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Originally posted by Dougf
Heh heh hehh the ultimate debate, PPC Vs Palm OS. I have switched twice to PPC from Palm OS and Twice I got so aggravated over and over that I am keeping Palm from now on. When HP 1910 came out I fell in love with it in the store and bought it on impulse. When I tried using the text entry, I found myself correcting it too many times.
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PPC comes with Block recognizer, keyboard, character recognizer, and Transcriber. I'm sure that ppl will find one of the four that they can use.
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I found that for any simple function I wanted the PPC to perform, an application with a hefty price tagshad to be bought to do it...from a simple program that puts an X on the top right hand of the screen to shut down a program, to programs to back everything up, to 3rd party games and PIM Software. The PIM functions were awful and extemely unreliable almost having me miss 2 meetings when I had it.
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Close out programs as well as adding more info to the status bar-free. Icbar and Wisbar. Not only do they add the Close functionality (which should have been inherently coded into the OS) but also battery/memory meter, shortcut buttons, time/date, and volume control to name a few.
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My favorite is when people compare memory and processor speed on the 2 units. You can get 64 Megs on a PPC and almost fill it all up with 2 or 3 large apps. Keep in mind that PPC programs are memory hogs, they have higher memory available but programs take up all that memory to run. PPC also slows down considerably and very noticeably when you run programs, I have yet to run into a program that slows down my Palm units that much where it actually gets annoying.
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Ahh, the beauty of multitasking. PPCs can have multiple programs open at one time. Obviously, this will diminish performance after a while theoretically. However, when I have PIM programs open as well as word/excel, I notice NO lag at all. I only notice lag when I have SNES open at the same time as some other functions.
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And lets not forget one other thing....battery life! At the end of the day, just using PIM functions, my PPC's were at 50% battery no matter what, I have went many days without having to charge any Palm unit with normal use, and if you bring up the spare battery that the new units are allowing, do you really want to have to switch the battery twice a day?
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My battery life on my 2215 is FAR superior to my old NX70v. Many users are reporting that this unit is able to go 2.5 to 3.5 hours with CONSTANT WIFI USE. Definitely better than the 1.5 that some NX users were lucky to see. I have gone over 4 hrs on my ipaq with 52% battery life remaining-while playing MP3s, watching divx movies (yes REAL divx movies, as well as mpeg and avi, oh and don't forget the PPC supports Ogg Vorbis for music...) Poor battery life? Look at the NX and the NZ-now thats horrible battery life. Also, the new PXA255 processors are really battery friendly-they are supposed to use something like 30% less battery power than their previous incarnation, teh PXA250.
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That adds to the point of being unreliable. I would also like to mention that when you install programs on a Pocket PC, if you don't like the program good luck completely removing it. One example was Pocket Informant, I tried it and wasn't impressed with it. I tried removing it and all programs it had with it, some programs wouldn't delete, they stuck it in there, taking 2 megs to do nothing. What killed me was this was the case with 5 programs, they would stick something in the programs that wouldn't let me completely remove it, I had almost 20 megs of space from programs I couldnt use at that point, or remove. Then when doing a Hard Reset, I had to install one program at a time so that I could keep the deleted program out completely. It was like erasing your PC hard drive and re-installing all of your programs, now let it happen 3 times in 2 weeks because of system slow downs and crashes.
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PPC comes with a real file explorer-all you have to do is go into windows folder and delete the files. This isn't a hard thing to do.
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I quickly returned it and appreciating the simplicity purchased another Palm. Last thing was the live synch with the PC and the back and forth navigation through the PPC and desktop. I had to dig and dig to find certain programs to bring them up to the desktop so I didn't have to go through 2-3 screens to locate and run it, and then found I had to buy another program to allow shortcuts on the desktop. I found I would have to purchase all this software to bring the PPC up to Par with the convenience and ahem....simplicity of the Palm.
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Why would you run a program through ActiveSync???
However, I can see the whole PPC from my desktop/laptop. Not JUST the MS.
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It's ultimately your money and your decision
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many people will battle all my points which is fine....they call it an opinion for a reason, but I made the mistake twice, I won't make it again. If all the decision is base on is a Word Processing program, Wordsmith really does work great....if you are looking to get THAT detailed.....I'd get a laptop. It all depends on if you don't mind taking months to learn the difficult user interface of the PPC, or minutes to learn Palm OS....good luck with whatever you decide....and if you choose to go to PPC....you'll be back, heh heh hehhhh  [/B]
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An opinion is yours to make
However, I've now owned 4 PPCs (Casio EM500, Ipaq 3835, Dell Axim Basic, and currently an HP 2215) and 3 PalmOS devices (HS Visor, clie Nr70, clie NX70v) and I can't be happier with the PPC. Sure, it can be buggier, and it takes 1 more tap to get into your PIM functions (out of the box-lots of STABLE freeware out there that minimizes this, and don't forget the awesome TODAY screen) but it is so much more powerful. I read this on another board and it goes something like this. What has more problems, a bicycle or a car? Thats right the more complex one does. The price of features.
Pls people, I am not trying to flame, I am just giving valid constructive argument to this. I in no way shape or form am trying to start a flame war, but healthy argument can be fun. So please keep in mind that these are just handhelds and nothing more.