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From: Doug Hoffman on 31 Jan 2008 14:46 Adam Helberg wrote: > I think Palm placed all it's bets on the Treo from Handspring, > and the trouble is now > everybody is making smart phones and Palm cannot compete. Can't compete? Where is the evidence for that statement? Jan 2008 Consumers Reports rated the 755p 2nd only to the iPhone. Not too shabby. A close 2nd btw. > -- Regards, Doug -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: David Tiktin on 31 Jan 2008 20:00 On 30 Jan 2008, "Adam Helberg" <sendspamhere(a)yahee.com> wrote: > "David Tiktin" <dtiktin(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message > news:Xns9A3594D1C834Cdtiktinnospambogusco(a)216.196.97.136... >> On 29 Jan 2008, Herbert Kanner <kanner(a)deadspam.com> wrote: >> >>> So, it's good bye Palm and you good folks. I decided to go over >>> to the dark side, and bought a HP IPAQ Pocket PC. The best think >>> is that the most obnoxious feature of Windows are not present on >>> the mobile version. >> >> It's a pity. If the TX did everything it's supposed to, it would >> be one awesome PDA! But it only does about a third of it! After >> more than 2 years, I've given up expecting that Palm will fix the >> many, many bugs. >> >> Dave > > I think Palm placed all it's bets on the Treo from Handspring, and > the trouble is now everybody is making smart phones and Palm > cannot compete. For whatever reason, they certainly seem to have abandoned the TX. Unfortunately for me, I don't want a smart phone, I want a PDA ;-( Dave -- D.a.v.i.d T.i.k.t.i.n t.i.k.t.i.n [at] a.d.v.a.n.c.e.d.r.e.l.a.y [dot] c.o.m
From: DevilsPGD on 31 Jan 2008 20:07 In message <kanner-AB3BB8.18271629012008(a)nnrp-virt.nntp.sonic.net> Herbert Kanner <kanner(a)deadspam.com> wrote: >I see the death of Palm in the not too distant future. Here is what >happened to me after using Palms for about fifteen years. I've only been a user since the late 90s, and I too have just recently throw in the towel. I've posted part of the rant here, and summed up nearly everything on my blog... http://www.thedave.ca/wordpress/index.php/2008/01/20/how-palm-has-lost-another-loyal-customer/ I'd be happy to discuss any points here though, the goal isn't to steal traffic from usenet, just laziness :) >So, it's good bye Palm and you good folks. I decided to go over to the >dark side, and bought a HP IPAQ Pocket PC. The best think is that the >most obnoxious feature of Windows are not present on the mobile version. I went with an HTC 8925 (aka Kaiser, aka TyTN II, aka AT&T Tilt) myself, and despite being annoyed by a number of things which are still unresolved as of my last Windows Mobile experience (2002 era), I'm not finding the process to be as painful as I'd expected.
From: Sylvain Bouju on 1 Feb 2008 03:37 DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam(a)crazyhat.net> wrote: > I went with an HTC 8925 (aka Kaiser, aka TyTN II, aka AT&T Tilt) myself, > and despite being annoyed by a number of things which are still > unresolved as of my last Windows Mobile experience (2002 era), I'm not > finding the process to be as painful as I'd expected. Any good/bad experience of the StyleTap Palm Emulator in this environment? -- Sylvain Bouju looking hard upon the HTC Touch Cruise... --
From: Daniel James on 1 Feb 2008 06:44
In article news:<kanner-AB3BB8.18271629012008(a)nnrp-virt.nntp.sonic.net>, Herbert Kanner wrote: > I see the death of Palm in the not too distant future. People have been saying that for ages ... but Palm always seem to pull a rabbit -- albeit only a stuffed toy rabbit -- out of the hat just in time to keep their fluffy noses above the ordure. The problem is that the buying public doesn't buy the best tool for the job; it buys the newest, the flashiest, the most expensive, or the tool it wrongly perceives to be the best without doing any actual research. As P.T.Barnum is famously said to have quipped: "Nobody ever went broke by overestimating the intelligence of the American public" (or any other public, for that matter). Palm seem to have given up. They now produce Windows Mobile devices and seem to have little enthusiasm for the OS and software that gave them a market edge. The Treo 750 costs /more/ than the Treo 680, but sells more. How stupid is that? Never mind the fact that Palm devices sync better with desktop Windows than Windows Mobile devices do -- the buying public 'knows' that can't be true because Windows is Windows, right? <sigh> Anyone who makes a better device than a Windows device is doomed to failure, because the buying masses *will* drag us all down to their own level, in time. But, look on the bright side: Today, at least, we can still go out and buy a new Palm device if we want or need one. It won't be as well made as the Palm devices we bought a few years ago, but it will be cheaper, and it will be more usable than similarly-spec'd WM devices.. The Nokia N180 "internet tablet" is quite interesting ... cheaper than many PDAs I've bought and smaller than some; runs linux; can emulate a Palm; good battery life, too, by all accounts (if you don't use it all up playing video). Worth a look. Cheers, Daniel. |