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c'mon, admit it, you are Bill Gates, right?

I would pick the pocket pc os over palm any day. And when the Microsoft Smartphones come out, i'm selling my I300. With Internet Explore and pocketpc 2002, Outlook express, windows media player, why not

Well, it was just a matter of time I guess. Now, they want this market too.

http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/phoneedition/

yannco

Here is their first phone.

http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/phones/default.asp


yannco

Here is the Pocket PC/mobile phone flavor

http://www.allnetdevices.com/wireles...pocket_pc.html


yannco

and last SAMSUNG is jumping on the bandwagon.


http://devices.internet.com/wireless...amsung_to.html


yannco

1) So far all MS's "smartphone" talk has been vapor. Remember "Stinger?" A reference design is still quite a ways from store shelves.

2) The Samsung press release is almost 2 years old. I suspect the end result of that work is their tablet-ish CE device they just showed at CES. (Been talked about here a bit but I forget the name at the moment.) Looked interesting, but it wasn't at all a smartphone per se.

3) An I300-ish Pocket PC phone would be interesting. I'd like to see it. Pocket PC is a more serious computing platform than Palm, although not as well developed right now. I wonder if they'd do one at 160 pixels wide though, like the I300. I think 240 turns out to be just too wide to hold to your head.

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I know pocket PC looks good in some ways. I have a palm 7 and a casio pocket PC. The palm is able to run all kinds of apps and never freeze, never have to reset, even soft reset.
I've gone to the apps and picked radomly, sometimes 15 at a time. I got spoiled because things always worked.
However, the screen never thrilled me. I got the pocket PC and it was sharp, but I didn't have wireless unless I got something for it. Still, I liked it to a point. I began to add the apps, and it was never a sure thing that something wouldn't hang me up. And, no where near as many apps were available. Many were only for sale. I loved the look of the pocket PC, but all I've used it for was ebooks and hooked it to a modem when I didn't want to take my laptop out.
Last week I got the i300 and I finally have a color palm with wireless abilities. That's all I wanted in the first place. Something that I could use for mail, the web, communications on the spot, and something I could see!
There are some great apps for the palm and the OS seems more stable. There is a limit to how much a device can do and how small it can get. We do seem to want smaller and more at the same time.
No, there probably isn't a limit. In time, it will happen.
But right now I'm not sure you can get something very very small to 'do it all.' I think the i300 is coming pretty close!
It's one thing for a handheld to be capable of doing it all, but does it continue to preform well day to day?
When frustration sets in, interest goes fast.

Jayne