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Originally posted by marcelol
As I current own at least three PALM units, just finished a review of the Treo 600 for Mobileburn.com ( I hope it's not bad karma to mention that here )
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No, it's not bad karma... but feel free to publish your reviews here as well. Send me a PM if you are interested.
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There are just a few things that I don't like in my PPC Phone Edition....lack of SDIO ( and Bluetooth ), and battery life. Frankly 640x480 resolutions in the palm of my hand make me think I'm going to require glasses earlier in life than I would normally, because of all the squinting ( my primary beef with the 3650 is because of just that..the small screen form factor ).
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The point of this is comparing the Palm and Pocket PC platforms, not a particular device. There are Pocket PC Phones that have SDIO now, and soon Bluetooth (which none of the current Palm phones have either). Pocket PC is 320x240, not 640x480. I haven't found that I squint any more or less between the two, as the print is similar in size. If anything, the larger glass gives you the option to blow things up more. I haven't found a significant difference in battery consumption between the Pocket PC Phone and the Treo 600. The Treo probably has the edge, but both get me through a day with steady use.
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The issue with the Palm not being "multi-tasking" is a bunch of hoo-ey. Multitasking is possible under Palm 5, but coupled with the fact that most programmers aren't taking advantage of it, and you get the misconception that it's not possible. SO, I can't really blame everyone for not knowing that.
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It is true that Palm OS 5 has multitasking APIs in it that would allow a programmer to do some multitasking. That is NOT what I'm talking about when I say it doesn't do multitasking. I'm talking about running multiple programs at the same time without concern. I regularly want to do this, and have grown accustomed to doing it on the Pocket PC Phone Edition that you mentioned. As an example, I used the device in my car and ran Mapopolis w/GPS to do active navigation, played MP3 music in the background, received calls, used the PIM functions if needed to look up something, and also occaisionally checked email and web pages... all without anything stopping, and yes... all in 32MB of RAM. You can NOT due this on any Palm OS 5 device, nor even come close. The closest you can come is to start an MP3 and then start up Mapopolis at the same time. The music will keep playing and you can get your navigation to occur. That's great until something else happens... then the house of cards crumbles. Let's say you want to change the song you are listening to, or you want to receive a call. As soon as you do one of those, Mapopolis is stopped. To restart it, you have to start up the program again, load the maps, start the GPS, pick your destination, generate a route, and then you are back to where you started. Anytime you do anything, you have to go back through that. Most of the apps are less painful to swap between, but there are problems. With Pocket PC, I can have a web page loading... actually loading, while I jump to Mapopolis to do something, and when I return to the browser the page will be done. This is what I'm talking about... on a disconnected PDA it's not a big deal... on a pdaPhone it is very valuable to be able to do.
This is not "hoo-ey", this is real world needs that can't be met.
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I LOVE my PPC Phone, but frankly, it's a tank( Not that MS Smartphone is a real winner either.... ). Still it's the phone I use the most at the moment. We'll see what happens when Samsung introduces it's I700 ( Palm 5 phone ) with a higher resolution screen, to see how things met out. I have yet to spend a serious amount of time with an XDA-II, but it looks promising. If only it didn't cost and arm and part of leg, to buy.
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The Samsung i700 has been out for a while and is Pocket PC based. Are you referring to the new GSM/GPRS SGH-i500?
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The next 12 months in the Connected Handhelds arena is going to be VERY interesting.
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On this we can agree!
