I'm wondering where, if anywhere, there might be a compatibility chart
of some sort that equates the various current Treo models.
For instance:
= The 680 will use the same hotsync and charging cables as the 650 --
but it will not play p-Tunes or phone audio through the same Seidio car
unit that played the 650. (So much for the Universal Plus notion.)
= Seidio's online store seems to indicate the stuff they have for the
680 works on the 750p -- but the inno.dock box I received, which works
with the 680, has on it a 700p sticker, with no mention of the 750 or
680 or 650, etc. (BTW, one of the cool features of the dock -- not the
dock junior -- is you can plug a set of standard earphones into the back
of it and play .mp3 files such as the podcasts I like to carry around
with me.)
= As we've recently ascertained, the Stowaway Sierra BT keyboard works
with the 650 and 700P, but not the 680.
There is an appearance here that the 680, for all its number makes it
look like maybe it's merely a 650 upgrade, it a unique device. On the
other hand, much of the software that runs on the 650 also runs on the 680.
Then, of course, there's the part about you can get the 680 in two
of the advertised four colors -- Crimson and Graphite -- if you buy from
Cingular, but only Graphite from Palm. What's THAT about? Especially
since the 680 is a GSM device, which sort of removes it from, say,
Sprint's lineup.
And who do you have to switch to to get it in Copper or Arctic (I'd
have loved the Copper)?
And how long will it be before the mall kiosks that sold so many
Nokia cases in a variety of colors start selling Treo cases?
In some ways, the scheme seems a little like movie sequels, in which the
first show is pretty good, the second is great, and the third breaks all
weekend box office records and then flops when the public discovers the
only thing the same was the title.
Oh well, not to whine too much, but a compatibility chart would be nice.
Obviously, all Treos are not created equal within their two primary
sub-species (PalmOS and WinMob).
--
/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
