Treo deal?

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:50:50 GMT, "RobR" <[email protected]> wrote:

>The 6620 is a great phone, and was my primary phone unti I bought
>the 6515. I do love the 6620 enough though that I'm debating on
>whether to ebay it or keep it.

I love it too.

It is significantly improved over the 3600 which I had prior to that
and really liked. The main improvements were the size (smaller),
16-bit color screen (6620) vs the 4096 color screen (3600) and the
joystick (6620) versus the touchpad (3600).

I especially hated the touch pad of the 3600 which was always
difficult for me to use accurately. It seemed 25% of the time I would
push it one way and it would register a different direction than I
intended. I don't think it was defective, it was just not designed
well. I can't believe how much better the joystick is than a
touchpad.

The above reason is why I haven't upgraded to a 6682 yet. If the 6682
had a joystick, I would have jumped on it already. Other people have
voiced the same complaint and I can't believe they went back to a
touchpad. I guess most people prefer them, but that seems totally
unbelieveable to me.

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It is alleged that Anonymous claimed:

> FWIW, I ordered a Treo 650 sometime around a year ago.
>
> Although the device, in theory, is great, I found it to be unreliable.
> It would spontaneously reboot several times a day, many times in the
> middle of a phone call. I looked online and found legion of people
> with the same problem and returned it.

Have you done anything to fix the problem?

> Perhaps they've improved things (e.g., firmware), but, to me, a phone
> that reboots or locks up more often than once every one or two weeks
> is completely unacceptable.

Firmware has been upgraded at least twice. And there are known
problems with specific third party softwares, either by themselves or
in combinations.

Four things I've done to make my Treo work right:

* Don't use Butler
* Don't use ZLauncher
* Update the firmware (current for Cingular is 1.17-CNG)
* Shim the SIM card with a piece of paper

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"Anonymous" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:50:50 GMT, "RobR" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>The 6620 is a great phone, and was my primary phone unti I bought
>>the 6515. I do love the 6620 enough though that I'm debating on
>>whether to ebay it or keep it.
>
> I love it too.
>
> It is significantly improved over the 3600 which I had prior to that
> and really liked. The main improvements were the size (smaller),
> 16-bit color screen (6620) vs the 4096 color screen (3600) and the
> joystick (6620) versus the touchpad (3600).
>
> I especially hated the touch pad of the 3600 which was always
> difficult for me to use accurately. It seemed 25% of the time I would
> push it one way and it would register a different direction than I
> intended. I don't think it was defective, it was just not designed
> well. I can't believe how much better the joystick is than a
> touchpad.
>
> The above reason is why I haven't upgraded to a 6682 yet. If the 6682
> had a joystick, I would have jumped on it already. Other people have
> voiced the same complaint and I can't believe they went back to a
> touchpad. I guess most people prefer them, but that seems totally
> unbelieveable to me.

I debated on the 6682, Cingular offered me a pretty killer deal on it a
while back, but after reading all the howardforum reviews, it simply
didn't seem like it was an upgrade to me. It was slightly faster, but
had less memory and couldn't do anything the 6620 didn't already do
(and the initial firmware was buggy as hell). I was ready to kill for one
before it was released, but afterwards, I'm glad I let someone else be
the early adopter.

"Jeffrey Kaplan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It is alleged that Anonymous claimed:
>
>> FWIW, I ordered a Treo 650 sometime around a year ago.
>>
>> Although the device, in theory, is great, I found it to be unreliable.
>> It would spontaneously reboot several times a day, many times in the
>> middle of a phone call. I looked online and found legion of people
>> with the same problem and returned it.
>
> Have you done anything to fix the problem?
>
>> Perhaps they've improved things (e.g., firmware), but, to me, a phone
>> that reboots or locks up more often than once every one or two weeks
>> is completely unacceptable.
>
> Firmware has been upgraded at least twice. And there are known
> problems with specific third party softwares, either by themselves or
> in combinations.
>
> Four things I've done to make my Treo work right:
>
> * Don't use Butler
> * Don't use ZLauncher
> * Update the firmware (current for Cingular is 1.17-CNG)
> * Shim the SIM card with a piece of paper
>
> --
> Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
> The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol
>
> "When asked what was being done to counter this threat, Harris said
> only, that extreme measures may be required." (ISN News, B5 "Messages
> From Earth")

I have a Cingular 650 and I love it. Like any cell phone it occasionally
drops calls, but it can do more than any "plain" cell phone out there. II
does reset itself every two to three months but I never turn it off. The
newest firmware it almost perfect othet than a screen turn offf issure after
using a Bluetooth headset, but other than that I am very please and would
not even consider a WM5 device. In regards to it versus a WM5 device, I have
seen both and IMHO the Palm OS is better than WM5 but to each his/her own.
it also helps that I have had a Palm device since the original PalmPilot
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