Story: PDA prizefight: Palm OS 5 v Windows Mobile 2003
Posted by: Michael Elfial (Sunday 20 June 2004, 9:21 PM)
And this is not an OS comparison I think. What about the fact that Palm is not yet fully a multitaksing OS - ver. 6 is but where we will see it on a real hardware? What about the API-s and the opportunities for the developers in general? With Pocket PC you don't need to learn a new OS - it is much like the desktop Windows (without the mess collected on the desktop) - you have file system and strong process control. Palm is like DOS while Windows CE looks much like a full scaled OS. With Palm you need tricks to make something work in the background - not so on Pocket PC and so on and so on. And if we realy look at the 3-d parties and not just pretend we know about them we will see that for Pocket PC you can find much more than for Palm - most Palm apps are simple games and PIM replacements while on Pocket PC you can get everything you need in your pocket. Yes some users are bound to contacts, meeting and e-mail, but let us be reasonable - every phone (not smartphone) today has them if we will compare OS-es over these features we can add in this contest a bunch of simple phones. So what is OS - email application and a few office apps. or a platform?
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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
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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 -
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
