Palm Treo 700w, What Could be Fixed or Improved
Issues with the phone:
1. The backlight doesn’t shut off when Windows Media is playing music.
2. There’s no way to undo changes before they get synced back to the Exchange server. It would be nice if there was a quick way to say: I want to review each sync action the next time you sync.
3. Using voice recognition is obscure. The best documentation I’ve found is the voice response help messages.
4. Loading web pages can hang the system and make music playing stop and skip. The browser doesn’t know its own limits.
5. Haven’t found a way of telling Windows Media to always put files in a storage card folder.
6. Synchronizing music and pictures seems to be lacking enough control to cover compression format, source location and destination location. I’ve tried both Windows Media 10 and MusicMatch 10. Resorted to manually dragging stuff over via the file system.
7. Clicking battery icon doesn’t bring up power screen.
8. Clicking time in title bar doesn’t bring up clock/alarm screen. It brings up date and next appointment and a small battery icon.
9. When entering text on keypad, auto-completion suggestion appear but I haven’t found a quick way to accept a suggestion without shifting my hands up to click on the touch screen, which takes at least as long as it would to complete the word on the keypad.
10. The documentation does a bad job of identifying the option key early in the orientation process.
11. Makes funny noise when placing a call.
12. Battery runs down very quickly sometimes. Keeping an eye on what’s running when the phone is “idle” and on the ActiveSync scheduling frequency.
13. Audio doesn’t switch reliably to a BlueTooth HS850 or H700 headset when the headset is turned on during a call.
14. The function of the lower button on the left side is un-clear. It can be assigned a number of pre-defined functions but seems poorly integrated.
15. There’s no easy way to make a voice recording of more than a few minutes. A note can include an audio recording, but only of short duration.
16. It takes a really long time for the camera application to become active and for a new picture to be saved so that another picture can be taken. This is most likely a hard limitation of the speed of data compression and storage.
17. The mute switch lacks any positive sensory feedback to let you know which state your in. Hard to operate in a dark environment.
18. There’s no “select all” in the e-mail message editor. Replying to an e-mail includes the original message with no easy way to delete or avoid it. Shift-clicking and shift-scrolling don’t extend the current selection.
19. ActiveSync. Lot’s of issues on the user forums. Caused me to hard reset twice. Gets wedged with no indication what the problem is and no way to recover.
20. There’s no voice record button.
21. There’s no way to voice dial a number from a headset.