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Post 15 made on Friday December 29, 2000 at 01:14
AdamT
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I'm probably about to buy a Pronto after using Omniremote on my PalmIII for about a year. I had to buy the IR transmitter because my older Palm didn't have one. The biggest problem is that the transmitter is just too weak--even though they say it's stronger than the native PalmV and Handspring units.

The next problem is that the software isn't nearly as flexible as the Pronto software. I'm not talking about the lack of fancy window dressing (which is cool, BTW), but rather about the inability to download IR codes (so no discreet codes if your remote doesn't have them) and the inability to program a button to both send an IR signal and jump to a new screen. The latter is a big pain. For instance, I have a button set up to turn on my system configured to play DirecTV. But then I have to push another button to go to the screen with the DSS buttons. Sounds minor but it isn't in practice.

If not for the weak IR I might live with the other problems, but it just isn't up there with the Pronto.


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