Comments on: Quickies: T665C, MSG1, FlyZip, Training CD, 3D Games, PDABuzz

PDA Buzz was great. May it rest in peace.

Just the type of response you'd get in response too. The failure to give one's name doesn't make the statement any less true. BTW, is "Beavis" your real name?

BTW--the moderators voluntarily left in honor of Wes. Nice...wonder if it was the "I'll take my ball(moderators) and go home" attitude. If so, highly immature.

So I think what the moderators did as a show of support makes a lot of sense.

As just your average web surfer, I can see some merit in criticizing the scorched earth policy that seems to have afflicted most PDABuzz adherents (count me among them) on the grounds that it's immature: I don't think its fair to assume that because HHCMG may be dishonest in its business policies it will therefore be dishonest in its reporting. (Although in an indutry where it's conceivably possible to buy favorable reviews you can't rule this out as a possibility, either--sounds like something that could be right up Iambic and Handango's alley :p .) But on the grounds that many people will be leaving and PDABuzz will become just as dreary a place to talk PDA's as Brighthand became last year, it makes sense to follow suit and go elsewhere for good general PDA discussion.

And on a slightly different subject, the thing I liked most about Wes Salmon's reporting and commentary was that he could be--and often was--critical of both sides. Frankly, he was the most objective voice in PDA media, and I can only hope we haven't heard the last of him.

Nah - I've even said good things about some PPC's myself, (and it'd be harder to find somebody more disgusted with Microsoft's business practices and corperate culture without having been employed there.) They sure are pretty, at any rate.

I'm not the only person to point out Wes' slight bias problem, though. And, personally, if I was going to even pretend that I was unbiased, I don't think I'd take over $600 worth of spanky-new PDA as a gift from a company known for using it's advertising budget to buy good reviews.

That having been said, the new PDABuzz site really looks like it's going to be total press-release city. Kind of reminds me of when WIRED was bought by the Conde' Nast publishing group - They read like 'forbes for geeks' instead of some combination of Extropy and a print version of Slashdot.

I wouldn't say it stinks, but I would agree that is disappointing. Just a few things: Frequently says "off route" then goes back on route, even when traveling on a straight and level road. Ribbon maps have no information except at beginning and end; yesterday it said there were no resturants within 20 miles of a point where there were several right next to the off ramp... so what's the point of chosing ribbon maps over barbell maps? Keeps telling you to go back to the start point when you turn it back on in the middle of a trip, and takes several minutes to figure out that you are already enroute. The highways and GPS trace appear as the same color. There is no map rotation, so you have to be driving and watch the GPS trace to find out which direction you are going. You cannot reverse directions, instead you must create two sets of directions; one there and one for the trip back. There is no VFS support of any kind.

Worst problem for me is the fact that you need a desktop or laptop with a live internet connection to get directions to the house next door. But guess what? I did that, and it told me to drive the opposite direction and go all the way around the block! Mapopolis, with no desktop, laptop, or internet connection, found it just fine using only the Palm app.

Not only are they serial, they are using it at 4,800 bps! Oh well, guess the actual data stream is not that much.

I have heard about lock problems on units with the internal antennas from other sources as well. The MS GPS looks like it should work fairly well, but actual testing will tell. I was shocked when I purchased the Magellan GPS for the m series, as the antenna head was twice as tall as in the original prototype photos, but I certainly can't complain about the locks. I double checked it tonight, thinking it was locking onto 5 or 6 satellites, but it suprised me when it locked on 8. It kept 6 locked when I moved to to the floor of the van I was driving. The software has a neat feature that I just discovered tonight. You can "mark" locations and it will save the data (including elevation). Would have saved me a lot of time confirming our business locations!

I've sold my N770C last week and am looking forward to buying the T665C.

//killah_fury

Oh, and I hate the smell of roses... so I won't be doing what you suggest moron.

oh gawd, now i have sunk to the same level.