Comments on: Top 10 Palm Usability Flaws

By: Jonathan Quirk

Jonathan Quirk — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:10:25 +0000

Failure to sense the need for capitals when entering addresses eg: enter 31 Acacia Avenue and you need to make the caps shift stroke twice.

By: Cloudless

Cloudless — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:24:16 +0000

The built-in application launcher’s “SD card” category is quite stupid too. Why can’t the user assign programs to other categories?

By: Ben Combee

Ben Combee — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:35:42 +0000

#3: Limit on memo size

With recent palmOne devices, maximum memo size was increased from 4K to 32K.

#7: Error log dismissed automatically

This is actually a feature — if you’re doing a network HotSync to a remote PC, if the error log wasn’t automatically dismissed, the PC wouldn’t be able to handle more HotSyncs. This works a lot better with HotSync Manager 6 — the logs are now HTML files that you can bring up at any time.