I bought my Palm Treo 800w, yesterday. It's my third Treo. I had a 700p, then a 755p, and now this.
I have several complaints about it...
I thought that going from Palm to Windows Mobile OS would be a nice transition. It takes many more clicks to do anything now, than ever on Palm OS. So the U/I is my first complaint... but that's a OS choice thing...
The GPS is not that great... if you are not in clear open view of the sky in almost every direction, the GPS locks up the device for several minutes, trying to find it's own location.
I have yet to successfully connect to a wi-fi, even at home, where I put the Treo next to my wireless G router and turned off the router's encryption key.
There is no way to attach a picture to a text message. The only way to send a picture is thru email. *BTW* Has anyone got a crack for this??? I really enjoy sending picture mails.
The battery does not last near as long on this PDA as my previous two Treos... again, that could be an OS thing, due to all of the internet connections going on for the various apps that come with Windows Mobile. I charged my phone all night, last night, and by the time I drove to work (20 minute drive) and sat down at my desk, the battery is at 83%. I did not use the phone AT ALL on my drive to work. This is totally unacceptable... the "standby" time for the phone should at LEAST last one full day. It's not practical to keep the phone on a charger constantly. Otherwise, it's not really a "mobile device", is it?
I turned off the "auto sync" for my pop email... and yet, the device still logs on periodically and downloads my emails. Very annoying, since I purposely turned this off, last night, to save the battery, and it kept downloading emails every 15 minutes or so. Does anyone else have this problem with Windows Mobile? Or did I get a 'lemon'?
The buttons do have a better feel to them than my 700p and 755p. The touchscreen is not quite as 'light' as the other two... what I mean is, you have to push down harder, the screen cover feels slightly loose and the tracking is a little off... I don't see a way to set the screen tracking on this phone. On the Palm OS it was really straightforward to do.
The built in VPN and Exchange abilities will be nice... assuming they work. I've been very unimpressed with this device's reliability... for example: The GPS sometimes "sticks"... it just sits there and never comes back with directions. The internet connection works well, WHEN it works. 50% of the time, it says "dialing..." and then comes up with an error message saying "failed to connect." This almost never happened with my 700p or 755p.
The plug-in for the headset and the plug-in for the charger have now been combined into 1 slot (mini-USB). This makes charging while talking on your headset impossible without buy a splitter. Also, since the headset plug is now mini-USB, my other headsets for the 700p and 755p won't work with my new 800w without an adapter. (the charges keep racking up...) This is inconvenient, since now I'll have to buy and carry more adapters to get the same convenience I had with the 700p and 755p. IMHO, this is a "let's squeeze some more money out of the people" decision from Palm.
Anyway... my list of frustrations is growing with this device. If I don't get these issues cleared up, I'll go back to my 755p and sell the 800w.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks!