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08/26/2009, 12:07 PM
#197
 Originally Posted by hparsons
I don't mind being a "staunch defender"; however, to say I don't recognize flaws would be a mis-statement. I do, they are simply not "deal breakers" to me.
In addition, there are those that harp on flaws as if they are system wide. Many are not. For instance, the "oreo effect". No doubt that it exists, there have been too many instances of it to ignore it. However, not all systems have the problem. Same with the "phone app" lag.
Then there are issues such as "working with the cloud". Is that a flaw? Nope, not in my opinion. It's a design decision.
Things like Palm not duplicating the functionality of the PIM in the previous devices. Again, a flaw, or a design decision. I say it's a design decision.
The issue becomes when some on here insist that makes me, or someone that feels the same as I, some type of "fanboy". Sorry, just ain't so.
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Agreed. Most of the decisions are design decisions, not flaws or blatant ommisions. It would take palm nothing to implement txt forwarding, changing alert tones , PIM etc.
They chose not to, for whatever reason.
Like you most of the drawbacks don't bother me, i am coming from windows mobile after all, but some things do, like the functionality of the phone, again this is probably a design decision...maybe they are trying to keep the phone simple in the begining? who knows.
one thing that does irk me is all or nothing sync which may or may not be facebook's design or Palm's philosophy.
Palm doesn't want use to scroll, rather they want us to query. still annoying.
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