I think it's more accurate to say that all the extras above and beyond
the ability to make and receive phone calls are secondary to my needs.
I got my Centro for $50 when I renewed my basic ATT contract -- which I
would have done anyway because I get a discount. I no longer carry my E2
and a phone that takes pictures of the inside of my pocket but won't
connect to my PC to share them. I can manage my calendar and my contacts
using a real keyboard and keep the one at work sync'd to the one at
home. I may not be typical, but I suspect that given the choice of
having a sensible phone service plan over a full "data plan" a lot more
people would take the sensible option. This, however, is not in the best
interests of Spring, ATT, Verizon, et al. so you won't see sensible
options -- just more ways to bill for airtime (whether you use it or not).
dga
Lee Church wrote:
The days of the $200 PDA are gone forever. The Palm market lasted
longer than most (Windows Mobile manufacturers exited several years
ago, and the low-end HP units are now $400 +). If you want just a Palm
OS device w/o phone then the Acceda and the Janam units will have to do.
I do find your comment that phone service is "secondary to our real
needs" somewhat myopic. None of my customers carry only a PDA and no
cell phone. Asked which they would give up first, I would bet the PDA
would lose. So let's do some math: option 1 would have been to buy a
Tungsten E2 at $200, and get a free phone with a cell contract at $49
per month, and I carry 2 devices. Option 2 would have been (and now
is) to pay $99 for a Centro (current market price in my area), plus
$49 per month for cell service, and I carry one device. So option 2
costs me less money and cuts my device count in half; that seems like
a good deal for the consumer. It's not the PDA portion of the device
that costs $49 - 159 per month, it's the cell service.
*From:* luis maldonado [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:27 AM
*To:* Palm Developer Forum
*Subject:* RE: Classic emulator interface on Palm Pre
Whatever the solution is in moving our apps to the new webOS platform
is fine. however, it doesn't solve the issues of the PDA platform
disappearing from the face of the planet leaving a PDA market without
the necessary hardware to run these applications that are more of a
realtime data collections than phone conversations. the beauty of the
TX and similar PDAs is their pricing structure, once that is gone,
then we have the Symbols and the like able to charge an exhorbitant
price for PDAs which are used just to collect data and nothing more.
so we're stuck with an expensive monthly phone service which is
secondary to our real needs...
There is a market out for these units, it's just not sexy enough....
and offcourse it doesn't have the 49.99 to 159.99 monthly service fee
tag to go along with it....
Luis.
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Classic emulator interface on Palm Pre
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:31:26 -0700
>
> Edward Jones wrote:
>
> > I wonder how "Classic" will cope with Bluetooth and SD cards
>
> ...and conduits and beaming...
>
>
> Luc Le Blanc
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