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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Treo 700w impressions
Edward Craig at Yahoo! has a longer note on the Treo 700w, that can be summed up with:
* Not as user-friendly as a Treo with Palm OS
* Expensive: $400 with a 2 year contract (surely because of the larger memory/CPU needs of Windows Mobile)
* Mechanical design more or less the same as Treo 650
* Low resolution display: 240 by 240
Still, he was cautiously positive, especially as a choice for people that are already into Windows Mobile / WindowsCE, and indicates IT departments might have easier to accept Windows Mobile than Palm OS.
No doubt the integration with Microsoft Exchange is good. It should be.
I wonder what will happen now when Access owns PalmSouce, and there's general grumbling about whether actually Palm OS will survive. Will the industry drop Palm OS and replace it with something worse?
Interestingly neither Palm OS or Windows Mobile are big on smartphones, but Symbian OS is. How come we don't see comparisons of the Treo 700w with e.g. Nokia 9300? Not used in US?
Also, the smartphone market as a whole is relatively small (yet growing steadily), so it's a bit strange Microsoft is so much into just smartphones and PDAs.
Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Palm Treo 700w, with Windows Mobile, is likable - Yahoo! News
* Not as user-friendly as a Treo with Palm OS
* Expensive: $400 with a 2 year contract (surely because of the larger memory/CPU needs of Windows Mobile)
* Mechanical design more or less the same as Treo 650
* Low resolution display: 240 by 240
Still, he was cautiously positive, especially as a choice for people that are already into Windows Mobile / WindowsCE, and indicates IT departments might have easier to accept Windows Mobile than Palm OS.
No doubt the integration with Microsoft Exchange is good. It should be.
I wonder what will happen now when Access owns PalmSouce, and there's general grumbling about whether actually Palm OS will survive. Will the industry drop Palm OS and replace it with something worse?
Interestingly neither Palm OS or Windows Mobile are big on smartphones, but Symbian OS is. How come we don't see comparisons of the Treo 700w with e.g. Nokia 9300? Not used in US?
Also, the smartphone market as a whole is relatively small (yet growing steadily), so it's a bit strange Microsoft is so much into just smartphones and PDAs.
Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Palm Treo 700w, with Windows Mobile, is likable - Yahoo! News
