I just upgraded from my Cingular 8125 to the AT&T Tilt. The Tilt is a neat looking phone.
As you may know, I was very attached to my 8125. I learned pretty much everything there is to know about the “vanilla” 8125. In particular, I use Tasks like nobody’s business.
The Tilt runs Windows Mobile 6. WM6 apparently has a bug where its “Active Tasks” filter shows tasks with a start date in the future. That is, it shows you stuff you’re not supposed to start until 6 months from now as “active.” This is frustrating, as I have tasks going well into 2009 that I don’t want to see.
My other issue with the Tilt is it no longer has a voice recorder button. Instead, it has a “PTT” (Push To Talk) button. This button lets you pay AT&T money (it’s their walkie talkie system). I cannot override what this button does. I no longer have a one-button solution for voice recordings.
Those two very frustrating issues aside, the Tilt is much faster than the 8125, has an awesome 3 megapixel camera, has lights to show when you’re hitting the shift or function keys, and has some neat new programs on it. It’s frustrating because you can just tell that marketers got ahold of it and added their junk, but outside of that, the task thing, and the voice recorder thing I’m pretty happy with it.
Update: This AT&T forum explains how to make the PTT button map to the voice recorder:
(I’m recording this here because I know I’m going to need to do this every time I hard reset the phone.)
Also, “Pocket Informant” looks to use Windows tasks as its basis, but it doesn’t have the active tasks future date limitation. So it would still work with ActiveSync but it would show my tasks the way I like!
