[plug] Time to replace palm m130?

[Brad Campbell]

Chris Caston wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:50, Brad Campbell wrote:
>> W.Kenworthy wrote:
>>> cut&pasted Quote: "We understand from your email that the ‘P’ key on the
>>> Treo 650 keyboard is stuck. We have not encountered any known issues
>>> regarding the Treo 650 keyboard.
>>>         
>>>          
>>>         
>>>         With regards to the problem, a stuck button or any button
>>>         problem is considered an out of warranty case; therefore, there
>>>         will be charges to process the unit for servicing."
>>>
>>> Its ~6 months old, with the problem starting at the ~3 month mark.
>>> Despite Palm's denial, google says otherwise about keyboard issues!
>>> Palm has a bit of reputation for doing this that I thought was just
>>> individual sour grapes - but personnel experience is tending to support
>>> the fact that this is an intentional practice (the denial that is)
>>>
>> The local dealer here just swaps the device straight out..
>> They are exchanging 30-50 Treo 600 and 25 Treo 650 per WEEK!
>> I was going to buy a 650 till I found out how bad Palm hardware actually is.
> 
> 
> 
> I would have to disagree with you. The m130 has never missed a beat and
> is very solid and I have probably dropped it about 50 times since I
> bought it over 2 years and its only now just broken. I still think it
> can be repaired and will try to do so later. Then I will either keep it
> as a spare or give it to another tech who currently has no PDA.

Ah yes, but is it a phone?
Note we were talking about *treo*. Telephones melded with PDA, not just the straight PDA.
For that my iPAQ's running Familiar and Opie do the job nicely, as did my original Palm Pilot Pro 
prior to that.

It's only a matter of time until they shoehorn Familiar into the iPAQ 6xxx series, and then it's 
telephonic world domination time!

Brad
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