Cellular Phone Forum / General / GSM / April 2004
Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones v2.1 is released
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Oxygen Software - 06 Apr 2004 15:51 GMT Hello.
We are glad to inform you that we just released the 2.1 version of Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones (http://www.opm-2.com/symbian).
Changes in this version: 1. Nokia 3620 support. 2. Siemens SX1 support. 3. Sony Ericsson P900 support. 4. Nokia 7700 preliminary support. 5. "To-Do List" section added. Allows you to manage your tasks list and synchronize it with Microsoft Outlook. 6. Calendar: Write to phone ability added. 7. This version requires new registration key ("opm.key" file). Please obtain the new registration key at the registered customers page. 8. Phone Information: Displaying phone date/time with ability to synchronize it with the PC's current date/time. 9. Options, Phonebook: Added "Full address format" option allowing you to manually set address view as you prefer. 10. Phonebook: Auxiliary characters " ", "-", "(" and ")" now allowed in phone numbers. 11. Phonebook: "Search for duplicate numbers" function now takes into the account the following data only: General phones, Mobile phones, Faxes, Pagers, E-mail addresses, Web pages and Notes. 12. Phonebook: Automatically stretching contact photos and recalculating row heights when changing "Picture" column width. 13. Melodies: Audio files (*.au) support. 14. Melodies: "Select..." ("All melodies", "Read melodies", "Unread melodies") menu added to popup menu. 15. Melodies: Added reading Melodies information progress bar. 16. Messaging: Added ability to copy pictures to "Images" section. 17. Messaging: Added ability to copy melodies to "Melodies and Sounds" section. 18. Messaging: Added "Reply" and "Forward" buttons and popup menu items. 19. Messaging, Message Editor window: Added "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Undo" and "Redo" buttons. 20. Messaging, Message Editor window: Added context popup menu. 21. Messaging: Added support for AWB, AVI, MP3, 3GP files. Players associated with these extensions are called automatically. 22. Messaging: Added "Save to file(s)" feature. All or selected messages can be saved to single file as well as separate file can be created for every message. See "Save selected messages to" and "Save All messages to" items in popup menu. 23. Messaging, Message Editor window: Removing illegal characters in the "Recipients" field automatically. 24. Messaging: "Add to Contacts" ("Create new" and "Update existing") menu added to popup menu. Shows VCard window allowing you to enter or edit contact information. 25. Messaging: Added "State" column. Displays current message state ("Wait", "Sent", "Suspended" etc). 26. Messaging: Added ability to edit messages in "Drafts" folder. 27. Messaging: Now you can set columns visibility with "Column settings..." item in popup menu. 28. Messaging: Added ability to resend messages from "Outbox" and "Drafts" folders. 29. Messaging: If "Details" and "Description" fields are empty, they are filled automatically when saving message. 30. Messaging: Added CSV and Microsoft Excel export feature. 31. Messaging: Hiding "From" column for "Outbox" and "Sent" folders. 32. Options, Messaging: New option - "Mark message read after displaying for N second(s)". 33. Calendar: Added Event editors with extended recurrence support. 34. Calendar: Copying/moving events to other phones feature added. 35. Calendar: Added events drag-and-drop support between different phones. 36. Calendar: Saving to file all or selected events. 37. Calendar: Loading events from file. 38. Calendar: Merging current Calendar events with events stored in file. 39. Calendar: Added "Import Birthdays from Phonebook" feature. Available for Nokia and Siemens phones only. 40. Options, Calendar: New option - "Load from file function behaviour" with two possible values: "Merge existing events with events being loaded from file" and "Purge all existing events and then load events from file". 41. Options, Calendar: Added options to customize time format "Hour type" and week start day ("Week starts on"). "Week starts on" option affects Birthday Center in Phonebook too. 42. License expiration date is now displayed in main window's caption. 43. Only changed data now saved when exiting the program. It significantly speeds up closing the program. 44. VCard: Added confirmation dialog when trying to close VCard window with changed contact data. 45. VCard window is now automatically centered on screen. 46. The link to "On-line support forum" is added to the Help menu. 47. VCard: Fixed bug with pasting Birthday date from clipboard. 48. Phonebook: Fixed bug with saving "Picture" column width. 49. Bug fixed: "Minimize to system tray" option didn't work. 50. Melodies: Fixed bug with opening files locked by another applications. 51. Messaging: Fixed bug with displaying alias or e-mail address. 52. Messaging: Fixed bug with displaying the message that is just received when the current folder is "Inbox". 53. Messaging: Fixed bug with assuming space character as recipients separator. 54. Messaging: Fixed bug with deleting message from "Mailbox" folder. 55. Messaging: Fixed bug with updating message information after forced re-reading of message. 56. Fixed problem with running Oxygen Phone Manager from several 3rd party shells like ButtonBar, Total Commander etc. 57. Many small improvements and bugfixes. 58. Some stability imrpovements.
Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones lets your PC and mobile phone with Symbian OS communicate with each other. This version supports the following phones: Nokia 3600, Nokia 3620, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia 6600, Nokia 7650, Nokia 7700(preliminary support), Nokia N-Gage, Sony Ericsson P800, Sony Ericsson P900, Siemens SX1. Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian phones allows you to work with Phonebook, Calendar, To-Do List, Images, Melodies and Messages. You can load your phonebook from phone, edit contacts either using vCard edit window or directly in phonebook view, set individual contact picture and ringtone, define Full Name format individually for each contact, pack contacts database, import data from MS Outlook, WAB (Windows address book) and export the phonebook back to MS Outlook, WAB, CSV and other popular formats. You can browse the detailed information about your contacts using vCard window, that can be called from Phonebook window by double-click. Calendar section allows you to organize your phone's events in Microsoft Outlook-like Planner interface as well as all events grid. You can create events of various types: Meeting, Reminder, Anniversary etc. Planner shows all the events of the selected day (work week, weekm month) visually. Recurrent events like Birthdays can be easily organized also. You can set the Active time margins to limit events view (e.g. from 10:00 to 18:00). You also can adjust time scale from 5 minutes to 1 our. Images browser allows you to manage the images stored in your phone including Camera snapshots. You can download the images from your phone, delete unwanted images and add new ones, save images to several file formats and copy them to clipboard. Image browser allows you to preview image thumbnails and view full image as hint by pointing mouse to the thumbnail. Melodies and Sounds section allows you to view and listen the melodies, ringing tones and dictaphone records stored in your phone, add new melodies or delete unwanted ones. Supported file formats are RNG, MID, WAV, AMR, AWB, MP3, AU. Messages section represents all messages (SMS, Smart SMS, MMS, E-mail and others) stored in your phone. This section allows you to read Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, My folders, Mailbox folders content, display basic message types - SMS, MMS, E-mail, Beamed (received via BT or IrDA), BIO (Picture message, Operator Logo, Ringing tone, WAP access point), read and display file attaches for MMS, E-mail and Beamed messages. It also can create and delete custom message folders, delete messages from your phone and move them between folders. You also will be able to create and send both plain and Unicode SMS messages to individual recipients as well as to contact groups. Tuning To-Do Lists is simple and clear like all other functions: you can manage your tasks, import data from MS Outlook and export tasks back to Microsoft Outlook, XML, CSV and other popular formats. Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian phones has the ability to store any data either in Phone memory (Flash memory card is also supported) or at hard disk. It may be useful if you experience lack of phone memory and do not want to lose your pictures, contacts, etc. Oxygen Phone Manager II has unicode support.
The program works under Microsoft Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 (Standard edition) and Windows XP operating systems family.
Registered customers of Oxygen Phone Manager II for Nokia phones can download the full Symbian version from the registered customers page. Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS Phones requires requires the registration key that differs from one for Oxygen Phone Manager II for Nokia phones. You may request the appropriated key from the registered customers page. IMPORTANT NOTE: Ordering Oxygen Phone Manager II licenses you receive the registered versions of both products: - Oxygen Phone Manager II for Nokia phones; - Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones. You can use both of them but total count of registered phones cannot exceed your license's phones limitation.
Want to get Oxygen Phone Manager II for FREE? Write the program review, publish it somewhere (in Magazines, Newspapers or Internet) and send the URL to support@opm-2.com (or printed copy to our postal address). Authors of best reviews will be awarded with free Family license of Oxygen Phone Manager II.
For more details please refer to http://www.opm-2.com/symbian or http://www.oxygensoftware.com or http://www.oxygensoftware.co.uk
Best regards, Oxygen Software. Oxygen Phone Manager II - all you want from your Nokia. support@oxygensoftware.com http://www.oxygensoftware.com http://www.oxygensoftware.co.uk
Adam Jackson - 06 Apr 2004 18:13 GMT I'd think very carefully before installing this update. Imagine my surprise and delight (not!) when EVERY time I run v2.1, it pops up a dialog box telling me that my subscription is about to expire, and that I need to pay (per handset) for a year's extension to my licensed handsets in order to qualify for upgrades and support.
Whilst I don't think it's unreasonable to charge an upgrade fee for MAJOR revisions of software, I have a couple of issues with making it an ANNUAL upgrade, irrespective of how major or minor, or indeed how many new versions have been released:
1. Do I now have to pay in order to get bugs fixed? 2. Why can't I stop the damn thing *which I've paid for* popping up the damn dialog box EVERY time I run it?
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X-Eliminator - 07 Apr 2004 00:30 GMT That's why there's "warez":
alt.binaries.warez. alt.binaries.ibm-pc alt.binaries.ibm-pc.0-day
You lose. =============================================================
>I'd think very carefully before installing this update. Imagine my >surprise and delight (not!) when EVERY time I run v2.1, it pops up a dialog [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >2. Why can't I stop the damn thing *which I've paid for* popping up the >damn dialog box EVERY time I run it? Oxygen Software - 07 Apr 2004 09:41 GMT > I'd think very carefully before installing this update. Imagine my > surprise and delight (not!) when EVERY time I run v2.1, it pops up a dialog [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > upgrade, irrespective of how major or minor, or indeed how many new > versions have been released: Thank you for your request! Technical support is annual. You should just activate the newest activation keycode in program ( 'Help' -> 'Enter registration code' ). For version 2.1 you should request corresponding keycode from your personal registered customer's page. If your technical support subscription will expire, it doesn't limitate anyhow program's functionality: you still can upload data without any limitations and change phones inside the latest available license as well.
> 1. Do I now have to pay in order to get bugs fixed? In case, if your technical support subscription has not expired, just request the latest keycode from your personal registered customer's page. Also, please, check, whether you have set correct system date on your PC.
> 2. Why can't I stop the damn thing *which I've paid for* popping up the > damn dialog box EVERY time I run it? This pop-up menu is not anyhow related to program's functionality: you can still upload data without any limitations. This pop-up window just informs you about technical support and updates subscription, so you could get fast and easy access to technical support subscription renewal information directly at program startup. But, indeed, you there will be no any limitation to current program's functionality.
Adam Jackson - 07 Apr 2004 09:59 GMT I am NOT stupid. I have the new keycode. My system date is correct. The pop-up may not limit functionality, but it is extremely ANNOYING. I do NOT need to be reminded EVERY time I run the program that my "subscription" has expired. I have never needed to ask for support - however, I DO expect to be able to download and use (without pop-ups) ninor releases which fix bugs in a product which I have legitimately purchased in good faith.
Perhaps in your next response, you would be so good as to actually answer my points, rather than treating me (a customer!) like some kind of idiot...
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>> I'd think very carefully before installing this update. Imagine my >> surprise and delight (not!) when EVERY time I run v2.1, it pops up a dialog [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > renewal information directly at program startup. But, indeed, you > there will be no any limitation to current program's functionality. Oxygen Software - 07 Apr 2004 16:10 GMT > I am NOT stupid. I have the new keycode. My system date is correct. The > pop-up may not limit functionality, but it is extremely ANNOYING. I do NOT > need to be reminded EVERY time I run the program that my "subscription" has > expired. I have never needed to ask for support - however, I DO expect to > be able to download and use (without pop-ups) ninor releases which fix bugs > in a product which I have legitimately purchased in good faith. Thank you for your request! With first copy you are getting free year of technical support subscription and program updates. It means, that after one year the program will function as it is specified in our license agreement, however you won't be able to get technical support and updates by e-mail. All of our version updates are 'major' as we add an optimize new functions in our program.
We consider this new notification system to be more fair. This startup notification shows, that you shouldn't pay anything, if you don't wish to renew technical support subscription, unless, you won't be able to download newer update till next license renewal. I.e., our technical support services and program updates are periodic service: if you won't update your technical support subscription, you can always keep your previous issue, however you can receive new issues only after technical support subscription renewal.
We'd like to apologize, but we had to ask for additional data about system date and the latest keycode to be sure, that the problem isn't involved by some other reasons.
Thank you for your patience and for understanding!
With best regards! Maxim Vyalkov Oxygen Software technical support dpt. support@NOSPAMoxygensoftware.com Oxygen Phone Manager II - all you want from your Nokia
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