An unplanned purchase, interest in Palm fueled by thinning patience toward Windows Mobile 5 made it happen. Already loving it. This is the only smartphone that responds to key presses as if it’s a feature phone. Even though I’ve been a long time Palm user, it took me a round trip of using Symbian & Windows Mobile phones to realize how important this was. Even though I had a smartphone all this while, I end up using only its phone features because of it’s terrible speed and horrendous user interface of Windows Mobile. I find Symbian’s UI and speed very much more tolerable. Even WiFi ended up being unused because, well, of a lot of reason. Terrible screen resolution, the browsers suck (again, talking about WM here, S60 devices have lovely browsers), and well, it’s slow (I’m sounding like a broken record here). You guys might think I’m nitpicking here, but trust me, when you need to look at screen redraws for a few second every time you use your phone, it’s a big issue.

I will miss my 6965, at least a while because of its GPS. Garmin Que + a GPS receiver has simply changed how I navigate and I don’t think I’ll go GPS-less every again. Now hunting for GPS solutions for the Centro or an external GPS device.