My new Pocket PC sucks as a PDA - help

[Fuelrod]

I've been a Palm user for some time so I may be bias, but so far my new Toshiba Pocket PC is really disappointing. I got a Pocket PC because I wanted to run all the cool programs that are available for it (i.e. divx movies, NES emulation, Quake, etc) but I did not realize would have to give up the PDA side of thing. It seems to me file management in Pocket PC is awful. Notes you create are all dumped into "My documents" with no real way to sort them or even see the whole title. If I try to make sub-folders to sort them myself after they go two deep I can no longer see the files to open. With Palms OS you don't even mess with files and each application just seems to know what files belongs to it. Is there a fix for this with Pocket PC or should I just go back to using a Palm and forget about running Pocket PC Quake? In the end the PDA apps are more important than the entertainment apps are.

 

[Ionizer86]

Which Toshiba do you have?

I recommend getting a 3rd party explorer such as the free Citadel Development CEExplorer. It shoudl make file management much better, though the application detection of files may still be an issue with some apps (cough pocket streets).

 

[Fuelrod]

I bought the Toshiba 355 with Pocket PC 2003. I'll look into the Citadel software but does it effect the applications or is it strictly file management. For example when I open Notes to look at a file I can barely read the title because of the stupid timestamp and file size. Who cares about this; when I'm using notes I just want to see the Title. Then over time your notes will built up with no real way of sorting them. If you use subfolders to sort them out, after one directory level the Note application does not even display further subfolders. Very frustrating.

 

[codehack2]

Originally posted by: Fuelrod
I've been a Palm user for some time so I may be bias, but so far my new Toshiba Pocket PC is really disappointing. I got a Pocket PC because I wanted to run all the cool programs that are available for it (i.e. divx movies, NES emulation, Quake, etc) but I did not realize would have to give up the PDA side of thing. It seems to me file management in Pocket PC is awful. Notes you create are all dumped into "My documents" with no real way to sort them or even see the whole title. If I try to make sub-folders to sort them myself after they go two deep I can no longer see the files to open. With Palms OS you don't even mess with files and each application just seems to know what files belongs to it. Is there a fix for this with Pocket PC or should I just go back to using a Palm and forget about running Pocket PC Quake? In the end the PDA apps are more important than the entertainment apps are.

Exactly why I went back to palm after 2 ppc's. I'm loving this Tungsten C... and I acutally use the thing to be more productive.

CH2

 

[wjsulliv]

I've had a variety:
Palm III, V, m100, m130, Tungston
Windows CE, PPC 2002 and Phone Edition

When considering the learning curve for most windows users, the PPC is the best of the offerings. It doesn't help that palm has compatibility issues between OS 4 and OS 5. But on the flip size Palm has a lot of free ware and is fairly easy to develop for.


I found that for an outlook user PPC was a better fit. Each does its own thing differently, take your time and learn the device.

 

[Ionizer86]

This explorer program is just for file management. I apologize, but the prog's name is Pocket Explorer (for Pocket PC) (CEExplorer is for Palm Size PC).

 

[vegetation]

I agree the Palm Tungsten C is a great machine. I got one myself and the xscale cpu makes it a completely different beast from all previous Palms ever, as it solves the ancient design of the older Palms which were always a major negative..