A Treo 755p or Cenro will make a great post-650 phone.
Thanks, I'll see you on the web! Carl W. Brooks http://www.Palmloyal.com Palm Podcasts, Daily News, Software, Hardware, Mobile Email Services and More! -----Original Message----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, Oct 12, 2007 11:16 pm Subject: Re: [Treo] Are they trying to slow me down? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [email protected] don- thanks so much for that. I was going to get the Mogul next weekend and reading ur comments have made me think twice about it. However, now i'm in the same position I was in to begin with: I need a new phone, i'm not impressed by the various treo versions post-650, and I have Sprint. It was between the blackberry curve and the mogul...now i'm more lost than ever! Any suggestions? -----Original Message----- From: 'Don Ferguson' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: [Treo] Are they trying to slow me down? Date: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:16 pm Size: 15K To: <[email protected]> Hi all, Well, after all of a day using the HTC Mogul I will most likely be returning to the Treo 755p. Here's the scoop: 1. I thought it might be nice to have the email power of Windows Mobile 6 - mostly having more than just the inbox sync'd. It was - I can file emails in folders after looking at them. 2. I thought it might be fun to have wifi. It was. I can connect to the internet at the same time I'm on a call. 3. I was looking forward to being able to sync OneNote pages and Streets & Trips maps. Never got that far. What I'm left with, as I most probably return to the Treo, is the general observation that the designers of these WinMob devices must almost *intend* the device's UI to slow me down. Witness: 0. Let's just start with the fact that there is just ONE on button that turns the thing on. It's not on the top, or other convenient place. It's on one side, and looks like all the other buttons. You start each experience on the Mogul by pressing that button, and by being taken to the Today screen, regardless of where you were before. 1. On the Treo, if I want to quickly grab a headset to continue a conversation hands free, I can just plug it in. The Mogul doesn't have a 2.5mm jack, so I have to carry/use the adapter provided by HTC, or the headset provided by HTC. 2. On the Treo, I press the email button and I'm looking at my email box. On the Mogul, there is a dedicated email button, but to get to the place where I'm looking at my inbox, I have to press that button, and THEN press another button (or screen tap) to actually get to the inbox. 3. On the Treo, if I want to call someone in my address book, I start typing the name and the list narrows down. When I see the one I want, I push a button to dial it. On the Mogul, after turning on the thing, being taken to the Today screen and then pressing the button for the address book, I still have to use the on-screen keyboard or slide out the sideways keyboard to type in a few letters. Yes, the Mogul has voice tags, which are good if you have them stored, and the keypad dial has a nifty thing where you can press the numbers corresponding to the letters you're looking for to narrow a list from the address book. On the Treo I really don't need those, and/or I can buy them. 4. On the Treo, I can put in extra digits to be dialed automatically when calling, for instance, my voicemail system. I can find no place in the Mogul to do that. 5. The scroll wheel on the Mogul is nice, but it and the OFF button on the opposite side are precisely positioned so that if I use the press to select feature of the scroll wheel, my index finger on the other side pushes the OFF button. Every time. And then, you guessed it, I have to press it again and I get taken back to the Today screen to start over. 6. Multitasking, yes. FORCED multitasking, NO! WinMob 6 still does the 'leave it running in memory even if I close it' thing, and provides no way to return to running programs (other than the way one always starts them), and a deeply buried screen where one can go to end all running programs. Who thinks of these things? The problem is that leaving all these programs running fills up the available memory, necessitating user action to continue. Anyway, that list is long enough. I could describe nearly every function of the thing and there would be between 1 and 100% more operations needed to accomplish a given task on the Mogul compared to the Treo. It'd be interesting to see how the Treo 700wx stacks up here, since I know it's tailored, and has the excellent always-available keyboard, but I just couldn't go back to that form factor after having the 755p!! I guess the 750 is comparable to the 755, albeit with a 240x240 screen and AT&T service. Anybody wanna buy a Mogul? Only $550 without a contract!! J I sincerely hope that Palm, as it designs the Treo IX and PalmIX, keeps in mind the traditional efficiency of access and operation that keep us coming back to PalmOS devices. It's the productivity, stupid!! Cheers, Don [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
