Rumor: T615C in Best Buy's System

OK, your post has convinced us to announce our new model, the m615 which will be available for preorder starting January 29 for delivery on or after the end of Q1 2002.

The specs of the m615 will be exactly like the T615C except it will have one other feature that we can't specify at this time. However, we CAN say that it is the other thing that you really want on your PDA.

Palm, Inc.

Thank you Palm for that wonderful announcement.

I can't wait to pre-order with you again, so I can see all of the retail stores getting delivery before I do.

My credit card is out with eager anticipation.

Yes, this should be the color version of the T415

I've seen the Japanese version, and it's not quite so stunningly skinny and small as the B&W version. Still quite skinny and small, but not stunningly so.

Someone on the Writing on Your Palm maillist has reported that on his Japanese T600C, Thin Font Fix -- neither the Japanese nor English versions -- will *not* run. I hope Hacker Dude-san will correct this.

The MP3 player attachment is available for the T415. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work on the T615. It retails for about $130, comes with headphones and the remote. The device connects to the bottom of the handheld.

> The T615 CAN play MP3s

By your logic, almost all Palm OS handhelds can play MP3s, as there is an audio add-on available for most of them, from the Visor to the m100. Let's not confuse people and make them think that their T615C will play MP3s right out of the box, which it won't. A $130 adapter is required.

Though you do have a point, perhaps my comment was a bit too flat. Let's say, the T615C has no "built-in" MP3 playback abilities.

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Oops, it's the T615C that I'll trade my N760 for. If there's interest, I'll post my e-mail address (etc.). I live in Massachusetts, USA.

T715C coming in February. Waiting only for the Motorola Dragonball 66MZ. Hope it has 320 by 400 with 80 pixels set aside for soft grafitti, or in my dreams soft FITALY.
I also see a larger battery, dual MS slots (one half, one full), and a microphone. MP3 Atrac built in. $500 or maybe far less. 16 meg or MUCH MORE?

Well with the same program, (i personally didn't perform one myself, but another guy) with an n700c, with normal test, and frontlight on minimum, got 13 hours 18 minutes.

So, maybe with full power test and frontlight at maximum, you can deduct maybe 2 hours... so probably around 11 hours.

Is Battery Benchmark 2 available for download? If so, where? I tried a few general searches and could not find it. Battery Log induces a delay every 60 seconds, which is not a problem unless you are gaming or watching video.

Thanks!

Yup. I just did. Last week the same thing happend to me with my m505. I was very surprised. Never happend before. So I did a pin rest and that did nothing. Disabled all hacks and pin rest; nothing. So then I did a warm reset. Same thing. Then I hit reset once, and stupidly hit reset about 3 seconds after that, sending it into a rest loop, which then of course required a hard reset. So, although my dumb Palm had been nuked, the power resumed it's normal power consumption not falling 1% every second like before.

Make sure you have BackUp Buddy installed or something.

I though mine was just a fluke thing, but who knows. I've never seen anything on it before.

But, good luck. Back everything up.

Just scanning the posts, waiting to hear when and where the first T615C's hit the shelves so I can go see about upgrading!

I tried the warm, soft, hard, cradle, resets - all to no avail. THANKS ANYWAY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Scott,

I disagree; the M505 had the best, most usable buttons of any Palm Device I've owned...I've owned a Palm IIIc, a Visor Prism, ab N760, and an M505.

The problems with the Visor was the cheap ass construction...the silver paint from the buttons kept rubbing off onto my fingers and the plastic case was a bit wobbly.

I don't think anyone in their right mind would pay $400 for a game boy. I had trouble convincing my wife that I needed to pay that much for a PDA. BUT having a PDA that does a few good games is better than hauling around two devices. Sneaking a couple rounds of LodeRunner during a drawn-out meeting is less noticible than whipping out a game boy in front of everyone. Plus, you can't really do relational database management on a game boy without cartridge swapping! :)

Seriously, out of all the palms I've used (IIIe, IIIxe, Visor Deluxe, Vx, IIIc, M105, M500, M505), I like the solidness and response of the M5xx buttons best so far. Have not tried games on the Prism, so I can't tell if the controls are the same as the Deluxe. I liked games on the screen of the IIIc (similar to the Prism), but the "carbon contact in a rubber boot" type of button was nothing like having a real brass and steel switch. I also like how you can rock your left thumb across the two left buttons, and rock your right thumb between the up and down buttons.

In this position, you can still press the memo or to-do buttons with the lower part of the thumb, but it's difficult, especially with games that really cry out for a direction pad like Defender (which I STILL don't have the hang of yet...)

Speaking of direction pads, I do feel sorry for those who bought some models of PPC devices with the really sweet control pads... only to find out that they could not press more than one button at a time. This was fixed in the newest models, but imagine shelling out all that money and finding out you can't move and fire at the same time!

There! I have to say it again to read this fine sites name. PALMinfocenter. This is not some wussy WinCe in pain site. This is Palm, it is different from the rest like the rest are from Palm. Palm is simple, life does not need to be complicated by adding Windows in your hand. Windows the best at home or work, but not in your hand! Bill Gates gets enough money as it is! Don't make me go after you WinCe advocates again!