How ironical. My Windows Mobile O2 XDA IIs PDA phone that I
complained about last night chose to do a hard reset this morning for
no discernible reason (the battery didn't go flat).
This means I have lost all my data off the internal 128MB storage -
Here's hoping all my notes will be re-synched when when I connect
back up to my PC on Tuesday - oh boy. :-(
I'll now have to find and re-install all of my programs, and I've
lost all my preferences and settings so will have to set it up again
for all the wifi networks I connect to (or should I say TRY to
connect to). Aaaaaahhhhh!
To add insult to injury, every time Windows Mobile hard resets, I
neglected to mention that it forces you to go thru a tutorial on
clicking and dragging which you can't escape from as if you had never
used the PDA before. Who the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&* designed this operating system
should be taken out and buried head first in a pile of wet kippers.
It is unbelievable.
Microsoft not only has no taste, they have no idea what well written
software is like or how to make computer/electronic equipment
friendly. Apple may not be perfect but they are a quantum leap ahead
of Microsoft in these areas.
Hurry up iPhone. Please....
-Mart
On 02/06/2007, at 6:54 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
On 02/06/2007, at 2:16 PM, Jon Davison wrote:
My mobile plan is up in a couple of weeks and am looking at a PDA
type phone. Any observations on the current range that are Mac
compatible?
Has anyone had any experience with the Palm Treo 750, the 3 Dopod
D810, the Nokia E65, or the new Blackberry? pros and cons of each
would really help.
Like many others, I personally am holding off getting work to
upgrade my old phone until Apple releases the iPhone in Australia
(hopefully by the end of the year?)
My wife and I currently both have Windows mobile-powered HTC-
designed PDA-smartphones (O2 Mini and O2 XDA IIs) which try to do
just about anything and run almost any software - I have a library
of SciFi novels that I've purchased online for $6 each that I read
on my XDA IIs and I have a complete theological library, Destinator
GPS turn-by-turn software (with a Bluetooth GPS receiver) for use
in the car, and use the free AvantGo software to download the
Sydney Morning Herald, C-Net and several other newspapers and
publications, local Movie session times, etc. I synchronise the
diary with Outlook/Exchange on my Dell PC at work and rely on it as
my brain for remembering appointments etc. I have a 1GB SD card
for extra storage of video clips and movies I've converted to wmv
format so I can show people video footage of our last holiday,
funny videos etc.
However, I am getting to the stage of loathing my XDA IIs as from
the user interface perspective, it is the worst phone/PDA I have
ever used. The OS crashes and freezes daily, texting, the address
book, connecting to wifi, launching apps, the blasted start menu
etc are all some of the worst-designed pieces of software I’ve ever
seen. If you let the battery go too flat it erases all the data
you've got on the internal 128MB of flash (who the heck thought
that was a good idea!!?)
Physically my XDA IIs has so many plastic buttons and a slide-out
keyboard half of which don’t work anymore that I am about to go
back to using my old Sony Ericsson P900 PDA phone which despite
it’s own problems is so much better as a phone and PDA it’s like
night and day. The Windows mobile PDAs used by upper management at
our campus cause an out-of-proportion number of support problems
with synching faults, connectivity issues etc.
Windows Mobile is a terrible phone OS with tiny on-screen buttons
for choosing contacts to phone, horrible SMS texting and is as
flaky as Windows 95 (Mac OS 7 was never this bad!) with regular
freezes and required resets and the number of convoluted steps
required to connect to our campus wireless LAN is unbelievable and
sometimes it works but more often it doesn't. Most Windows Mobile
PDA users on campus have given up trying to connect to the campus
wifi (including our the campus Telecom manager!) I’m growing to
hate it more and more every day. It's like death from a thousand
cuts.
The iPhone’s OS X is a far more robust, capable OS than Windows
Mobile and being a direct subset of the desktop Mac OS X promises
to be far more powerful and flexible than the shoddy Windows CE
(Windows Mobile) which bears no relation to Windows XP other than
superficial looks and that horrible Start menu (on a tiny screen –
why for the love of Pete!). Heck Windows Mobile is crammed into
only a dozen or so megabytes on the XDA IIs while OS X on the
iPhone is a fully featured 500MBs in size.
YMMV
-Mart
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Martin Hill
email: mart "at" ozmac.com
homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com
Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
-Mart
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Martin Hill
email: mart "at" ozmac.com
homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com
Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
-Mart
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Martin Hill
email: mart "at" ozmac.com
homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com
Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
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