Get your Treo 680 Camera / Battery Life fix
January 24, 2007 – 5:50 am | by Azizi
One of the downsides to having a lighter, slimmer form factor with the Treo 680 is the smaller capacity battery. While the battery life was expected to be worse than the Treo 650, many new users did not expect that the Treo 680 would be unable to last a single day without a charge. It turns out that the culprit is the Treo 680 camera, which drains power from the battery even when it’s on standby mode. If you have a Treo 680, do go to Palm’s website and download the fix. Palm calls it the Treo 680 Camera Update, which is perhaps unfortunate because most people would assume that had nothing to do with battery life!
The download is 88kb, and should only be used with the Treo 680.
2 Responses to “Get your Treo 680 Camera / Battery Life fix”
By Palm-watcher on Jan 27, 2007 | Reply
We have the best products in the device sector, but in order for our company (I hold stock) to really thrive we really need to learn four primary things for this company to thrive to its full potential.
1. STOP trying to imitate the Blackberry in our designs. Did the Corvette imitate the Mustang? In the business world function is superior to design, but for the retail world you need an original marketing hook or you may as well throw in the towel. The Motorola Q is thin - that’s its marketing hook. The Blackberry Peal is small - that’s its marketing hook. The I-phone is user friendly - that’s its marketing hook…..and our marketing hook is a design that looks like the Blackberry that we couldn’t buy for the holidays……??!!! What are you thinking?!~ The only reason we didn’t come up with the original looking I-phone is that we are wearing “tech-blinders” and need to come up with something REALLY original. If we want to compete in the retail world we need to ask 20 - 25 year old art students what they think is cool and then introduce that product in September (complete with carrier) for the Christmas buying season. If you are not trying to create your own trend - get out of the retail venue.
2. What ever happened to “non-compete” documents? Verizion now has its own smartphone?! This has to be the biggest conflict of interest I have ever seen. It is bad enough that we live in the shadow of the Blackberry; the same way people who make cotton swabs live in the shadow if “Q-Tip”, or the companies who make tissue live in the shadow of “Kleenex” - our own carriers are attacking us?! Sounds like a legal department issue and/or oversight.
3. Our name “PALM” has great market recognition for the “PALM PILOT”. Sad but true, most retail people think we are still in that business. Since that is the case why not re-invent our new retail hit called the “PALM PILOT” - why fight the trend? The Camero was phased out and is back just like the Challenger - why not use what little retail name recognition we have to our advantage? Why spend a fortune on new name recognition when we already have it?
4. STOP telling us about new products months in advance of having a final product to sell, a marketing strategy to fulfill them or a carrier to feature them. The public, the stock and the investor world LOVES huge – new – and exciting products that hit out of the blue (I-pod anyone?). Learn from the masters and look at Apple. If you want to see your stock go up 20 points in one day and have a free public relations/ media frenzy on your hands try having the cool new products in the malls in early September (for the Christmas buying season) and THEN make the big announcement.
Unless we are creating an artsy, sleek phone with its own marketing hook; (short, fat, thin, the new “PALM PILOT” etc..) that appeals to the younger crowd and market the living daylights out of it so it creates it own fad we are wasting our retail time. Until that day we will always live in the bleak shadow of Blackberry, and my investment in your company will always suffer. The war to fight isn‘t with RIM – its with the retail customer.
By Cell Phones Resources on Jan 28, 2007 | Reply
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