Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 1st Nov 2004 19:52 UTC
Recent news has covered the release of many new smart phones. We have the new Treo650, the new Sony P910, the new Audiovox PPC 6000, the new Blackberry 7100, and the new Nokia 6670. Recently, I've been speaking via email almost daily with my AT&T (now Cingular) rep. For some reason, the conversation always steers towards his wanting to push the latest from Nokia, Blackberry, etc.
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Dave, that may be so, but it doesn't mean that we should hew to it here. Europeans are interested in simpler solutions than we seem to be. In the USA, the Palm OS is at least 75% of the market in PDA's.
While Symbian phones are coming out in greater numbers, I don't see too many people actually buying them. Why should we be limited by the simpler preferences of Europeans?
Europeans also want a simple music player. One without any other functions. Should we be bound by that as well?. Should Apple remove all of the other functions from it's iPods just to suit the European buyer?
There are different markets, and manufactures can play to all of them.
I have a Samsung i330, and it's been an amazingly useful device. I'm waiting for the new i550 to come out. Then I'll compare it to the Treo 650.
The fact is that you can do far more with the Palm OS than any other phone type device. The MS CE devices are simply too big and clumsy for me.
I hardly see a Symbian phone as a universal device. It's much too limited. The same is true of the MS Smartphone, though somewhat less so.
The main problem is that Palm has not pushed the OS aggressively enough to phone makers.
Hopefully this will chance as they say they are committed to have it out on less expensive phones soon.