[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] ministeve2003:
8125 Works Like A Champ

My Cingular 8125 Is absolutely Fantastic...

Previous History...

I had a Samsung x427m freebie Phone and a Used Hp1910 Pocket Pc Off ebay...(150bucks) Did everything I wanted at the time... Played movies encoded at 220bit just fine... Plus I'm Cheap... had games... NES Roms... Mobipocket.... mp3's Liked the 3.5 screen...Kept it for 3-4 years...

8125...MINE...lol

1gb minisd Card

Motorola h500 Bluetooth Handsfree

1 Delux Black aluminum Case...

Firest thing I did was Update the Rom...

Cingular_RUU_225111_BETA_Custom_A2DP_THMS_RNGRS.exe

I knew That I would need to do that Much before I started any Computer geek will tell you you to find the newest Firmware/Drivers...lol

added vjvolubilis.cab to use my motorola H500 Bluetooth Handsfree To listen to music...works good...

Did the Wifi Update so It would actually connect to my wifi... I like WIFI...lol

Kept Wisebar Advanced off... Decided that it Slows up stuff a little, and doesn't like landscape with the only theme I'd actually use...no big deal,

Installed Battery Pack Pro... A MUST HAVE... lets you setup custom little icons to quickly pick application or game to run.... and will let you endtask Without having Wisebar on there... also shows battery time left and memory...

Installed MS Voice Command...

Installed Sprite Backup Another MUST HAVE... Make a quick backup when everything you want is running perfect and everything is installed...

Mobipocket reader Pro.... BOOKS>>>>BEST PROGRAM EVER FOR THIS...

Full Screen, From TXT and other pda formats... Scrolls Best way to Read a book in the Known universe...

TCPMP --- VIDEOS --- Need I say More.... full lenght dvd is about 100mb an hour... at 248 bitrate

Age Of empires Gold ---- Works Good... Good Game.... Still Wishing for AOE2 on PPC

Pocket Tombraider... Works Good... Amazing....

OverClocking Utilities

I've Tested it with the defaults 200mhz 240mhz and 252mhz, seems stable with all haven't compared battery test with them yet

Cingular 8125... Finally SET ME FREE....lol

Music

I still need to Put Pocket Music Player on there... Don't care for Mediaplayer10 but media player 10 works ok...

Movies...

I encode movies from dvd using Lathe around 248 bitrate... Plays them Perfect... without needing to overclock over 200 don't know why anyone would want higher bitrate on such a small screen...

Games - Havn't tried NES yet, but SNES was still too slow...Oh well... I'm fine with Super Mario Brothers 3 --- I'm Still afraid to Remap the phone on and off buttons for games... don't want to miss a call...lol

Tested Battery at 200mhz... thats what I keep it at... looks like playing a movie 248 bit and music and movies, reading, with blutooth off, wifi off,

will give you somewhere about 6-7 hours... WOW... my old PPC only would go for 2h 35min... Oh... the Screen Brightness was at 50% which is what my old pda looks like at 100% and looks great... brightness could go Way higher but not Necessary (wow did I just say that)

Bluetooth... H500... number 2 Handsfree device Cost me 35 bucks including shipping on ebay... Works Very Well When Close to device... Like 7-10 feet...

I use a phone like almost never.... But using the BT to Voice Dial Numbers Is Great...

I was afraid to get this because of the suposedly slower 200mhz processor... what a joke... This is way faster than my old Pda clocked at 300mhz...

I'd say the only drawback is the 2.8 screen, but it seems no to make much difference...

Price... $400 bucks... I bought it New Off Ebay... Unlocked... payed about 50 bucks more than cingular sells it for but keeps me from their stupid 2 year contract... seems worth every penny...

a friend of mine returned hers after about 5 days because she didn't know any computer stuff... had lockup problems because she didn't update Rom... The usuall stuff...lol These arn't for the completely computer illiderate...(at least straight out of the box) But I'd be hard pressed to find a better Device...