Buyer's remorse

[davidlevine]

I still heart my Treo.

But damn, the new iPhone looks cool.

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[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Funnily, this is the second time this sentiment has been expressed to me ... in the past half-hour :-)

[davidlevine]

I work in an office with a bunch of MacHeads who are constantly refreshing the latest info from Jobs's keynote...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Any word as to what the price might be?

[davidlevine]

We have a pool going on in the office right now... predictions range from $399 to "$599 with a $100 rebate"

[davidlevine]

$499 for 4GB, $599 for 8GB

[lovelyangel.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the people in my workplace who are watching the Macworld keynote moment by moment also... and I want an iPhone too!

But now I've gotta run off to a meeting. The website I'm monitoring will probably be happy I'll be taking a break from the Refresh button.

[nancymcc.livejournal.com]

Someone in my office sent me a link to a blogger posting live at the keynote. Then I go to my LJ and see comments from you and Mpls friends. This is the first time I've done this sorta "asynchronous live" thing. It's very strange.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

According to the Time article linked via mizkit, they will be selling the phones through Cingular, which is my current company.

I'll see. It may be worth saddling myself with a contract again to get the phone.

[b00jum.livejournal.com]

Erg. I just switched from Cingular to Verizon and picked up a Treo 700p.

I'm now wondering whether a 750 on Cingular might be a better choice as it would be much easier to switch to the iPhone later. I have 15 days from Saturday to make up my mind.

Times a ticking!

One thing I'm finding bizzare is that according to what I've read, all new cell phones (and this should include all Treos) are required to have GPS. If so, why didn't they enable them within the unit?

[davidlevine]

I also *just* switched from Cingular to Verizon and picked up a Treo 700p.

My 15 days ended on January 4. I have a two-year contract, and a serious aversion to buying a new $500 phone more often than every 5 years or so. I'm sticking with the Treo. I *am* happy with it, but I definitely have a serious case of "ooh, teh shiny" envy at the moment.

GPS is enabled on the Treo 700p, but I haven't found any location-aware services that can use it (with the possible exception of KMaps, which didn't intrigue me enough to justify the download).

[davidlevine]

The first time I had that experience was when I watched a solar eclipse "live" over the web in 1994 or so. Things have changed quite a bit since then...

[b00jum.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. KMaps seems to require a java environment and the support at palm

http://www.palm.com/us/support/jvm/

Does not show the 700* line. 8(

What makes you say that GPS is enabled on the 700p??

[davidlevine]

The JVM available from IBM does work on the 700p. It's required for the GMail app, which I have downloaded and it works (with a few minor cosmetic issues). Instructions are here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=52864&topic=10070

Mind you, I prefer the GMail web interface to the GMail app, largely because the GMail app is a Java app and isn't nearly as well integrated with the platform as the Google Maps app (which is a true Palm app).

I know that the GPS is enabled because there's an option under Phone Preferences to share location information with 911 or with anyone ("off" is not an option). The status of this option is shown by the cross-in-a-circle icon at the top of the Phone page, which has little lines coming from it if it's enabled for anyone.

[b00jum.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the clues. I got the java vm and the gmail app working, but the KMap application gives me an error 8(

I was really hoping to test out location services. My hope is that someone will eventually make a gps application for the treo that uses the built in gps rather than forcing you to buy an external unit.