Palm OS no more?

Sat, Jan 28, 2006

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photo_treo700w_overview.jpgI have been a Palm user since 1999. From the m100, IIIxe, Zire 7.1 and curretly the Treo 600. Now that the Palm Treo 700 came out, with Bluetooth wireless is built-in. No more Blaze browser and you get Microsoft Internet Explorer! No more Documents-to-Go and just use real Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The camera is now 1.3 megapixels. And there are bunch more of improvements. But it will now runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile.

I am a great fan of the Palm OS, mainly because it has a small use of memory but can still fit so much information even with the small memory usage. Anything made by Microsoft always looks good, but this also eats so much resources. Which is one of the main reasons why I like the Palm OS after all the years and with all these other smartphones coming out with Windows Mobile on it.

I still have to read forums and other reviews how the people that switch to the Treo 700 from the Treo 600 or 650 goes, and if it is really favorable, I might switch over in the next… hmm… 3 years. I see nothing needed in my current Treo 600. It serves me well with the phone and PDA functions. And once I go for the Treo 700, this is also like forcing me to give up Mozilla Thunderbird and Palm Desktop to go back to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. I am not prepared to do that with all the work I am doing right now. There should be a better solution in the future.

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