I'm 52 Here's my take. The fact that the OS is dead bothers me, because I don't have a plan in place to upgrade when there is a true and immediate need to replace the unit.
I'm still trying to find the SmartPhone that's as smart as my 700P with the combination of DateBk6, GooSync, Power Hero, TakePhone, ChatterEmail, Call Block, KeyCaps, PhoneSwitch, and the 1 hand use form of the Treo. OTOH, I could do without the need for Reset (which is used, on average, at least 2X per day). The sad part is that I already have better than 10 hours invested in actual testing of phones, and while they are much cooler with better screens than mine, they just don't seem to be as efficient. The experts (sales reps that are trained to be the store's key person on the phone in question) can't come up with a better answer for my needs than 'look in the apps catalog', yet while cool, they don't do the job. Again, I am an early adopter of technologies that fill a need for me. My kids and their friends were heavy into Facebook, before I tried it and decided it was a time waster, yet they all come to me to find out how to use Google apps to their advantage, what programs do I have (or know of) that will do xyz (you fill in the blanks as it varies with circumstance). My gut tells me that within 2 years I will be on Android (but I can't prove that at the moment)because the hardware developers keep creating forms that don't measure up to the Treo. (1 hand operation, keys that I can feel so I can complete certain functions without looking at the device (Honk if you love Jesus, Text while driving if you want to meet him), a hard switch to turn off the ringer, removable batteries (of course if my battery could last more than 20 hours, that wouldn't be necessary), and a touchscreen. Enough of my rant. If any of you know of a calendar program that will allow floating events, I might stop acting so curmudgeonly with regard to the Treo. Rick --- In [email protected], Craig Froehle <craig.froe...@...> wrote: > > Just curious. Those of you who agree, what are your ages (w/in 5 > years)? I have a theory about aging and its effect on willingness to > adopt new technology, and you all might help reinforce, or refine, > that theory if you don't mind sharing. > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Bob Fitzsimmons <greyfo...@...> wrote: > > > > I do agree about the best email. So when my contract runs out I might just > > go with the PRE. Now using a PRO and it is good but not the best. > > > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > From: ldoug...@... > > Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:43:19 -0500 > > Subject: RE: [Treo] buyer as beta tester` > > > > > > > > > > > > Best. Email. Ever. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Messeder <jmesse...@...> > > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:30 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Treo] buyer as beta tester` > > > > Maybe the Pre will be the one I hold onto for awhile. > > Time was I enjoyed building my own machines and tinkering with > > them as new ideas and capabilities came along. I'm getting out of that > > mode, sort of. > > I moved to the Treo600 because I'd long wanted a phone/PDA. > > Then came the 650 with Bluetooth. Gone was the wired earbud. > > Then the 680, that was really nice but ... the apps I had learned > > to love just wouldn't behave together on the 680. What I really wanted > > was something closer to multi-tasking, that I wasn't all the time > > rebooting to get back my resources. > > Treo Pro was Windows. Silly me, I thought that would mean having > > in my hand what was on my PC, at least sort of. Turned out sort of > > wasn't close enough, especially with the aggravation regularly involved > > in ActiveSync. > > Came the Pre. It's been out close to a year, and people who have > > it love it, now me included. Even with its shortcomings, but one thing > > I've long wanted was ability to upgrade the OS. The Pre's got it. > > Add in - and if not for this point, I'd still have the T-Pro, with > > which I'd come to a sort of detente - Spring coverage has improved > > amazingly, and they were going to charge me significantly less than I > > was paying AT&T for what I really needed. > > I keep a spreadsheet of our four-line family usage, and AT&T's > > attitude was if I could find something better, go there - so I did. > > > > But the big market change - the one with which I started this thread, > > was that back in the day, there were no promises. Everyone was a geek > > and vendors didn't make (at least as many) promises they knew they > > couldn't keep. I've long been impressed with knowing more than the sales > > folk about what I was trying to buy, but most of them at least tried to > > stay with the conversation. Computer sellers tended to be at least > > marginally interested in computers. > > That's changed, and not just with smartphones. Sales Associates > > are just that: SALES Associates. Most of them no longer even pretend to > > know what they are selling. > > Manufacturers lead you to believe the thing they're selling will > > do stuff, and when you get it, you find it won't. You call customer > > support and wade into a menu, beginning with "Listen carefully as our > > menu options have changed," to "Your call is important to us, but we are > > experiencing higher than normal call volume," to "Live support is not > > available. We apologize for the inconvenience." > > Thing is, I'm already "old school." I'm in a shrinking population > > of customers who think we shouldn't be treated that way, and can > > remember when we weren't. > > > > Rant off. (I like that, whoever used it first.) > > I'm going to the local ski slope to get some video of Wounded > > Warriors doing what most of us can still take for granted, or at least > > legitimately imagine taking for granted. Video'll be online this > > evening. Might even shoot a little with the Pre. > > > > On 2/27/2010 11:10 AM, Harold M. Goldner wrote: > >> > >> > >> I am so there; could not have said it better myself. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
