02 February, 2009

Palm - I hate you

I began writing this on my Treo, but it became too difficult after the second reboot.

Dear Palm,

I tried to send this directly to your company, but I couldn't find
your contact info while using blazer, so I'll just leave this here.

Fuck you Palm.

That's pretty harsh, but I want you to know that I mean it. I own a
treo 700p and I have to say it is the worst 'phone' I have ever had
the displeasure to own, use, carry, or otherwise be close to. Now I
hear you're releasing the pre, but for Sprint only. that just makes me
hate you more. Prior to using this 'phone' (I use the term very
loosely) I refused to use any phone with a windows os. Being a *nix
guy, I assumed that palm os would run circles around any win based
phone. I was gravely mistaken.

The browser 'blazer' is the most sorry excuse for a browser ever. Ever.
It crashed the whole phone while surfing your site. Read that again.
Yes, my treo rebooted while surfing palm.com. Oh, and that's after
your site told m there were multiple browser-related errors. I can't
use opera mini bec--



I had to switch to my laptop because it's impossible to write an email on my Treo 700p. Anyway... Opera Mini, which works well on just about all mobile devices, crashes almost instantly on the 700p. I don't know why I'm pidgeonholed into using blazer, but seriously, who at Palm was like "Wow, this is an awesome mobile browser. We should totally force this upon our customers." Whoever made that decision does not use blazer. And what the hell is up with the lag times?? It takes at least 10 seconds to CLOSE THE BROWSER?!?!?!?!?! WHAT THE FUCK!!!

This is a total rant post, which I try to avoid, but seriously, fuck you palm. You have totally ruined my outlook on mobile technology. At this point, I would rather own a Windows-based phone than anything developed, even 3rd party developed, by palm. Never again. NEVER again. To anyone who reads this, I implore you, I beg you, DO NOT, ever, EVER, EVER buy/use palm devices (especially do not buy). You no longer can compete in the smart phone market (more like inept phone market, but I don't think that your marketing guys brought that one up). I hope the Pre saves you, and maybe that will show that Palm has evolved past the same shit over and over and over again, but I doubt anyone will switch to Sprint for the Pre (good fucking decision there guys, hope you made enough bank for that bad decision).

I'm pissed, I don't care, I'm getting a new phone. I hate you palm. That is all.

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