Chockerblockablog
Technojunk

I just replaced my aging Newton 2000 (plus dram upgrade) with a Dell Axim x50. I was finally pushed to get it because all the cool stuff I wanted to do with bluetooth doesn't work on Newton (only some of it :)

You'd think it would be all smiles around my place in playing with the new toy but there was a lot of frustration and dismay. I'll lay out my grievances here, thank you.

• The huge scrollbars and bland ui make it feel like a trip back to the days of Windows 3.11, just in miniature form.
• I struggled for quite a while trying to make a couple of bluetooth network connections and eventually discovered there are two or three places you have to set things (and you have to revisit to make sure old attempts aren't hanging around) in order to get things going smoothly. I really should elaborate but I've lost the patience.
• The experience just doesn't seem polished. To switch between applications, you are supposed to go find a little utility that stays on the top bar and lets you switch around. What a headslapper. If you need this thing, it should just be part of the experience, not behaving like an addon from some nondescript third-party developer.

Anyway, it is working well enough for network through my phone and through my laptop's bluetooth connection (another story setting the server side up in Linux and although it was probably more difficult, it was satisfying :)