This device is a knife to the heart of Palm's pda business. Oh, I forgot it is also a phone, too.
Seriously, the market segment is for the power pda user (Sony Clie' & Dell Axim) and the phone and gps capabilities are the icing on the cake.
I have one and here are some hints for increased operability:
Since this was released as the T-Mobile Ameo and the Dopod U1000 some time ago, there are some great fixes and hacks at xda-developers.com:
-A2DP settings can be changed in the registry for greatly increased stereo bluetooth quality
-The device has a VGA screen, but runs QVGA resolution out of the box. There is a fix for that and that really improves the quality of the screen experience.
-Lose the keyboard. It is not necessary if you know grafitti text input, and it lets you pocket the device with the leather pouch (great quality btw) without the added thickness. My 7501 fits in my back jeans pocket w/o keyboard.
-Phone functionality is increased with a headset like the Jabra BT8010 which has it's own OLED display. This will let you keep the x7501 stored during calls.
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This device is a knife to the heart of Palm's pda business. Oh, I forgot it is also a phone, too.
Seriously, the market segment is for the power pda user (Sony Clie' & Dell Axim) and the phone and gps capabilities are the icing on the cake.
I have one and here are some hints for increased operability:
Since this was released as the T-Mobile Ameo and the Dopod U1000 some time ago, there are some great fixes and hacks at xda-developers.com:
-A2DP settings can be changed in the registry for greatly increased stereo bluetooth quality
-The device has a VGA screen, but runs QVGA resolution out of the box. There is a fix for that and that really improves the quality of the screen experience.
-Lose the keyboard. It is not necessary if you know grafitti text input, and it lets you pocket the device with the leather pouch (great quality btw) without the added thickness. My 7501 fits in my back jeans pocket w/o keyboard.
-Phone functionality is increased with a headset like the Jabra BT8010 which has it's own OLED display. This will let you keep the x7501 stored during calls.