David Pogue, technology writer for the
New York Times, has a great article on the Treo 700W entitled
A Marriage Not Made in Heaven. He points to all of the good things that make the Treo a Treo: Great form factor, excellent keyboard, Palm's focus on usability, etc. He also zeros in on things that take away from the Treo and Palm experience, all due to the 700W running Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0:
Quote:
Alas, even after all that plastic surgery, you can't escape the fact that you're basically running Windows.
For instance, you open programs from a tiny Start menu, which you activate by pressing a dedicated Windows-logo key. Fine, except that the Start menu has room to list only seven programs. For access to anything else, you must open the Programs folder. But even here, only nine icons fit on each screen, and no list view is available. So you have to do a lot of scrolling.
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Windows Mobile's memory management (or lack thereof), poor usability and increased keypresses/screen taps, counterintuitive "OK" button, and lack of on-screen mute & speakerphone soft buttons during calls (now hidden away in menus) are other notable criticisms.