>Just curious: what sorts of different and/or better applications would
>people start writing if the screen were changed to, say, 240x240 or
>320x320?
Some data-intensive field applications (particularly enterprise collection
stuff) is *really* awkward on a Palm. We're having to do a lot of stuff on
some of the larger CE devices because of this (and believe me, it's been a
pain).
I think Palm's losing a lot of non-PDA business for this kind of thing.
Granted, Palm is fundamentally a PDA, and its success is largely due to its
adherence to this rule ...
>Suppose a Palm unit came out with a higher res screen but was also
>noticeably slower, due to higher CPU load in the graphics routines.
>(320x320 equals 4 times as many pixels, not even counting grayscale or
>color.) Would that be a good trade off?
Dunno ... how about higher CPU horsepower? It's been a few years since
things were updated. I'm not a hardware expert, but is it possible that
Palm could stand an upgrade without sacrificing the nice battery life?
Regards,
Ben Flaumenhaft.
