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RE: color palm
Wait until the next version comes out, then buy these when they get clearanced.
RE: color palm
Is it worth the $449? Judged against what else is available, I think so. Sure, later models will be a lot less money. But that is true throughout the consumer electronics field. The wealth of software for it makes it, IMHO, more valuable then the Pocket PC units priced similarly. The visibility of the screen even in B&W mode makes it worth relatively much more than a IIIxe. The color if you have applications you like that use color is a phenomenal value-added perq.
Sure it is less popular. A Corvette is less popular than a Neon. But I want to drive the Vette.
RE: color palm
Colours and Palm
RE: Colours and Palm
I’ve opened my Palm IIIc to look inside and I can see why. Although the main board is considerably smaller than the Palm III board. This appears to be to make room for the large Lithium Ion battery. Palm demands a usable amount of run time from their batteries, unlike the color WinCe units.
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears that the wait for a color Palm Vx will be a long one at best.
On a side note. I’ve been a Palm user since I got my Palm 5000 several years ago. Now, 4 Palm units later, I don’t feel that the Palm IIIc is any less stable than the older ones. You just have to make sure the software you load onto it is current and compatible with the IIIc. This is true with any upgrade of hardware.
RE: Colours and Palm
What is that supposed to mean? The Palm IIIc has roughly the same battery life as a Pocket PC! I recently purchased a Jornada 545 (after going through three bad Palm IIIc units) and its battery life is 8 hours, while the IIIc has a lifespan of 9 hours, and the Compaq iPaq gets around 12 hours! That's not much differnce in battery life to warrent accepting the *flaws* of the IIIc!
You need to study battery usage of the IIIc a little better. Palm quotes it as having a two week lifespan, but that is basing it on only 30 minutes of useage a day! With continuous use the IIIc will last only 9 hours. Which means that the Compaq Pocket PC will actually last another three hours beyond the Palm!
RE: Colours and Palm
anybody knows how much power it consumes when not
in power saving mode? Compared to ARM? MIPS? etc.
Ofcourse the LCD might be more thirsty as well,
since it's a colour display, but the WinCE devices
seems to have 16bit displays and at least some of
them lasts somewhat comparetively to the Palm IIIc.
RE: Colours and Palm
I hope you enjoy that little device from HP. By the time Microsoft has handheld computing figured out, the DOJ will be breaking up Palm for it's alleged monopoly.
RE: Colours and Palm, for George!
Using my IIIc as hockey pucks? Nope, the problem I experienced had nothing to do with durability. My IIIc's wouldn't funtion properly. You can see a more detailed posting of my problems by looking at the story about Palm replacing IIIc cases here at PinfoCenter, and I wasn't the only one! Basically the digitizer wouldn't work. When you tap on an item, it would select something else!
Better hardware? Hmm, I don't see how you can say that considering Palm is having a problem with the cheap plastic case, from which the IIIc is made, developing cracks. Faster Hotsync? This shows how little you know about Palm devices, the faster Hotsync has nothing to do with the IIIc. The reason for the faster sync is due to an upgraded version of the Palm Hotsync manager, which any current Palm user can freely download.
And yes, I love my Pocket PC! Will Palm continue to kick Microsoft's ass? Probably, but that doesn't mean we as consumers should stupidly buy whatever Palm shits out! Look, I've owned nearly every Palm device ever made (except the early Pilots) and I have loved every one of them. The IIIc has been the first line of Palm handhelds that gave me problems, but the simple truth is that the Palm IIIc is an inferior product in comparison to a Pocket PC. I'm not just basing that on features, I'm talking about display quality. The IIIc display is so badly pixelated it's blinding! Palm should have increased the screen resolution before introducing color...but no, they simply added a color display to the same 160x160 low res interface, and it doesn't work!
I can promise you this George, if people like you blindly accept whatever Palm delivers, you will never see any new innovated features from Palm. Competition is what drives markets! Look at AMD and Intel. We now have PCs that border on Workstation performance. Microsoft has little competition on the desktop OS market. The result: a stagnant interface that never changes! Pocket PC is the best thing to happen to the Palm platform. Palm will never continue its success by stagnating its platform! It's time we give them an enima!
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