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07-19-2012, 07:46 AM

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tanker_bob

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Originally Posted by Cyker

The T-series forum is dead! (Or on some serious life support!)

Long live the T-series forum!

(Both my T-series; 625 and 665 are deeeed... buttons all buggered, can't even turn them on

)

I wonder how all the oldtimers are doing, cliepet, sharky and tanker_bob in particular! And who can forget Jeff?!

Hi Cyker!

Great to hear from you! I'm still subscribed to this thread. I'm doing great. I currently use a Motorola Atrix 4G with Android 2.3.4, which has proven to be an outstanding device. I stay flexible with operating systems and look for the best performance when devices start to go or just get long in the tooth. After Windows Mobile 6 ran its course, I jumped over to Android. I love the freedom of open source. I refuse to sell my soul to the Apple machine. Haven't done much with my website in a few years, but I still get notes from people about older devices.

Sorry to hear that your old Clies have gone to the consumer electronics graveyard. They were fun devices, and I do miss our Palm/Clie community.

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07-19-2012, 06:08 PM	#1322
Cyker Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,188	Woo! Such a fast unexpected reply! But yeah, I must admit it's probably the community of 'ClieSource' that I miss the most. We had such characters! I remember laughing at cliepet's silly photos of his Aibos, and being scared by junglemike's 'battery mod' (Which was just him taping a load of extra batteries to his Palm! ) How's the Atrix working out for you? Part of the reason I still use the TH55 is that none of the smartphones I've played with have decent data entry, and I find flicking between apps the way I do on my TH55 a lot less slick; I'm often flicking between Wordsmith, pilotdb and datebook with a fair bit of data entry on each and I found this impossibly slow and tedious on smartphones. The ones with keyboards are better for that, but it's just all the extra steps; I feel alln smartphones really could do with some Zen of Palm optimizations in their interfaces. I don't know if the situation has gotten any better recently tho'... I know the battery life is getting better but still a ways off the TH's even now on the best smartphones (At least most of them can last a day now! :P) Anyway, deffo great to hear from you and that you're doing well! Now I'm wondering who else was subscribed to this thread who'll get a ping...

07-19-2012, 07:15 PM	#1323
tanker_bob Master of Reality Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N. Virginia, USA Posts: 2,152	The Atrix works great. I use Launcher Pro for an interface, and it's very customizable. For text input I use MessagEase, the same input system from my Palm days! In fact, I use Pimlical by CESD, the developer of Datebk6 for Palm. OliveTree's BibleReader also has an Android version. It seems that some of the better Palm developers moved to Android, and that's super. Android sports a huge number of high-quality free apps. MessagEase and BibleReader represent just two. Unlike Apple with iOS, Android doesn't tie you to a black hole that sucks your money and enslaves you to the company store with DRM and proprietary interface programs. Smartphone hardware has also come a long way. The Atrix and many other Smartphones have dual-core processers that run at 1 GHz or faster. Quad-coreCPUs have started to appear. Screens, internal memory, memory cards, etc., all combine to provide a fluid experience. This is an incredible time for personal consumer electronics. The Zen of Palm held a unique and important place in personal computing history, but that time has gone. The future right now belongs to Android, and it's a very bright future indeed. But as always, YMMV. __________________ Regards, Tanker Bob Tanker Bob's PDA Page Reviewer at MobileTechReview