The Treo 650 and the Tungsten T5 use a new FAT based nonvolatile file system, which is causing big problems.
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Not only is the new system much slower, as the data has to be loaded into a SDRAM chip before running, but in this filesystem PalmOne switched from using directly addressable storage, to storage addressed in 512 Byte blocks. This has caused many files to swell in size - up to 500% in some cases (such as the address book).
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Not good for products that only offer a mere 23Mb of memory to play with. These issues are causing many users to
cancel their orders to wait until the memory problems are addressed. Given that most of the people who buy new toys as soon as they're released are tech phreaks and developers, this doesn't bode well for a company who has already seen their market share
dip below that of the Windows CE market.
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