Why the heck didn't they put an ambient light sensor into this unit??????

It's maddening to open the keyboard and have the light not come on until I press a key OR it sucks to have the keyboard backlight go on in the day because it makes the letters harder to read.

I also hate having to wear sunglasses when looking at my PPC screen at night (jk). I have it set to high so I could read it in the sunlight, but at night I have to go in and change the setting everytime. I guess PhoneAlarm can take care of this via Profiles and its scheduling feature, but this should have been standard.

All my old iPaqs had this feature and I REALLY miss it.

What about you guys, what's your single biggest gripe.

-HD

The backlight on the keyboard annoys me also. You can disable it in Settings/Buttons/Backlight. Unfortunately, at night, you then have to go back & enable it.

My biggest gripe is that it didn't work with the Bluetooth in my car. That gripe trumped all others.

The keyboard backlight should come on automatically when you open it. No question.

I find the keyboard pops out in my pocket, if the light came on it would suck the battery.

Does anyone else have this problem? The keyboard also feels a little flimsy too, one side can slide up higher than the other as you open it.

They keyboard is very flismy and shoddily designed. I've never had mine open by itself, but that's a serious problem. I'd get it replaced for free if I were you.

You mean it opens up just a little bit right, or does it just fall totally open.

Mine pops just a little bit sometimes, but that wouldnt be enough to make the light come on. It takes almost 80% open to get it to switch to landscape anyway so if the keyboard light came on at the same point landscaped switched, that would be fine.

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2000Man, didn't you tell me you returned both your 6700's weeks ago?

Nope. Still have one. Trying in vain to make it even half as good as the 650. If I could get replacements for the phone app, SMS app, browser, calendar app, low volume problems and battery life problems, it'd be a lot better device.

Either way if the keyboard happens to slide out accidentally the light times out very quickly. Before I hacked it, the maximum was 10 seconds.

The extremely short battery life is a real PITA IMO....and that's why one of the first accessory i bought was the boxwave USB battery charger, that along with their remarkable ClearTouch Crystal and the Stylus OmniPen Pro

My biggest gripe is the buttons execute whenever I bump the case. It redials, hangs up, jumps or pauses songs, etc...

2000Man, here is your quote from another post on 12/14 when I asked if you owned a 6700:

I've had two.

Had means you "had" not "have". Now you say you "have" a 6700? I am a bit confused. Dictionary.com says the following about "had":

Past tense and past participle of have.

You sound like someone looking for a fight.

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No, not looking for a fight at all. I just wanted to know what he meant. How can asking for a clarification be construed as a fight?

speclcajun, I will not post on this forum at your request. Sorry to interrupt your board.

Well he already answered your question, he still has one, move along.

C'mon guys this is nuts. Let's not ruin this great place with this stuff.

Todd/Indy

What he said.... ^^^^^^^

Biggest gripe is USB hosting. Why no USB mass storage support? Why?

Sorry. I've HAD two 6700s and still HAVE the second one.

rconaway, have you tried MortSaver?