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Sat, 14 Nov 2009

/xHW/Motorola_A1200: Copy and Paste on the Motorola A1200 "Ming" Mobile Phone

This post is most particularly triggered by the fact that I have *finally*, purely by accident and no thanks to the existing documentation, figured out how to do copy&paste (not exactly a minor feature on a "PDA" phone):

to copy or cut you drag the stylus so as to highlight the text of interest, and then without releasing pressure on the stylus, do a very small circling motion. There will be a brief one second animation, then a pop-up menu will appear, with the expected options.
To paste, again do a little circling motion with the stylus at the insertion point. And you will again be rewarded with an animation and a pop-up menu.

After several weeks of use, some other thoughts.

Pros:

The big screen / stylus / QWERTY soft keyboard are wonderful for text messages.
I would say, in general, the core functionality of phone / address book / text message management are all excellent.
The alarm works when the phone is turned off!
There is a periodic unread message reminder, though it is just a brief vibration and it is real easy to miss.

Cons:

When the battery dies, the phone shuts off silently, although it does vibrate periodically near the end. Again, easy to miss that the battery is on its last legs.
Eats batteries. I have one standard battery that lasts much less then 24 hours, another less then 48 hours.
As I mentioned in my last post, the phone cannot charge an exhausted battery. This is really lame.
There are zero sound options, and the one ring tone is particularly obnoxious
Chinese input does do some prediction, but only one character at a time. This may be a function of this being an old model of phone. (State of the art Chinese input should be predicting multiple character words.)

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Sat, 14 Nov 2009