Just to set your mind at ease on how I intend to merge the forums, here is a mapping of what I'm thinking. I'm also planning on pulling out a set of forums for new users to the site, and people who don't have a pdaPhone yet. If you have any ideas, or don't like this... let's here your thoughts.
Device forums...
On PPH, within the Palm pdaPhones section, I will split the Kyocera Based - 7135 / 6035 forum into Kyocera 6035 and Kyocera 7135 - two separate forums. Into these will be merged the 7135 Discussion and 6035 Discussion forums from SPS.
FAQ forums...
The content for the FAQ pages at PPH is inside the Device FAQ Content category. Initially, I will move the 6035 FAQ and 7135 FAQ forums into that category, then thread by thread they will be edited into the FAQ format and enabled to show on the FAQ pages.
File Downloads...
I will initially move the 6035 Files and 7135 Files forums into the Downloads category. PPH user Shackrat is building a new download engine that will be ready very soon, then we will load all the downloads into that. So this will be even better than the forum based download here today. It will fully integrated into the vBulletin capability.
For the Off Topic category here, the following will be merged as follows...
SPS Site News / Ideas with PPH Site Request and Problems... possibly renamed
SPS General Discussion with PPH Off Topic ... may also need to split some of this out into the other forums since some of it is device specific at PPH, but not at SPS. The idea is to get things where they belong, but the Off Topic threads at SPS are way busier than PPH, so you guys will set the pace.
SPS Classifieds with PPH Garage Sale ... this is a place where more is definitely better, and both are pretty active.
SPS Palm OS Discussion is going to move over into the Palm based pdaphone category as is... we don't have that now. It will inspire my adding a similar category in the other devices.
SPS News with PPH General News... then we'll split out the threads that are related to other devices into their respective categories... a lot will go into Palm based pdaPhone News.
SPS Polls with PPH Polls
This is my inititial thought on the merger, and I think you'll see that the flavor of many of the forums will be nearly the same, only with more folks joining in.