Lets face it, Palm OS is no longer relevant. I love it, I will always
love it, but it is old news. And that applies to all models.
Sebastian
On 5/6/08, ÕÜ Íõ <zhaoyulong0525@yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
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> ·¢¼þÈË£º Michal Seliga <michal.seliga@visicom.sk>
> ÊÕ¼þÈË£º Palm Developer Forum <palm-dev-forum@news.palmos.com>
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> Ö÷Ì⣺ Re: Is the T3 still relevant?
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> Palm as phone is probably worst choice anyone can do. it lacks basic
> functions
> of ordinary phones and it has extremely poor battery.
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> before i was carrying PDA and phone. after i was 'forced' to use treo
> because of
> program i was working on igot used to use treo as phone and PDA for
> everything
> else and i still miss my old phone. imagine battery lasted 1 week, i saw
> confirmation when sms i sent arrived and it was able to show me my current
> location...miracle...treo lasts one day, to show current location i need to
> attach gps and some gps software and sms confiortmation is possible but you
> must
> write some code to front of every sms....
>
> so as result as soon aspalm stopped doing pdas and focused on phones its
not
> interesting anymore and i can imagien its dying...when for same price you
> can
> have some Nokia which is maybe not as good as pda but its definitely much
> more
> usable for everything important
>
> T3 was great device though i never ownedit personally, i used it only in
> work.
> T5 i am using most of the time is unstable mess, but i found how to live
> with
> it. lifedrive is best palm device i ever saw, thought it suffers from nvfs
a
> bit, after i will replace harddisk with compact flash i hope it will never
> leave
> me. and for phone, as soon as my phone based project will end then bye-bye
> treo
> and i hope i will never meet you again
>
> so back to original subject. T3 is still relevant, people who have it will
> use
> it, because there is simply nothing better available. and for big companies
> palm
> is long time dead because
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> 1) T|X are extremely buggy and if you ever tried to use them in big amounts
> you
> spent most of time by fixing and changing them. i know, all customers of
> company
> i work for change to windows mobile devices because of T|X buggy digitizers
> and
> other problems connected with it
>
> 2) E2 which is still available is slow, suffers from first versions of NVFS
> and
> generally price difefrence is so small that you can better buy T|X - if you
> insist on it
>
> 3) Treo smartphones are not supported by any mobile company here in
> slovakia,
> which means you must buyt them for full price. companies who order hundreds
> of
> devices will never buy smartphone when they can buy some pda and get phone
> almost for free from provider.
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> 4) as result all available devices are useless. and almost for same price
> you
> have windows mobile device with integrated gps.
>
> so now imagine you are manager of company, everything in your company is
> windows
> based, you need to get solution runing for 500 users, what you would
prefer?
> palm, or anything else?
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> so i am sorry for that, but from my point of view today palm is only for
> hardcore fanatics, or individuals. and question if T3 is still relevant
> doesn't
> matter, if you are fanatic or if you want to make your software as good as
> possible it will work on it or you will make it work on it. if you don't
> care
> and you do something for limited target then all you have to care about is
> T|X
> or Treo680 or higher - or completely different platform
>
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