Gadget User Blog

Well, here’s a rather odd situation. It seems many people are having trouble installing Adobe’s new and very expensive Master Collection CS3 on Vista computers. Now, this seems astonishing but particularly annoying if you have just spent up to $3,500 on the new software.

There is an awful lot of dodgy looking solutions being proposed, but I’d like to highlight the one that seems most sensible.

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One of the more pleasing features of the P1i is the quality of the music player. But even more pleasing is the quality of the music player over Bluetooth. Having spent many occasions listening to music via the X5 Blueant Headphones, I can honestly say the experience with the P1i is far superior.

There is negligible drop-out in the Bluetooth connection, which is a stark difference from my previous experience where the connection would drop out every 2 minutes or so.

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It’s been a while between posts but I have been obsessing with the latest toy in the collection, Sony Ericsson’s new P1i. Having been an Atom O2 owner, I was concerned about moving across to Symbian UIQ3 operating system from Windows Mobile 5. Not that I though that WM5 on the Atom was anything to write home about.

However, the first couple of weeks of testing this phone have been rather pleasing. It is by no means perfect, but the P1i does have an awful lot going for it. For a start, it hasn’t crashed once. That’s right, it hasn’t crashed once, even after I have added and uninstalled different types of software. This is remarkable, particularly for anyone who is used to WM5’s temper.

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