[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by choyboy

I hate to say it, but you're all fanboys yourselves. That's not an insult, but just a natural role we end up taking. No one wants to say that the device their using isn't the best. Everyone naturally justifies their purchase and overlooks the flaws.

I'm sure there's fanboys here, but I'd like to think that most of us have made a rational decision as to why we use Windows Mobile.

I've always said that once Palm fixes multiple categorization and multitasking, I'd consider going back. Those two are requirements for me, and it's frustrating that they haven't been fixed. The Treo 650 is indeed a very attractive device, and Palm deserves credit for that piece of hardware -- but I'm not that interested in Garnet.

As one poster said, you also get comfortable with what you're used to.

Indeed. One thing I hear from a lot of people who switch from Palm to Pocket PC is that it's "awkward" or "difficult". I found that it takes a few months before a new UI becomes immediately intuitive. I now find Palm's UI far more unintuitive than Pocket PCs'.

But that's not for everyone. 95% of the customers I serve aren't after power and bragging rights. They just want to get the job done. In the case of most of the medicos, that means access to medical resources and basic PIM functionality.

Sure -- and, in those cases, I've occasionally recommended Palms. The real threat to Palm, though, is that cell phones are slowly gaining enough functionality for the majority of low-end uses. Palm knows it needs to attack the high-end and Smartphone markets to survive. While they have accomplished this on the hardware, the OS is lagging.

Palm devices are simpler to use, and, contrary to what one poster here has said, don't crash 6-9 times a day.

Actually, there are known issues on the most recent devices -- especially the T5 -- that do require several resets per day. In fact, the linked discussion talks about it. My WM devices, on the other hand, usually last weeks to months between soft-resets.

They also launch faster and are less complicated (wow you can actually quit applications when you say quit!)

I'll buy the faster, but as I assert above, I don't agree on the complicated bit.

But it also has it's downsides. Activesync isn't exactly the best syncing software.

Yes -- and, finally, Microsoft has improved it significantly in WM5 (barring the loss of WiFi sync, which we've all railed about). And many of us have also railed about the close button.

it will be interesting to see if the HP hw6500 does a better job at converged devices than the treo - if so, that puts palm one step closer to the grave.

I think the hw6500 will have its niche, but it's too hard to say. My biggest problem with the hw6500 is the low screen resolution. I'd love to see a device in that formfactor with a 480x480 screen.

--janak