For me the biggest problems with the alternatives is that pretty much all of them don't work for me in some (or many) ways. Blackberry - the lack of a touch screen (well, the lack of a decent screen at all) is a deal breaker, especially for ebook reading. Also I dislike the BB's navigation - anything more than one screen takes too long to scroll through. But for me the problem with the BB is it's an email device with other stuff tacked on - and it shows, even in the newer devices. I agree Palm hasn't improved and I'm looking for a nail, but I'm also going to look at the next generation of Palm devices. And unless something else comes out that's a *significant* improvement I will probably continue to wait. How long will I wait? Not sure yet, but my patience with Palm is pretty worn out.
Mike Lax From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Triple Entendre Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: Sign of the times? On Friday, 2008-06-06 12:05:58, glenbarrington wrote: > Well, I'll probably not buy another Palm device when my Treo 700p bites > the dust. As a long time Palm user, I loved the OS, but it really > isn't keeping up with the competition. The Bluetooth reliability is > miserable, it locks up at strange times. Lots of little frusturations. > > For me, the last reason to hold out for Palm was ebook reading (good > display, lots of software choices, and plenty of ebooks available). > But now, Mobi offers a Blackberry version. > > I won't switch witout significant research, but Maybe it's time to put > the last nail in the coffin. At least it may be time to start looking > for a nail. Not to pick on you individually, but I would think that part of that significant research would include buying or at least trying a *newer model* Palm device. It's been nagging at me how many of the "I love Palm but I'm leaving it" sentiments on this list are coming from users of older devices. (The 700P in particular was, in my opinion, a placeholder device -- something to tide us over -- with unusual hardware compromises under its hood.) Now there are plenty of reasons why someone might choose to switch, but I just wanted to sound this note. Apples to apples. If the PalmOS interface doesn't survive its transition to Palm's Linux-based rewrite, or if Google doesn't save it somehow (I would bet you any sum that there's at least *one* Google employee whose designated "pet project" is preserving the things PalmOS does well and bringing that to Android efforts in some way.), then much will be lost. That happens from time to time of course, in the history of computing devices, but still. I'll be sad if the only the hardcore geeks (we can build our own, you see) can have the nice things. Trip [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
