MakaPalm » Palm Treo http://www.makapalm.com Notes from a Filipino Palm user Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:39:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wireless syncing http://www.makapalm.com/wireless-syncing/ http://www.makapalm.com/wireless-syncing/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:14:45 +0000 Ederic http://mypalm.ederic.org/?p=5 While writing this post, I’m doing my first wireless sync ever.

All the Palm devices I used before had no Bluetooth connectivity, and I also didn’t have an IR adapter, so cable hotsync was the only way for me then.

When I got my Treo, I wanted to try syncing thru Bluetooth. I was planning to do it as soon as I got my Bluetooth dongle working on my PC. However, upon reading the instructions on Mapalad.org on how to share my PC’s Internet connection with my Treo the other night, I got so excited and temporarily forgot about wireless syncing.

Around an hour ago, I finally made the Bluetooth work on my PC, and I immediately followed the instructions for Internet sharing. However, I could not initiate a connection. While tweaking the Bluetooth setup, I saw the Hotsync setup, tried it, and got it to work.

Wireless syncing seemed slower–with close to a thousand AvantGo pages that had to be transferred to my Treo–but I like it better than doing it using the cable.

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(Photo courtesy of my friend Bing)

Here’s a photo of my newly acquired Palm Treo 650. I got this secondhand unit for only P9,500 last July 21 in one of the stalls in Greenhills.

For those who are not familiar with Palm products, the Palm Treo 650 is a cellphone, personal digital assistant, portable MP3 and video player, digital camera, ebook reader and “game and watch” in one.

You could also use it to write and edit documents, send and receive email, and browse the Web. It has a full QWERTY keyboard (parang sa computer), speakerphone, infrared and bluetooth (but no WIFI).

Here are more information that could probably convince you to swap your cellphone that keeps on freezing (Ano ba yan, nag-hang na naman?) with a Palm Treo:

Since I always write timelines at work, here’s my Treo’s (thanks to Twitter):

July 21, 2007 – Went to Greenhills with Mhay and her parents. We were looking for a laptop for Mhay and a second-hand Treo 680 for myself, but I went home with a Treo 650.

July 21, 2007 – Attended a children’s birthday party. Took photos with my Treo 650. A friend saw my new phone and immediately liked it.

July 22, 2007 – Went to work with my Treo. The said friend decided he’d buy his own Treo the next weekend.

July 24, 2007 – Set up my Gmail account on VersaMail — Treo’s email client. I started downloading GMail messages thru my Treo even if I’m in front of my Internet-connected office PC.

July 27, 2007 – Got the Treo stereo headset I bought on eBay; it’s just the regular headset that looks like those used with portable music players. I still have to save for a bluetooth headset.

Preached about the features of Treo to a college batchmate through Twitter: “[M]as ok tong treo kasi may organizer at e-book reader, may phone at music/video player pa. all-in-one gadget. :) ”

July 27, 2007 – Two of my friends went to Greenhills to swap a Nokia phone for a Treo. Unfortunately, they didn’t get a good deal.

August 02, 2007 – Updated its firmware to 1.20 — a very risky thing to do since I was not really sure which updater would work for my unit. I decided to try it, anyway — and thank God, I did it right. It also saved a lot of space on my Treo.

August 4, 2007 – Went to Araneta to buy CDs for the Palm Desktop (with PhotoSync) CD image (ISO file) that I downloaded. Later that day, I successfully installed — after several failed attempts — the software. After that, My PC could also sync my photos, too.

August 6, 2007 – Installed a demo version of Causerie-3.2.5, a chat client for Palm with Jabber (for Google Talk), Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AIM and ICQ.

August 7, 2007 – . A friend told me she will buy a Treo 680 this December.

Succeeding updates to this time line will be posted as new blog entry. Of course, you will know if later this year, I will be able to get my own Palm Foleo — a Linux-powered mobile companion to Treo — which already has a number of third party applications even before it is released in the market.

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