Simply, the iPhone is an iPod (I already have a 160Gb Classic) with a
phone attached (well, OK, built-in).
As opposed to the Treo, which is a multi-functional PDA.
There's only one hard button on the iPhone, so you have to menu-out
of one app to get into another, unlike the Treo where you can quickly
switch directly from calendar to phone to email.
On the iPhone:
= Email doesn't send attachments, which makes sort-of sense because ...
= You can't create documents.
= OK, email does send attachments - that's the only way to send pics
you've shot with the built-in camera, but to do that, you have to select
the pic and then choose to email it, not start a message then choose the
pic to send, so - email doesn't do attachments; pics do email.
= Contacts doesn't do searches (you have to scroll to find what you
want)
= Calendar doesn't sync notes (which is a major pain if your
calendar is your daily journal). In fact,
= The notes application doesn't sync at all.
= There is zero interaction between applications. You can't even
cut-n-paste from one to the other. If you get an email with an
appointment and some instructions, you have no way to put them into your
calendar save remembering and rewriting.
The part about the notes was the deal breaker for me. I'd been syncing
my calendar for a week, getting used to using Outlook instead of the
Palm Desktop - and then I went looking for my calendar notes and
discovered that problem, and that broke the tie. Until that point, I was
pretty much "well, it won't do this, but I can live without it for now."
I couldn't live without being able to sync my calendar notes. Back
it went.
On 05/06/2008 at 1208 -0400
"Darryl Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John,
>
> Why didn't you like the iphone?
>
> Thanx
> DCC
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john.messeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Moving away from Palm soon (Was: Re: [Treo] Sync via BT on
> Vista Ultimate)
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>> Jeffrey:
>> When I started reading your note, I was prepared to hit the reply key to
>> suggest the iPhone. I tried one for about a week before giving it back
>> and eating the 10 percent "restocking" penalty. I loved it's potential.
>> Emphasis on potential.
>> My experience with the 680 vacillates between loving it and wanting to
>> find an ocean into which to chuck it. (Fortunately, the nearest ocean is
>> about a two hour drive.) Most of the problems have been documented ad
>> nauseum, and it's a shame Palm can't come up with something that isn't a
>> kludged conglomeration of failed attempts to force a once-magnificent
>> operating system to do the things a modern user expects. Instead, the
>> company seems to have relied on us sticking with the platform only
>> because of the money and energy we have invested.
>> If, come June or shortly after, Datebook and TakePhone port to iPhone ...
>>
>> On 05/06/2008 at 1105 -0400
>> Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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>> table.” /
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>> of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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