http://www.osnews.com/story/16652/Review_LG_Chocolate_and_Sony_Ericsson_Flash_Addon Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:13:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?188986 http://osnews.com/thread?188986 The video 3gp video clip works for me:

I used Media Player Classic with ffdshow. Works fine.

The phone itself seems kind of sucks, the design seems nice, but the features are kind of disappointing. Style over subustance, IMHO.

Anyone know of Symbian OS based smartphone with a good looking design? Think of Nokia E series but with a slicker design. Being in the $300 - $400 range would also help. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wintermute) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?188987 http://osnews.com/thread?188987 >I used Media Player Classic with ffdshow. Works fine.

It does not work for me. I have ffdshow and WMP11 and it doesn't work here. However, ffdshow is not as standard as Real and as QuickTime is for 3GP on people's computers (or even as popular as VLC is lately). And the LG video just doesn't work on any of these apps, while ALL the other phones I have reviewed the last 2 years work just fine. Apple has made sure that 3GP and MPEG4 works well on QuickTime, so I am inclined to believe based on these facts that the bug is LG's. Maybe ffdshow go around LG's bugs in order to be able to be compatible with them.

>Anyone know of Symbian OS based smartphone with a good looking design?

ALL the Symbian S60 3.0 devices are here, take your pick:
http://my-symbian.com/s60v3/compare.php (only devices missing from that list are the N75/N95 which are not out yet)

and here is the Symbian UIQ 3.0 devices:
http://my-symbian.com/uiq3/compare.phpEdited 2006-12-07 00:39 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?188997 http://osnews.com/thread?188997 I downloaded MP Classic too btw, and fddshow is installed and enabled in the external filters. The video just doesn't work here. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189026 http://osnews.com/thread?189026 Hmm, maybe its because of Quicktime/Real alternative? But if Quicktime alternative works, so should the real version of Quciktime.

Other than a matroska splitter and an Xvid codec I don't think I have any 3rd party codecs installed. This is kind of wierd.

The comparison chart is quite useful, thanks for that. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wintermute) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189029 http://osnews.com/thread?189029 At least the ones that verizon wireless carries. Not the worst phone in the world, but if you care about reliability, you'd bet an 8300 instead.... which largely has the same features.

Man..... How I do miss the startac. :-( Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (halfmanhalfamazing) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189036 http://osnews.com/thread?189036 The CDMA version on Verizon is not the same as the GSM version. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189073 http://osnews.com/thread?189073 I seems to play in the Nokia Multimedia Player (comes with Nokia PCSuite) but as you already mentioned it doesn't play in anything else. How long is the clip supposed to be? It says 11:26 in NMP but only plays for about 6 seconds. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lvikstro) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189082 http://osnews.com/thread?189082 "But probably it would the average housewife who wants to show off to her also desperate housewife girlfriend."

I'm going to take a wild shot here and guess that the guy who wrote this isn't married.

Or if he is, that he won't be for very _long_. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189086 http://osnews.com/thread?189086 > that the guy who wrote this isn't married.

You can find if this is true by clicking at the name of the article's author. ;-)

You will find that he is a she, and that she is happily married. More over, what it's written is what it is. No power user in his right mind would buy that phone.Edited 2006-12-07 07:06 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189235 http://osnews.com/thread?189235 That part of it is right. The other part of it is straight up patronizing sexism. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?189338 http://osnews.com/thread?189338 Or, just FUNNY. And true. Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments