G900 gets "sleep of death" patch from Toshiba
By Sean Cooper 
posted Jul 22nd 2007 4:58PM
posted Jul 22nd 2007 4:58PM
Unhappy G900 users will be enthused to hear Toshiba has their back and has patched the early G900 issue. As we reported a week ago, the handset wasn't waking once put in standby -- which is a huge pain, resetting a handset a dozen times a day is no fun. Sorted with a simple patch issued yesterday, users simply have to hit the Toshiba support site, download the fix, and after patching can really start putting this thing through it paces. Keep in mind, if you hard reset your device in the coming weeks and months, you will need to reapply to keep your drowsy G900 from flaking out again.[Thanks, Paul]
So what do you expect from a cellphone that only sells for $700. I notice there aren't any criticisms here. If this sort of problem happened with an iPhone there'd be 100 nasty comments and the damning of Apple. Just a little strange.
To be fair, there are probably several hundred thousand more iPhones sold than G900's...so the number of affected people/units is far less.
HTC/WM devices can have this same problem, but it usually doesn't happen very often.
Windows Mobile is just a lousy operating system for mobile phones. I have been suffering it for a couple of years, two or three hard resets a day for power users continue to be common, as well as performance slowdowns over the time.
The "sleep of death" issue is VERY common also to other manufacturers. Several (high persentage!) Qtek/HTC devices in my company running WM5 are showing the same problem. Too bad that WM6 still hasn't sorted this out.
We resolved to drop WM devices all together. Switching from WM to Symbian/Nokia was like switching from Windows to OSX - suddenly everything works as advertised and it does so very elegantly! Nokia's Internet access autoconfiguration feature is just amazing. Slide in the SIM of any operator and the GPRS/UMTS access points are just there - NOTHING to configure. Same for Wifi. Many WM users who are no power-users, just gave up.
I still haven't had an iPhone in my hand, but currently the range of available Symbian devices, not only from Nokia, is so broad that the iPhone still looks like a very well marketed niche product for people who want fun, but don't require advanced business features. For sure I am not going to trade in my new Nokia E90 with its just perfect qwerty keyboard for any WM or iPhone device.