Well, with the 7135 upon us, I thought I would add some detail to the things that have made my experience with the smartphone successful. Since the 7135 supports MP3's, and this is by far one of the first things most all of you will want to use, here are some FAQ's and tips to reduce your guesswork. <ul><li>To utilize the MP3 functionality of the 7135, you will need an SD or MMC card in the handset. </li>
<li>The 7135 comes with a "MP3 Desktop" application that allows you to view the MP3's on the card, as well as add and remove more. </li>
<li>The MP3's are transferred raw and unmodified. </li>
<li>It is not necessary to use the MP3 Desktop to place MP3's on the MMC/SD card. You can use a SD/MMC card reader/writer to do this, provided you know what directory structure to follow (yes, Palm devices with SD/MMC card slots support VFS, or Virtual File System). The appropriate directory is /Audio/. One thing to keep in mind if this is how you choose to manage your MP3's on the cards, delete the playlist.pdb files after you have changed the MP3's in that directory. Failure to do this, will cause the MP3 player to assume (based on the existing Playlist.pdb) that nothing has changed. The absence of the playlist.pdb file forces a scan of the directory for MP3's (and their ID3 tags) to build a new playlist. The MP3 desktop does this for you. </li>
<li>The 7135 has difficulties with very dynamic audio playback encoded at >128kbps. Since too much bit rate can be a problem in some cases (many of my MP3's are 160, 192, 320kbps), you will need to convert them to a 128 or lower bit rate. To do this, You can download a converter from
here. Some are free, some are free to try. I use Easy CD-DA Extractor since it not only rips CD audio (CDA/WAV) from CD's into MP3's (at any bit rate I want), it also converts audio files to other formats, and can take a >128kbps MP3 and reduce it to a different bit rate of your choosing. You may have to test one or two of them to find one that fits your budget, your needs, and your functionality. </li>
<li>The lower you convert your MP3 bit rates to, the smaller the file. As a rule of thumb (and basis for your rough estimates), 1MB=1 Minute @ 128kbps. With that, you can assume that a 4 minute song is 4MB's @ 128kbps, a 4 minute song @ 64kbps is 2MB's. Yes, if you can sacrifice a little sound quality, you can gain room. </li>
<li>Since the 7135 cradle is capable of serial and USB, you have flexability in your connection. However, serial is considerably slower than the USB connection. I found it to take 3-4 times as long using serial. Using USB, expect a minute a megabyte. A USB MMC/SD reader/writer is much faster. </li></ul>
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