Palm vs other smart phones/PDAs

Neil Joseph Schelly neil at jenandneil.com
Fri May 9 11:39:24 EDT 2008


On Friday 09 May 2008 11:28, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> On 05/09/2008 11:18 AM, Coleman Kane wrote:
> > I've got a Treo 680 and I've liked it pretty well. Occasionally it
> > resets itself (like acouple times per month), but not the kind of reset
> > where it loses all data, it just reboots. I got it second-hand though,
> > so the prev. owner might have dropped it in a sink or something. I had a
> > data plan for awhile and the mini-browser that they use it pretty nice.
> > I'm a bit dismayed that I can't get an Opera or Mozilla browser for it
> > like you can for other handhelds.
>
> Palm used to distribute a JVM for the Treo, but they stopped a few
> months ago.  If you search with the google, you'll be able to find it.
> With that, you should be able to install Opera, or at least I can on my
> 700p.  It's better than blazer, but that's not saying much.  Opera (or
> the JVM) seems to hang my Treo pretty easily as well.

That came free for Treo 650 owners, but I know Palm has done a lot to hide the 
links to it everywhere.  And it was pretty unreliable too.  I had it on there 
for Opera Mini, but for me Opera Mini has consistently locked my phone up for 
over a year.  I just don't use it anymore.

Recently, the left button on my 5-way stopped working too.  It instead goes 
up.  This happened shortly after I accidentally closed my car's hood on the 
phone.  There's no doubt that I beat up on my phones, so any faults I have 
with it are probably deserved.  But at the same time, that makes me all the 
more anxious for OpenMoko to release their phone.  Maybe I'll buy two, just 
to be sure to have a spare.
-N


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