My 2 cents of wisdom on the digitizers: In my company we replace several dozens of them per day. And if we look at the manufacturing date we find that >90% of defect digitizers date from Q3/2007 till August 2008 (end of production). Just today I saw a device from early 2008 that was RMA-ed in late 2008, got a new digitizer from Palm and now is sent back to us to get its 3rd one! On the other hand we get devices from 2005/2006 that just need a new battery with the digi being still 100% accurate.
To me Palm have become more and more negligent on quality management in the last years of Tungsten/Zire production. That had cost them a lot of goodwill in our customer base. Initially our customers viewed Palm PDAs high quality, durable goods (in fact many of them had bought a Palm V, M515 e.a. before and those were still working after 3-5 years). As of today I still see demand for a EUR 150/USD 200 PDA that does not carry the additional cost and functionality overhead of a phone. However the global volume is certainly way too low to justify new development for a listed company like Palm. Hadn't they continuously shot themself in the foot (and they did so on any occasion, HW- and SW-wise) they might still be milking a small but profitable cash-cow. Harry -------------------------------- Or you could import replacement digitizers from China, and fit them instead. That is much cheaper than PowerDigi, even for a 480 x 320 display. -----Original Message----- From: Dmitry Grinberg [mailto:dmitr...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 May 2009 18:56 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Classic emulator interface on Palm Pre Or you could install PowerDiGi on them, which will make them align 100% of the time, and is both much cheaper than Janam and cheaper than a new device... ---- Best Regards, Dmitry Grinberg (847) 226 9295 -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
