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Living Room / Re: PocketPC or Palm?
« on: October 14, 2007, 04:39 AM »
I used Palm for years but I switched to Windows Mobile when offered one by my phone provider as a free upgrade with an extremely useful 3G monthly data offer. I thought it would play better with my data/gtd system - at least I could easily read .txt files on the memory card, which was surprisingly awkward to do on the palm. I also wanted to finally integrate phone and handheld - my old Sony Clie was not a phone.
I like it but it is slower than palm. And somewhat buggier. But all in all the difference has not been as great as I thought - the experience is much the same, including the annoyances. However, many of the available equivalent third-party programs are much more sophisticated on windows mobile than on palm, which I like.
Stephen Fry (of all people) writes about smartphones here. And here's a (somewhat old) Palm v. Pocket PC FAQ.
I like it but it is slower than palm. And somewhat buggier. But all in all the difference has not been as great as I thought - the experience is much the same, including the annoyances. However, many of the available equivalent third-party programs are much more sophisticated on windows mobile than on palm, which I like.
Stephen Fry (of all people) writes about smartphones here. And here's a (somewhat old) Palm v. Pocket PC FAQ.