Palm Tx Migration Options? Pre, Ipod, Win-mobile, Blackberry?
I AM happy with my phone, so is there another Phone OR PDA-type device, you have found as a good replacement for Palm TX?
I just got an iPhone recently, and I would like to transfer my contacts from my previous phone to my iPhone. However, there is...
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I migrated from a Palm TX to a Blackberry Curve 8330 about 9 months ago and I’m happy as a clam. I don’t recall all the details but I think this is what I did.
First of all, I didn’t use the Palm Desktop Manager, I used a third-party organizer called Agendus. I think I exported all my data from Agendus and then imported them into Outlook. I suspect that Palm Desktop Manager should be able to export the data in a neutral format.
I actually wasn’t a big fan of the TX — my previous Palm was the Tungsten C. I really missed the keyboard so the transition to Blackberry Curve was an easy decision for me. Blackberry does a really good delivering emails to the handset and its organizer is better than the one that came with the Palm (that’s why I used Agendus on the Palm). My only negative surprise with the blackberry is that it takes much longer to sync than the Palm. I don’t know if this is an issue with Blackberry or Windows but I used to be able to sync my Palm in about 1 minute whereas sync’ing the blackberry takes about 3-5 minutes on my 1 year old PC.
When I first switched, I wasn’t sure if the Blackberry OS is as stable as Palm OS. I am very happy with the OS and the device has been very reliable. I think I only did a hard reset once in the last 9 months.
I have a Pre. Long time Palm OS user/abuser. Migration went smooth. Palm has a nice download app that runs on your PC.
I don’t like the other formats out there (I work IT for the gov and work with these a lot… take that as you will). Blackberry seems the worst to me. ALWAYS a sync problem with it in our environment (AT&T and Verizon).
1) Change your hotsync to sync with Outlook, and all you data will go there.
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) Yes (even secure remote wipe option if you use in an Exchange environment)
5) Not for Pre, haven’t seen it for the others except for the remote Exchange option. They all have this, but you have to have the Exchange server setup.
6) Covered mostly above. My biggest issue is not being able to use my original applications for my Palm without paying $30 for the Palm OS emulator called “Classic”. I got over it though because I already spent too much and found most of the stuff for free anyway.
Bonus question: Yeah, they pretty much all do what the TX did. Just in different ways.