RAM/ROM/whatever) for real-time work with human beings - such as making and
answering phone calls - is a hard problem. Harder than making a calendar
program. Harder than making a shopping list program. Harder in one
particular way: the device has to respond within timeframes that are
outside its control. It's hard to do that. How many backup computer
systems are on each space shuttle?
Any new system/device that does this is going to have problems at first.
The key is whether those problems are identified by the developers and beta
testers, or identified by people who innocently purchase them, expecting
them to work. IMHO, Palm recently has done a poor (poor: if it were in
school, it'd be a D-) job of testing before release, especially with the
NVFS in the 650.
In this age of instant products and pressure to deliver immediately products
that are newer/better/faster, premature release of products (premature being
defined as: too soon to resolve the inevitable bugs to a reasonable level)
will lead to buggy products being sold to innocent consumers. Then the key
is: how quickly can those bugs be addressed. Palm has done a fair (fair:
somewhere between poor and good) job of doing this lately. The 650 took way
too long to stabilize. The internet has both allowed and facilitated this
approach, since fixes can be downloaded and applied by the end user.
Again, the good news is there are many things that are BETTER about the 700,
but (afaik) nothing that's completely NEW. That bodes well for stability.
If Palm had figured out a way to introduce wifi to the 700p, for instance,
I'd be afraid!
Cheers,
Don
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy
Tice
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Treo] Stability of new Treos (was Ever-bigger SD cards?)
I hope you're right re stability. Pocket pc's tend to freeze. Annoying but
not as annoying when you have a call coming in and you can't answer it.
Just to be fair the blackberry 7100t had a problem of rebooting mid call but
they seemed to have fixed it. I have the 8700 now and it has happened only
once and people with the 7100/7105 say the problem is largely resolved.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don
Ferguson
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Treo] Stability of new Treos (was Ever-bigger SD cards?)
Different topic, certainly, and so I'm starting a new thread to discuss
this.
The 650 was anything but generally stable when it first came out. Now that
we've had a couple of updates, I hear very little about instability. I see
maybe a couple of resets a month now.
That said, there is widespread anecdotal evidence of instability across the
entire range of Windows Mobile devices. Could be accurate; could be
exaggerated. I don't know.
Based on experience, I expect the 700p to be less stable than the 650 is
now, but more stable than the 650 was when new. I say this mostly because
the 700p is going to be mostly like the 650, just more capable in many
areas. The NVFS architecture seemed to be at the heart of much of the
instability of the 650, and experience, along with more memory on the 700p,
should lend itself to a more stable device.
I'm buying one, as soon as they come out with the unlocked GSM version -
when?!?!?!
Cheers,
Don
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