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If Palm offered a nano sized PDA I'd buy one today.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/
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If I buy a PPC-OS Palm, what will I have?

--It certainly blurs the lines. We'll need new names to differentiate the two.

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These news stories about Palm losing its grip are ridiculous. They are a first and foremost a HARDWARE company. Remember that they purposely split off the software unit (PalmSource) many, many years ago.

So what’s the big surprise about using the Microsoft OS? Seems smart to me if they want to get into the corporate market even though the UI sucks compared to the PalmOS .. for now.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/
Does my Goodlink Treo use the Palm OS at all? Don't know the technical answer, but know that the hardware + Goodlink beats the pants off of anything else I have seen.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/
The problem is that there's not much money to be had being a Microsoft hardware partner. Microsoft tend to cream off all of the profits and leave the hardware vendor with very tight margains. Just look at what happened to IBM.

What exactly does Palm add now? Microsoft make the OS and HTC actually manufacturer the Treo range. Palm is just a middle-man, increasing the cost of the device and probably the time-to-market too.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/
- Graffiti 2
- No functional upgrades since OS 5.2.8 (just bug-laden eye-candy)

They need to wipe everything away and start over from 5.2.8. Add features that actually do something, and keep away from eye-candy and those useless launcher favorites.

They need to also have better options for input. They need options to toggle between Graffiti 1, Graffiti 2, and the onscreen Keyboard. That's at the minimum. Even better would to have customizable strokes. PalmSource should have licensed TealScript instead of Jot: that would have kept their customers happy as well as Xerox.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/
True dat.

The POS platform may not grow much in its current state, however POS on linux has the potential to be something quite robust, both design wise and functionally.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/
Palm adopting windows basically is like Palm saying, ok Windows you have the better operating system and we are now giving you the GREEN LIGHT to become the undisputed smartphone operating system.

I dont think Gates could have been happier with a blow job than this victory over Palm.

So does Palm now put LOTS of time and effort into making the next Palm OS Treo better than than any previous Treo's (including Windows) or will it just fade away.

The next Palm Treo will be very telling of the fate of Palm. OS 5 Garnet = bad news. OS 6 Cobalt or other, = hope.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/G2 is buggy, inconsistent and slow compared to G1. It's completely illogical.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/29/five-reasons-for-palms-slide/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM