Palm woes
Categories : Palm, Personal |
Well I was happy yesterday to receive a replacement Treo 650 shipped from Palm in response to the problme I had with the screen. Plugged it all in and it worked fine… but onyl for the first 10 minutes or so – then it became unresponsive. Tried to reset it and the same problem again – works fine for a few minutes and then won’t do a thing. Very frustrating. So now I’ll have to wait til Monday (or Tuesday since I believe it might be a long weekend in Sydney) to be able to call them and arrange to send it back again. Which means yet another week sans PDA.
If this keeps happening I’d almost be tempted to go to the dark side and get a Pocket PC next time. Two of the things that have kept me loyal to Palm thus far have been
- I’ve managed to find a lot more medical software for Palm
- The amount of money I’ve invested in my Bible software. I wouldn’t want to have to re-purchase all the translations I have for a Pocket PC
Well these reasons are less compelling now that Laridian (makers of MyBible) have now changed their policy so that if you have purchased a version of the Bible or book for one format of their software, you can download for free the versions for other formats. So in order to migrate my Bible software to a Pocket PC all I would have to do would be to purchase the actual Pocket Bible software (for $10 I think) and then redownload all the books for it, which is not so painful as spending a couple of hundred dollars. (Plus Pocket Bible has the NRSV, which MyBible doesn’t – one of my few gripes with MyBible).
As for the medical software the truth is that although I keep a lot on my Palm I rarely use it. The only ones I have used with any regularity are MIMs and a program called PregPro which I use to keep track of my obstetric patients and when they are due. Getting those two programs for Pocket PC shouldn’t be a major problem I would imagine.
Anyway, we’ll see what happens with Palm customer service this time…
