Goodbye to my Treo
I have been using the Treo line of phones since Handspring came out with the VisorPhone plug in cartridge for their organizer that made my brick of a PDA into a brick of a Sprint phone that could access data at a blazing 9600 bps. I watched it grow into the hottest phone on the market, the one everyone wanted to copy. They went through black and white, old school cell phone color, and a flip cover then finally settled on the form factor it uses today. I used my Treo 600 until the speaker died and got the 700p as a replacement. I have made many internet posts, blog entries, and even written a few (very) short stories on its humble keys. It was always with me no matter where I went.
Well, the time has come to move on. Palm hasn't had a major operating system overhaul... well ever. The Palm based Treo is now bulky, slow, and outdated compared to almost every other smartphone on the market, even the (IMHO) horrendously bad Windows Mobile that Microsoft has been shoving off on us since the unspeakable days of Windows CE. Palm dropped Mac support long ago, and have scrapped every effort at updating to Cobalt, Linux, or any other system that will bring them to the present.
So I did it. I bought one of the new iPhones. It's great at everything the Treo sucks at, but it sucks at the one thing the Treo was great at: Writing long bits of text, which I do regularly. But I will deal, because it is just SO COOL.
I will always have a place in my technology-laden heart for the Treo if Palm ever decides to realize the error of its ways, so it will live on as my name and in my iPhone here on BartRAGE forevermore. Goodbye my dear Treo, may you rest in peace.
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Congrads. I hope you are
Congrads. I hope you are happy with it. Maybe it'll inspire you to write more posts here. Can you take a pic and show us the quality of its picture taking? Did you write the above post in your new Iphone?
I can't do posts that long or
I can't do posts that long or pretty on the iPhone yet. I had a much better one last week an I lost it when I jumped the gun and hit 'post' in the tunnel. This comment however is being done on the iPhone. Next time I have something to take a pic of I will try and post it from here, which I could not do with the Treo.
I'm waiting to see how Google
I'm waiting to see how Google Android and Palm OS Nova turn out.
Are going to change your
Are going to change your name? How about a blend of iPhone and BART, "iPhART"?
Hehehehehehehe!
besides being sentimental I
besides being sentimental I also have set up a yahoo address and have been using treobart on other regional blogs like Claycord as my identity so I think I will keep it :)
How did I know you were going
How did I know you were going to say iPhone? Personally I would get one overtime, but I have some beef with AT&T and will not get one as long as they are licensed under them. I will stick with my NEXTEL phone. I always enjoy the two-way radio feature and the free incoming smashes. Most of the time people call me anyway.
i have a 700wx with sprint
i have a 700wx with sprint and i love it. im gonna get an iphone when my contract on sprint expires this september which also coincides with me going to hawaii for college. the only thing i dont like about the iphone is that you cant send pix as a txt you gotta send them as an email.
I'll get the new iphone after
I'll get the new iphone after all the bugs are fixed.
Hey Treo something is totally
Hey Treo something is totally weird about my account/computers. When I look at your avatar (I think thats what it's called) at my work computer, I see your new iphone. When I look at it at home, it's the Treo. Any ideas what is causing the difference? You seem to know your electronics.
Officer Jo-Jo
The method of doing so
The method of doing so varies, but you need to empty the cache of your web browser. This setting is often in either the "Tools" or "Preferences" of the browser.
Background: Web browsers store certain files or pictures from websites on your computer's hard disk to speed things up. This allows the program to just load the file locally instead of requesting it from the remote server. Sometimes there's a minor glitch and your web browser doesn't notice something has changed on the server and keeps loading it from the local cache. In that case, clearing out the local cache will force it to get new copies of those files from the server.
Hope this helps.
icrew, Thanks for the advice.
icrew,
Thanks for the advice. It cleared things up and I am looking at the correct views.
Officer Jo-Jo