The "Palm Pilot" XV6700

[JAmerican]

I was working with someone some days ago and heard him say that he would refer to his Palm Pilot to enter his information. I was sketical at first by his definition of Palm Pilot. But when I saw him take out his Verizon XV6700. I just knew he was talking about a PPC. He seemed to have trouble with it but was able to use it for what he had to do. I still feel Palm should make devices like the XV6700. Larger scree, larger keyboard and just .03" thicker. How could you go wrong.

JAmerican

[dragonsgames]

We know it isn't going to happen.... :(

[JAmerican]

We know it isn't going to happen.... :(

Well Palm will continue to loose business from people who prefer wider keyboard devices aka Blackberry lovers aka Crackberry users. The guy could have gotten a smaller screen, smaller keyboard Treo but he chose the larger screen, larger keyboard XV6700 + it has WiFi. Palm thinks they will always stay profitable with the Treo but eventually, they are going to falter.By then its too late. I am going to try out WM next if I decide to get a smartphone. I may hate the OS but at least I'll love the hardware.

I also read from PC World an article on T-Mobile finally updating their handhelds with a more suitable device (the MDA). The lady said she was a Palm lover but she even liked the design of the device with the larger keyboard, screen, and WiFi. Palm users tend to look at the things not placed in Palm as a godsend. Who needs Wifi when you have EVDO. Basicall anything that Palm didn't have, there was some excuse. At least if you have to use WiFi in the XV6700, your memory slot won't be taken up.

JA

[dragonsgames]

What ever happened to LG? :rolleyes: :(

[JAmerican]

As Alan put it in his podcast on my editorial, LG has only been in the Palm OS market for 6, now 7, months so to expect them to come out with something so quickly is kind of ridiculous due to testing, FCC, dev testing, etc, 18 months I think or more is the amount of time that would be more reasonable. They may even be waiting for ALP to start working with that since they never made a Palm OS device before.

JA

[dragonsgames]

Who knows..... ;)

[gfunkmagic]

I doubt LG will come out with anything before the release of ALP...

Also, XV6700 + StyleTap = palm pilot! ;)

Hehe... well not really but at least it's close...

[JAmerican]

Who knows..... ;)
All I know is that I'm jumping ship if Palm doesn't release devices I like. I may be only one person, but thats one more person that WM has won over.

JAmerican

[JackAxe]

I'll personally suffer a smaller keyboard if it means the phone is using Palm or something similar. I'm interested in Symbion 60, because of its Flash Lite 2.0 compatibility, but I've not heard good things about how it operates.

I'm wowed over by some of these WM phones, but the OS IMO is not worth it and it easily degrades any piece of tech it inhabits.

<]=)

[JAmerican]

I'll personally suffer a smaller keyboard if it means the phone is using Palm or something similar. I'm interested in Symbion 60, because of its Flash Lite 2.0 compatibility, but I've not heard good things about how it operates.

I'm wowed over by some of these WM phones, but the OS IMO is not worth it and it easily degrades any piece of tech it inhabits.

<]=)

Thats the sad thing about Palm and WM is that the devices of WM are great but the OS is bad by many people's opinion (I have not yet decided), and in Palm, the OS is great but the hardware just sucks IMO. So getting a Symbian device may be the key but yet not sure how open those devices are to development. All I know is that WM and Palm OS have large amounts of soft. It also seems as if WM has much more due to Third-party support by Microsoft compared to Palm. I could shoot out a WM app in a few minutes while for Palm OS, I'd have to question a few things like is it a CLIE, Palm, Tapwave. Then, does it have media capabilities. Does it have internal storage. At least from my experience typing to make apps for Palm.

JAmerican

JAmerican

[JackAxe]

I bought a PPC, because I was impressed by my brothers, but the learning curve and inherent issues that plagued the deviced weren't worth it in the long run for me. There are some cool things I like about it, but when it comes to just being a PIM device like Palm, it didn't seem up to par.

If my PPC didn't require so much wrangling just to keep it in line, I would have a different opinion about WM.

I'm personaly holding out for a new Treo, but I can wait. I'm still taken back by the fact a company that makes a mobile-web-browser bought Palm and with this Linux version coming, I really don't know what to do.

Never the less, I'm glad it's a choice. Each passing month always bring some cool new WM phone, which continually grabs my attention.

I just want Flash Lite 2 and to be honest, if they released it for WM and not PALM, well, I would probably by one.

<]=)

[JAmerican]

I'm a person who doesn't even use the PIMs of Palm. All I've heard really is that the PIMs of WM are terrible and yet I rarely use them. So I may in fact love or like WM the same way I love Palm. The only PIM I use is ToDo but not often.

JAmerican

[JackAxe]

I like the extras, but It alwasy comes dow to basic functions for me in the long run. I also own SuperNames for the Palm, so I was dissapointed with the selection for the PPC at the time. I haven't looked recently though, so things could have changed.

I have patients, so if I wait long enough, hopefully Palm steps up, or WM has something I can no longer ingore. I would personally like WiFi in my new phone, it's not an important feature for me, but it would be nice and of course Palm doesn't include it. *grumbles.*

<]=)

[Legodude522]

I know someone who has 2 Dell Palm Pilots. ugh. I cringe everytime someone says "Palm Pilot" or even worse, when I have to say it.

[JAmerican]

Yea, people ask me if my CLIE is a Palm Pilot. I say its like a Palm Pilot because my UX is like 100x what the Pilot is not. LOL

JAmerican

[Legodude522]

I try very hard to resist calling my Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 running Linux a "Palm Pilot."

[JAmerican]

I try very hard to resist calling my Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 running Linux a "Palm Pilot."

LOL. Just do what I do. Call it a mini-laptop ;). People usually are amazed by that. :)

JAmerican

[Legodude522]

LOL. Just do what I do. Call it a mini-laptop ;). People usually are amazed by that. :)

JAmerican That is what I do. ;) People are very amazed. I don't think I called it a Palm yet.

When I showed my friend, he just picked it up and tapped on the Console and typed in SU, RM. lol.

[dragonsgames]

SU, RM? :confused:

[Legodude522]

SU, RM? :confused:
SU is the Linux command for Super User. RM is for reformating it.