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Originally Posted by grcafterburner

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 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.

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!

you need to keep inmind that this is a WINDOWS product! most of the issues you are having are due to windows. i have absolutly no issues with gps at all. i use gmaps and also tom tom7. my phone has yet to lock up at all. when i got my phone i came from the mogal and used spb backup to bring all my stuff over and then reloaded my programs. i use gmail and i also sync with an exchange server. no problems at all... i just turned my gmail off and it stopped downloading my messages.. check and make sure you hit save instead of cancel. i know it seems stupid but it could be user error. (not slamming you) just thinking logically. i do stupid stuff like that some times. the wifi issue i don't have at all. my wifi connects within seconds of turning it on. the picmail thing can be solved but its a windows mobile and sprint issue not the phone. smms from someguy worked great for my mogal... i have yet to test this on the 800w. maybe worth you looking into. just a thought... have you reset this phone at all? could help some of the issues... if not i would have a tech look at the phone cause it sounds like you have a bad one! mine works great! good luck i hope this helped you.