Monday, October 28, 2002

I was all ready to get a Hiptop this week. Now Sprint has flat-rate wireless data and its price is down to $249 from $500, only $50 more than the Hiptop (essentially a wash given the activation fee), the Treo 300 is rather enticing: it will mean one fewer device I will have to carry around with me. I realize data integration on the Treo will be worse, but if it'll do always-on AIM or email messaging, I will be happy. Here's a comparison of the two devices (keep in mind I've used the Hiptop but not the Treo at this point). If any of you folks have used both, please let me know if there's anything important I've missed. Feature Treo 300 T-Mobile Sidekick Coverage OK poor Price/month $30/$40 $40 Daytime minutes 300 200 Night minutes unlimited n/a Weekend minutes unlimited 1000 Additional minutes 40¢ 35¢ Data unlimited unlimited Phone cost $250 $200 Activation $35 $35 Sync support Yes No Camera No Yes Palm OS compatible Yes No 3:31:29 PM | reply [] Progress exam over. Did well on genetics, ran out of time on histology (but the latter was only 10% of my grade, luckily). I spent the vast majority of my non-studying time over the weekend working on Pester. Lots of new features are coming in 1.1, and most are already implemented. The only major new features still remaining in my plan are repeating alarms and better notification of expired alarms, but there are a lot of bugs still remaining to fix. I may put off repeating alarms until 1.2, depending on my bug fix rate. 10:13:54 AM | reply []