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September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
No one knows what the Google phone is like yet.
The iPhone is a cute toy, just games and music and great web browser. No serious business tools at all and Apple stops all apps that are better than theirs, what a joke.
Palm is info in and out quick. Palm WM is the best WM phones hands down.
You seem to be clueless, do you need someone to make other decisions for you too.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Internet "check"
Video and Vid streaming "check"
Office document editor "check"
VOIP capability "check"
EVDO 3g "check"
Tether to laptop "check"
GPS compatible (BT) "check"
Music "check"
Games "check"
Able to VNC "check"
Network with servers "check"
Dates and appointments"check"
3rd party compatible "check"
Dmitry Hackable "check"
I mean, what else could you do you want on a phone?
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I’m clearly aware that the iPhone doesn’t have any real software yet and also that it is tightly controlled. I’m also clearly aware of how much I still like the Palm OS, since I’m still using it. As far as the Google OS goes, it appears to me to have the chance to be much more open, have much more opportunity for data input, has just about everything built in (GPS, position sensing, and who knows what else, in addition to being apprently clean and fast even on old hardware) and thus should be very, very open to being usable, with the right programs and extensions, as a decent business device. Google, after all, is much more about building open platforms–certainly more open than anything by Apple or Sony, who are always ripe for the picking on said basis (I guess that should be past tense in the latter case…).
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I stumbled across the Android buzz late, looking for some PalmOS buzz to give me hope for a new phone (I’d been holding out, holding onto my lifedrive, but my phone is dying and I have to look at a smartphone for funcitonality in the world, and my lifedrive’s wifi access ..it’s too unreliable and I LOVED that terrible machine, still do, but …now it’s basically a game machine…that ain’t right).
I am excited about what Android has to offer and I’m willing to give it a go.I’m ready to step forward and Palm’s not ready with something I want. So…
I still love Palm, was looking at the Centro but the screen is just too small for me and its not on my network and I won’t be switching (I just got the kiddies phones on T-mo; the whole family is there), so…I’m gonna give this a shot and see how it goes.
But I would love nothing more than for Palm to step out with something that totally blew up my skirt. C’mon Palm…show me somethin’!
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Tired of reading all the posts about how POS is old and done for. It still does everything for me better and faster than all I have tried. No one has caught up to Palm for simple and fast.
Most of the complaints, like no WiFi for their smartphone was not their doing, it was the carriers demands.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
As for the rest of this discussion, competition always makes things better for us
Googles new OS is adoptable to any handset maker, so hopefully we will start to see some standardization here. I feel sorry for mobile software developers that have to create 2000 versions of their apps for 2000 different handset platforms!
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I LOVE Palm, but it’s an issue.
As far as blame, my understanding is that there’s a fundamental issue with why PalmOS can’t support both WiFi and Phone at the same time (single threaded OS maybe? I forget). But I’ve always suspected that carriers don’t want phones to have WiFi, cause that would prevent you from paying $$$ to surf on cellular signals.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm