At this point I am still awaiting the arrival of the Nokia E90 Communicator device from WomWorld since FedEx has called to inform me of some shipping difficulties. There is a discrepancy due to an absence of the FCC documents which are needed by FedEx for continued shipment to my home, but I am sure it will all be worked out in time.
I am not exactly in much of a rush to receive it anyway, but I know that I am expecting a lot of great feelings to come back as I unbox such an anticipated review unit. As much as I try to think that this would be my last hurrah with the E90, I really don't know that for certain and wouldn't want to jump to any conclusions. The Communicator has and always will be the epitome of mobile convergence between the home and office in one solid model, and aside from the N97 I haven't seen one thing with the potential to take its place.
Being with this Treo 750 has not been a detriment to my health even though it has challenging at certain times. The other night I had taken a 6GB microSD card and paired it with a miniSD card adapter to insert into the Treo for formatting. Once the Treo acknowledged the card there was a prompt asking if I wanted to format the card and make it readable. I of course selected the "Yes" command and allowed the handset to do what it had to do. Assuming that I was in the clear to add about 4GB of music onto the card, I used a card reader and connected it to my laptop. Dragging and dropping numerous files from various artists took a little while and then I inserted the card back in the Treo slot. To my surprise the formatting prompt appeared onscreen and I definitely chose "No" since I had already done this previously. Being somewhat sure that all was going well, I opened the Windows Media Player application and activated the "Update Library" command. This was going to take a while since over 4GB of music had to be scanned and sorted into the WMP archives, so I started to place my Treo on the coffee table for the duration. Again, I was caught off guard to see that the scanning had been completed within one minute and I knew something was not right! I rushed over to the Settings menu via frantic taps on the touchscreen with the stylus...and that haunting Treo snickering could be heard again as I panicked. My hope for a solution was dashed when I accessed the Memory window and did not see that the SD card had been acknowledged. I thought all would be well if I just popped the card out of the slot and then inserted it back in again. The usual single beep emanated from the back speaker as the card proceeded to slide out of its slot, and a double beep when it was clicked back in place. The prompt for storage card formatting appeared again and I selected no. I go to the Memory window only to find the same thing, "No card insterted". WHAT?! At this point I am shocked, but not really shocked being that this is a Windows Mobile device. Nonetheless, I am not enthused about encountering this situation so late at night. By this time the memory of my Nokia E71 began to populate the space of my own awareness, and it was at this instance I realized I was being dealt a bad deck of cards...SIGH. After about 10 minutes of repeatedly taking out the card and sliding it back in and refusing the formatting prompts, I agreed to format the card again. Maybe this could be my saving grace for the night and I could finally go to bed after loading music again via the card reader. Something worse happened when I inserted the card reader to my laptop. An error message with a STOP sign symbol appeared onscreen stating that the installed memory could not be read!!! After minutes of ejecting the card reader and plugging it back into the USB repeatedly, the STOP sign wouldn't go away!!! Had I done permanent damage to my 6GB microSD card? Should I try another card and see what happens?
All I knew was that nearly an hour had passed in the midst of my madness, and I simply gave up and waved the white flag. This experienced smartphone user had gotten his tail handed to him by a measly, refurbished Treo device and he was LIVID! After coming to terms with the defeat, I thought it best to not do anything extra with this older model and just use it for the basics. This was indeed a hard choice to make since I am so accustomed to advanced functionality, but maybe it's time for me to rough it a little bit.
As much as I would love to take that extra money from savings and buy myself another E71, something inside of me wants to hold out. Even though this Treo 750 may as well be the RAZR of my smartphone functionality, it is managing just fine in regards to SMS, email and voice calls. At the end of the day that is all a smartphone user really needs, but I honestly am finding it hard to be so understanding and accepting of this situation. Maybe it's tough love and this Treo 750 is letting me know that life doesn't always bow to my wishes. Hmmmm. I guess that's food for thought.
TRENT
Sent from my Treo 750
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