Some differences I’ve noticed in my first day of toting the MDA. I’ll update this as I get more time under my belt with it.
- With SnapperMail on the Treo, I can hit the “mail” button twice and get mail– once to turn on the device if it’s off, and once more to tell SnapperMail to pick up the mail. There’s no equivalent on the MDA.
- Speaking of mail: why, oh why, does Pocket Outlook not allow you to easily navigate from a message you’re reading to the next or previous message in the message list? This drives me crazy. It’s a simple feature that every other mobile mail client I’ve ever used has.
- It drives me crazy that most apps don’t recognize the center button in the 5-way nav pad as “OK”. This makes one-handed navigation about 100x harder than it needs to be.
- DirectPush is awesome. 5 minutes of setup and I was wirelessly getting my mail– first via 802.11g here at the house, then via GPRS at the library. I called the chiropractor, made an appointment, put it into my calendar, and was delighted to see it in Outlook when I got home.
- I created some test IMAP accounts and needed to get rid of them, then I couldn’t figure out how to delete an email account. I found the answer, but it wasn’t intuitive– guess I’d better get used to tap-holding things to see what actions are available.
- The built-in apps have some limitations, e.g. not being able to create a task from the Calendar app, that bug me after my long years with DateBk+ on the Palm.It looks like PocketInformant might be worth a try (as will FlexMail, the same company’s Pocket Outlook replacement).
- Microsoft Voice Command is super cool. I love being able to have it read me my calendar. I don’t quite have it working with my Bluetooth headset yet, though.
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