OT The continuing saga of Moose Man and.....

N

NaipeMagica

New member
I was all set to order the Treo 650 and then I get contacted by our IT department and was asked to 'beta' test a Rim/Blackberry 7100t using T-Mobile - Here

So now I'll be spending a fair amount of time over at the RIM/Blackberry Forum. Because of the limited software available for the 7100t (RIM in general) I will continue to operate the T3 for now.

The Treo's number will be forwarded to the 7100t until such time we determine what direction we will take but I'm kinda looking forward to this device....which I should have Tuesday even though I'm travelling next week.

Granted it's no Palm device but it is a tightly integrated email phone with some PIM functions.
 
Hey, try anything. I looked at the link, and several others, and can't find the most important thing I'm curious about:

WHAT IS THE OS? Is it PalmOS? OS what?

If I'm going to dump my Nokia 8260 (weep) and "upgrade" I'd have to know it's Palm OS, and preferably OS5.2 at the LATEST.

Otherwise it's either a spare T3 and/or a Tapwave Zodiac Z2, and keep the old phone which has never let me down.
 
Paul,

The Blackberry has it's own operating system and is not compatible with Palm programs. There was some news about PalmSource teaming up with RIM to use the Palm OS for e-mail, but e-mail only. Thus, Moose's reference to the scarcity of RIM software.
 
The email merger hasn't happened yet but it's in the works. The blackberry is very proprietary but does have some advantages....IT personnel can wirelessly update all of the phones in a given "system" with very little effort.

The Treo had an update but required that you go to P1's web site and download the update. Too confusing for some of our less than technical sales people....if we had gone that way.

I look forward to using the new OS but as I mentioned the T3 will be around for a while to handle the other software. The 7100t does have some built in software for viewing Word and Excel files as attachments so this should prove interesting as a beta test.
 
My youngest brother is a T-Mobile sales rep. He used a Blackberry for a little while, but he said sometimes it would reboot itself during calls and would drop calls more than his "normal" phone (a Nokia 6610, like mine) would. He went back to the Nokia.
 
Well, the Blackberry won't correctly sync with the Goldmine program so guess what......we are back looking at either a Treo 650 or a Tungsten E.

We are awaiting bids from two different cell companies to determine which way we'll go because of the pricing situation and to see how little we can get the Treo's for.

Either way, it appears that I will be going back to the original plan and sticking with a 650 even if I have to buy it on my own.

The bottom line is that I'm happy to be a Palm'er again.
 
hey moose,

glad to hear you are 'returning' to the Palm fold.....

now, just browsing the iambic site (SoS detects a disturbance in the force as PTL stirs and heads for the PC ). Reading between the lines, looks like a fully OS5.4-compatible version of agendus will be available in v9.0 (yet another $10 update I imagine). However we look at it, Garnet and the new T5/650 memory config etc are central to P1's future plans (if they indeed have any). As painful as it might be, developers are going to have to bite the bullet and fix their programs but should we reasonably expect to have to pay for these fixes (no fault of the developers). I really am torn on this issue...what do 'we' think??


hate to start a new agendus/horrendous thread here but it also looks like a number of existing issues with ToDo etc may persist through a whole 'issue' of agendus without being fixed....crazy IMHO
 
Standard Operation Procedure for Iambic. They released 7.0 for the T3 last December. It took them 2 months to develop it and it does indeed look as if V9.0 will be out as the T5 and perhaps the Treo 650 flash memory issues are fixed.

It's interesting that the currrent version did not get all of the complaints stopped regarding the ToDo issues.

I will find some fault with Iambic and the desire to continually generate revenue by releasing new versions. That policy will cost them in the long run and yet they seem to be able to get away with it because people like me won't switch to other programs because they do really have a good product.

But you also have to lay blame on PalmOne since the released revised PIM apps that caus developers problems. Datebk5 doesn't have the same issues because it does not have nor use the same enhancements as Agendus to the contacts nor todo list.

I suspect V9 will be in beta by the end of next week and released early December. This could be in time for our ramp up to either the Treo 650 or the Tungsten E. Although, we won't be endorsing Agendus as part of the roll out....I'm certain that I will continue to use it.

Life@Hand has been delayed until sometime in the 1st quarter and I'm not holding my breath. I don't know how someone can be "advertising" the best of Datebk and Agendus for nearly one year and expect a migration to their product in mass numbers out of the gate. I won't have a lot of faith in it. They were scheduled to release the software on Dec. 17th and retracted that date.

I'm just glad to not have to make a decision of migrating to Pocket PC at this time. I'll be corporately bound for awhile which is ok by me since I'm a die hard Palm fan. I'm just not certain that PalmOne is going to be around a long time if they don't start providing the types of devices that PPC seem to have now a days.
 
PTL "stirred" yesterday!! SOS is a G D mind reader.

I will actually DEFEND Iambic here, and did in a post yesterday on their forum. I think it's admirable they're "working on" a v9 with T5 fixes. The worst thing . . . . agendus is apparently "verrry slllooooow" and one of the mods explained that that's the T5's fault because of the memory allocation -- it's just SLOWER than a T3!!

Unless v9 has some T3 tweaks (Moose's mention of to-do glitches), I'd probably leave it alone, but have already emailed James to ask if I'll be "stung" for the upgrade cost since I JUST SENT IN THE 8.06 $$$.

It's a tough call . . . if I were a developer I'd be steamed at having to further bloat an application for ALL users based on fixing ONE MODEL; if history tells us anything . . . DON'T get v9.01 or 9.02!! It'll take until 9.06 to fix the bugs created by fixing the bugs. You won't be "bugless" for a couple of months.

Meanwhile, 8.06 is fantastic - cannot get it to crash - and I may stick with what works unless there are big improvements to photo handling. The alarm thing doesn't bother me since I seldom use them. What is troubling is how they can possibly get Agendus to "run faster," and especially switching to Iambic Mail which is TERRIBLY SLOW, apparently, on a T5. They can't put in what P1 has left out, and slower may just be a way of life for T5/Agendus users.

I'd just caution you NON T5 users to treat the "new v9" with kid gloves; remember 8.01-8.02? Then 8.03 was pretty good, then came the awful 8.04 - and 8.06 fixed it. I wouldn't want to go through those hoops again.
 
Back
Top