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Day Three with the Palm Treo 650

Posted by Chris Leckness on February 22, 2006 – 10:26 pm
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Day Three : Nothing but playing
I feel horrible, my daughter brought something home from school, gave it to my son and they are both well now. My wife and I are starting to show signs of the same flu-like symptoms. I don’t feel like moving, I just want to lay down and sleep. (which is what I am going to do soon after this post)

Today, I used the phone very little and played with applications suggested in Day One’s posting. I did find some interesting quirks that I don’t like today.

  1. Palm doesn’t know what multitasking is, does it? I have to admit that the Pocket PC Platform has a nice little downfall I would like to see fixed, the X button does NOT CLOSE the application without the help of 3rd party apps. One thing is for sure though, Pocket PCs can multitask. I really hate the way you close apps in the Palm OS. Why can’t they add a working X and a _ to minimize apps?
  2. The LOUD light switch. I am not sure if this is normal, but it sounds like someone is slamming the door when the display dims and you have this device up to your head making a call. I makes a metallic click that seems pretty loud. Is this normal?

Applications! Applications! Applications!
Boys and Girls, I found a good home screen and it’s FREE! And top off FREE, it reminds me of home! iSpin launcher lite v1.8

Read on for some images and my software experience!

iSpin launcher lite v1.8 looks like Windows!!!


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I also tried out Pocket Tunes. This is a good app. I was able to download the trial, Install it, and have 1 ripped CD on the device playing in 10 minutes! Most of that time was transferring the 14 songs to the Treo 650. Pocket Tunes is compatible with Yahoo Music Engine, which is what I use for my media.

I tried Xiino and Opera, but Opera would not run without some other software, so I said forget it. Xiino looked a little better than Blazer, but the looks of the sites still was less than what I would hope for in a Pocket PC Device. Xiino did resize the images to make Mobilitysite’s front page more readable and it was much faster than Blazer.

Last but not least, I spent TOO MUCH time playing Insaniquarium!!!

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  • The multitasking thing is, I think, one of those things that you either like it the way that Palm does it or you like it the way that WinMob does it. But it's hard to cross over. When I use my winmob devices belonging to my friends, I forget that I have to quit applications. Not doing so creates contention for the CPU slowing everything down.

    But, of course, there is definately real advantage to being able to multitask. To wit: listening to music while doing other stuff and push email.
  • The multitasking thing has been an issue since Palm OS was introduced. Multitasking was supposed to be introduced to what was referred to as Cobalt or Palm OS 6. Nobody adopted the use of Cobalt, and now ACCESS (acquired PalmSource) is going to release a Linux based OS to replace the currently used Palm OS (Garnet).

    When you leave an application it is more in the state of being paused rather than actually closed. There are some applications that can function around this, such as Pocket Tunes.

    You're right, Pocket PC/Windows Mobile does have an advantage in that area, but I can't for the life of me understand why the X doesn't actually close the application. They should have used the _ for minimize instead of X if that was the intention.

    Opera requires a rather large Java Runtime to be installed, so it's understandable that you didn't want to go through that process. For others, it's available for download at http://www.palm.com/us/support/jvm/.
  • I prefer Xiino over Blazer simply because of the speed. The big thing for me is that you can leave the app to do something else and when you come back to it it will display the last page you accessed instantaneously. Similarly, if you're navigating around a site and click the back button, it will bring up that last page instantaneously. Blazer will, OTOH, go back to the server to get a fresh copy of the page. Slow. To make the Xiino experience (and overall Palm OS experience) more pleasurable, I would strongly recommend getting FontSmoother by Alex Pruss. It's about $10 and will let you load anti-aliased replacement fonts on the Palm OS. I found and converted Calibri 16pt (a Windows Vista font) to use as my system-wide font and Calibri 12pt for Xiino, which is smaller than the default font and it looks great.

    As far as your other comments are concerned...why do you want to minimize/close a Palm OS app? Just use a hard button to jump directly to a commonly used app or the home hard button to go to the app launcher. I see you're already playing with an alternate launcher. I'd also recommend you check out Hi-Launcher. It can do a lot of things but lately I've been using it just as a pseudo task switcher. I press and hold my Home key and a list of my five most recently used apps will display and I can jump to one of them quickly.
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