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2008-01-27
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2008-01-27
, 05:23
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I haven't used a Palm for years. Does the $200 version do Skype? Can you buy a $60 GPS device and use it to map your trip? Does it use wireless? How is it for browsing the net?
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2008-01-27
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Have been following this discussion with interest. Sounds like a number of former Palm users find GPE lacking in comparison. May I ask why? Syncing is clearly an issue (although robust two-way syncing with Google calendar would seem to go a long way towards addressing that issue if it could be ironed out). Tight integration with other apps (e.g. email) is also clearly lacking at this point. But what else do Palm users miss with respect to the PIM functions?
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2008-01-27
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2008-01-27
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2008-01-27
, 06:35
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#46
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i still cant get my freakin n810 with garnet vm to sync with palm desktop...i can't even get it to connect
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2008-01-27
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I read every post in this thread expecting to eventually see a post about the Garnet VM. Hmm, never happened. You guys know about that right?
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2008-01-27
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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.
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2008-01-27
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#49
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The browsers are all unstable. The Palm is not.
It's not a general purpose computer.
Use it as it's intended, and you'll never need the reset button.
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2008-01-27
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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