Palms woes compared to Amiga

[Crom00]

It seems that those relative few who have the Palm Pre or some other WebOS-based smartphone from Palm not only like it, but passionately believe it is superior--even to the vaunted iPhone. I can't shake the feeling, though, that Palm users sound a lot like IBM OS/2 and Commodore Amiga loyalists clinging to dying technologies as the ship is going down.

Linky...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100320/tc_pcworld/ipadkillermaybepalmslasthope

[KThunder]

I think that any technology that people get used to that gets superceded by newer "better" tech can be like the amiga and os/2 and possibly palm.

It's sad that i have had all three of those so i can comment with experience here.

i had a palm centro for quite a while and i really liked it. i went with the verizon mifi for internet so i ditched the smartphone for a regular phone.
the problem with palm was they waited sooooo looong to update the palmos and all of a sudden they want everyone to be in awe of the palm pre when apple released the iphone and have done so much with it. its almost like they didnt care but they were drug kicking and screaming into it.

[Tenacious]

I'm further behind the times.  I want my cell phone to only be a telephone, especially when issued to employees by their employer.  PDA = Public Data Assistant

The Palm models of choice for me are the ones just before they came out with WIFI (T, T2, Zire72, etc).  These are Private Data Assistants.

[J-Golden]

Man, I still miss my Palm III.  It was back and white, had a back light, a Star trek Tri-Corder and I paid for the extra alram tones of Austin Power's cell phone and the Mighty Morphi Power Rangers communicator (the last one ROCKED!).

Rangers!  Rita Rapulsa is attacking with a new super monster!

*IT'S MORPHIN TIME!!!!*

Ah, good memories...

[amigakid]

I had a Palm Treo phone.  Thought it was a great phone.  Too bad for Palms problems now.  I have a Motorola Cliq Android phone now and I don't care what the Iphone faithfuls say, this phone kicks my brothers Iphone's @$$.  After using this phone for a few weeks i see a bunch of things the Iphone lacks and Apple never seems to care to implement like removable batterry, removable media, a better camera(Cliq has 5 MP) and much much more.  Talking about battery my bros Iphone battery under normal use is low by about 4PM, i can go almost 2 days with same use before having to charge it.  Sorry I phone but in another year of development Androids will be almost untouchable.  Reason i say this is not to bash Iphone but to show that if they are having a lot of Competition from Android based phones Palm is seriously gonna be in trouble.  Not only that but with the new Windows 7 based phones I honestly can't see Palm lasting much longer without intervention or partnerships with the aforementioned.  Good luck Palm you were definately pioneers in the Smart phone business and hopefully can continue to be.

[koaftder]

It seems that those relative few who have the Palm Pre or some other WebOS-based smartphone from Palm not only like it, but passionately believe it is superior--even to the vaunted iPhone. I can't shake the feeling, though, that Palm users sound a lot like IBM OS/2 and Commodore Amiga loyalists clinging to dying technologies as the ship is going down.

Linky...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100320/tc_pcworld/ipadkillermaybepalmslasthope

hate palm, hate palm, hate palm. I've written too much crap for palm with their plethora of crap to support in the past. They built a nice little OS too on arm, and then never let us peons utilize any of it features. Damn them to hell. I hope they fail. They deserve it. But who are they? Who knows, it got spread all over the place over the years. Screw them all.

[Belial6]

I have to agree with the Android statement.  I have an iPhone and a myTouch 3G here, and the iPhone runs a bit smoother, but the basic design of the Android is much better.  My myTouch is at leas one generation behind already.  I got to play briefly with a pals Droid, and it was noticibly better than the myTouch.  In the brief time with it, it felt on par with the iPhone.  No doubt the Nexus is noticibly better than the Droid.

As I said in another thread... It looks like we are seeing the Apple vs. the PC battle all over again, and it looks like it will play out the same.

[hardlink]

Man, I still miss my Palm III.
Ah, good memories...

Why just memories?
I have a Plam  in my palm right now, actually a red translucent Handspring Visor. Works great in the supermarket for reading my shopping list, if I drop it I get another one at the Goodwill store for $1-$5 US. That's where this one came from. With the B&W display, the batteries last about forever, no worry about recharging. Of course for inputting information, I'd use my Psion with a keyboard, don't need no stinking phone.

Then again, you always liked your fancy cellphones

[kvasir]

I'm still using my Sony Clié Peg-TJ27 (Which is PalmOS, if not a Palm), and LOVE it. Having a severe case of ADD, this thing keeps track of minute details my brain seems to skim over. When the battery dies (an unfortunatly common occurance, considering its age), I feel like I've lost an organ. :-D Before the Clié, I owned a Zire 71 (which I liked better, actually) that got killed while I was jackassing about with my drunken buddies. (Got thrown against a brick wall, the thing was in my pocket) Before that, I had a Palm M130, which had gone through hell. Unfortunately, it didn't make the trip back more than once. The M130 had a very rigid plastic stylus, which had a habit of carving the screen beyond any usability. Between that, and having Bejeweled on there on a Navy ship, all my buddies would play it when I was on watch or something. Bought a replacement screen, and a rubber-tipped stylus for it, but lost the power cradle. Oh well...
Anyway, My PDA talks to my Amiga via Subway USB, though the hotsync software is kinda difficult to set up. Also, I can "mount" the memstick as an Amiga device, making downloading stuff (mostly off of Freeware Palm) extremely convenient. I don't think I'm allowed to post anything approaching the length required to convey how useful this thing is! :-D
Unfortunately, it seems to be a general pattern with technology. Some ingenius device is developed (Amiga, Palm, countless others), then gets in the hands of some corporate panel that waters it down, dedicates it to what they believe will sell, and limits it to whatever that belief is. PDA's got turned into cell-phones, glorified mp3-players, and useless battery/money eating carp that I would never really want. (I had the joy of using an Ipod Nano on my Amiga, because my sister-in-law wanted to download some music off of my HD. Apparently it did something to her online music account) Anyway, I'm starting to rant now, so I'll just hit "Submit" and spare everyone the drama of the remaining complaints. :-D

[Tenacious]

I'll say it again.  Palm may be more like an Amiga (in some ways) than any other platform.  

The older Palms (that use RS-232, haven't configured USB,yet) sync with and become an extension of Amiga when used with Spitfire (Palm sync software).

Those with SD card slots can be backed to the card (with RFbackup) without need for ever syncing to a computer.  With the space left over you can store a huge library of e-books, or all your favorite Mp3s.  All this before Kendall, iPod, iPad, iOverCharge.

The older Palms are cool!

[Daedalus]

Speaking of batteries, I'm suitably impressed with my Nokia E52... I easily get a week out of it, which will include some listening to music, usual email sending/receiving and some web browsing and a bit of Google maps etc. It's not as slick and smooth as the iPhone, but the battery alone makes a massive difference for my usage, let alone allowing messenger apps (Skype etc.) to run in the background constantly, popping to the front when needed.