Yeah, I guess you're right. I never had one, but I looked at them a couple times after I got the Pilot 1000. It was pretty slick, but I have a vague recollection of some limitations that I can't recall right now. Hey, lucky I'm not in politics or I'd get crucified for not remembering clearly, eh?
Palm rules! If the 680 had come out in time I might be using one and still with T-Mobile. As it is, I'm happy with the best phone/pda I've ever owned (and I've a ton of them): the 700p! Now, where's my 755p for 6 months and then my Palmix device!!! :-) Cheers, Don ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Palm Developing New Linux Powered PalmOS Well put, though I do have to disagree with your point that PDAs sucked before palm. Did you ever use a Psion? Those suckers were *way* ahead of their time. And their brain lives on in Symbian, though I haven't played much with a Symbian phone lately to see if it's any good. Meanwhile I'll stick with the device I find the least sucky of all that's out there: my beloved Treo 680. :-) Don Ferguson wrote: > > Amen to that brother Craig!!! > > I complain as loudly as anyone when the Treo isn't *everything* I want > it to be, but it's *almost* everything I need it to be. > > Remember, Palm started this. Remember how crappy PDAs were before Palm > came along? I do. They sucked! Palm took the world by storm and > created the market. They have released a steady stream of > increasingly-better Treos in the past couple of years. They're > everywhere! People who complain about the 700p or the 680 being > unstable should go back and read the Wall Street Journal article about > the 700w. Yes, the latest, biggest Treo is a WinMob device now, but > heck I just bought the 700p last June. If they came out with devices > more often we'd be complaining about being "forced" to buy new devices > too often! As it is, the 755p will be better than the 700, and then > there's a whole new generation coming out at year's end. How much > faster does anyone want them to come out with new stuff? > > The "rightness" of much of the original apps for the Pilot 1000 has been > borne out by the fact that they still look pretty much like they did in > 1996. They' re not behind - they were just very well done in the first > place. My oft-cited efficiency metrics bear this out. Sure, I'd like > flashier color and stuff. I can buy that, though. Ultimately that's not > what matters. What matters is what I can get *done* with the device, > and I'd say the 700p is about 97% of what I *need*, even if it's only > half of what I *want*. Who knows, the 755p may be 55% of what I want, > and the Linux-based machine might be 75%!! :-) > > Cheers, > > Don > -- -Jason [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
