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Originally Posted by mememe
It's just a more comfortable and easier OS to use. I can hand it to my 4 years old and she gets it. I can give it to my mother and she gets it. I give them the ipaq and it aint so easy...
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Really? I give my PocketPC to my family and they can find the Start button trivially, and it's easy navigation from there. Whenever I hand a Palm device to someone, they ask "how do I get to the Applications screen?" I have to remind them, "hit the Home thingy". "Oh."
Admittedly some of the more power options, like closing down apps, etc., are not intuitive on PPC, but overall the device is very intuitive. OTOH, show them a online keyboard or Transcriber compared to Graffiti... my dad has absolutely refused to buy a Palm, because he hates Graffiti (and he even learned and worked with it). I had to give him my old iPaq.
But let's not degrade this into a flamewar about the old Palms... I saw the pics of the Tungsten T. It's cute, but it really has nothing interesting. The Tungsten W is a weaker version of the Treo. Neither shakes me up. The only PalmOS 5 device worth considering is the Sony NX series, and they're huge. And battery life on either the T or the NX is very PocketPC like. It's time to give up this "weeks" convention; that worked with old B&W Palms that had 20+ hour battery life, but none of the new units have that.
--bdj