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RE: When great new software keeps getting released on Palm OS...
Palm retail update
This past weekend at OD salesguy said that the E2 & LD were EOL and once the existing stocks were sold that was it.
There were also none of the usual Palm lineup brochures for the taking.
If there's anything at all PDA releated for this spring, I'd expect an announcement within the next 4-5 weeks tops with retail availability sometime in early May.
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RE: Palm retail update
RE: Palm retail update
OD had the most handhelds on display-they had all five of the "current" Palm models + a good selection of iPaqs. CUSA had what I mentioned above in addition to three HPs and a Nokia 770. It looked like 1/2 of the PDA section had been removed to permit a GPS unit display.
The Handmark etc. prepackaged software was in total disarray and the cases/styli/chargers were all mixed up between Pam PDA stuff, Palm Treo stuff, and HP and the generic accessory companies.
I guess midyear '06 will be the real beginning of the end of the PDA retail market.
Oh, another sign of "impending doom": the new PC Magazine I got the other day had a roundup of tools for the mobile road warrior. They had the TX in a nice big picture & caption and said it's quite possibly the final POS handheld. They encouraged fans of POS over WinMob to get 'em while they are available (paraphrasing). The caption also commented how it's the lowest priced handheld with wi-fi standard-they didnt even mention its BT capabilities!
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RE: Palm retail update
People get their PDA functions from their phones and, believe it or not, their laptops. Any windoze laptop can come out of sleep in a minute or so if you need to check Outlook, and Apples are much faster than that. Any half-decent Nokia (not even a smartphone) can sync with Outlook, check email, and even surf the web, so who needs a PDA? It's highly redundant technology.
Yeah, PDAs can do all this other marginal stuff, like surfing on a larger screen, or checking email and opening the attachments, or playing games, running productivity apps. But these things add value only on the margin. Most people don't drop hundreds of dollars and then carry around an extra gizmo just for the little bit of value on the margin.
Thankfully Palm saw this coming years away, and are now dominating on the new PDA battleground: smartphone. Professionals really see the value in a "better phone with PDA capabilities". The Palm OS user interface is much more logical and elegant than either symbian or wince on smartphone, and this certainly helps keep us at the front of the pack. :)
The PDA is dead! Long live the Treo. :)
Of course, this isn't really true. The new Palm PDAs will be convergent Palm minitablets that run Linux, like the Nokia. They'll be fast and elegant, they'll run ALP, provide PalmOS compatability, and Max will provide the powerful zen-of-palm that we know and love. I don't see Palm releasing many more Palm OS devices: their R&D is running full steam to get a reference platform going that can run linux variants, such as ALP.
There'll be competition: as we saw recently, microsoft has killed wince, and is trying belatedly to get into the minitablet game with vista-on-a-brick. But their brick is too clunky to put in a pocket, more expensive than a desktop PC, slower and weaker than a laptop, and certainly wouldn't survive a drop onto a hard floor. It will be exceedingly hard for microsoft to make a bloated OS like vista competitive with mobilelinux on comparable hardware. :)
Let battle begin. I can hardly wait! :)
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