My friend and colleague Stephen gave up on his Motorola A1000, and initially bought an HP iPAQ h6300, for the reason that he was very happy w/ his previous iPAQ. The design of the h6300 is excellent on paper, as the snap-on thumb-board works rather well. However, it pretended to have sent out SMSes, but threw them all into the bit bucket, which is unacceptable. It also had some glitches sync’ing w/ the firm’s Outlook software, which fortunately was resolved by our IT guy, but this would have otherwise tripped the layman user.
Going 100% over to the Blackberry (which does voice and SMS as well) could have been a solution for Stephen, but his contract with Hutchison is like till eternity. “This is destroying my life!” Stephen at one point was quite annoyed with the difficulty in finding a suitable Smartphone. He went back to the shop, bit the bullet pay another HK$500 and went for a Treo 650 instead, and has been happy since (for a few days at least).
I borrowed Stephen’s A1000 to play with. Despite its seemingly perfect form factor, the phone is too far from being perfect. The UI is simply too confusing. “A piece of shit!” was Stephen’s comment, not mine.
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1 James // Feb 28, 2005 at 10:58 am
The Treo650 lacks Wi-Fi. The specs for the HP HW6700 now with Wi-Fi – http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/smartphones/hp/hp-mobile-messenger-hw6700-with-wifi-034175.php, or the Benq P50 – http://www.gsmarena.com/benq_p50-759.php seem to be quite exhausive. But I still think a Tungstan C upgraded with BT built-in (ie seperate BT phone) would be best for myself. That means no seperate SIM card, no SIM card switching, and no geeky device for those boys night out.