Wednesday, June 13, 2007

WM6 0n The BlackJack

Ok – whether I am an official beta tester or not. I have updated my BlackJack with the infamous WM6 update from AT&T. Most everything works great. I am a little disappointed in a few things though.
1 thing the “long press” function seems to be gone – where you would hold down a key for an extended length of time and it would give you the “alternate” character listed on that key.
Another thing is I am still not happy with WM6’s version of the Windows Media player. One of the most awesome things about the phone is it’s ability to have multiple Bluetooth connections. This is still the case, but WM6 and The WM player still shows – Connected to Bluetooth, instead of any Music Info. For this reason I will still continue to use my Core Player.
I am happy about a few things.
Office 2007 and Vista connectivity. I have a new Laptop and it came pre-loaded with Vista – (this did make the Upgrade to WM6 a little harry, as it can’t be done using a Vista PC – the way the Modem Drivers work, and turning of USB) I also have MS Office 2007 on the system, with One Note as well. WM6 comes with some preloaded Office viewers ( I have not tried to edit yet using the pre-loaded BlackJack and Office apps), but I have moved over some documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) with flawless access. I did get an error from the sync process, that said the system was not designed to edit the document – but I am fairly confident that I can do this with no problem – I did check a few things.
OneNote has its own installer for the device (Windows Mobile devices) this two seems to work fairly well. I think it’s a matter of Learning OneNote, not anything else.
So In short. All of my software seems to reinstall and run, just fine. I am using a 2gig card, and it has no issues either. I like the interface, and I wish there were more Homescreens available for WM6 at this point, but it will come.
I can’t waite to update to the Real WM6 for the BlackJack