaks are there. Stuff i cant do without.

Let's make a k800i list as alot of the threads here seem to be focused on w800 k750 etc.

cheers,

malty

[FireBlade]

http://www.fjsoft.at/
my phone explorer is very useful

http://www.mobile9.com/
For themes and mp3 ringtones

[TheFincher]

Nice one for that myphone explorer matey......... Karma'd, used to have it on my K750 and forgot all about it

malty......... Something to bear in mind is that you dont get a memory stick with it, just the internal memory. Not free but i think their relatively cheap now, simonghodge put a thread in biggy's a little while ago about a deal on one if i remember rightly

[maltloaf]

been searching around for M2 cards. Looks like 1GB is a bit hard to find at the moment (at a decent price anyway) so i'll be going for 512MB for now.

I think the phone has 64MB internally so a little to play with.

I'll have a look for the thread you mention

@fireblade, nice sites thank you

cheers,

malty

[daz73]

Paid £23 for my 512mb card from fleabay.. Cheapest I could find...

also check out silicone & Hard cases for the k800i as its a nice phone and can help to protect it...

[TheFincher]

Paid £23 for my 512mb card from fleabay.. Cheapest I could find...

also check out silicone & Hard cases for the k800i as its a nice phone and can help to protect it...

Ive been after a case for a while................. Can you recommend a decent one?

[daz73]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1

this is what i bought...

1 silicone case and one hard case for £4.50, you also get screen protectors free.. also choose what colour you want the silicone case to be...

[maltloaf]

got the phone now and am really pleased with it. On my three branded handset theres a scrolling three banner on the bottom of the screen anyone know how i can kill it ?

[BertRoot]

got the phone now and am really pleased with it. On my three branded handset theres a scrolling three banner on the bottom of the screen anyone know how i can kill it ?

Settings
Instant Viewer in General Settings
then press Select and disable

[maltloaf]

top man u rock

[BertRoot]

top man u rock

They do the same on the 6280s as my mate got one and it pissed him off no end and I ain't sure if he has got rid yet. Luckily the N80 has no real 3ness about it thank fook. Did this on someones K800i the other day and he was very pleased as well.

[maltloaf]

loving this phone. The camera is fabulous. First phone cam i've had that gives great images in low light. I love publishing the photos straight to a weblog over 3g too. great stuff.

[maltloaf]

to demonstrate the effectiveness of the flash and focus system, image taken in a pitch black cab (apart from the instrument lighting) Interior light was NOT on

resized due to pic size requirements

[djc53320661]

Love this phone also and very impressed with 3 network too.

[czk101]

I think the k800i is the best phone i've used so far.

Quite a few games and stuff here http://www.myk800.lasyk.net/K800i/Games/

(some of them are pretty cr*p though, but there are a couple of gems if you look hard enough)

[ally]

Malty - 1GB cards are £39 in stock in town at Carphone warehouse. I know they're slightly cheaper off the web, but.... no stock

[purpleanimal23]

to demonstrate the effectiveness of the flash and focus system, image taken in a pitch black cab (apart from the instrument lighting) Interior light was NOT on

resized due to pic size requirements

That wouldn't say 90 on the clock there would it

And that is impressive for a camera phone

[FireBlade]

Anybody having probs when trying to copy stuff over the USB?
Plug it in then it showes file transfer or phone mode if i select phone mode it reboots the fone and doesnt work in myphoneexplorer or the sony suite if i select phone mode it works fine but the files only copy across at 150k/s

[Duppydude]

to get the maximum speed you need to use a memory card reader, I had the same problem when transferring stuff to my K750i and W810i. It's because you are transferring through the phone which is about 3 times slower than a memory card reader.

memory card readers are pretty cheap, you can pick one up off fleabay for about a fiver.

[maltloaf]

file transfer mode is about as fast as a memory card reader. Phone mode is no where near as fast.

Lots have trouble installing the driver for the FT mode, but once in properly it works a treat