Don - I have a Motorola Q and while I don't like it for certain things, and I do see some of the menu inefficiencies you see, it's not THAT bad
On 10/12/07, Don Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. That's a Mogul thing. I have buttons that take me to the Camera, Email/SMS, Today scren, and dial screen. > 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. I have a 2.5mm headset, but the pins are different such that Treo stereo headset doesn't allow me to talk and I can hear only from one side. I suppose I could talk into the other earbud, but I've never tried. > 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. On mine I have an intermediate screen that lets me select from SMS, POP Mail and Outlook. If I add additional accounts they show up on that screen. > 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. On my Today screen, I just start typing the name or the number and it starts narrowing down the search or punching up the number and it's smart enough that if I Press 32 (which also corresponds to RE) it brings up a list of names and numbers that start with 32 or Re allowing me to select them or continue punching in a number if that's what I want. And If i went ahead and typed REN It brings up those names. > 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. I've never had a need for 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. Again - looks like an HTC design issue. IMO the with my 700p, I hated the way when I was in pTunes and turned off the screen, and accidentally hit one of the launcher buttons, I'd have to hunt my way back to pTunes whenever I wanted to change something. > 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. Someone on this list recommended Magic Button - a software that closes apps when you click the X close button. I can't use it on the Q, but you should be able to on your touch screen device. > 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. Just my $.02. I think others have suggested other third party software as well. My 700p and 600 would have been just as frustrating without the aid of third party software. -- ============================== War Eagle
