Repair of my HTC Advantage Part 2

Here's an update on the continuing saga of my broken HTC Advantage. The post, Repair of my HTC Advantage Part 1, laid out the situation. This post is just a snapshot of what's happening. The UPS tracking system tells me that the box containing the broken Advantage has gone from Florida to Memphis, TN. The box should arrive in Houston on Friday. Who knows, I just may be using the machine sometime next week.

It's refreshing to go back to the Treo 650 even though it doesn't have the large, glorious screen the HTC offers. That, by the way, is one of the reasons the Treo 650 is a much smaller device.

Even though the Treo only has a Intel PXA270 312 MHz processor, it is much more responsive than the HTC Advantage. The Advantage, by the way, has a much more powerful Intel® PXA270 624 MHz processor combined with an ATi™ Graphic Chip W2284.

Why is the machine with the significantly faster processor slower in handling everyday tasks? I'd have to attribute the poky feeling of the HTC Advantage to its operating system - Windows Mobile 6. PalmOS is trying to be a good smartphone environment rather than trying to be everything to everybody everywhere always.

Callers tell me that my conversations come through much more clearly now than when I was speaking to them using the HTC Advantage as well. They haven't commented on whether what I'm saying is more intelligent because I'm using the Treo. I suspect that they're is no difference in that factor.

I do miss the rudimentary voice response capabilities of the Advantage when placing calls to business contacts. The Treo doesn't offer anything of that nature out of the box. Since I intend to go back to the Advantage once it's back from the shop, I'm not going to purchase voice response software for the 650 to bring it up to the same level as the Advantage.

Oh, one more thing. I've been able to get the Treo to easily synchronize with Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1. The Advantage would only synchronize with Windows. I was never able to get it to chat amicably with either the Mac or the Linux system. I had to send things up to Gmail and Google Calendar and then download them on the Mac and Linux-based systems. I'll post again when the situation changes.