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Originally Posted by BobR
Yeah, I'm getting a bit fed up with a couple things on PPC myself. I love the device and the "fun" nature of it, but...
1) No matter how good the font, 240x320 stinks.
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Well, on the hand I'm very grateful for the fact that it's easy to change fonts - I had to spend money to be able to do that on my Palm. However, I just find the screen to be tiring on my eyes (for reading). In a way the QVGA does allow more stuff to be seen onscreen - it's just that the lowish resolution gives blocky characters and I find Cleartype too fuzzy. Wish I'd bought a VGA PPC
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Originally Posted by BobR
2) Okay means a lot of different things in different places. And it seems to be so hard to get data in the way you want. Bad PIM software? I think it's more the OS, or at least OS culture because I'm using PI, which is one of the top two products out there, and is really nice except for the silly interface common to most PPC programs. My digitizer/screen protector combo doesn't help. Probably a combination of lo-res digitizing and interference from my screen protector, but it doesn't always register the way I want it to. Not so bad on Palm, but on PPC that seems to always cause the program to do the worst things!
Okay, sorry about the rant... I'm just a little frustrated right now.
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I can understand how you feel although I think I've now come to terms with my PPC. A few suggestions...
An essential software is Wisbar Advance2: apart from making the PPC OS prettier it has a neat Task Switcher which I've assigned to a hardware button. Multitasking is handy on a PDA and the PPC handles it easily so it's nice to be able to call up a menu of running programs with a button and then use the navpad to open the desired program. Of course, Wisbar also shows the icons of all running programs on the top task bar and they can be opened or closed either by tapping (or holding) them. Try it (if you haven't already).
On the other hand, when you don't want to multitask, another tip would be to assign another hardware button to a software like Magic Button - that way you can exit a program with a simple button press.
I too thought that my PDA screen was unresponsive but then I discovered that with Transcriber I was able to draw all over the screen with very light pressure. So that means that the apparent unresponsiveness of the screen is actually due to a heavy OS. I've now learnt to be just a little bit more patient and I'm doing okay now...
Bye,
Gnam
