Quickies: Blue T615C, Palm Chat, SplashShopper, Microsoft

Wes knows about PIC and i'm sure knows it's THE place for PAlm OS news. So why try to copy and paste the same news? His site is the only PDA place where i can find any news about ALL PDA's in general. It's a great source of info. The message boards are great (at least the Epoc and Jornada threads i've been in are. I wouldn't check the Palm threads. For that i have PIC).

I doubt it's going anywhere anytime soon at all.

And to your statement about the register story, Wes discussed it in this thread yesterday -

http://www2.pdabuzz.com/Forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33825&pagenumber=3

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2C66127

Why must everyone want only one of everything? I read posts how people want PPC's to go away. Which is just plain stupid. The more choices the better. ALWAYS.

It should be http://www.infosync.no/

The afforementioned article isn't that big a deal to me. It's not amazing news. Very major Palm news has hit PDAbuzz before. For the minutia, you check out PIC. For PPC minutia, check out pocket pc thoughts or any of the other PPC sites.

There's been plenty PPC news that hasn't been on the front page either. Quit complaining about a site not having the same Palm news you find here.

"That's my point. if Palm had done something like this, there would have been a big article on it on PDABuzz's front page. But its something negative about M$ so Wes' only comment is on page 3 of a discussion thread. Biased. Very biased."

Well, no. You see it's on page 3 because that story broke yesterday and during that thread someone linked to it. And it was discussed.

You think it's front page news? I don't. I also notce here on PIC it's bundled with the 2 other small stories. PDAbuzz usually doesn't do the small news. Wes doesn't post as much as Ed.

I still don't see why he needs to be JUST one OS's news site. That's just plain dumb. But perhaps that would make it easier for you to complain about the page. Since no other OS or news can be good, but Palm news.

Please.

yeah. I think the main reason why this is, when reading a thread for example, is that there aren't many hard core palm users posting there. Most of the Palm guys are here!

So you end up having a lot of non-Palm users posting.

But you do see some Palm enthusiasts keeping the fight up, which is nice to see since a lot of the negative posts come from misinformation (true on EVERY site i've seen).

And you know, while Wes is just one guy, he has over 25,000 registered members of his site. Among those are advocates for all platforms. And among those advocates, it does seem to ME that the PPC guys are much more aggressive and talk more trash than any of the other groups. And why not? - MS seems to reward this behavior with their MVP awards and little 'club perks'. These MS guys go to PDABuzz, because it is a multi-platform site, and that's where they can ruffle the most feathers, while getting "me too" pats on the back from less outspoken PPC users.

Here's my take on editor bias: I don't think Wes is biased, but truthfully, in my eyes it doesn't really matter. He's not a 'normal' PDA user (nor is PIC's Ed for that matter). Wes and Ed get paid to play with the latest stuff. I'm forced to buy my own tech toys, and try to get as much value and life out of them as I possibly can. And because it doesn't make sense for me to use more than one handheld, I have to compromise some of the 'wow-factor' stuff for the 'work-horse' features. It's like this in every industry. Editors talk about the 'WOW' stuff which is interesting because it's not the norm. But while that stuff is cool, because it's different, I will probably never use it or even want to pay for it.

I like PDA Buzz's open multi-platform format. I like that he's kept it open. One other 'multi-platform' site has tried to segregate the different platforms into sub-sites. As such, when I visit there, I feel isolated. I don't think it's very successfull, and this is apparent when you view the number of posts in the Palm and Palm-Powered forums.

But if you think it's too PPC biased you have two options: 1) become more outspoken on that site or 2) hide yourself in "Palm Propaganda Land".

When we say PDABuzz is anti-Palm, we mean the articles that Wes wrote are heavily opinioned. A professional editors should avoid such a mistake, but some editors uses this technique to influences other people as well.

Also, we didn't mean that Wes doesn't cover PalmOS news. We just mean that we don't like the way he reports the news.

If you don't believe me, you can read the same news reported by Ed and Wes, and you can see the answer for yourself.

Off-Topic: CNN used to be a great source for news, but ever since 9/11 attacks, every world news articles is heavily pro-USA (or has a purpose behind it).

Seriously, try playing Bejewed on a T615C and a Prism, you'll notice a huge difference between all the jewels.

Am I upset about it? Considering that it also has a indoor/outdoor viewable 320x320 screen, 16MB RAM, slim design, jog wheel, built-in memory expansion, AND multimedia potential . . . not really, no. Screen colors aside, this is probably one of the best PalmOS devices I've seen in a long while.

The continual negative posts on this website by Sony's guerilla marketers is getting to be a little tiresome.

I inquired about MultiMail Pro, bought the company out in June 2000. They web page has you email Palm support for help. I went to chat support, asked about the program as I was having trouble with it. During the conversation the tech said to me that they don't support it, it isn't a Palm Program. I told her that it was and that they bought it out in June 2000 and their web site says to contact Palm Support. You know what the helpful tech did. She terminated my chat session, because she was lying and she new it. Unfortunately Palm doesn't offer a toll free
1-800-UP-YOURS number so you can tell them.

Palm is losing money and they are trying to cut costs. So stop making a bad product, improve, it then rename it, and then sell it a year later. Guess that is why they will lose hardware market share to their competitors. They probably won't be the first out with OS 5 and Hi Res screens this year.