After using the A11 for the last 6 days, I've found this unit to be quite nice all in all. I believe the major difference between this and other SP out there is the flip out KB, I need to preface that I am NOT very fond of thumb-boards, and I have almost never used the one on my Treo 600 except when I cannot recall the Grafitti stroke - why? because the keys are just too close together, and the last thumb-board I was comfortable in using was off the HP 200LX, so it's been a long time.
The A11 is quite stable, but I also tend to be pro-active when it comes to running tasks. Besides the somewhat minor but annoying issue with the charging circuit I mentioned elsewhere, I have yet to get the Voq personal mail to work under IMAP, I suspect it has to do with the lack of port assignment, not entirely a problem since there's always the not-so-efficient built-in INBOX.
One other bug I have come across is that sometimes when an incoming call is announced, the phone would ring once, display the caller ID, then switch to the Missed Call notification, then it would continue to ring as though there's yet another incoming call. While this is happening on the A11, the originating handset would not indicate there's a problem as it continues to ring. This is a potential problem because the call may be routed to voice mail at some point.
Other than that, I also wished SW designed the LED differently - right now it can display solid green (full charge, well actually it's not necessarily fully charge, just that the circuit stops charging), solid red (charging), and blinking green (when the phone is on the cell netwrok, this is displayed when the A11 goes into screen-saver mode).
So what about using it for message notification? As far as accessing the external card, I find it a bit slow for a device with the current processor, may be the data path is not optimized? I don;t have another MS SP to compare to so this is purely subjective. May be I'll swap out the standard SanDisk 512M SD and use my new 1G KingMax to see if there's any improvement.
As one other member had indicated, the phone feels "plasticky", but it is solid, and we really do need a fix for the power button while the unit is in locked mode, I ended up turning off the unit unknowingly while it's in a horizontal belt case, and I also kept pressing the action button (joy stick) very frequently and bringing up x-Bar2 since the joystick is not flush.
|