Comments on: Palm Centro VersalMail Update

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I've got it working fine on my 700p. It's a lot more cumbersome than previously to cancel message downloads midstream, though.

Just curious--does this upgrade the existing VersaMail components or is this a full standalone installer?

As others have noted, I've still noticed a few graphical glitches (truncated dialog boxes etc) and it seems slower to download new messages using the same settings (100k limit, text only) than VM 3.5.4 did.

Otherwise, no issues at all. Hopefully Palm will release this and Blazer 4.0 as a legitimate update for all Treo owners in the near future. Or at the very least, throw 755p owners a bone and give them updates to Blazer, VM, and the Google Maps My Location feature that the Centro is getting.

I have a sinking feeling that we are going to see the Centro commanding all of Palm's attention/support resources going forward. The 755p is really going to be the odd man out as far as Garnet-based devices are concerned.

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GACK!!!

You're kidding, right?

What a well-tested piece of software...

Sorry for using this on a "non-approved" device :-)

That said, in e-mails formatted as plain text, the "done/reply/fwd/delete" buttons cut into the bottom line of text. In particular, whichever box is highlighted in blue really cuts into the text. When viewing HTML-formatted emails, it's the body of the email message that cuts into the top part of the butto and the blue highlight box. Not a showstopping bug by any means, just mildly annoying.

Also, strangely enoguh, I've several times opened Blazer from within VM 3.5.4 and 4.01 from both URL links and the black button + phone button shortcut and experienced graphical oddities. Basically what hapens is that the the outlines (but no text within!) of the "new/get/send" or "done/reply/fwd/delete" boxes remain at the bottom of the Blazer screen. When I exit out of Blazer and restart it all is well.

The device in questio, for reference, is a Verizon 700p w/ the 1.10 ROM and ~21mb of memory free and no 3rd party launchers/hacks/background processes running.

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Thaks for the input/comments. That sounds like a very plausible explanation. So, in theory, this would also affect the 755p since it uses the exact same version of Blazer as the 700p. right?

Or can the core HTML components of the OS be tweaked/upgraded independently of whatever web browser is installed?

At any rate, you won't find me complaining, as I obviously was taking matters into my own hands by installing the new VM on my 700p. I was just curious to see what kind of new goodies Centro users get to play with ;-)

Please pass along the message to the powers that be at Palm that some of us who are mired in a 2yr contract would gladly welcome the option to buy little "ROM Packs" from Palm with updated versions of DTG/Blazer/VM/PTunes/Google Maps for our devices. Basically, like what Apple is offering to owners of the first batch of iPod Touch units.

A. It'd save precious RAM space not having to install a mildly updated newer version
B. It'd be a small but pleasantly easy revenue source for Palm & their 3rd party developer partners
C. It'd be a nice goodwill gesture to Palm's loyal customers.

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