Thanks, that helps me understand your frustrations a lot. As a PMP (portable media player), the Treo is quite capable. As a rich web client, it does indeed stink, but there's nothing out there that comes even close to replicating a desktop browser experience in a handheld package.
On 8/4/07, joe driver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----> Ok, I've given this some thought, wondering why some people are > satisfied with treo multimedia when it seems virtually nonexistent to me. It > occurs to me that we're defining things differently. When people say their > treo handles multimedia well, they apparently mean they use some sort of > other hardware, maybe a television, a desktop or laptop computer, a converter > of some sort, etc. and maybe they use some software to convert it from > whatever file type it's in to some other type, transfer it to their SD card, > and then use some other software on the treo to play it. To them, that > constitutes the treo handling multimedia well. > > When I say I'm disappointed that treo doesn't handle multimedia well, by > handling multimedia well, I mean I'm on a webpage with some sort of > multimedia file. I click on it. It plays or does whatever else it's > intended to do, perhaps by streaming OTA, or by dlding to the card first and > then playing. THAT'S handling multimedia. > > That's what I'm looking for.
