Comments on: New PDA32 Details and Review Roundup
Last year, Tam Hanna posted a series of size and screen comparisons but had very little to report as far as day-to-day usability of the PDA32. Since then, French Palm OS software developer Luc Le Blanc, creator of the Auriga, has taken a preproduction PDA32 along for a week of cave exploration in France. He was quite impressed with the overall package and has written up his findings alongside some detailed specifications and some benchmark figures.
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A shame Palm couldn't have licensed the TX tech to someone like Aceeca to continue to build and improve upon it. As it stands now, you have a brand-new device (PDA32) that is superior to the 5+ year old TX in some ways and drastically inferior in others.
Right now it looks like the TX is still the superior device but that is assuming you still have a brand new or mint condition TX sitting around.
If Aceeca can somehow get the PDA32's ROM in decent shape (faster performance & landscape mode), make the wi-fi & BT options available and offer it in a black housing, it'd be a much more appealing device.
PDA32 pros:
-Faster, more modern (more efficient?) CPU
-Enormous battery
-Brighter screen with richer colors
-Flashable ROM + built-in backup utility
-Available factory-fresh "new" now with promised long-term availability
-Mini-USB connector for universal cable & charger availability
-Much better build quality+much more durable body & buttons
-High-power IR port
-(Hopefully) eventual 802.11G wireless
-No NVFS, so speedier performance
TX Pros:
-More overall storage memory (100mb+ free out of 128mb)
-FAT32, so natively 4GB SD card compatible & SDHC via software
-Standard wi-fi & BT
-Standard 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
-Thinner/lighter + more stylish
-Full assortment of hard buttons & stylus tip-size reset button + better stock stylus
-Much better software bundle (Versamail, Blazer, DTG, PTunes)
-NVFS for no risk of data loss
-Athena connector to utilize many legacy Palm handheld accessories
-Screen can be rotated to landscape mode
-Fully compatible with nearly all apps updated in 2004 or later. No compatibility issues due to lack of hard buttons
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p->Verizon Moto Droid + Verizon Palm Centro-> Verizon Moto Droid X + Palm TX
RE: needs modern browser
Surely, the OS was given to them and not charged for. It has a few good things about it, but I just wonder what the meeting room discussion was, where this group of "business people" actually came away thinking this idea could make money? I would love to hear it.
Pat Horne
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