Comments on: Day Three with the Palm Treo 650 http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day-three-with-the-palm-treo-650/ Mobile News, Reviews, and Views. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:38:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dossy's Blog http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day-three-with-the-palm-treo-650/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Dossy's Blog Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:53:05 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/?p=2504#comment-428 <strong>Chris Leckness spends a week with the Treo 650</strong> Chris Leckness, a Microsoft Mobile MVP and founder of a bunch of niche gadget sites under the LeckMedia, LLC umbrella, steps away from Windows Mobile long enough to try out the Treo 650 for a week. He doesn't get too... Chris Leckness spends a week with the Treo 650

Chris Leckness, a Microsoft Mobile MVP and founder of a bunch of niche gadget sites under the LeckMedia, LLC umbrella, steps away from Windows Mobile long enough to try out the Treo 650 for a week. He doesn’t get too…

]]> By: Mobility Site http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day-three-with-the-palm-treo-650/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Mobility Site Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:29:03 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/?p=2504#comment-427 <strong>Giving the Palm Treo 650 a chance</strong> Windows Mobile MVP to try out the Palm OSAfter 6 years of not owning or really even touching the Palm OS, I have a Treo 650 on the way. The last time I owned a Palm was the Palm III... Giving the Palm Treo 650 a chance

Windows Mobile MVP to try out the Palm OSAfter 6 years of not owning or really even touching the Palm OS, I have a Treo 650 on the way. The last time I owned a Palm was the Palm III…

]]> By: Mark http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day-three-with-the-palm-treo-650/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Mark Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:02:24 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/?p=2504#comment-426 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 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.

]]> By: Alex http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day-three-with-the-palm-treo-650/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Alex Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:29:15 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/?p=2504#comment-425 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 <a href="http://www.palm.com/us/support/jvm/." rel="nofollow">http://www.palm.com/us/support/jvm/.</a> 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/.

]]> By: Scott R http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day-three-with-the-palm-treo-650/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Scott R Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:27:32 +0000 http://mobilitysite.com/?p=2504#comment-424 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. 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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