mesposito2
02-24-2004, 06:26 AM
After owning almost every type of handheld computer ever made, I have to admit to being a bit baffled with the Quality of the integration between OS/hardware and software on my IPAQ 2215.
Much of my software still to this day hangs due to some kind of signalling problems when the machine powers down.
I remember reading an email from someone around here telling some user to basically "get a life" for complaining that their new Windows Mobile PDA didn't work right with their software. (Because it was new technology) Well, this is 6 months later. Does the end-user still need to "Get a life", or is it ok to expect it to work now?
I can't run a simple app like Wisbar, because every time I run it, it hangs.
I owned a 802.11 CF card for my Jornada. When I bought the IPAQ 2215 it wouldn't work. No drivers. 6 months later, still no drivers. So, I went out and bought a Linksys. The blips I read about it led me to believe that it would work. It didn't. I finally found some drivers from another company that makes the device work. What's going on here?
I emailed Laridian about Pocket Bible, and they tell me that there is nothing they can do to get their software working with Windows Mobile. It is a bug in the OS that causes the program to hang after power-downs. They tell me I should shut down the program when I'm done using it. (Interesting concept)
We wouldn't take this crap with our desktops. I don't know why we need to with our PocketPC's. Evidently this market is moving so fast that us end-users are just a bunch of gunea pigs.
I'll put up with it because I love handheld technology in general. But, I still find it baffling. Possibly, the hardware manufacturers figure that whatever we buy will be out of date in 6 months anyway, so why bother fixing anything. That's the only thing I can come up with. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense to me that a manufacturer of a common device like a CF 802.11 card would just not bother to fix their drivers, and a company like Hp would just not bother to come out with a ROM update to fix the power problems.
The IPAQ 2215 is the most beautiful handheld I've ever owned, and yet the least reliable handheld I've ever owned. Heck, the Atari Portfolio worked with less restarts. <g>
Much of my software still to this day hangs due to some kind of signalling problems when the machine powers down.
I remember reading an email from someone around here telling some user to basically "get a life" for complaining that their new Windows Mobile PDA didn't work right with their software. (Because it was new technology) Well, this is 6 months later. Does the end-user still need to "Get a life", or is it ok to expect it to work now?
I can't run a simple app like Wisbar, because every time I run it, it hangs.
I owned a 802.11 CF card for my Jornada. When I bought the IPAQ 2215 it wouldn't work. No drivers. 6 months later, still no drivers. So, I went out and bought a Linksys. The blips I read about it led me to believe that it would work. It didn't. I finally found some drivers from another company that makes the device work. What's going on here?
I emailed Laridian about Pocket Bible, and they tell me that there is nothing they can do to get their software working with Windows Mobile. It is a bug in the OS that causes the program to hang after power-downs. They tell me I should shut down the program when I'm done using it. (Interesting concept)
We wouldn't take this crap with our desktops. I don't know why we need to with our PocketPC's. Evidently this market is moving so fast that us end-users are just a bunch of gunea pigs.
I'll put up with it because I love handheld technology in general. But, I still find it baffling. Possibly, the hardware manufacturers figure that whatever we buy will be out of date in 6 months anyway, so why bother fixing anything. That's the only thing I can come up with. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense to me that a manufacturer of a common device like a CF 802.11 card would just not bother to fix their drivers, and a company like Hp would just not bother to come out with a ROM update to fix the power problems.
The IPAQ 2215 is the most beautiful handheld I've ever owned, and yet the least reliable handheld I've ever owned. Heck, the Atari Portfolio worked with less restarts. <g>