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Posted by Arno Theron on April 4, 2007, 3:53 pm
Please log in for more thread options Todd, thanks again
I fully believe and understand you...
I just have to find a good way of relaying what you just told me in a few
lines to the hundreds of users I will be rolling these devices out to across
Europe in the next few months.
Because I have two types of users they will not like this
1st type Old blackberry users
2nd Type old Nokia Users
Both will compare it to the reliable [PHONE] they had before
And the blackberry users will complain about the fact that they had
everything except the touch screen in the blackberry and that the blackberry
was reliable...
I cringe if I have to hear the word reliable in the competition product I am
rolling out, even though the Windows Mobile product has 5000 Advantages in
the background.
Arno
PS: and the battery life is appalling
> At 04 Apr 2007 10:41:07 +0100 Arno Theron wrote:
>> Todd, thanks for the reply....
>>
>> So what your saying is, i have to live with the fact that i have to
>> reset it
>> religiously every morning to basically avoid problems?
>
> No, you could do it at night before bedtime, instead! ;-)
> Seriously, perhaps I'm jaded from 7 years with Windows CE-based devices,
> but essentially, yes, the device will need a reset occasionally to clean
> things up a bit.
>
>
>> I didnt know that this is the norm?
>
>
> "The nom" is a bit strong- in my experience it stongly depends on the
> device's amount of RAM and what apps you run. The more 3rd-party stuff
> you run, the more likely you'll have "memory leaks" (RAM not returned to
> the system when the app closes, etc.
>
> I find I have to reset less often if I stick to the built-in apps on a
> device with lots of RAM. My current phone, an HTC Wizard comes with too
> little RAM (although it comes with "64MB" only 24 are availavle after a
> reset!) and I tend to use a few "problem" apps that eat system memory
> even after closing them, like QMail (an otherwise excellent program that
> I'm posting this with now) and Mapopolis, a GPS/navigation program.
>
> Obviously you could wait untilthe system slows down or acts erratically
> before rebooting it, but why miss a call because the system takes 20
> seconds to display or respond to the answer button?
>
>> Thanks again
>
> Good luck. IMHO, it's no big deal- I see it as the price to pay for
> cramming so much utility into such a small package. Sure, my Nokia
> phones didn't require daily resets, but they couldn't retrieve e-mails
> from 5 different accounts, lookup the weather, navigate a road trip and
> play the Beatles' "Revolver" all at the same time! And, frankly, my last
> non-PPC phone, a Nokia smartphone (based on the Symbian OS) would slow
> down/freeze up and require rebooting occasionally (though not nearly as
> often as my PPC phone!)- again, particularly if I "pushed it" with 3rd
> party apps.
> So, IMHO, holding down the power button for a few extra seconds, or
> sticking the stylus in a hole seems a small price to pay for a smoothly
> running device with so much utility.
>
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