treo switchers

[cmaier]

Originally Posted by Dunc

I had a 300, 600, 650 and an Arctic 680. By the time the iPhone surfaced I was pretty disappointed with Palm as a whole. The iPhone is a wonderful device. I used to dread (and avoid at all costs) using Blazer to find anything on the net. But I love using Safari on the iPhone - surfing is a pleasure. The device hasn't crashed once since I got it the day they came out - can anyone say that about any Palm Treo device? I thought not. My one complaint is mail - it is functional, nice... But, for anyone who has used Chatter in the past there is no comparison. I hope that Mark gets an iPhone and starts working on bringing his legendary app to this platform!

Dunc

mark is now a palm employee so don't count on it

[Dunc]

I know that Chattermail was bought by Palm - I hope that Marc made out like a bandit! He should have, Chattermail is / was by far the best mail app for the Treo. He's come out of retirement before. I hope that he'll stumble across an iPhone at some point and be inspired to do it again.

Dunc

[AnteL0pe]

It wouldnt take a whole lot for Apple to make the iPhone mail app a whole lot better.

[Supes2000]

I am going to eat a lot of crow here, but I am the "PROUD" owner of an iPhone.

Some of you may have read my thread: Is the iPhone a Gold Brick?" on Treocentral. But after my wife broke down and bought one, and in addition to a number of web 2.0 apps that have sprung up on the market, I too am a convert.

I have had no issues with the speed of EDGE. I am on a WIFI network 50% of the time, this is when I use the "full" browser, and when on EDGE, I use google mobile to "strip down" the page if I am in a hurry.

I have found a number of online work-arounds for apps that I use daily like tasks for example.

These include online task lists via
rememberthemilk.com
toodledo.com

And a number of games via macworld, and few others.

I love this phone, the best I have ever owned, and it's only going to get better.

[Vander]

I too am loving my iphone...Ive always been a treo fan/user but as my issues with my treo continued and with no solutions from palm, I felt that the phone was interfering with my productivity both at work and just in general.

1. The iphone works and works well.
2. It syncs every time...I was lucky to sync my treo but only after 3 or 4 tries.
3. as mentioned already, I love visual voicemail, it is so much more efficient, I only wish I had a similar product at work, I hate having to listen to ten emails only to erase the first nine to get the most important of them. Im saving so much more time not listening to useless, unimportant messages.
4. The web is great, wifi is an amazing experience and as also mentioned, Im using that feature 10 times more often then on my treo, the web on the treo is almost painfull, I only used it in case of dire situations, now I find myself browsing the net almost whereever and whenever I want.
4. I love Utube...I never much cared about it before, but I love to watch the latest, funiest videos its a blast!

so in the end, the iphone rocks!

[Supes2000]

Originally Posted by Vander

I too am loving my iphone...Ive always been a treo fan/user but as my issues with my treo continued and with no solutions from palm, I felt that the phone was interfering with my productivity both at work and just in general.

1. The iphone works and works well.
2. It syncs every time...I was lucky to sync my treo but only after 3 or 4 tries.
3. as mentioned already, I love visual voicemail, it is so much more efficient, I only wish I had a similar product at work, I hate having to listen to ten emails only to erase the first nine to get the most important of them. Im saving so much more time not listening to useless, unimportant messages.
4. The web is great, wifi is an amazing experience and as also mentioned, Im using that feature 10 times more often then on my treo, the web on the treo is almost painfull, I only used it in case of dire situations, now I find myself browsing the net almost whereever and whenever I want.
4. I love Utube...I never much cared about it before, but I love to watch the latest, funiest videos its a blast!

so in the end, the iphone rocks!

Here, here!!! I could not agree more. I too use the web more than ever before. Have any you guys been to iphonepov.com and watched the speed comparsion videos between the Treos and the Iphone...Jawdropping!

Web 2.0 apps are the future for handheld platfoms. Knowling what I now know about the iPhone, I'd pay twice the price.

[jchun642]

The one thing that really bugs me about the iPhone is the lack of a search feature. Particularly in the contacts list. While the scrolling is really cool, it gets difficult to find a contact when you have a long list. I have about 1500 contacts. It was much easier on the Treo when I could type in their first initial, then last name.

For some reason, the iPhone has this search feature when looking up names in the SMS and email client but not in the contact list.

[Supes2000]

While I agree this could be usefull, I have no issues without either. Are you aware of feature that allows you to jumps to a given letter by using your finger and dragging over the alphabet on the right of the contact list?

In my experience, it takes no longer to "jump to a letter" then flick your way to the name. Just a thought.

[RadMonkeyX]

i made the jump over to the iphone and i am not looking back. i did not use my 750 for work, it is just a fun phone for me. the iphone does everything i need it to. sure i wish i could assign music ringtones and receive pic text but i am ok. the iphone is so user friendly. the keyboard does take some gettting use. i thought i would add my 2 cents

[SAKozicki]

I have been through the 650 and the 680. Both developed stability issues and had trouble with bluetooth devices. The IPhone just plain works. It does not freeze up or reset at an inopportune moment. Bluetooth works great, loud and instantaneous. I justified the cost to myself by counting how many potential clients I lost in one week because of my Treo resetting during an incoming call. Web works faster, eventhough i'm supposedly on the same EDGE network. I was most worried about the calendar program. I've found that I love the one on the Iphone because it doesn't waste space, and shows more appointments for the week. I wish it showed a "to do" list, but I've found that I don't miss it that much, since I carry a Franklin organizer as a backup (I'm required to have a calendar backup system by my malpracitce insurance carrier). The way the screen scrolls with your finger is just amazing. When you slide your finger across the screen, it rolls kind of like a slot machine. I am amazed they can do that electronically. I do not miss the keys on a Treo at all. I would not get the 4 gig version, I put 4 gig on my 8 gig one without trying very hard.