1src Forums - AvantGo and Avantage

01-20-2003, 07:18 PM	#1
mdharris Just another Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 178	AvantGo and Avantage Anyone using Advantage to run AvantGo from the card? Does it work and is it worth it? __________________ mdharris NX70V "Does Not Play Well With Others" "Hackers Have Kernel Knowledge"

01-20-2003, 10:27 PM	#2
williepalm Platinum Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Century Boulevard Posts: 674	Yes it works quite well. ITs worth it if you REALLY dont have enough RAM and you depend on Avantgo on news everyday.

01-21-2003, 01:45 AM	#3
rei Guest Posts: n/a	don't bother, plucker is infinitely better, and free, and works off the memstick. or isilo. and hires.

01-21-2003, 01:50 AM	#4
williepalm Platinum Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Century Boulevard Posts: 674	Ya, dont bother about plucker as Avantgo is one of the best offline service for news.

01-21-2003, 01:54 AM	#5
Specific Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 32	Used avantgo for about 2 weeks before I found isilo. Far superior imo.

01-21-2003, 07:31 AM	#6
n2ifp Retired Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Manchester, NJ Posts: 12,444	Hand Story beats them all, IMHO __________________ Cheers! Larry Winward T\|T3 + SE T610 + SE HBH-65 = BT Heaven!

01-21-2003, 07:46 AM	#7
williepalm Platinum Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Century Boulevard Posts: 674	That's right. Avantgo is that good.

01-21-2003, 08:12 AM	#8
turcic.com Da Mobile Dude Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 115	It is just so obvious that iSilo is the best <grin>

01-21-2003, 08:20 AM	#9
mdharris Just another Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 178	Sorry to all but I was not impressed with iSilo and AvantGo may have its issues right now it still does its job and provides me the news with no effort involved. I decided to not use avantage and just use AvantGo w/MS support. __________________ mdharris NX70V "Does Not Play Well With Others" "Hackers Have Kernel Knowledge"

01-21-2003, 08:25 AM	#10
williepalm Platinum Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Century Boulevard Posts: 674	Couldnt agree with you more. Isilo is the best, after Avantgo.

01-21-2003, 09:12 AM	#11
sUnShInE Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Washington, DeeCee Posts: 109	I dumped Avantgo once I got a MS and opened myself up to the world beyond 2megs of news and info everyday. I'm liberated! __________________ "We've got hundreds of sites to exploit, looking for the chemical and biological weapons that we know Saddam Hussein had prior to our entrance into Iraq." -- George W. Bush; Santa Clara, CA, May 2, 2003 kAlLiPuGos. for best results: apply, blot, reapply \|\|Modern-type mod at MobileRead. We will make your Clie happy today! :) \|\| (No, that's not me in the pic Gary)

01-21-2003, 01:05 PM

#12

gvtexas

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Quote:

Originally posted by n2ifp
Hand Story beats them all, IMHO

Hear, hear! I just got HandStory after having AvantGo for a few years, and working with iSilo for the past six months. Got tired of AvantGo's ads and crippled sites, and while iSilo worked very well, it was too much to maintain. And HandStory works beautifully reading the clips off the stick.

While you can't do much about non-PDA formatted sites with HandStory (you can if you learn their scripting language), works *very* well with any PDA/mobile formatted site.

Gary

01-21-2003, 02:34 PM	#13
timewaster77 Master Procrastinator Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 137	I love Avantgo. Talking about the 2MB limit, I haven't even filled it up. I simply don't need to read more than 2MB of stories and articles each day.

01-21-2003, 03:12 PM	#14
Flash-57 Off we go! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Boulder, CO USA Posts: 557	I just installed Avantage on a trial basis. Now, I haven't synched anything yet, but I get the impression that Avantage really doesn't save me any room. To read AvantGo pages, it looks like it copies all the files from my memory stick into RAM. And, it looks like, it doesn't "clean up" after itself. In other words, when I read a web page, the copied files stay in RAM until I physically move them again to the memory stick. And, I suspect, that when I synch, the AvantGo files will be in RAM, not the memory stick and I have to physically move them again. It looks like the only thing that Avantage buys me is a quick way to free up 1 Meg of very temporary space in RAM if I suddenly need it for some reason. I'm ready to jettison AvantGo completely if I knew how to synch my customized Yahoo! PDA page with iSiloX. __________________ -- Flash!

01-21-2003, 04:15 PM	#15
tanker_bob Master of Reality Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N. Virginia, USA Posts: 2,152	I pitched Avantgo for HandStory last week and haven't looked back. HandStory can load the news (and images/docs/ebooks) directly to the card with no user intervention. Just update, Hotsync, and read. It also integrates directly into Windows and Internet Explorer for easy conversion of content. iSilo looks slightly better and produces smaller files, but only loads its data to RAM and then you have to move it to the card yourself. For ease of use and consistent results, I recommend checking out HandStory Suite. I wrote a review of it on PDA Avenue. __________________ Regards, Tanker Bob Tanker Bob's PDA Page Reviewer at MobileTechReview