Editorial on Palm's Blog Plans

I have been a longtime user of Palm or POS stuff. Heck, I even have a backup TX. But I am starting to look longer and longer at the Dash or other (EU/Asian) options. If Palm wants to keep dragging on this, as well as making phones the size of small bricks, they'll just keep losing customers.

Aaron

Ahhh... Eventually your continued blunders were filling up the "independent" forums (and spilling into the business pages) with so much bad news that you were inspired to create a forum that you have control over. That way you can hope that your "target audience" will come to your "Blog" and see that everything is fine (because you can edit out anything you don't want known), rather than go to where the "Power Users" hang out and will honestly point out the shortcomings of your devices. I'll stick to PIC, TC,MTDN and other places where real users post, rather than a corporate-sponsored PR site.

Take the TX's 320x480 screen, add in the Treo 650/700 removable high-capacity battery, bring along the T5's internal flash drive (but bump it up to a gig or so), and add the 680's SDHC slot (supports 8gb of REMOVABLE media so this actually trumps the iPhone). Then toss in a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack for good measure and you're got a fasntastic little device that cannot rival the iPhone in looks, refincement, sleekness or wow factor. But such a beast could bring the majority of the iPhone featureset (320x480 screen, wi-fi, BT, 8gb storage) to the table for hundreds less AND is an "open" platform that we are all familiar with. AND such a Treo could be offered in EVDO version, blowing the first-gen EDGE iPhone out of the water.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

P.S.
While Beersie brings up a very good point about the abundance of (refreshingly) good news out of Palm Inc. lately, I wouldn't hold my breath on the wi-fi integration. After all, wasn't it Colligan in late '04 or early '05 who promised that the wi-fi SDIO card drivers for the Treo 650 were forthcoming?

I wonder if the Palm blog will evolve (permutate?) into the sort of forum where concerned, FIERCELY loyal users such as most of us PIC regulars can ask Palm the hard-hitting questions. HIGHLY unlikely but we can always dream, can't we?

Some examples questions I'd LOVE to see addressed would be: Why did Palm never pursue a Graffiti classic/Graffiti 2 strategy, what future if any does Palm see for standalone PDAs, Why has Palm dragged their feet on full Vista compatibility with Palm Desktop, why were the Treo 650/T5/LifeDrive/700p released in such buggy/crippled states etc etc? And those are just basic product-related questions. You could open up a whole 'nother can of worms with biz-related questions of the type raised by TVoR. While I understand that Palm's legal dept. would likely frown upon addressing any of those issues past the basic corporate PR safe-speak, it'd at least make for interesting trying to read between the lines of their responses.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P