If you lack a solitary select machinery to be both your responsive phone and media instrumentalist, why look any promote than the iPhone? But if you don’t have individual - how far would you deck out using express a WM6 phone to do the very things?

spring, I have been a Windows agile PDA-phone user in place of years and quieten have the best put asunder give up of a year to run on my latest WM6 phone (O2’s XDA Stellar which is the HTC TyTN II high a different name). I puissance very well scourge to the iPhone when the narrow runs evasion, but for now I’m stuck with the HTC.

I had become occupied to going in with both my WM6 phone and my ageing iPod mini, using the latter extensively for podcasts and audiobooks as admirably as music. When the battery on the iPod mini finally gave out around a month ago my initially thought was to replace it with a current iPod nano. But then I got to wondering whether the HTC could be persuaded to emphasize iPhone stand-in. I had always dismissed that as quixotic, if purely because I could not imagine how it weight come through be a match for with all my podcasts. But I can at once believe a big remembrance card, the HTC can participate in music and video and has a whacking big screen. And I would only take one device to carry around, even-handed like the iPhone.

That’s how the investigation began.

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Step rhyme was to buy a suitably capacious memory postal card. The HTC supports SDHC micro cards and it fetch all about £16 to journey by a best brand 8GB card, that’s more memory than I had with the full iPod.

First (schoolboy) obstacle - the flash on the Today home screen of the HTC misreports the meagre wit on the memory card. It is currently me I possess only used 1% of the total whereas I have in the offing filled over 2GB. I think this is a problem with the WM6 OS and the newer SDHC cards. I in days of yore tolerant of a standard density 256MB microSD credit card with the HTC and the character was reported correctly. In any circumstance, the heraldic bearing certainly reads/writes fine with SDHC.

What next?

I taken music wouldn’t be too enigmatical.  I was more worried about podcasts.  With iPod and iTunes working in tandem, podcasts are a breeze and I had everything set up with a smart playlist to have the podcasts in the right right. If I couldn’t stir something compare favourably with working on WM6 with Windows Media contestant 11 that would happen  as a unmixed showstopper.

How did I go for on?  That want be #2 in this inadequate series of posts.