Oxygen
II for Symbian phones provides a useful alternative to the connectivity
solution supplied with Symbian handsets. It currently supports the following
phones:
Nokia 3230, Nokia 3600, Nokia 3620, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia 6260, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 7610, Nokia 7650, Nokia 7710, Nokia 9300, Nokia 9500, Nokia N70, Nokia N90, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage QD, Panasonic X700, Samsung SGH-D720, Samsung SGH-D720S, Samsung SGH-D728, Samsung SGH-D730, Sendo X, Siemens SX1, Sony Ericsson P800, Sony Ericsson P900, Sony Ericsson P910i, Vodafone 702NK, Vodafone X701.
Oxygen
Phone Manager II for Symbian phones allows you to work with Phonebook,
Calendar, To-Do Items, Profiles, Images, Melodies and Messages.
A free trial of Oxygen
II is available directly from the developers at www.opm-2.com/Symbian
Calendar
Management:
Calendar
section allows you to organize your schedule in Microsoft Outlook-like
Planner view as well as view all events as a table. You can create events
of various types: Meeting, Reminder, Anniversary etc. Planner shows
all the events of the selected day (work week, week, month) visually.
Recurrent events like Birthdays can be easily organized also. You can
set the Active time margins to limit events view (e.g. from 10:00 to
18:00). You also can adjust time scale from 5 minutes to 1 hour.
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View,
edit and manage your diary from the PC – download your entries and
manage your schedule with a variety of different views, including
a sortable text list, planner view, or a birthday summary view -
You can create events of various types: Meeting, Reminder, Anniversary
etc.
Contact management
You
can load your phonebook from phone, edit contacts either using vCard
edit window or directly in phonebook table, set individual contact picture
and ringtone, define Full Name format individually for each contact,
pack contacts database, import data from Microsoft Outlook, WAB (Windows
address book), CSV (comma-separated values) and export phonebook back
to Outlook, WAB, CSV and other popular formats.
Message Management
Messages
section represents all messages (SMS, Smart SMS, MMS, E-mail and others)
stored in your phone. This section allows you to read Inbox, Outbox,
Drafts, Sent, My folders, Mailbox folders content, display basic message
types – SMS, MMS, E-mail, Beamed (received via BT or IrDA), BIO (Picture
message, Operator Logo, Ringing tone, WAP access point), read and display
file attaches for MMS, E-mail and Beamed messages. It also can create
and delete custom message folders, delete messages from your phone and
move them between folders. You also will be able to create and send
both plain and Unicode SMS messages to individual recipients as well
as to contact groups.
Content management
Use Oxygen II to download content from your phone’s internal or memory
card memory onto your PC
Images
browser allows you to manage all images stored in your phone including
Camera snapshots. You can download the images from your phone, delete
unwanted images and add new ones, save images to several file formats
and copy them to clipboard. Image browser allows you to preview image
thumbnails and view full image as a hint by pointing mouse to the thumbnail.
Image browser displays each image as a thumbnail that quickly expands
to full size when you stop your mouse over the image.
Melodies and Sounds section allows you to view and listen to the melodies,
ringing tones and voice records stored in your phone, add new melodies
or delete unwanted ones. Supported file formats are RNG, MID, WAV, AMR,
AWB, MP3, AU.
Tuning
Profiles and To-Do Items is simple and clear like all other functions:
you can set all Profiles parameters, manage your tasks, import data
from Microsoft Outlook and export tasks back to Microsoft Outlook, XML,
CSV and other popular formats.
Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian phones has an ability to store any
data either in Phone memory (Flash memory card is also supported) or
on your hard disk. It may be useful if you experience a lack of phone
memory and do not want to lose your pictures, contacts, etc.
Installation
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Install the application.
You then need to install a companion application on the phone itself.
(details on how to connect on our Series
60 Connection page) -
Once
installed, it’s a case of starting the Oxygen application from the
phone’s menu, and turning on the communication using the "Start
exchange" option. Then, from the PC end, press F5 from the main
Oxygen application. This connects the phone and PC together.
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Almost
immediately, the PC application reports the phone’s software version
number and memory usage information
Troubleshooting:
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Problem
with importing messages. Performing a "read all" seemed
to show that messages were being received, but they didn’t make it
to the PC application, and the connectivity between phone and PC was
lost. Importing on a folder-by-folder basis, however, seemed to work
nicely. This could be because our test 6600 has a rather messy structure,
and a mix of multiple POP email accounts.
A free trial of Oxygen
II is available directly from the developers at www.opm-2.com/Symbian
