Glen, two thoughts: 1) there's already a term for phones that play music and other non-PIM functions, and that's "featurephone" 2) the iPhone actually has significantly more "computing power" than a Treo, but what it's lacking (and what you seem to want) is 3rd party software.
On 10/2/07, glenbarrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Palm Treo is still the only 'smartphone' (I hate that term - that > term should be used for phones that play music not computers that can > make phone calls) that is a reasonable platform for ebook reading. > and that's because of the wealth of ebook reader programs written for > the Palm OS. > > I won't consider an iPhone until it has the computing power of the > least of the Palm line. > > --- In [email protected], "john.messeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > An interesting statement in the article speaks to a short > discussion > > yesterday about how many people may want more than what comes pre- > installed: > > > > "Palm says that two-thirds of Treo owners have purchased a third- > party > > application, and 10 percent of them have 10 or more third-party > apps." > > > > Levi Wallach wrote: > > > Interesting iPhone article that quotes Mark Bercow, the senior > vice > > > president of business development at Palm: > > > > > > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/att-welcomes-programmers- > for-all-phones-except-the-iphone/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one > family > > table." / > > (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th > anniversary > > of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://www.GearBits.com -- Tech. Culture. Ideas. Opinions.
