Re: WM6 asks for feedback - how do you give it to them

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I have been using WM6, and at least for me, the BT stack, even if far from
perfect, is not as bad as you say.

For the history I remember, and since the old iPaqs and i-mate PDA2k with
the Widcomm stack, every new device in the market has had Bluetooth problems
in the first ROM release. After some months there was a new release which
fixed most problems, and later a third release which made it perfect. My
PDA2k at that time had Widcomm (Broadcom) stack, terrible audio, and used
20% more battery compared with Bluetooth off. In the third release audio was
perfect, and it used only 5% additional battery juice. The same happened
with K-JAM and Jasjar, which improved from AKU to AKU, not necessary because
MS improved the stack, but more because i-mate improved the integration
between the hardware and the stack.

Now, please note that I say i-mate, not HTC. Despite the fact that the
devices were HTC made, i-mate was very strong in quality assurance, and made
life very difficult for HTC. One small example: we have here in Israel now
the i-mate JAM and the HTC TyTN being sold in parallel. They are exactly the
same hardware, but we clearly see that the i-mate ROM is very superior in
quality than the HTC ROM. Additionally, there are much more broken TyTNs
than broken JASJAMs. Just QA can do the job, and HTC is not specially strong
on that. It is quite possible that at the end the BT problems you are
finding will be found to be responsibility of HTC and not of MS.

Best regards,

Helio

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Helio Diamant
MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Editor - PocketPCFreak.com



"boe" <boe_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm taking advantage of the new features of WM6 with Exchange 2007 ( ex2k7
was unpleasant to set up - seems like they did zero testing and released
it halfway through the development cycle) . I really am enjoying html
e-mail, searching the server etc, but the Bluetooh issue is so bad, I'm
considering reviving my 6700 which is running WM5 AKU3.5 which is pretty
darn close as an OS to WM6 other than the exchange features. My pocket
PC PHONE isn't that much good if the PHONE part doesn't work very well -
frankly I consider the BT on the phone as important as a dialer or any
other function of the phone.


"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
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I wonder if the iPhone <<

As bad as things such as the BT stack problem are, the pocketpc line does
a number of things much better than any other current solution, so, as a
whole, it's worth it to use what's there are come to terms with the fact
that if there is no third party solution to a need or problem, you will
have to live with it.

While the iphone looks pretty slick, some less than "front page" details,
primarily that third party apps will not be welcome on the phone, have a
lot of us waiting to see how it shakes out over the first six months or
so to see if the iphone is ultimately a tool or a fashion statement ;-)

It is my considered (but strictly personal) opinion that the ms front
office decision makers have placed large bets on the umpc eventually
driving a stake through the heart of wmobile... but it will be the wrong
heart and a large loss ...but, it might be wise to buy stock in battery
companies ;-)

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]





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