Thanks for the perspective... However, what the heck is Ajax... Other than the all-purpose cleaner from years ago. Does anyone still clean with it? --- Roger Prokic Baltimore, Maryland USA
-=[ This email was sent from a Palm Treo 680 smartphone using ChatterEmail v3.0.8]=- -----Original Message----- From: Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, Aug 4, 2007 2:45 pm Subject: Re: [Treo] Google to unveil phone of its own by next year To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [email protected] On 04 Aug 2007 11:30:00 -0400, Roger Prokic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does google have for a phone that Apple or Palm don't? Let's see...off the top of my head I can think of: - Shared, web-accessible calendaring (nothing for iPhone and ClearSync for Palm costs $20+ a year per user) - Shared, web-accessible Office-style document creation/editing (nothing for iPhone and Docs To Go doesn't share well, certainly not collaboratively in real-time) - Shared, web-accessible mapping with rich timely information (Google Maps for iPhone and Palm are good, but the full Ajax Google Maps is significantly better) - Gmail (the 'plain-HTML' experience on my 700p is a bit sluggish compared to the Ajax experience on a real browser) - Shared, web-accessible photos (Picasa. .Mac is close for the iPhone, but there's nothing like it on the Palm, certainly not for free) - Google Talk (with VOIP) - Google customizable search - and so on... Basically, there are stripped down and/or dumbed-down versions of many of Google's services for existing phones, but what I really want is a phone that lets me run the full Ajax/rich experience versions. Could they add Ajax to the Treos? I dunno...if they could, I'd be just that much less interested in a better solution from another company.
