It's astounding that a company with resources like this manage to build a phone that does no more than the very first Handspring device did.
There isn't a SINGLE innovation in this device. Not a single feature stands out and says "hey, look at me, I'm different".
Even at a $99 (subsidy price) level there is room for innovation and Palm have just missed every single opportunity. A mediocre device from a mediocre company. From basic design flaws to a limited and outdated OS, it's the phone you'd expect from them in 2003.
That nonsense... Palm excel making smartphones, with the best Personal Information Management (pim) functionality, at the lowest price and that's what really matter, not if they add new almost useless programs - that might be fun, but you always can add as separate low cost programs...
Then is there some "missing features" that actually have BIG negative sides, as WiFi and GPS that eat battery... Or skinny designs, that instead are dramatically wider and don't have touch screens,,,
Finally wrote Engadget.. "Another flaw which Palm's designers don't seem to get is the sunken screen. Look, do you even use your devices?" ..forgetting completely that your face would both activate the touch screens and make it VERY greasy, if it NOT was safely located!
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It's astounding that a company with resources like this manage to build a phone that does no more than the very first Handspring device did.
There isn't a SINGLE innovation in this device. Not a single feature stands out and says "hey, look at me, I'm different".
Even at a $99 (subsidy price) level there is room for innovation and Palm have just missed every single opportunity. A mediocre device from a mediocre company. From basic design flaws to a limited and outdated OS, it's the phone you'd expect from them in 2003.
They are doomed to follow their Folio.
Hey I'm a well-rounded $99 Palm.
That pops out at me...........
At first I agreed that Palm needs to do better, but then I remembered that WM smartphones are still, for the most part, stuck at 320x240 and 200 mHz.
You overestimate the resources they have. It seems pretty clear that they have virtually none.
That nonsense... Palm excel making smartphones, with the best Personal Information Management (pim) functionality, at the lowest price and that's what really matter, not if they add new almost useless programs - that might be fun, but you always can add as separate low cost programs...
Then is there some "missing features" that actually have BIG negative sides, as WiFi and GPS that eat battery... Or skinny designs, that instead are dramatically wider and don't have touch screens,,,
Finally wrote Engadget.. "Another flaw which Palm's designers don't seem to get is the sunken screen. Look, do you even use your devices?" ..forgetting completely that your face would both activate the touch screens and make it VERY greasy, if it NOT was safely located!