Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For phoning and short messaging only, any ten year old phone model will be good enough, anyway. Past week I accidentally dropped my Palm Treo 650 - since it's gone forever, and it's the second Treo that passes this way (my 600 had the same faith half a year ago). Though I'm a very, very loyal Palm platform user since the mid 90ies, I now gave it up for the following reasons: - Treos too delicate, when dropped once = gone for shure - Treos do not support UMTS, the actually fastest mobile phone protocol (except Treo 750, but this one is not available without SIM/vodaphone-lock in my country) - Treos do no display swf (flash) movies (an issue for a flash designer like me) - Treos 600 and up do not support true touchscreen handwriting (like the old Palms and Treos) - Treo/PC syncing is quite slow - Palm desktop application too clumsy, outdated. I went for the Sony Ericsson m600i. It behaves like what I'd expect from a Palm. Intuitive, simple, fast. It's significantly smaller, has UMTS, true handwriting recognition (touchscreen for fingers and stick), displays swf and mpeg, has a better display of word, excel, pdf documents, has a better browser (Opera), better MP3 playing options (without the need to buy a separate application like pTunes on the Palm), costs significantly less than the Treo 750, synchronizes much faster. All in all it was a no brainer to decide. Good bye, Palm; nice to meet you. Hello, Symbian. Didier >The various Palm OS phones will do all that for you now as well as work as >MP3 players at a much more attractive price and at much faster connectivity >speeds. You also will get your choice of carrier so the two year switch to >get the best deal as new customer applies. >Don