Hey all,
I'm seriously looking into a Tungsten T5, it seems to do everything I'd need a PDA for. Specifically, document viewing, transport and editing, note- and idea-taking and basic PIM on a large screen (the largest and highest-resolution in its price range, barring the T3) with reasonable battery life. The vast amount of memory helps, too, as does the inclusion of Documents to Go 7. I like the idea of being able to type reports on any computer handy and grab what I've got with the T5's Drive Mode, then edit and view on the go.
But I'm worried about the stability and bugs on the thing, and about the issues that come about with its use of Flash Memory. I hear that the T5 is very crash-happy, that many older programs may not work with it, that hard resets (which will be needed in the event of a crash) wipe ALL flash memory, that said memory cannot be backed up on a SD card, that because of said memory, the memory-management issue (the memory being addressed in blocks, and resultant increase in space that most files will require) present in the Treo 650 is also here, and that long-term durability might be an issue (flash memory used is only rated for 100,000 rewrites, which may go - forgive the pun - in a flash when the memory is being used as RAM).
This is all very scary to me, but I think the T5's been out for quite some time now, and that most new devices come with lengthy bug-lists anyhow, and the nastiest of those (like the ones I've mentioned) get fixed soon after release. Have these bugs been fixed, and if they haven't, are they really a concern for the average user?
On a side note, is it possible for the T5 to grab contacts off of a Series 60 mobile phone via Bluetooth? My Nokia 6600 doubles as my phonebook, with all my contacts and numbers on it, and I'm not really looking forward to retyping every single one of them, whether on a PDA or in any included software.
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I'm seriously looking into a Tungsten T5, it seems to do everything I'd need a PDA for. Specifically, document viewing, transport and editing, note- and idea-taking and basic PIM on a large screen (the largest and highest-resolution in its price range, barring the T3) with reasonable battery life. The vast amount of memory helps, too, as does the inclusion of Documents to Go 7. I like the idea of being able to type reports on any computer handy and grab what I've got with the T5's Drive Mode, then edit and view on the go.
But I'm worried about the stability and bugs on the thing, and about the issues that come about with its use of Flash Memory. I hear that the T5 is very crash-happy, that many older programs may not work with it, that hard resets (which will be needed in the event of a crash) wipe ALL flash memory, that said memory cannot be backed up on a SD card, that because of said memory, the memory-management issue (the memory being addressed in blocks, and resultant increase in space that most files will require) present in the Treo 650 is also here, and that long-term durability might be an issue (flash memory used is only rated for 100,000 rewrites, which may go - forgive the pun - in a flash when the memory is being used as RAM).
This is all very scary to me, but I think the T5's been out for quite some time now, and that most new devices come with lengthy bug-lists anyhow, and the nastiest of those (like the ones I've mentioned) get fixed soon after release. Have these bugs been fixed, and if they haven't, are they really a concern for the average user?
On a side note, is it possible for the T5 to grab contacts off of a Series 60 mobile phone via Bluetooth? My Nokia 6600 doubles as my phonebook, with all my contacts and numbers on it, and I'm not really looking forward to retyping every single one of them, whether on a PDA or in any included software.
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