Thread: Palm user: is it time to move to the Nxxx?
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sungrove is offline sungrove
2008-01-27 , 06:59
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Originally Posted by bblackmoor View Post
Yes.

1) It's not stable.

2) Sync does not work. It gets about halfway through and then disconnects. I gave up after a dozen tries over several days to get a hotsync to complete successfully. It never did, not once.

3) It's *tiny*. The Palm T5 screen is roughly the same size as that of the n810. The Garnet VM "screen" is roughly one-third that size, if that.

4) It does not have access to the n810 file system nor to the removable SD card.

5) There is no way to set the Hotsync ID (yes, I have tried the various suggestions in this forum: they do not work), which means there is no way to register 90% of the software that one would use to do real work.

The Garnet VM sounds great in theory. In practice: not so much.
Sure, great points. I agree with some of them. But maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones. It's syncing for me. And even with Garnet's shortcomings, I find it way more useful than the GPE stuff. And I've tried Erminig and Google Calendar.

And I'd say that being able to sync my Calendar, address book and so on to my Lap Top is pretty 'real work'

But ya, I can see being disillusioned with Garnet if it's not syncing right for you. Then again there really are a lot of variables involved- like some of the Datebk versions not working .

I'm not sure what you mean by 'no way to set Hotsync ID', ?

And I have seen guys talking about Garnet being unstable in the Palm forum, maybe I'm wrong, but it appears to me that part of the problem there is that people are trying to load too much software into it. To me it has been quite stable. I am simply using it as PIM and nothing more.

Neil
Last edited by sungrove; 2008-01-27 at 07:20.