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903SH Slideshow? T9 for English in the Japanese version?
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Posted by: burton159

SLIDESHOW for pics:
The 903Sh doesnt seem to have a slideshow function for pics. It was definitely a handy feature on previous phones. You could easily show people your pics by justing handing the phone over. With the 903SH, I have to go back to the list then open it up etc for each pic. And then if i want to show it in full screen, (as slideshow used to do) i then have to go to menu, choose full screen and wait again. All this for just one pic! It seems strange they havent included it on the 903. Does anyone else have a 903 with slideshow, or know how it could be done? Thanks.

T9 for ENGLISH on Jap version:
I know the Euro version has this, but does anyone know anyway of getting T9 to work for English on the Japanese version? Thanks again

Posted by: AL9999

It actually does have slideshow. The trick is to use the * and # keys...

Unfortunately T9 is completely disabled for the JP version. There's no way to activate it.

Posted by: volcompunk

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Originally Posted by AL9999

It actually does have slideshow. The trick is to use the * and # keys...

Unfortunately T9 is completely disabled for the JP version. There's no way to activate it.

ah you are a genius. I was wondering the same thing about the slide shows

Posted by: burton159

brilliant! thanks.

Posted by: burton159

actually, i just tried it. it doesnt give you full screen and doesnt change them automatically. its a shame, cos having such a good (big) screen is a key feature of the phone and esp for pics. but better than nothing anyway!

Posted by: AL9999

Yeah I know, it doesn't change them automatically. But until the 903 you couldn't do it at all, so at least this is better than nothing, yeah

Posted by: burton159

you could do it with previous japanese phones no problem. eg. my 801SH and even my friends old 301Toshiba.
not having the auto is not such a big deal, but no full screen (unless you wait and open each one) is suprising.
It also doesnt have mulitple wallpapers that change automatically during the day like the 801 etc. it may be the same software that does the slideshows as well. pity they didnt load it!

Posted by: AL9999

Yeah that's because they used the Japanese style user interface - the ones that allowed you to customise virtually every facet of the phone and had ease of use well thought inside out.

Instead Vodafone Group wanted Sharp to continue with the GX series style interface for their 3G phones, and this is what we got instead. There was outrage in Japan when the 902SH with the GX25 style user interface was released, and with good reason too - it was complete crap compared to the V801SH's interface.

Posted by: burton159

yeah, the 801 definitely has more user friendly keypad functions eg. you can move through almost all menus `back` `forward` `select` etc without taking your thumb off the d-pad. worked more like a mouse.

by the way, thanks to someone on this forum who gave me the weblink, i sent my 801SH to a place here in Japan and they unlocked it in 3days for AUD$55, with great service. they do the 903 as well.
http://www.tokyobikan.com/