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 Originally Posted by dixter13
After my Treo 600, I moved over to an XDAIIs (SPV M2000, MDAIII, Qtec Blue Angel), on WM2003. It was the worst nightmare. I hated it. There were several main reasons for this:
1. About twice a day I would pick up or make a call and there would be no sound at either end. The phone would have to be soft reset before I could make or receive any more phone calls. This became unbearable. The only explantion my carrier could give me was that it was due to poor reception. I made them swap handsets twice, but nothing fixed the problem. Many others with the same phone reported the same issue with no solution. Basically there was a problem with the phone losing signal, then no eing able to cope when it came back again.
2. The PIM is rubbish. The calender is terrible.
3. To get the bluetooth to come on, I had to go to the memory manager and kill the calender running in the background to get to the bluetooth manager.
4. It was very temperamental about connecting to bluetooth handsets, and I had to buy a specific model of handset for it to work.
5. It doesn't come with Mac syncronisation software. To sync them with OSX you have to buy software from either Markspace or Pocketmac. They are both terrible. I went for PocketMac. It sometimes worked, but only via bluetooth, and then slowly and with bugs. Many bugs.
6. It was slow. And I don't mean that it wasn't snappy, I mean it was like taking a slow train to the end of the line and being delayed at every stop. Because it is typical windows bloatware, even well specced equipment can't make it seem fast.
7. The phone utility was awful. Finding the number to call was a huge effort and so much more simple on the Treo.
8. The app laucher is terrible, proof can be found in the number of today plugins there were available to offer alternative launcher functionality. The start menu isn't any good (especially as it was locked in the ROM by Orange and was therefore impossible to customise)
I could go on, but to be honest, it was such a bad experience that I have buried it in the very back of my mind. It was so unbearable, I actually paid £350 to upgrade after having only had the XDAIIs for just 2.5 months.
The only things the IIs has going for it were built in Wifi, which the 700 won't have, and the messaging, which I will admit was good, with the exception of MMS which never seemed to work properly. There was also an app called pocket zen phone, which was a profile switching tool which was excellent. Keep an eye out for a Treo version after the switch.
Unless:
1. WM5 is substantially better than WM2003 (unlikely)
2. Palm make improvements to ensure that it works like a Treo (more likely)
3. Orange UK don't butcher it by adding their own launcher (again)
4. Someone gives us decent Mac Sync software;
this could be the end of my love affair with the Treo.
I am gutted!
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Good as gold but stupid as mud
I'll carry on regardless
I like PPC far more than POS; I haven't had the chance to use WM5 really, but from all of the demos, it seems like it has solved a lot of the shortcomings of the OS. WM5.0 is the biggest upgrade since....well PPC 2000 when MSFT changed the name. Huge difference, and I'm sure with palm's special tweaking, the device will be what everyone is hoping for.
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