Hello, Jim Girvin. On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:33:17 -0600 you said:
> I'm in Cingular which means my only Palm options are to buy another 650 (yea > right), "upgrade" to a 680, or go WinMob. I have a two year contract to > fulfill with it. IMO, the 680 is worth it. In December, I paid full price (to Palm) for an unlocked 680 to replace my Cingular 650 that was still working perfectly fine. Most of the individual enhancements are small, but together they are more than the sum of their parts. BlueTooth 1.2 is better than 1.1 for clarity and multitasking - the 650 could use a headset OR a GPS at one time, the 680 can (I'm told) do both at the same time. 70+MB of user-accessible storage is almost three times the available storage than the ~24M on the 650. The 680 has as much dbcache as the 650 has storage! Don't let the lack of an external antenna fool you, the 680 has a much better cellular radio than the 650, I get better reception with this than I did with the 650. And it's got better voice quality, too. The keypad's shape, both the layout and the individual buttons, make it easier to use. The screen is brighter, with better color saturation and overall contrast. The all-in-one phone/contacts app is easier to use. The over-all shape fits better in the hand. The only thing I miss is the reset button, for the odd misbehaving application. The much-ballyhooed battery drain issue is mostly a battery calibration issue, and two easily fixed real problems, one with a patch from Palm and one by turning off a feature. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol Tips for the Trusted Lieutenant: 9. Find out what happened to your predecessor. Learn from it.
