Raphael... My brother from another mother... I feel your pain. (mostly in my wallett
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It started with the basic palm and then into many a pocket PC... then came the first Treo 600. LOVED it... however, unlocked and buggy as all hell... got it from a place in downtown Chicago..
www.welectronics.com unfortunately for me they are within a half hour drive.
After that...
The first HP phone edition... Dirt slow and bugs.
Treo 650 ... Cingular version... too many software issues and re-boots.
i-mate Jam..... This was the best, worked great, good battery, good speed, great size... but of course there was always better...
i-mate PDA2k Loved the keyboard... size sucked compared to the Jam, but I thought I could live with it.... couldnt
Alos tried the E-Ten M500, but the signal strenght also killed me. and missed the keyboard.
Then hit the K-Jam.. learned alot about this baby on XDA-developers and your blog. Loved it, but then started to feel the speed chokehold... Pain, slowwwwwwwiiiiiinnnngggggggdddddooooowwwwnnnn...
So... E-Ten M600. I thought this was it... Very fast. bad battery, Very fast... ok reception (better than the 500) did i mention it seemed fast.... Although the lack of the soft buttons i was used to was worse than i thought it would be. I could make it without the keyboard, but those soft menu buttons really come in handy.
So... back to the store and a Qtek 9100 (wizard again) ahh.. a little like being back home,, and the most recent ROM upgrades 2.17 i think... actually made it feel quicker... but.... when I picked up the 9100 I made the mistake of looking over the slender younger sister.... the JAMin...
And now The Jamin... Speed is good, Batterlife is solid... Ahhh no keyboard, but the soft menu buttons. The black is sexy and it just feels right.
I too have toyed with the idea of the 700 Treo, but I am not ready for the plunge into Verizon shackles... hopefully there will be one for the rest of us soon to play with.
Oh... and like yourself... since the PDA2k, only about 8 months has passed...
All I can say is thank goodness for ebay.. (check for that qteck 9100 out there right now.
LOVE IT