Pocketnow has come up with some real world scenarios in order to test the subjective speed of various smartphones. Rather than relying on benchmarks and specsheets, they time how long it takes someone already familiar with the phone’s user interface to do certain common tasks one might do with a smartphone. These are recorded on [...]
Whoever thought of the idea of drinking beer while standing outside in the hot sun, thus compounding the dehydration, should be shot. Having trouble with coherency right now.
Short version. Don’t believe the haters. The Treo 800w rocks.
Maximum Geek Volume 2, Number 21 is online. In this week’s “Mobile Considerably-More-Than-A-Minute” segment I talk quite a bit about the new Treo 800w and all its awesomeness.
http://www.maximumgeek.org/2008/07/18/maximum-geek-vol-2-ep-21/
So at long last, the wait is over. Opera has finally posted the generic (as opposed to specialized versions ripped from device ROMs) version of Opera Mobile 9.5.
I’ve played with several of the ripped beta versions and took the public version for a spin yesterday. After extensive testing on my Treo 800w, my official assessment [...]
I picked up a Treo 800w over the weekend and man, I have to give Palm their props. This is a wonderful refinement of the venerable Treo form factor. It’s comfortable, light and elegant.
But what really make the difference is software, Palm’s “special sauce”. The Treo 800 is fast. Despite a lower clock speed than [...]