Never ever buy a Palm

[blueonblackstrat]

The only issue with the sync process I've ever had was that I had a Cingular device, now I'm with sprint... It took me a good while to get my Sprint device not to have some of the cingular stuff on my sprint unit... The knowledge I possess with computers only makes me more dangerous around them...lol However, give me a few hours and I can either get it right... or screw things up worse.... In this case I got it right and now things are working great... And it syncs with my Vista laptop. The only problem I'm concerned with right now is that my E/1 button doesn't work the first time every time so I have to proof read as I go along. And as with anything else, when I decide to look into it... I'll either get it right...or at the very worst won't...

[fastlerner]

Wrong forum. ;)

I can understand your gripe about the palm os having issues with vista, but here in the 750 forum, we're all Windows Mobile issues.

Tethering your internet connection has never been easier under WM6 and it works fine with Vista thanks to WMDC.

AMEN!! My issue, however, is not with the palm devices, but with the palm software format.

I owned four Palm Pilots, dating back to the original version oh so many years ago. It seemed an easy decision to go 'palm' instead of a blackberry, or a windows based treo. thought it would be great to get the Treo 700p (palm version/ sprint). hey, i knew the software, and had loads of palm aps i could continue to use.

Things were only okay with the xp setup and syncing. Now, enter vista. Palm does not sync with vista 64-bit. so, no sync, can't install new aps, etc. Next, decided to use the treo as a modem, cause hey, says i could do it. Have spent hours on the phone with sprint as the 'tech support' and they can't seem to figure out how to do it. the sprint new connection manager software does vista, but won't work with palm, and the old 'dial up networking' program apparently does palm, but not vista. These are not the only areas which have presented problems.... And the tech support on any issue is an even bigger frustration. Palm blames Sprint and Microsoft; Sprint blames Palm & Microsoft, and Microsoft has no interest in helping either.

unless you want to use your smartphone to ONLY make/receive phone calls, there is absolutely no reason to buy a palm based unit, and many reasons to totally avoid the palm format. But, hey, if you only want to make calls, no reason to get a 'smartphone'..

M_Michigan
former palmie