Thanks for that, and the resource link. I also have a Tilt, and it has convinced me that Winmob is *not* the wave of the future, it is just a well known name. The same software on the Tilt does far less than the Palm version, and typing is downright cumbersome. Of course, in comparison to the Centro - it weighs a ton!
docmhodish wrote: > I have been a Palm user for ages...since Palm V. I've been more than > happy with my Treo 650, but it is getting a bit long in the (blue)tooth. > > I was seduced when one of my patients came in with an HTC Tytn II (aka > ATT Tilt, but the Tytn is the HTC version, more features and better > software than what ATT buys for the Tilt version), and showed me ATT > 3G data. I did not even know the had fast data available, and I had to > have it, even though I had a hunch that Windows was going to be a pain. > > Now 2 months into this, I am daily tempted to go back to my 650. > > While the tilt is an amazing hardware package, including a beautiful > touch screen, a crappy keyboard, gps, wifi, quad band gsm, hsdpa data, > in a package that is the same size and weight as the 650 (without the > antenna...just the body of it), the software really lets it down. > > As ATT ships it, it is practically unusable. Just awkward. Maybe there > is a learning curve, but it is just nowhere near as elegant as the > dead in the water palm os. > > Still, this doesn't stop me, because Palm is dead in the water. If > they ever do get around to releasing a new OS, who knows if it will > have the interface elegance we are used to. I would guess not. > > At any rate, I have been hacking, reading, installing, resetting, for > way too many hours to make any sense... and it still is not as usable > as the 650. > > Granted, it does MANY things better, but for just plain > usability...being able to use it without much thought... it suffers > from what Windows suffers from...trying to be all things to all > people, it is just too complex. Can it be customized to be > acceptable? Well, yeah, I guess I am almost there...but that simply > means I have decided which features to emphasize, and put them front > and center. If I need to go into the OS for some utility, I am digging > through illogical menus, trying to find where some crazy function is > buried...just like on my PC. The, pardon the word, APPLE, didn't fall > far from the tree! > > If anyone else has the urge to go down this road, there is a > tremendous resource at http://www.xda-developers.com/ , both the forum > and the wiki...it was there that I learned how to flash the rom so it > has the features that HTC build in, but ATT strips out. And, like this > list, one can learn what software, often freeware, is good. > > Still in all, it has been a real PIA, and I am still not really content. > > ....just in case anyone wants to know. > > Mike
