I've got a 700p. It is nice.
I can't justify the cost, though. Sorry.
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Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2006 12:51:36 am PDT #8524 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2006 3:44:24 am PDT #8525 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it is true that the Palm OS is really ancient. God, I wish they would just get a new one out.
Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2006 3:47:19 am PDT #8526 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's ancient, and flaky, but they really do pay a lot of attention to making it easy to use and intuitive.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2006 4:08:43 am PDT #8527 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, with some help from 3rd party software developers...
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2006 4:17:08 am PDT #8528 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which is how it should be done, really.
My big beef with the Treo is that at least when I researched it before, there wasn't a way to do voice-activated dialing.
Jessica - Jul 18, 2006 4:29:30 am PDT #8529 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't justify the cost, though. Sorry.
What would you recommend as an alternative? (I've got bonus money to spend, so justifying the cost is really more a question of picking a device, rather than deciding whether or not to buy one. My Clie is on its last legs, and I'm not getting another non-phone PDA.)
Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2006 4:35:26 am PDT #8530 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Since the 700p just came out, you might be able to get a good deal on a 650.
Gris - Jul 18, 2006 8:05:01 am PDT #8531 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Tom speaks truth. And, thought the 700p is somewhat nicer, it's not that much nicer really.
I got my 650 refurbed through cingular.com for $150. It was supposed to automatically renew my contract, but as far as I can tell, it didn't. (Not that I care - I'm on a family plan with my parents, still, using a number I've had since I was 16. I'd get a new number but... 7 years. And, also, family plan means I pay my dad about $35 a month including 1000 text messages and 5 MB Data.)
-t - Jul 18, 2006 9:19:00 am PDT #8532 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My laptop (iBook) is freaking out. Yesterday it started taking forever to boot up and going from the apple logo to a box of garbae in the midle of the screen. I'd interrupt it at this point. After alterating that with just turning it off for a while, it would get up to where I could supposedly log in, only it wouldn't recognise my password. After failing to log in a few times, it fails over to changing the password- it apparently recognized the "administrator's password" just fine, but wouldn't accept the new password for the account. This morning I tried resetting the password using the OS X installation CD. and now it's giving me that box of garbage again.
Anybody seen this and now exactly how scresed I am?
Jessica - Jul 18, 2006 10:09:46 am PDT #8533 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Since the 700p just came out, you might be able to get a good deal on a 650.
The main difference seems to be that the 700p can access the EVDO broadband whatsit. I don't know how much I really need that though, since access is so expensive compared to their basic data plans.