Re: Help! Which Smartphone to get?

icedteasgp@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1151793443.036100.184800
@j8g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Palm Treo 650

I got a friend's 650 working, finally. VZW stores haven't a clue. They
did, however, give me a number to call for the PDA expert and I called
him from their store.

Be informed that if you sync the palm via VZW, when you get to your
computer you cannot sync the phone via the USB cable...it's either or....

That took a while to setup as you have to go setup VZW's webpage access
to it, then the phone's internal setup, then the computer's to eliminate
the computer trying to overrun the VZW-based sync. How stupid....just
like MP3s and their "music service"...one cancels the other.

Once I got it working, it has stayed working fine, but if you want to
change the sync setup, you have to go through the whole sequence of
things again, in order, to make it work. I have him syncing email over
VZW, now, and all the Palm Desktop stuff over the cable, which Hotsync
does lots faster, of course.

Unlike the Windoze OS, the Palm doesn't crash and never really "boots" as
it stays running all the time. I finally got a PDA, an old Palm III for
$4 from a thrift shop. Some idiot put one of the AAA cells in backwards.
It works great when the batteries are in right. I showed off my bargain
PDA to my friend with the Treo 650. "I didn't know you wanted a palm
pilot.", he said reaching into his lower desk drawer. He pulls out a
Handspring Visor Edge with all the toys and hands it to me. "I don't
need it, now that you got the Treo working so good." I sync the Edge
from the notebook on wifi in the car via infrared with a little USB-IRda
dongle I got for $20 off the net. Voila...no cellphone company tinkering
and locking out features!

.

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