Orange Sydney

Big_Al51

I bought an Orange Sydney mobile to be used mainly as an emergency phone, but also to access internet via wi-fi. I have to say it has been an extremely frustating time caused mainly by a totally inadequate user guide.

I expected the touchscreen to make text input a simple process via a full onscreen QWERTY keyboard. No - input is via an onscreen version of the normal phone keypad. Absolutely crazy! Does anyone know if there is a Java app for this?

The supplied browser is awful - but does connect by wi-fi. Opera Mini is far superior - but I cannot for the life of me get it to connect by wi-fi. Does anyone have any idea how to achieve this?

I suppose I should not expect too much, after all it was a cheap phone. It looks great, such a shame that poor operating controls let it down.

grumbler

Big_Al51 wrote: »

I bought an Orange Sydney mobile to be used mainly as an emergency phone, but also to access internet via wi-fi. I have to say it has been an extremely frustating time caused mainly by a totally inadequate user guide.

Orange like to replace a normal user guide with some brochure mainly promoting their crappy services.

Samsung Star II Duos Mobile Phone User Guide.PDF

I expected the touchscreen to make text input a simple process via a full onscreen QWERTY keyboard. No - input is via an onscreen version of the normal phone keypad. Absolutely crazy! Does anyone know if there is a Java app for this?

There are some 'Samsung apps' according to the manual. You cannot expect much from from this phone. It is not a smartphone after all.

Big_Al51

Many thanks for that Grumbler. The Samsung manual is definitely helpful!