You are right. I support delivery drivers who use Palms as a Point of
Sale device. Had a poor woman call that her E2 wouldn't digitize and
Palm couldn't sell her one. She couldn't use a Unlocked Centro because
a.) we don't support it, and b.) it won't hook to her printer.
(Although I got one to work by jamming it against the leads on the
printer and if she bought one I would tell her how to get it to work
with our software, but we don't test on them.)
My customers need PDA's. I redirected her to a reseller of refurbish
Palms, but soon that source will dry up. We face the possibility of
having to switch to Windows Mobile, and having the nightmare of
supporting two platforms that the customers can't tell apart. (Trust me.)
Cell phones do not work for delivery drivers. Janam has a Palm PDA for
just such a use, but it cost $1500. Many of our customers are small
family owned businesses that would rather buy or replace $200 or $300
PDAs as they break.
Benjamin
luis maldonado wrote:
Lee your comment about YOUR custmers not wanting to give up the phone
makes my point, these customers DO need both services and in that case
the phone/PDA combo wins hands down. Howerver, my comment was directed
towards those applications like restaurants, small warehouses, doctors
and others where the phone is NOT necessary and the PDA is only used for
data collection, then the phone is an EXTRA charge for a data collector
unit. In some of these areas a 200.00 unit is what the doctor ordered....
Luis,
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