Hello, Nico. On Tue, 6 May 2008 08:48:17 +0200 you said:
> PS Curious to know why you consider moving away and where to ? But that's > maybe for another thread ... I've been using Palm since the IIIx was top-of-the-line. I loved the IIIx. I also loved the succession of three or four Clies that followed it, the Kyocera 7135 Palm powered smartphone that came next. The Treos, however... My first Treo was a 650, I got it when I jumped from Verizon Wireless to Cingular. I went through three 650s within my first half-year with Cingular because the thing was so unstable and their diagnosis was "it's the hardware, we'll replace it" when it was actually the OS itself. I could finally stop setting my watch by its crashing after the third system update. When I upgraded to the 680, there were indeed a whole host of improvements, most of them minor, that added up to a much better device. But still... Problems I'm having include: * The well-known "pauses" when trying to do stuff, and they seem to be happening more often. * Volume through the earpiece, speakerphone or headset (wired or BT) all suck and always have. * All told, I think I've missed 10% of calls on my Treo because it simply never rang, yet I get a "missed call" alert from the Treo itself (not the cellular company) which tells me that the Treo received the call, it just never alerted me about it. This happens regardless of using built-in ringtones vs added-in tones, native tone management or third party ringtone management. * Battery management sucks, I'm getting what I can only hope is bad charge readings rather than a failure to properly charge on multiple batteries (I now have three, two Palm OEM and one Seidio extended charge). And it's basically a slow system. With the aborted OS upgrade that was OS6, the Frankenstein's Monster of grafting features onto an OS that wasn't designed to handle them that we have now, the continual delays in the next gen of PalmOS FOR Palm devices from both Palm, Inc, and The Company Formerly Known As Palm (Access), increasingly minor changes to the devices as Palm runs to stand still, leave me with very little faith left in the future of a PDA/Smartphone platform I used to love. I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with it, I see no real improvements for it anytime in the foreseeable future, so it's time to move on when I find something to move on to. Last week, I tried out an AT&T Tilt (those in other parts of the world might now it as the HTC TyTN II or HTC Kaiser). While the Tilt is a 3G device, I'm living in a 2.5G area (EDGE is as fast as it goes here). Even on the EDGE network, the Tilt does data almost twice as fast as my Treo. Using Google Maps as a reference, while the Treo is still "looking up the location" with the server, the Tilt has already download a complete screen's worth of map data, and when panning around, the new map tiles are retrieved fast enough that it's almost seamless compared to the Treo's having to wait, and wait, and wait. Also, now that I've had a taste of WiFi, I want it. I returned the Tilt only because as it happens, I couldn't stand the UI of WinMob, even with HTC's additions. The "couple of months" I mentioned is because that's when the next gen of the iPhone and its third party software are due, sometime in June or July. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." - James Madison, The Federalist Papers
