Grossly underpowered in a bloated world
I have a T-Mobile Dash. It's a tad on the slow side. I've worked with other PPC/WinCE/WinMob devices at work...they're slow too. The kicker to me is that when I migrated to my Dash from my Tungsten C, it drove me nuts how slow the contacts application was. I had about 4k contacts in my address book. On my TC, I could access ANY of them in less than 2 seconds. On my Dash, it took 20 seconds just to OPEN the address book app.
Lame.
The acceptable work around is that you can just start typing names on the homescreen and it will start looking up pretty quickly. Not as fast as my TC, but still workable. Now that I think about it, my 66Mhz Palm Vx was faster than that. The Vx couldn't do a fraction of the multimedia/phone functions, but for the functions that it did support...it was faster.
What drives me nuts is how often I have to reset my WinMo device. Several times a day mainly because of how the OS mismanages memory/memory leaks.
Is this underpowered? Absolutely. Especially since it seems that the WinMo OS has so much overhead.
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