{"id":1213,"date":"2006-11-30T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/30\/new-toy-palm-treo-680\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T11:43:00","slug":"new-toy-palm-treo-680","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/30\/new-toy-palm-treo-680\/","title":{"rendered":"New toy! Palm Treo 680"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I picked up from the Post Office delivery centre my new smartphone, the just released <a href=\"http:\/\/euro.palm.com\/uk\/en\/products\/treo680\/index.html\">Palm Treo 680<\/a>. (Which meant that I had to get up at 6:25am! Blurgh.)<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts so far:<\/p>\n<p>Good bits relative to the Treo 600..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice screen.<\/li>\n<li>Lighter and nicer looking<\/li>\n<li>Faster<\/li>\n<li>Mocha telnet works.<\/li>\n<li>The e-mail client does IMAP properly, just downloading headers and then the message body on demand.<\/li>\n<li>All the cards (SIMM &#038; SD) are enclosed.<\/li>\n<li>Non-volative RAM so that data&#8217;s not lost when the battery runs down.<\/li>\n<li>The keyboard is far better and easier to read.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not locked to a telco and you can upload and download MIDI files and MAP3 as ringtones via USB without paying the phone company a penny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bad bits..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The battery&#8217;s smaller and hence shorter life (slightly)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve found a bug which can stop the whole device from functioning.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no reset button, you have to remove the battery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the bug, it looks like while the phone is hibernating the battery and signal level sub-systems are still sending screen refresh requests to the display sub-system. When you unlock it and wake the device up the UI spends a while updating and refreshing the display and it unresponsive to the touch screen or the buttons. It&#8217;s locked up a couple of times during this refresh deluge.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is definitely an improvement and only days after release so bugs aren&#8217;t a surprise really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I picked up from the Post Office delivery centre my new smartphone, the just released Palm Treo 680. (Which meant that I had to get up at 6:25am! Blurgh.) My thoughts so far: Good bits relative to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/30\/new-toy-palm-treo-680\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}