Comments on: Quickies: Sony, McFile 2.1, Bejeweled, Pocket Quicken, ActiveECG

Well that's probably because that's what the resellers still have in stock. If you check www.sony.com/clie/ you can see what current and what's discontinued.

If so, I think Sony would surely win the low end market! :-)

Beavis, funny you should bring this up. I just heard from someone who said he tried to buy a T615C from SonyStyle and, as he described it, "a message popped up that it had been inactivated and had been removed from my cart."

I tried to check this by putting in an order myself. However, I got to the point where I had to put in my credit card number and stopped.

Can anyone confirm that SonyStyle is no longer letting people buy the T615C?

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> What happened to all the creativity?

Creativity? There's little creativity in most media because companies are RISK AVERSE. They want a sure thing like Bejeweled or another Tetris clone. Unfortunately, the public is fed up with these types of games.

And Creativity is like common sense: quite uncommon. Don't expect it at all from most companies. I'm pleasantly surprised when creative games come out, but I certainly don't hold my breath at all.

The best handheld games require you to have a Gameboy Advance or an emulator. I'll take Zelda or Mr. Driller anyday over Bejeweled or any other Astraware game.

you mean http://www.webvisia.com/

What are you talking about? The N760C (basically an N710C with OS4.1) is over a year old. The N-series has been replaced by the NR and the mp3-playing T665C.

Is it just me, or did that m505 have the quickest turn-around time from release to discontinue in history?

Heh, why don't you guys just check www.PalmEvolution.com?

Shortest lifespan award (North America distribution category) goes to....

...it's a tie!

The Clie N710C was replaced by the N760C within 4 months; and the T615C by the T655C (if the rumor is correct).

Trivia question for extra marks
Which PalmOS device had the LONGEST lifespan?

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Not the Visor Deluxe. The TRG Pro would even have it beat

Are you serious?

There are about 2 dozen better financial applications out there. They should have picked something that is at least far and away the best in its class, like WordSmith.

what are those better financial programs.

I guess because they haven't tried anything else! Like me for example, I think pocket quicken is one of the best applications I have on my palm (expensive) this is one of those that I cannot live without.

But because I am so satisfied with it I have not experiemented to try anything else, not only that, i paid at least 40 bucks for it, if there is another application out there that is better than PQuicken, I do not want to know about it for I'm not going to shell more money for it

Yo, i use PocketQuicken 1.x, and it is the most expensive, least bang for buck software. Well, depends on how you define bang for a buck. I use it a lot (NOT going to upgrade to 2.x. I felt so cheated by this software that such a simple thing and cost so much), and still do. It suffice for my purposes. If you define "bang" by how much I use it... then I guess it was good. But then... I use memopad a lot... do I expect memopad/memopad-replacement to cost a lot then? Or should I expect it to cost very little (because it is easier to program?) I believe the latter should be the case. You get paid what your efforts entail.

Best in class? Yuck! I know 2.x improved quite a bit, but at that price, and the limited advertised features (compared to others), and such a bad experience with 1.x... I highly doubt those people in CNET has any real computer-literate people left. (Many of their other reviews in computer software is as bad).

I agree, you can't really base any opinion of Pocket Quicken on v.1, the improvement in v.2 are HUGE. The direct sync with Quicken is quite awesome and the functionality of the program is very impressive, with quite a small footprint, considering it has all my memorized transactions in there. It's apps like this that keep me sticking with the Palm versus going to the PPC (just try and find something as good, that works with Quicken, instead of forcing me to use MS Money).

Clinton Logan, promised that the Pocket Quicken 2.x product would not lay dormant with no updates as the PQ v1.x product did. Well it's been a year since the release of PQ2 and there are no updates yet announced. I would like to know where are the "frequent" PQ2/PQ3 revisions?

What do you say, Clinton?

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1) Its the best selling Palm application ever. Anything that happens with it is news.

2) If you don't like the way Ed runs things, get your own site.

or how about "Bejeweled, first Palm game to be played in space by a Belgian artist"

> >> Its the best selling Palm application ever<<

Just wondering, is this documented some where? Where can I find this list?

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It's a self titular pronouncement like Ali's "I'm the greatest of all time!"

The T415 had the worst screen of any PDA ever made, or pretty much any screen on any other electronic device either. The T415 was DOA and effectively discontinued shortly after its release. Sony has spent the first half of this year getting rid of the rest of the stock. It in no way signals the end of monochrome PDAs. Good grief, the S360, m100, m105, m125, m500 or any of the current monochrome Visors individually outsold the T415 by a mile. They outsell color devices too for that matter.

The price of the m500 has not been reduced because it is still selling well.

As for the t415, well I hope Sony has learned it's lesson. You can't fool all of the people all of the time.