I think I just messed my self. If there is any possible truth to this I may be in love again. I refuse to give up my 7135 because I can find anything out there I like anywhere near as much. Open to suggestions
I'm in the same boat--I just bought a bunch of spare 7135s for parts to keep me going until I find something I like...
I have not been back to the store to ask the same guy for an update, but I'll go soon. According to this phonearena article, only brick smartphones are coming out from verizon...
I was told the same by a Kyocera rep, as I directly asked her if there would be another Palm smartphone like the 7135? She said, "Kyocera is working on a new Palm model, similar to the 7135 - keep checking the Kyocera website."
She didn't provide a projected date when I asked her. I didn't want to post this in the past, as I didn't want to start new rumors unless I'd actually see other posters bring up the subject. BTW, I was told this back in March '07.
Last edited by Ocean Jedi : 08-23-2007 at 11:44 PM.
Reason: just to add a comment
I was told the same by a Kyocera rep, as I directly asked her if there would be another Palm smartphone like the 7135? She said, "Kyocera is working on a new Palm model, similar to the 7135 - keep checking the Kyocera website."
She didn't provide a projected date when I asked her. I didn't want to post this in the past, as I didn't want to start new rumors unless I'd actually see other posters bring up the subject. BTW, I was told this back in March '07.
COOL--that's one confirmation--
maybe we should MOD ALERT and put this on the Main Page in case former 7135ers have also found info and posted in other forums
"Kyocera is working on a new Palm model, similar to the 7135 - keep checking the Kyocera website."
Again, it's just what I was told by the Kyocera rep. Confirmation for me is when I actually see the successor to the 7135; and my fingers are crossed. Yet, I can't help to get excited, even if it is mere speculation at this time.
Last edited by Ocean Jedi : 08-24-2007 at 04:05 PM.
maybe we should MOD ALERT and put this on the main page in case former 7135ers have also found info and posted in other forums
Adam,
Your MOD ALERT suggestion sounds great - hope it can be done. I'm also curious how many other 7135ers out there have heard whispering about a successor to the 7135??
Last edited by Ocean Jedi : 08-24-2007 at 05:34 PM.
I've been wondering for a while if it would be possible to come up with an upgrade kit for the 7135 that would give it some wi-fi capabilities, push to talk (which is in the specs & manual for the 6035 but was never implemented). Some of the techies out there have got to figure out a way to hack / upgrade this phone. The are still so many of them out there that I'm sure they would get a lucrative eBay business out of it AND it might get KYO off their asses and get a decent successor out there. I've had to go to a Motorola i930 and I can't stand the friggin thing. My wife misses being able to use my old KYO 6035 (another phone that would probably find a new life with a good hack / upgrade kit).
As suggested above, I went to Kyocera's 3 international websites and checked out their new products pages. Nothing new on the English speaking country pages, some interesting things on the Chinese pages, but the Japanese site has several cool phones.
Now mind you, I don't read Japanese, so I may have missed something, but I looked through what seemed to be the catalog apparently including some new phones released yesterday, and here's some of what I found in the flip phone section (KYOto CERAmics Company, is a Japanese company, of course).
W51K Receives broadcast TV, screen can be twisted to front making a hand-held viewer.
W43K Designed for music
W41K Camera phone w/autofocus, music, remote control (on headphones) w/mic and woofer, very cool subsurface graphics.
W44K Autofocus camera phone
W42K FM tuner, 3D surround sound
A5521K Aimed at student demographic, FM, IM w/smileys
A5526K Cool, professional flip phone which comes in "decent silver" I guess that's better than "acceptable gray".
Unfortuntely, while some have microSD slots, USB interfaces and connections to the Japanese version of iTunes, none of these seem to be running Palm or to be smartphones. The slogans "Smart by design" and "New Value Frontier" are bandied about, but nothing that looks like our smartphone.
Any news on this? 'm losing patience with Palm, and I've been very patient! I've had a Pilot 500, Pilot Pro, Palm III, Palm Vx, Clie 665c (why did Sony drop this line? - they were years ahead of Palm!), and for the last few years, a Kyocera 7135. The 7135 still works great. It can do email, show pictures, act as a pretty good mp3 player, has voice-dial, and... a mute/vibrate switch! However, as you all know, it's kind-of slow, and can't run any OS5 apps, which is almost all cool stuff.
I've been watching every Treo, but didn't think any of them were as good as the 7135. I really want a clam-shell phone, but none of the "smart" phones seem to have this form-factor anymore. I know the 755 is supposed to be on Verizon soon, but it's going to be expensive, and probably require an expensive data plan, which I don't need. I'd rather have WiFi, which Palm doesn't seem to know exists.
I thought of jumping to WM6, but then I tried a couple at the Verizon store. Way too cumbersome for quick, on the go, use.
In the last couple of days, I've started looking into Blackberrys. The 8830 does Verizon/CDMA plus GSM/Simcard, has a nice screen, multi-media apps, etc. Not as many programs as the Palm, but they have Spider Solitaire, which is my main app :^) No touch-screen, but the trackball worked pretty well. I think the new Curve even has a 3.5mm, normal headphone jack!
And, unlike Palm, the Windows desktop isn't a garbage program that hasn't had any real upgrade for almost ten years!
Any comment? Other people switching or thinking of switching?
Verizon (well, really it was Assurion) made the switch for me. When my 7135 died the only insurance replacement was an Audiovox 6700 (it runs WM 5 but has an active community improving it); I have been very sad ever since. Not that it is a bad machine, mind you, it just doesn't work for me.
I plan to ditch this phone at the first opportunity. Problem is, I don't see any reasonable alternatives out there. (The Pantech 820 actually looks better than the others... I would prefer Palm-based, but the Pantech is a clamshell and that means a lot to me. I almost got it the other day, but the Verizon guy, trying to upsell me into a more expensive phone, talked me out of it.)
Blackberry 8830 looks nice, but no wifi. Funny, if I had gone straight from the 7135 to the 8830 I think I would have been reasonably happy; I didn't have wifi then, I would not have missed it. But the 6700 has wifi and now I see what I have been missing! I may very well go back and get the Blackberry.
But there is another feature set I have been begging from Palm... multiple categories and more than 16 of them. I've had the 6700 for a few excruciating months now and last week realized I am using 22 categories and several contacts are listed under multiple categories. This will make it VERY difficult to go back to Palm, even if they come out with a phone worth owning
Treo 755 is probably an excellent phone, and I am still planning to get it when Verizon releases it [will almost certainly get it if it available sans camera], but I am not looking forward to losing this contact functionality.
I almost never use the Palm desktop. I've mainly used Lotus Organizer (does anyone remember that one? LOL ) and it sync'd seamlessly with the 7135. Of course, now I am using a Frankenstein-esque combination of Outlook, Groupwise, Google Calendar, and several 3rd party syncing softwares but that is a whole other subject!
Kyocera had the best phone. It is sad they could not turn such a functional winner into a financial winner for them.
An updated replacement for the 7135 running the Palm OS would be nice. However, it needs to be both CDMA and GSM (like the Blackberry 8830). I have a GSM phone that I take to Europe with me, but it would be great to have a 7135-type phone that works on both systems.
More News--Kyocera may buy Sanyo
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