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From: Herbert Kanner on 29 Jan 2008 21:27 I see the death of Palm in the not too distant future. Here is what happened to me after using Palms for about fifteen years. My first E2 died completely within weeks. Being dependent on the Palm, I was not happy about sending it in to Palm and waiting for a replacement. I threw such a horror show at the local Palm store that, after my going through the motions of following phone instructions from Customer Service without success, the store agreed to give me a new unit after I returned the old Palm and all the cables. However, they made me sign a statement that in future I would abide by Palm's return policy. The second Palm suffered from a badly drifting digitizer which made it unusable at times. I had to buy some software which would automatically realign the screen at various intervals; I think I set it to every five minutes. When the battery on the second E2 died prematurely, I decided that living with Palms might just cost me $200/year and I had better get used to it. Joy, Joy! Amazon was selling the E2 for $150. The third E2 seemed ok except for the brain-dead memory manager on current models. Every time I wanted to load AvantGo documents, I had to first do a soft reset or the E2 would crash. After quitting AvantGo, program loads would take up to one minute unless I did a second soft reset. I think they are treating memory the way everyone treats a hard disk; they permit it to fragment and the soft reset de-frags it. I should now mention that the E2 also crashed in the middle of the operation whenever I did a "full backup" using The Missing Sync. So, I stuck to merely downloading current AvantGo pages, and backing up the memos, address book, and calendar. However, I did a daily full backup to an SD card. For various reasons, with my second E2 I did a number of hard resets and had no problem restoring from the SD card. My Mac is an Intel one, and can run Windows. I have one application for the Palm which requires backup up to the Palm Desktop on Windows. For a while, this worked. Then one day, the USB would no longer connect from Palm to Windows. Nor would infra red. After a download of an upgraded Palm Desktop, there was a recommendation that I do a hard reset. Having done this so many times with the previous E2, I had no qualms. I should have had! When I tried to restore, the E2 crashed while restoring files somewhere in the "A's". I had four backups: a current one and three checkpoint backups from the recent past. I tried, in turn, restoring from each of them. They all crashed at the same point. So, it's good bye Palm and you good folks. I decided to go over to the dark side, and bought a HP IPAQ Pocket PC. The best think is that the most obnoxious feature of Windows are not present on the mobile version. Herb -- To send me email, replace deadspam.com by acm.org
From: (PeteCresswell) on 29 Jan 2008 22:17 Per Herbert Kanner: >So, it's good bye Palm and you good folks. I decided to go over to the >dark side, and bought a HP IPAQ Pocket PC. The best think is that the >most obnoxious feature of Windows are not present on the mobile version. How about updating us in a couple months with your satisfaction level? I'm about fed up with my TX, but have been putting off a migration - partially because I don't know of a hierarchical list manager for Win, but mainly bco uncertainty factor - don't want tb going from the frying pan into the fire... -- PeteCresswell
From: rqk on 29 Jan 2008 23:07 Herbert Kanner wrote: > I see the death of Palm in the not too distant future. Here is what > happened to me after using Palms for about fifteen years. ....cut > So, it's good bye Palm and you good folks. I decided to go over to the > dark side, and bought a HP IPAQ Pocket PC. The best think is that the > most obnoxious feature of Windows are not present on the mobile version. Maybe after living with the IPAQ you could let us know what you think? I too have lived with Palm a long time. I've had my E2 over 2 years and don't look forward to the day it needs replacing since I don't want to got to a PDA w/phone just to stay in the Palm world.
From: David Cantrell on 31 Jan 2008 06:48 On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:07:16PM -0600, rqk wrote: > Maybe after living with the IPAQ you could let us know what you think? I > too have lived with Palm a long time. I've had my E2 over 2 years and > don't look forward to the day it needs replacing since I don't want to > got to a PDA w/phone just to stay in the Palm world. Even if you don't like the E2 there's still the Z22 and T|X. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Suffer the little children to come unto me, as their buying habits are most easily influenced. -- Marketroid Jesus
From: samson on 31 Jan 2008 07:55
In article <qvqvp3d41ej6bf5jfcbvieapne7favnbho(a)4ax.com>, x(a)y.Invalid says... > Per Herbert Kanner: > >So, it's good bye Palm and you good folks. I decided to go over to the > >dark side, and bought a HP IPAQ Pocket PC. The best think is that the > >most obnoxious feature of Windows are not present on the mobile version. > > How about updating us in a couple months with your satisfaction > level? > > I'm about fed up with my TX, but have been putting off a > migration - partially because I don't know of a hierarchical list > manager for Win, but mainly bco uncertainty factor - don't want > tb going from the frying pan into the fire... > I've been a Palm user for I don't don't know how many years. I think I started with a Palm III. But Palm doesn't seem interested in upgrading its software for XP. And my daughter's Itouch is light years from my TX. There is a kind of old brotherhood when you see other people whip out the TX in meetings, but unless some real leadership comes to Palm, I think it's just about over. S. |