I cant say I'll be camping out to get either. Both seem cool in their own ways but I don't think any of them is going to steal my heart.
I don't like that the Snap doesn't have a touchscreen. I know its almost like the blackberries which also don't have touchscreens. But at $149 this thing should have one. Cus if I could pay $50 more and get a Treo Pro and get a touchscreen I would just do that. Yet alone how a month or two back you could get the 800w on sprint for $99 after rebate...Snap isn't such a steal.
The Exclaim seems interesting because I had a Rant for a little while and one of the two things that killed me with it was the low res screen. The Exclaim fixes that, so using Opera Mini on it wont be so bad. The other thing that drove me nuts with the Rant was the rubbery skinned yet hollow keyboard buttons. You could feel the skin on the buttons were over a firm plastic post. Which meant that if there is a plastic post you're pushing long keys like the space bar don't want to push if you don't hit them over that plastic key. So I would miss the space bar all the time with my left thumb while texting. The Exclaim seems to fix that by having solid plastic buttons.
I'll look into them, who knows how well I'll like em. Right now I'm using my wifes old Centro after returning a S30 and a Rant. My wifes Pre is looking awfully tempting tho. I didn't think I would like the Pre as much as I do. After spending 30 mins playing with it yesterday it seems like a well built OS.
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I cant say I'll be camping out to get either. Both seem cool in their own ways but I don't think any of them is going to steal my heart.
I don't like that the Snap doesn't have a touchscreen. I know its almost like the blackberries which also don't have touchscreens. But at $149 this thing should have one. Cus if I could pay $50 more and get a Treo Pro and get a touchscreen I would just do that. Yet alone how a month or two back you could get the 800w on sprint for $99 after rebate...Snap isn't such a steal.
The Exclaim seems interesting because I had a Rant for a little while and one of the two things that killed me with it was the low res screen. The Exclaim fixes that, so using Opera Mini on it wont be so bad. The other thing that drove me nuts with the Rant was the rubbery skinned yet hollow keyboard buttons. You could feel the skin on the buttons were over a firm plastic post. Which meant that if there is a plastic post you're pushing long keys like the space bar don't want to push if you don't hit them over that plastic key. So I would miss the space bar all the time with my left thumb while texting. The Exclaim seems to fix that by having solid plastic buttons.
I'll look into them, who knows how well I'll like em. Right now I'm using my wifes old Centro after returning a S30 and a Rant. My wifes Pre is looking awfully tempting tho. I didn't think I would like the Pre as much as I do. After spending 30 mins playing with it yesterday it seems like a well built OS.
FYI, Radio Shack has the Treo 800W for $29.99 in store on an upgrade if you can find it in stock.