tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312205412011-04-21T22:52:29.964+02:00Patrick Robbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11596767717989876522noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31220541.post-63144106391811895282007-09-05T11:02:00.001+02:002007-09-05T11:02:33.703+02:00

Back in december 2006, when the Treo 680 was released, I had a (relatively) hard time getting hold of one, mostly because Palm had announced the release of that device much before it was actually available on the European stores shelves. Palm even managed to lose a good many sales, I think, by making sure the supplies were still short while every French geek out there was shopping for Christmas

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There's a very interesting article on Kent Pribbernow's blog, dealing with the much needed User Interface refresh for the good old PalmOS interface.While the article is very well written, and illustrated with great UI mockups which are certainly appealing, I have the feeling somehow that Kent is obviously not sharing the same views on the UI than I (and lots of other users) do. Reading the

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A couple of weeks ago, I finally received my long awaited Treo 680...Let's begin this post by a few rants targeted against Palm:1) Why do you have to screw up almost every launch? The devices tend not to be available for months after the official launch of the product, even in the case of exclusive carrier offers, so it's really frustrating for the end user to wait, and wait, and wait before

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Ok, enough rant for now. At least, I'll stop whinning about the E61 issues which make it fail to meet my requirements! Time for action!!!That was my state of mind, a couple of days ago, when I received an interesting offer for a Treo 680 pre-order. Needless to say I jumped in and seized the occasion, and I'm still waiting for the 680 to be officially released here in France... More on this later!

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It's been 6 months since I purchased my E61, and although it's a marvelous piece of hardware, I've tried to objectively enumerates the pros and cons of this smartphone in particular, and Symbian S60 OS in general.After many years spent using various PalmOS devices, switching to another OS was a tough decision to take, but the PalmOS hardware was becoming increasingly technically outclassed (i.e.

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When I decided to purchase my E61, I was in the (false) impression that I was getting a "smart" phone which had PIM functionalities built-in, and that I could manage my life with just that. After all, I had spent years doing this with various (PalmOS) PDAs who didn't even claim to be "smart", and I never used Outlook at all, I managed to handle my schedule without even using the Palm Desktop (

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One thing that never ceases to surprise me is the weakness of the S60 built-in PIM applications. In another post I'll post my thoughts about the calendar application and possible replacements, but today I'm going to focus on the Notes application and its alternatives.To make things clear and honest, I'm a long time PalmOS user and recent Symbian switcher, so I'm quite used to PalmOS's Memopad

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OK, I must confess it: I reflashed the firmware on my Nokia E61 a couple of days ago. Not that I actually needed it, mind you: most of the bugs corrected by this new firmware I had not encountered, or were not bothering me enough to entice me to upgrade the firmware despite the inherent risks (failed or incomplete or corrupted reflash = unusable phone, after all), but since you read this blog

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There's a small but unpleasant bug in Opera Mobile v8.60 which causes a lot of people (including myself) to complain about loooong startup times (between 30 and 90 seconds, with some people having to wait up to 5 minutes).This seems to originate in a problem with the Password Manager, and the (temporary) cure proposed by Opera Tech Support in one of their forums is to make a clean install of

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A couple of days ago, I was calling a friend with my Nokia E61, and just in the middle of the phone call, my phone died on me...Well, it didn't really die, of course, it's just that I had been on the phone for about an hour and a half, after having used my E61 throughout the day (or was it two days? Can't remember exactly, and it doesn't really matter that much anyway), so the battery was simply

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Today I've made a disturbing discovery on my Nokia E61: I received an email with an attachment in an exotic format (.rls). I didn't expect the E61 to be able to read it "as is", but it did try, though, associating it with Mobile Office which I was evaluating at that time.The fatc that Mobile Office wasn't able to open the file didn't surpise me, but I couldn't find where the attachment had been

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Hello,Thanks to L0cutus on my-symbian forum for that very useful trick! It's probably written somewhere in the manual, I suppose, but I hadn't yet found the time to try... Anyway, here it is:Have you ever wondered what would happen if you don't select "PC Suite" in the menu that appears on your Nokia E61 when you connect it to your PC using the USB cable? What if you select "Data Transfer", for

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Hello world!Some time ago, after running a PDA website for some time I decided to shut it down - or more precisely to stop updating it, and spend a couple of years posting articles here and there on other people's websites.Writing full-featured articles with pictures is a bit tedious at times, and as time went by I began to look for a faster alternative which would let me spend less time on

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