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Mike Temporale
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ShivShanks wrote:
Eventually it might make sense to the merge the two and have one OS in the future. This is certainly one big advantage the Palm camp has. They have one unified OS regardless of the shortcomings. They can always improve the core OS to support phones better and so still have one OS.


Didn't I read something about PalmOne splitting development into 2 camps? One for the device and one for the phone. Anyone else remember hearing this?
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David McNamee
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mike Temporale wrote:
Didn't I read something about PalmOne splitting development into 2 camps? One for the device and one for the phone. Anyone else remember hearing this?


Yes. I can't remember if it was us or our big brother who posted on it.
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David McNamee
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mike Temporale wrote:
Touch screen aside, the rest of these are "small-ish" differences. There isn't much that seperates the two platforms. This is really going to make it difficult for the consumer to select which device and OS would best fit there needs.


I get this all the time now when I do developer talks on Windows Mobile. It's a very, very thin line. The purchaser has to really stop and think about usage patterns and which device will fit them best. It is a tough choice that is about to become even more so.
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Kris Kumar
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
David McNamee wrote:
Mike Temporale wrote:
Touch screen aside, the rest of these are "small-ish" differences. There isn't much that seperates the two platforms. This is really going to make it difficult for the consumer to select which device and OS would best fit there needs.


I get this all the time now when I do developer talks on Windows Mobile. It's a very, very thin line. The purchaser has to really stop and think about usage patterns and which device will fit them best. It is a tough choice that is about to become even more so.


I agree the decision has to be based on the usage patterns...

Regular phone users should stick with (or upgrade to) Smartphones.
Enterprise phones users (sales/field reps/heavy data users) should go for Pocket PC phones.

I feel right now there is not much confusion..in the future when the devices with varying screen sizes hit the market, thats when the real confusion would begin. Definitely for the geeky ones Very Happy

What I would like is -
1. for every pocket pc phone edition and smartphone to have SIM card, regardless of whether it is CDMA or GSM. Wish Microsoft could use its influence in this area.
2. the SIM card should be like SD card slot, accessible without removing the battery. This way I can have two devices, different screen sizes, and use one depending on what I am doing, and have one phone number.
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Malte
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm definately a phone-first type of guy, and I think that most people are. People in general are creatures of habit and the way we use a phone has been the same way for a hundred years now. Instead of focusing on stylus, on-screen keyboards, clip-on keyboards, all kinds of tap-technologies, why not focus on speech recognition, enabling people to send e-mails and make appointments with the phone to their head, like they're used to? Afterall technology should adapt to humans, not the other way around, right?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Malte wrote:
Afterall technology should adapt to humans, not the other way around, right?


The world would be a better place if every software developer took that to heart.
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ClayMJohnson
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Anyone have the link to the Motorola presentation?

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