"Ivor Jones" <ivor@thisaddressis.invalid> wrote in message
news:690r4jF2udq3qU1@mid.individual.net...
> I wouldn't worry too much, plug-top PSU's often get rather warm, I've had
> a few that you could hardly touch, but I'm still here ;-)
>
> I'll hopefully be in until noon if you have a working phone to call..!
> Just taken the plunge and ordered one so we'll see how it goes......
>
>
> Ivor

The 24 hours charge seems to have been OK. The euro plug didn't become any
hotter than it was after the first few minutes.

I did notice that the battery level indicator showed a full charge very
early on, but while I was faffing about with the settings this morning, it
reverted back to showing a 'charging' status. I pulled the plug anyway
after the 24 hours was up, and it showed a full charge on battery power. It
still does after an hour and a half of setting and resetting the voip
connection from Sipgate to Voxalot where I've got 5 different accounts to
play around with. You wouldn't believe how many different status and echo
tests you can make if you really put your mind to it. Not to mention the
'Tellme' service news, sports and weather updates from the states! It
performed well through all this, and even when the signal strength was only
2 bars out of 6, strength and clarity was very good.

What I thought was a firmware upgrade on a mini cd actually turned out to be
a 'utility' programme. I think the idea is to configure the phone from the
computer, but although the proggy installed ok on Windows XP and the phone
shows up correctly on the task bar, I get a box popping up asking for the
handset number, which at the moment I don't have a clue where to find. When
I feel the need, I'll look for it.