WM6 Drives Me Crazy at Times

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I've had my Treo 750 a while now. I was excited about having WM6.

 

Unfortunately, it's driving me MAD.

 

There are no categories for anything - notes, etc.

 

It doesn't scroll properly using the 5-way navigator. It scrolls down a page + a line, making me miss a line.

 

Popups steal focus like a child wanting attention. For example, every time I send a text, my current credit balance pops up. Okay, fine, my old Treo did this and I didn't mind it. But my old Treo could make it vanish using a hard-key. I have to actually touch the screen - and not just that, I have to get the stylus out because the buttons so tiny.

 

Another thing that annoys me is when the phone is locked, or has the password screen up, I can't see the Today screen. So I rely on the icons on top to tell me whether I have new email/messages etc. However, if I've read a message earlier by manually entering the Text Messaging interface, the icon remains. I have to click the icon to make it vanish.

 

I have my phone locked (since members of my family are adamant that they must go through my phone when I'm sleeping, for some crazy reason) and sometimes, when the phone feels like it, the hardkeys will enter the numbers, others, I've got to use the touchscreen.

 

Its slow to respond. I find myself hammering the red phone to clear everything from the screen and exit to the today screen, and I end up turning the phone function off.

 

It's really annoying. Whoever said Apple have everything nailed on the UI front was EXACTLY right. It's so fustrating. For example, this morning I was trying to add a number to my phone in an area with no reception. It took me 3 attempts since the phone kept exiting to another screen asking me whether I wanted to connect to T Mobile or Orange, neither of which I can connect to since I'm with O2 - and the best bit, I had to restart every time because it didn't even have the courtesy to store the values I'd entered.

 

:@:@:@:@:@:@

 

WM7 better be good - or I'm back to Palm OS.

 

edit: added more

 

 

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