Just before Christmas, I got my Qtek 9100, a Windows powered smartphone. A really nice gadget!
It runs on Windows Mobile 2005, so of course you need to be kind to it, and avoid doing stupid things. Before I realized that, I had to perform one "hard reset", erasing everything I had installed so far (except for what was on the storage card), but after that, everything has been working just fine.
At first, I had some problems with ActiveSync synchronizing tasks incorrectly, but I think that problem finally corrected itself (or it’ll show up later, we’ll see!).
So far, I’ve installed and run Skype, VNC, Pocket PuTTY and .NET Compact Framework 2.0, without any problems.
The most stupid thing I’ve done with it so far is to try to use it for my shopping list. It took me twice as long to get what I wanted, because the list went in alphabetical order instead of in the order of where things are placed in the supermarket. And holding the Qtek with one hand while trying to put apples in a plastic bag isn’t exactly easy (the stylus and the apple in the same hand, of course). Not recommended!
[Update, 29th of December] Well, I’ve installed Skype, but it doesn’t work very well. I think that the CPU frequency of the Qtek is too low, actually, just 200 MHz. We’ll see if there’ll be a Skype update optimized for the Qtek. Let’s hope!
Filed under: Productivity, Technology
