Comments on: Rumor: New Tungsten Handheld Images

Yes, I actually did forget the Voice Recorder. And someone else brought up the Vibrating Alarm, which I also forgot.

I doubt we'll see these in this unit. Ah, well. Personally, I could do without both, but I understand how these are real needs for other people -- especially those looking for something to replace their T3 without having to get the LifeDrive. For those people, The Quest Continues...

(Someone go tell Surur that I'm lobbing him a softball; he might want to take a swing at it.)

I find that what a lot of us want is hardware similar to the high-end PPC stuff. We want it at a competitive price. But very importantly, we want it with the Palm OS.

So it begs the question of why P1 won't just go ahead and do it. Any possibility they are scared to stand toe to toe with PPCs? (That was for you, Surur.) Do they not want to have to compete dollar for dollar, feature for feature? Are they just trying to be "distinct", making sure that palmOne products don't just blend in with all the other hardware? For the life of my I can't figure out what's the drive behind the reluctance. (Ok, admittedly it was a very lame attempt at a play on words, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway.)


I'm still waiting for the mythical "color HandEra."

My God! Now THAT'S a PIC improvement I can get behind!

Buh-bye!

What, have you got the same syndrome as TVOR? You know, the one where you believe that whatever you say is so vastly important that it should never be "moderated" (censored, modified, deleted, etc.).

I have a hard time believing that Ryan deletes posts just because the poster doesn't cheer for Palm. Might I suggest that your posts are falling into the "inane" catagory and therefore should be deleted? I think you give yourself too much credit.


I'm still waiting for the mythical "color HandEra."

I suspect they decided that everyone liked the design due to the fact they sold a ton of the T|E devices. When it was the PRICE that everyone liked. A cheap looking design on a cheap handheld is tolerable, but on a premium model, a more sophisticated design is needed -- i.e., Tunsten T, T2, T3.

Just an opinion, many here probabl like the plastic shell and 'E' casing.

Good catch! Now if this is a release model and they have decided to cut the home button, they can really go $%@# themselves.

And is this spam by surur going to be removed? I say this is crossing the line. I say suspend him.

NVFS, Wifi, Bluetooth 1.2, Landscape+DIA, ect. All parts of Cobalt that Palm is trying to emulate and managed to botch very badly. 80% of Palm engineers are software engineers, yet they are to lazy to move to Cobalt, but too thick to write robust and stable code. I hope Oswin releases a whole host of Cobalt smartphones and pdas that send P1 spiraling into bankruptcy.

1) Do a Cobalt model?
2) Skip Cobalt and do a Cobalt-skin-on-Palm-For-Linux model?

Mace has just stated elsewhere that Cobalt As We've Never Known It is undergoing changes for the Linux skin version. This means that pre-Linux Cobalt is essentially a dead OS since pre-Linux Cobalt apps will *again* need fixes to run on the Linux skin version (geez, I hope you can follow all that!).

At this point, I'd be ranting against PalmSource.

Thanks again, Nagel. For nothing.

Well, skipping Cobalt is surely "yammy" (spelling?) in terms of spending money, but according to PSRC Roadmap we will see PoL at spring 2006, but even then there will be lots of things to implement. That spring version will be useful more (if not only) for Smartphones and not traditional PDAs.

Cmon, I'm waiting for you! Cobalt, come here!

I've never had a Sony, but I've never heared any complains about any instability.
This is now the issue with majority of p1 handhelds. And users wait way too long to get it fixed.
Innovation is something you're making first in the market. When it was with Sony, there was inner PalmOS market. Now it is not.
Or do you want to call Wi-Fi in HVGA PDA an "innovation"?

While I like the TXX how it's showed now, I do not think there is ANY R&D invested in it.

Cmon, I'm waiting for you! Cobalt, come here!

Joking aside, the T|xx needs the feature-set of the T3, with the T5 memory scheme (assuming it is really fixed), the latest versions of available hardware and software, a T5 or better body (I can live with plastic if it is well done), and WIFI. Throw in a second slot (CF), and I'd finally have my "mythical color HandEra". Am I forgetting anything?

Unfortunately, this rumor is likely going to cause me to wait even longer for my next handheld upgrade. And with the increasing problems with my T2 digitizer, I'm not sure how long I can wait. (Why is it that the digitizer on the IIIxe I "handed-down" to my wife is working better than my T2's?)


I'm still waiting for the mythical "color HandEra."

Here's my take:
Palm branded (the first new unit w/ new logo)
Garnet 5.4.8
Wi-Fi/BT
512mb flash drive
312mhz CPU
Same battery as T5
Plastic housing darker than the T5 & fairly solidly built.
No voice recorder
No charging LED
No cradle included
Good software bundle
Only a (relatively) few bugs at launch
$399 MSRP at launch followed by the inevitable $50 MIR a few months later.

T5 will drop to $300-$325 to clear out existing stocks. Don't expect any great T5 discounts past that because they don't want to steal sales from T|E2