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10 ways to turn your mobile phone into an efficient business tool

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I tried a iPhone G3 and a Nokia N97 for several weeks but the small screen and lack of a decent keyboard are a serious break on productivity for anything other than small quick emails or looking at a calendar.

I also tried a Eee 901 netbook. It is bigger and heavier than the above smartphones but it allows me to do almost everything I need. The keyboard is almost full size so typing is easy and fast. It is a major pain to imagine writing a lengthy email/text or some code on a smartphone but on the netbook it is as easy as on a laptop or desktop.

The Eee 901 battery lasts more than 6:30 hours with my usual work load, more than enough for a days work and I don't run the risk of emptying my phone's battery and being out of contact, something that happened frequently with the iPhone.

For the price of one iPhone G3 or a N97 I can almost buy two Eee 901 and two small phones. Also, the netbook allows me to make full use of VoIP significantly reducing the calls cost and gives the possibility of conference calls.

The more I look at the current smart phones the more I think that for work a netbook is the right answer.

I have the AT&T Fuze (HTC Touch Pro). And I know for sure I haven't explored all the possibilities.

I got the fuze (although now I'm salivating over the HTC Touch Pro 2) and I love it. Mine's running WM 6.5 - which isn't out yet - and I've been using zaTunnel with a free SSH server combined with the Remote Desktop tool to log into my servers. It's a little clunky, I'm working on learning MortScript so I can make the interface a bit easier, but it works!

Make sure you check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/ for detailed configuration help and customized ROMs (operating systems). The fuze is known as the Raphael there.

The above guy is running WM 6.5 - which isn't out yet.

Lucky I work with MS so will soon have this issue sorted out with a little help for the 'logs'.

I turn mine to silent while I am working away from the shop then check my VM every couple of hours. If I leave the phone on it rings about every few minutes and this doesn't impress my customers one bit if I stop working to answer or even just check the Caller ID.

When someone leaves a message I know it is important and will get it as soon as I leave the worksite.

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so whilst holding it to your ear, try to also pay attention to what you are doing, I'm getting sick of people who step off pavements because they think a conversation or text message (never mind any other app) is more important than their life.. As for driving whilst on the phone or texting... if only the law allowed me to shoot people......

If the phone doesn't weigh enough, it won't hold your papers down.

Promising headline... got me to look. Story was not what the headline promised. Again.

The "SlideIT" Android Keyboard App is way more efficient than QWERTY in my view. I rarely, if ever, use QWERTY now that I use "SlideIT". Much faster than typing on QWERTY KB with fat fingers.

I am thing is very long and because of my life. what i will do in the further.
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