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Story: PDA prizefight: Palm OS 5 v Windows Mobile 2003
Posted by: James E. Freedle II (Monday 15 March 2004, 3:34 AM)
If you want a paper weight, or at least to blow some money, there are better items to get than a PalmOS based PDA! For the PalmOS, I passed it up long ago based on these factors:
1. Ease of Use. The core applications are very poorly written. After all the most important thing about a meeting is not even a field.
2. Desktop Compatability. The Pocket PC seemesly connects to my Windows desktops. Macintosh needs a much better operating system in order to be even considered.
3. Office Compatablity. Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, what better compatibilty do you want?
4. Contacts, Tasks & Calendar: The PalmOS versions of these applications look like something ripped off from Sharp, I think that they might need to look at this!
The core applicaitons of the Windows CE OS are much better than the corresponding PalmOS applicaitons. I understand that people have differences, and that most people don't think logically, but for them, the have the PalmOS based devices.
Full Talkback thread
Story: PDA prizefight: Palm OS 5 v Windows Mobile 2003
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Nice try to award Palm OS 5 as the winner! I disag... JED -
First of all, the difficulty you describe in openi... Steve Hall
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At a time when PDAs are used for more than just ha... Anonymous
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I have used to both the Pocket PC and Palm systems... Anonymous
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In using both the pocket PC and Palm for a long ti... Bill Ayers
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I used the Palm OS for six years and loved it. I... Paul Alandt
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I disagree as well with the direction this article... Anonymous
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Actually, they *did* compare the two fairly a... Verne Arase -
absolutely agree with the article. being a user of... David T
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The PDA market is losing out to smartphones. It wo... shekhar
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Given a choice, I will opt for Palm just simply I... Michael Lee
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i think pocket pc is better than palm os ,especial... hock lam lee
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You seem to be comparing the Pocket PC out of the... Peter Freeth
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I notice reading previous comments that opini... Denis
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If you want a paper weight, or at least to blow so... James E. Freedle II -
I recently purchased a PDA. Before doing doing tha... Nightz
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Windows Explorer makes Windows Mobile the winner i... Erik
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I was genuinely pleased with my Palm PDA - Sony Cl... Anonymous
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Not only does this article not compare like with l... Anon
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I think the article is rather good, no favorites a... Marijan Franovic
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After looking carefully at current PDAs I bought a... Duncan Corps
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Its been 2 years since the day i had my first PDA... strayato hirzaki
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And this is not an OS comparison I think. What abo... Michael Elfial
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I owned an IPAQ for a year and it was replaced 3 t... Monty Green
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hmm i'm stuck, i have had my IPAQ 1940 for ne... Anonymous
