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#665855 11th Feb 2012 3:13pm
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help please i have a samsung wave 8500 mobile phone how are you supposed to text you touch one key and catch two itss impossible with ordinary fingers also can you use radio without headset great phone but complex but will i ever be able to use it ha ha

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Take it back and get a different phone then...

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cut your nails

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ha ha ha so funny jak1 but i have short nails

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Get a stylus for it, they're only a couple of quid, useful for anyone with normal sized fingers smile

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cheers doc

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Originally Posted by TheDr
Get a stylus for it, they're only a couple of quid, useful for anyone with normal sized fingers smile
stylus does not work on samung wave, and no to using radio without headset

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Download the manual.
Apparently there are several options for entering text.
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c.../GT-S8500_UM_Open_Eng_Rev.1.5_101203.pdf

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Didn't know you could get syslisses for mobiles lol

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Originally Posted by Sarah_ZR
Didn't know you could get syslisses for mobiles lol

You've seen my TP2. But Windows Mobile is like... 10 years old, and it was built for resistive touchscreens and Stylii (sp?). Only ever had one capacitive touchscreen handset, WinMo's swansong aka the HD2, which was more hassle for HTC/Microsoft to develop, than it was worth.

I am still gobsmacked how people still need to use styluses with these modern OS's though... I mean, I'm running WinMo 6.1 (so not even the relatively more touch-friendly 6.5.3/6.5.5 BETA's - they don't call WinMo the "stylus-happy OS of yesteryear" for nothing lol [it's a dig at it's antiquated GUI], and yet I think I use the stylus once in a blue moon, usually when I'm tired.

If a modern handset/OS requires a stylus on a touchscreen, it begs the question as to why it has a touchscreen...

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Here we go Sarah...

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First of all, the Samsung Wave DOES work with a stylus.

I wasn't commenting on the practicalities of it or how old the OS is or how the UI should be improved, I was giving a very simple way to work around not being able to press one key at a time.

The headphones are the aerial for the radio, even some of the cheaper Samsungs have them inbuilt but for some reason not the Wave.

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opinion divided on stylus can i or not use on this phone helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

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Why don't you just take it back and get a different phone? There are better "touch" OS's out there than Bada...

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would of changed it but it was given to me by someone who never got round to use it due to ill health

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