I got my IIIc thru the devel program yesterday and so far it is a MAJOR
disappointment. Mainly, it is impossible to use graffiti on it. Screen taps
also have to be done much more forcefully than on my IIIx, but the graffiti
situation right now makes it pretty much useless.
Bringing up the graffiti learning app, I can see that it just plain misses
much of my strokes if I make them even slightly fast. A good circle is seen
as a very squashed oval as though it missed a whole section of the curve and
interpolated it as a straight line instead. I do the stroke for an "F" and
it completely misses the vertical part. Only by bearing down and doing it
VERY slowly can I get it to work. I have turned off all hacks, etc., just in
case they're part of the problem.
I have heard of this problem on newsgroups, so first thing today I'm calling
Palm and doing an exchange on the unit (tech support did not seem at all
surprised by my complaint). However, I'm wondering how much of this is
specific to certain units (perhaps a QC issue) and how much is inherent in
the IIIc design. The Palm IIIc CPU is still very slow compared to most color
WinCE units -- I wonder if there just isn't enough horsepower to do
digitizer sampling at a high enough rate, etc. If the replacement unit still
has problems like this, I'm going to be asking for a refund.
Doug Gordon
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