Review X1 Christian’s ROM 5.000
Since a while I use a Sony Ericsson X1 Xperia smartphone. This mobile runs Windows Mobile. There are custommade ROMs available and one of the best, made by a Dutchman, is the Christian Rom.
What can you do with a phone with this ROM? I want to summarize what I use, it’s a long list but not everything what is possible.
Above you see the list of programs. From left to right:
- Adobe Reader LE - Windows Mobile version to be able to view PDF
- Afbeeldingen en video’s – dutch for Pictures and videos
- Audio-booster – this program will give a deeper sound if a headphone is connected
- FBTV – I don’t use it, it’s a TV guide
- Midomi – a program you can sing a song which the program tries to recognize and if so it will give you the name of the song and singer/group (internet necessary)
- NOS Mobiel – mobile app for dutch NOS (internet necessary)
- Nos Teletekst – mobile app so you can see the dutch teletext services of NOS (internet necessary)
- SPB Screenshot – can be used to make screenshots, I made all these you see with this program
- Streaming Media -for Windows Media streaming
- Uitzending gemist – mobile app to see missed programs from public broadcasting (internet necessary)
- Windows Media - mediaplayer ofMicrosoft
- Youtube – nice Youtube application
- You see the folders Internet, Multimedia, Office Mobile 2010, spelletjes, tools en utilities which contain a lot of programs and some games
- ActiveSync is used for synchronize your data with an Exchange server or computer
- Alarmen is Dutch for Alarms
- Bing makes it possible you can search via the Bing searchengine
- Comm manager you can enable or disable connections
- Contacten, dutch for Contacts
- Extern bureaublad is the Remote Desktop client for Windows Mobile, dutch version
- Facebook is, you’ll never guess it, to see and change facebook activities (extra installed)
- Google maps, now included Street view!
- Hyves, Dutch social network (extra installed)
- Internet explorer
- Marathon (extra installed)
- Marketplace
- Messenger
- Microsoft MyPhone – synchronize all your data with je gegevens with Microsoft server, very usefull when upgrading a lot
- Microsoft Tag reader
- MSN geldzaken, dutch for MSN Money
- MSN Weer, MSN Weather in Dutch
- MusicID, like Midomi but you can’t sing yourself, detection of songs works really good (from radio, TV, etc…)
- Opera Mobile 10 – nice browser for Windows Mobile
- Panels - Xperia panels, I don’t use it
- PockeTwit – Twitter client for Windows Mobile. Really good Twitter application
- PockeTwit QuickPost – You can post quickly a tweet on Twitter
- QuickGPS, data download for calibratie GPS
- Rekenmachine, calc in Dutch
- Skype
- SMS bericht, Text messagging
- SPB Home, shell I often use, extra installed the newest version
- SPB TV, program which you can use for looking TV streams(internet necessary)
- SPB Weather, weather program, extra installed
- Telefoon, Dutch for phone
- Total Commander
- Verkenner, Dutch for Explorer
- Vodafone
- Windows Live
And last but not least : TomTom Navigator with Complete Western European Map
You can find Christian’s ROM here : http://www.christian-web.nl/index.php
(UPDATE: I see now a version is availabe : 5.120)
Categories: Review, Tips Tags: rom, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, X1
32 or 64 bit, that’s the question…
With the announcement of Windows 7 more and more systems will be delivered with the 64-bit edition.
The most important advantage of 64 bit versus 32 bit is that you can use more than 3.5 GB in your system. If your computer at the moment is equipped with 4 GB you can only use 3.5 GB for your system and applications. With 64 bit versions either Vista or Windows 7 you can use above 4GB.
Your processor has to have 64-bit capabilities.
I have tested several versions especially with the focus on speed. Windows Vista and Windows 7 were tested in 32 and 64 bit on an AMD Turion64 X2.
My focus was looking for difference between the feeling of speed and working speed.
Editting a Full HD 1080p recording with adding 3 effect in Adobe Premire Elements 7 (32 bit version).
I did a surprising conclusion.
I had expected that Vista 64 would give a power boost, but this wasn’t true. I had Windows 7 32bit installed. The editting went without delays. The system was able to monitor the recording without sound stuttering.
Weird was this problem is known due to slow harddrives. The harddrive cannot cope with the stream. On the desktop computer I don’t have this problem due to faster harddrives, on the notebook I have. The weird part is that I was able to edit easier and faster on Windows 7 32bit than on the fast desktop pc.
I would have expected Vista 64 should perform the same or better than Windows 7 in 32bit… End conclusion is that Windows 7 is really faster with the same hardware even on 32 and 64 bit… On this ‘old’ notebook I have a preference for the 32 bit version because I can’t upgrade to more than 4GB. Also some drivers and programs cannot deal well with 64 bit yet. But it is really well compared to Vista 64.
I’m sure the next computer will be 100% certainly Windows 7, 64 bit edition…
Tips 002 Quotepad
Again back with an useful tip.
Imagine you have to do research on an specific subject. To collect the information and have this well organised is a big challenge.
Quotepad solves this problem easy and effective.
You copy all information by using a shortcut key (default CTRL-SHIFT-Q, you can change this) and Quotepad will keep track of when and from which URL you have copied the content. Very handy.
It’s is freeware. You can download it from their own site : Quotepad.
I tested it on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit.