Comments on: Quickies: Sony NX-70V, PPC to Palm, Worms , NFL and SnapperMail

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Tradeoffs. There's only so many clock cycles to go around, particularly on a mobile system. Do we write the OS so that it is infintely expandable (And therefore contains a LOT of not-totally-necessary code), or do we write it so that it runs fast?

I don't think it's a case of the PalmOS 'Making it hard on vendors', it's a case of Palm looking at reality, and saying 'This is our target platform - Give us the best performance possible.' That means they diden't build in OS support for oversized color screens, garage door openers or MP3 players. It only supports what it was designed for.

If they wanted to 'Make it hard' on people, they could do stuff like Apple does, dumping most of it's internals under an NDA and force everone to code to their specs.

Instead they publish most of what they've done and all of the relevant interfaces, and provide support for third parties who want to work on it. Heck, they even take the third parties' contributions, standardize them and intergrate them into the OS sometimes. Hardly 'Making it hard', I'd say.

...they are way overpriced. If the handheld market were competitive, they'd be drive out of business by $50 alternatives.

There are, what, five or six companies making PalmOS PDA's? Seems like plenty of competition to me.

But nobody who isn't Palm compatible can get a foot down.

Not for lack of trying... The ones I can think of off the top of my head are the DaVinci(Royal), the Rex(Rolodex?), the eBookman(Franklin), and a few others that I can remember without actually recalling the names. That one with the pastel metallic cases and the voice recorder, for example.

I think that if somebody could come up with something cheaper, that worked better, they would have done it already - there's been plenty of attempts.

Oh, if you don't care about input methods, and are only using the thing as a datebook/Calculator, there's lots of stuff in the Sub-$50 market. Try mini-pda.com 's offering - For $12, it really IS kinda nice. Phone/email book, Alarm clock, datebook, games, beaming, syncs from a computer database, even lets you download personalization screens.

But it's not going to replace my ex-gf's m100, much less my HE330, anytime soon.

Now that I'll buy a 665, anybody want to buy a used N760C cheap? ;-)

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My NR-70 is unrecognizable from it's out-of-the-box state with YiShow, PowerJog, and a ton of hacks that are used through X-master. I suppose Palm expects the beginner to get a 'taste' of the Palm and then want to upgrade to be able to do more with hacks/programs. Don't know if that will entice or turn-off the newbie PDA user.

1. I couldn't stand the anonymous flaming, most of the time without any reason. They even flamed at people who didn't have English as their native language....and therefore made mistakes...like me:-)
2. A non-palm-opinion made you a troll, no matter how objective your opinion was. They never bothered to actualy read your post. "a troll is a troll and you never read posts of troll's"

The most impressive thing about apps that support SnapperMail's API is that they all inherit beaming support including files beamed from NON-PALM devices like a laptop or PocketPC. Anyone tried beaming a image from their MMS cellphone into JpegWatch Lite? That's cool.

Zuber