Hi Trip For me its not just about what the Palm OS can do, its also about what Palm UK, as a company, doesn't do for me >From my experience (having upgraded along the way from to the 180 to the 680), Palm 1/. has never built on its strengths. Each new model has managed to screw up what worked perfectly fine on the previous one - (see my previous post regarding 650 Touch screen problems) or 2/. has let me down so badly on customer service (whether it be on price for a repair or just merely trying to get in touch to get that repair carried out) that I have more or less had enough of them For example My last phone, a 680 (with TomTom Navigator which was great - providing it was plugged in to the cigar lighter socket co's the battery probably wouldn't have lasted the journey), was bought in September 2007 and insured monthly against damage/faults with PC World (UK), where I bought it. As mentioned in that previous post, I dropped it, broke the screen and sent it back to the UK for repair in January under the insurance policy (via a friend as I now live in more or less permanently in Thailand for him to bring back on his next holiday here). Well PC World passed him onto Palm UK who have made it so difficult for him to get it repaired that I have told him to forget it - its not fair to inflict them on to someone trying to do me a favour. I said I would try and sort it out on my return this summer so I am now out here minus my 680 (using the 650 with a wandering touch screen sync), still paying the monthly insurance and what with the increase in price of air travel recently, it now looks doubtful I will return this year. So now my dilemma is 1/. do I keep paying the insurance and sort it out when I finally get back or 2/. do I finally admit that Palm as company are just a complete 'waste of space', always have been and are always likely to be bin both phones and look elsewhere. Decisions, decisions! Regards Jomo
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Triple Entendre Sent: 06 June 2008 16:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: Sign of the times? On Friday, 2008-06-06 12:05:58, glenbarrington wrote: > Well, I'll probably not buy another Palm device when my Treo 700p bites > the dust. As a long time Palm user, I loved the OS, but it really > isn't keeping up with the competition. The Bluetooth reliability is > miserable, it locks up at strange times. Lots of little frusturations. > > For me, the last reason to hold out for Palm was ebook reading (good > display, lots of software choices, and plenty of ebooks available). > But now, Mobi offers a Blackberry version. > > I won't switch witout significant research, but Maybe it's time to put > the last nail in the coffin. At least it may be time to start looking > for a nail. Not to pick on you individually, but I would think that part of that significant research would include buying or at least trying a *newer model* Palm device. It's been nagging at me how many of the "I love Palm but I'm leaving it" sentiments on this list are coming from users of older devices. (The 700P in particular was, in my opinion, a placeholder device -- something to tide us over -- with unusual hardware compromises under its hood.) Now there are plenty of reasons why someone might choose to switch, but I just wanted to sound this note. Apples to apples. If the PalmOS interface doesn't survive its transition to Palm's Linux-based rewrite, or if Google doesn't save it somehow (I would bet you any sum that there's at least *one* Google employee whose designated "pet project" is preserving the things PalmOS does well and bringing that to Android efforts in some way.), then much will be lost. That happens from time to time of course, in the history of computing devices, but still. I'll be sad if the only the hardcore geeks (we can build our own, you see) can have the nice things. Trip [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
