PalmSource Rescheduled to February

iPAQ H3870 64MB Color Pocket PC 65,536 Color

"Bluetooth Technology"???

I think palm need to work really really hard to gain enterprise customer now as most wireless consulting firm are telling their customer to switch to WinCE. I don''t want to see Palm die! But if they don''t put their act together I may have to switch to pocketpc in the future.

First of all, the PalmOS SDK is free. That''s $0. Microsoft''s tools I believe are free, but you can''t use them unless you already have Visual Studio ($1000). Secondly, the language of choice for PalmOS development is C or C++. Not so with Microsoft''s Pocket PC. It appears that the language of choice for them is Visual Basic. By the way, Visual Basic is a proprietary language invented my Microsoft (just in case anyone was unaware). As a programmer, I really hope I can make it through my entire life without learning VB. I think it will be much more fulfilling this way. In continuation, the Palm SDK includes a PalmOS version of the gcc compiler which runs on ANY OS (gcc is the GNU C Compiler commonly found on most UNIX/Linux systems). Not so with Microsoft.

So, in conclusion, Palm people are GREAT, not "****y" (whatever that means). Many programmers, myself included, enjoy programming PalmOS apps for free use. Consider us philanthropists. The way Microsoft conducts itself, there is no room for Open Source Software, or free contributions to the community. There is no community for that matter, there''s just the Microsoft and the trapped millions who fall for their crap.

--Former Palm shareholder

so much for believing in Bluetooth and wireless technology.

...each has a 206-megahertz processor, 64 megabytes of memory and a mouth-drying price tag of $600.

Unfortunately, the iPaq is still expansion- challenged. It now comes with an S.D. slot, but you still need to buy a bulky, $50 slide-on sleeve if you want to use Compact Flash cards.

Pocket PC''s now understand the Palm''s Graffiti alphabet (but, for some reason, with far lower accuracy than on Palms).

The Today screen — a summary of appointments and to-do items — now shows blue text superimposed on a photo, which you can replace with one of your own, using a free program from Microsoft''s Web site. As you can imagine, the result is very difficult to read. When you miss a meeting, don''t expect your clients to nod understandingly when you explain: "I''m so sorry. Your address was hidden by a tree branch."

Worse, Microsoft has enthusiastically piled on new features without cleaning up the old ones. You still can''t write an appointment directly onto your calendar screen, as on a Palm; you must tap New, open a dialog box, write the appointment''s name, open a menu, tap a starting time, and then tap O.K. And to find a certain program, you still have to check as many as three places: the Start menu, the Programs screen or the redundant Home screen provided by each Pocket PC manufacturer. No single screen lists all programs.

Nor have Microsoft''s designers learned to distinguish important everyday functions from glitz that nobody outside the trade-show circuit would use. Sure, you can now conduct multiple chat sessions simultaneously, but just shifting an appointment by half an hour is a five-step process. You can watch streaming video from the Internet on your palmtop, but you still lose style sheets, font choices, headers and footers, links, tables and other information in Word files copied from your PC.

But for ordinary mortals, mini- Windows is still Windows, complete with dire warnings not to move or delete certain files and user-hostile error messages ("Cannot open help file `msreader.htm#Main-Contents'' "). Microsoft remains steadfast in its belief that all the functions of a PC can be crammed into a palmtop, a philosophy that could not be more at odds with the "simplified for pocket use" design mantra of the more popular Palm operating system. As it gets to work on Pocket PC 2003, maybe Microsoft should start thinking less about the PC and more about the pocket.

Scene: man walking through airport.

"Open address list. No, close application. Open address list! Close application. OPEN THE ****ING ADDRESS LIST YOU GODAMN PIECE OF ****!!!!! No officer, there''s no problem. Yes, I''d be happy to come with you."

http://www.pencomputing.com/frames/casio_e200.html

warning: Plenty of juicy picture of small and thin gadget.

http://www.pdafrance.com/bancessai/
pocketpc/casioe200/e200_b.html

techno paleolithicum?

This is jsut from Yankowsky yapping about simplicity and how superior Palm is compare to pocketPC. Now is pay back time. And it is pretty fun watching all the marketing jingle turn against itself and implode.