PiTech Develops 3 MegaPixel Palm OS Smartphone

The new mantra is "Treo or bust!" Remember it well.

Palm coulda saved themselves 30 mil by simply renaming the whole company "Treo" or "TreOne" and jettisoning all of their traditional handhelds in the process.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX

Quad band is nice for the US market, EDGE is more impotant in US than Europe since we have 3G, yet it only gives release dates for Europe and Asia. Nice specs but does it look good?

Q2 2006 is a long time away also.

I think I'll stick with my xda and I'll give my treo to a good home.

Fish

Is that reeeeeal as in 'You have a reeeeeal pretty mouth' and 'squeeell like a pig'?

Scary.

The treo is on it's last legs, it's a veteran from the first month Treo 600 came out in UK so 2 years old give or take a month.

I should keep it around a bit to see if the Universal fails badly over the next month, I don't really trust windows mobile yet. Though, one of my friends keeps hassling me to donate it to him to play with, may be thats the way to get another palm convert.....?

Fish

Gekko / TVOR / Surur: So predictable. So excruciatingly boring.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that PalmSource/Palm OS has problems, that the've made mistakes (like every company ever in the history of the world), and that Palm OS is in a struggle for it's life. But why can't you say something that actually adds to the discussion? Oh right - you are all here to troll. Nothing more.

Surur

I just left the sewing circle over at Brighthand after a final effort to see if there's ANYONE there with the technical know-how to help me out with my "little" Bluetooth issue on the TX. I just got the usual useless requests to:

1. Stop whining 2. Go to WinMob 3. Switch to a GSM carrier 4. Use an older Palm with "working" BT 5. Settle down

The online POS handheld community (all of the sites) is really turning into a bunch of Pollyannas unable to make a critical assertion about anything or try to take matters into their hands for ANY reason. Between being in Palm's pocket, acting like a bunch of juveniles, and only caring about posting VGA pictures of cats, nearly every site outside of PIC has been reduced to mindless chatter & clatter. It's just unfortunate that the real egghead/techie types don't frequent PIC as much as some of the other sites (Brighthand? Slashot etc) so getting the answers to nitty-gritty problems is made considerably more difficult.

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Your 'contributions' are as hilarious as ever. Bozo.

1. Stop whining/get over it
2. You're on the M$ payroll
3. Change to PPC/WinMob
4. Buy a Treo
5. You can live without _________ (insert missing feature here)
6. Change cell providers

It happened before with trying to rally support to get a REAL version of Graffiti 1 back onto Palm devices. It happened again when I was among the first to disclose HOW shoddy the LifeDrive's memory architecture is and how certain random units fare worse than others. Now It's happening again as I expose Palm's intentional Bluetooth crippling in order to try and sell more Treos to North American customers.

Look, I'm as big of a fan of the Palm OS (in ANY flavor) as anyone. I still admire Palm's/PalmSource's PIM apps and ease of use. Even the (overall) hardware as of late has been somewhat competitive. 9 years with a platform that's always been behind the curve will make you used to compromises. But I cannot stand all of the BUGS & QUIRKS--whether intentional or not, it's gotta stop!

Every new Palm since the T3 has come with some set of dealbreakers that shouldn't exist. No, I don't expect 2 week battery life, voice recognition, built-in GPS and an OLED screen for $300. But for my $300 I expect a handheld that works with the same cellphones that my PREVIOUS Palms worked with. And a choice of character recognition formats would be lovely as well (G1 vs. G2 vs. G3?) since some us still prefer a stylus for short memos than a micro keyboard.

I've seen a noticable decrease in the quality of the PIC forums. Everyone posting there is either an apologist or a n00b. However, that's still preferable to the "country club" atmosphere over at Brighthand & 1src. I'm constantly insulted over at Brighthand when I give ANYTHING LESS than a glowing report on every aspect Palm's latest offerings. If you want to call wanting Palm to be accountable for problems THEY create with THEIR own hanhelds parasitic behavior then I'll gladly change my nickname to "pinwormlife"

I just want a SOLID Palm handheld that offers reliable BT, reliable wi-fi, 320*480, NO keyboard, decent battery life, a stable OS and NO cellular model or monthly data service plans attached to it. Is that too much to ask? A voice recorder and Graffiti 1 would be icing on the cake. TX comes pretty close to what I mention above? Yes, and that's why I am so aggravated at Palm's latest bungles.

P.S. I seldom see any of you "new guys" in the forums, by the weay. PIC's front page dialogue is considerably grittier than what goes on in the forums. If you'd take the time to look you'd see plenty of advice and polite assistance given out by me to less experienced users over the years. Ironically, the paradigms of polite decency and courtesy (potter, klw, Captain Hair) post almost EXCLUSIVELY in the forums and stay out of the front page fray. Something to think about...

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I am talking about completely gratuitous character attacks that have nothing ot do with aparticular topic. Perfect example is this gem for a few days ago by TVOR:

http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=8159#114111

...umm. TVOR: Nobody cares about what Kirvin may or may not have said in a ANOTHER thread in ANOTHER site. It is off topic.

or how about the Gekko comment that started this thread? Let's repeat it shall we:

>>You'll never be able to buy one.

>>The toilet's been flushed and PalmOS is still circling the bowl, "remnants" remain... but not for long.

>>Bye Bye Apologists.

Thanks for the 'contributions' TVOR and Gekko.

No thanks you for your 'contributions'.

You hang around here, bitching about how rubbish everything is, complaining about Palm, and whining on about your bizarre fantasies about "what is going to happen", (which never, of course, actually happens, just like that wad, Voice-of-Dumbness).

Now that would be pathetic enough. Sure. But then every now and then you start to grovel at hackers, begging them to make changes to your software. Why not just buy a book and learn? Do it yourself? Stop whining and bitching that hackers won't waste their (precious) time fixing your stupid problem!

You want to know the two best solution to [random problem x] that you encounter becuase of your personal preferences, but that you cannot fix because of your lack of knowledge and skill?

(1) Change your preferences
(2) Develop knowledge or skill

Until then: ****, you total wad.

Really. :)

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