More m500 Series Photos

Only time will tell whether we will have to go with the M500 or if the M505 will still be as nice as the Palm IIIC (from what I have seen on the web)so far I probalby will have to go with the monochrome and just buy the color one when the screen is acceptable. We can only hope that the screen will be readable in most conditions. Just wait and see, I am thankful that the folks out there are trying to keep us informed since Palm is not doing a good job of it!

I don't normally suggest that you leave this site and go to another one but if you are trying to decide whether to pre-order the m505, you really must read this review. They did a great job of learning as much about the m500 and m505 as they could in the hour they had to play with a couple of pre-production models.

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Palm Infocenter

Agreed..nice review in a limited amount of time! I'm trying to hold off judgement on the screen until I have a production unit in my hand. If I'm disappointed - I hope the Samsung SCH-I300 wows me!

err...I mean...SHP-I300

What Launcher is being used on the IIIc? Anyone know or use it? Where can it be downloaded?

Thanks!

Swiped the answer from Palmstation (sorry, Ryan & Ed!) --

its MegaLauncher: http://www.megasoft2000.com/

It's up to you and your wallet. Everyone should come to grips with the fact that Palm is working on the next TWO models as I write this. This not a bad thing; they must do this to survive in today's competitive market. I pesonally have a Vx that I bought nearly 18 months ago for $399 & yes I am ready to move up to the 505. Pre ordered already. But still, on April 2 (or when ever my 505 arrives) I also know my Vx won't stop working all of the sudden. As a matter of fact, I'll sell it to someone who believes that I'm nuts for paying "that kind of money" for what in their minds, "the Vx does for allot less". But if you're like me and most of the rest of us "enthusiasts". We just gotta have 'em!

Sandisk will sell them. Toshiba's website has part numbers for SD cards from 8 to 64 MB. They say they will be for sale this quarter. Matsushita should also sell them.

So can anyone tell me for certain what the ability of the SD/MMC cards to run applications are? Is it similar to the Sony Clie system where you need free memory on the PDA equivalent to the size of the app on the card? Or can apps be run straight from the card? As an example, if I have 2MB free space on the device and want to run an app of 4MB can I do this on the m505? And does this apply to both applications on the cards and databases?

i´ve been to the cebit fair yesterday and talked with palm as well as panasonic officials.
both sides told me that you can run apps or access database directly on the sd-cards.
unfortunately they will be quite expensive in germany when they start selling.
the 64 mb card (i don´t really need that much space - but you can never have too much space) will sell at 350 DM / 167 US$.

btw:
the screen is cool - better than that of the IIIc in any condition.

i´ll get one for sure.
alex

I tried Babelfish when I was writing this article and couldn't get anything useful from it. This is the first time I've tried to use it to translate Korean and I don't think it did a very good job. Here's an example from the section on the USB cradle:

The }m{500 to series the all USB khu lay it is provided with this basic of the field with basic, the hand spring at all like that in the series pot connection hour when it is possible li el khu lay also the field is supplied in other way and.

Usually Babelfish does a much better job than this.

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Eric

Well, just look at the pictures.
They are taken, WITHOUT FLASH (my Minolta Dimage 2300 doesn't have flash in macro mode) in a very dim room.
Here, I have attached two more pictures that can best explain how dark the room was overall.

http://www.geekvortex.f2s.com/light2.jpg
The convention room, during the reassess

http://www.geekvortex.f2s.com/light.jpg
Palm Director of products, on stage

Without the front light, granted, the screen is dark. Kinda like the IIIc with the contrast slider turned waaay down, but hey, still readable, which came as quite the shock for me. With the backlight (which is non adjustable btw), the screen is not only perfectly readable, in the poor light conditions as you can see from the above pictures, but also very highly defined and with overall very good and vivid colors.
I would say that it's less bright as a IIIc, but the screen overall color range seems more... "Realistic" in some manner... Because from my experiences on a IIIc was that some colors appear more brighter then others, which is not the case with the m505.

Well, just take a look at the pictures I have posted on my site, they would give you a good estimate of how good the screen is (remember, NO FLASH, backlight ON).

I gotta admit, that iPaq screen makes the m505 screen look piss poor, look at those huge pixels...damn the 160x160 screen....

Is that an SD card modem that I saw on that site? If so what is the purpose of Palm selling that shoebox modem now? Just so that they have a modem available w/ the M500/M505 release? It seems like another screw job by Palm to put out that modem and then follow up w/ an SD modem which is surely going to be the better option of the two. I definitely would prefer the SD modem. Any idea when those SD hardware add-ons might be coming out?