This of course doesn't apply to those who have always been on the WinCE/PPC side. I'd like to know--why did you originally switch to PPC?
Me, I switched because I saw those games--beautiful games, and how much more connectable a PPC is, to the internet.
I don't like PPC's built-in apps (the Tungsten t3 has much better built-in apps), and I don't like the PIM replacement apps either, I've tried them all and I currently use Agenda Fusion, but none offer what I had on the Palm.
I like the PPC platform, for it's games. Palm has the stability and usability down-pat, not to mention out-of-the-box Mac support... *and for those that say Palm is abandoning Mac, that's bull. The OS-maker (PalmSource) is abandining Mac, but the hardware-maker (PalmOne) isn't*
Great question. For me there was no choice. I got one of the first iPAQ 3650 devices that were available in Canada. The specs sold me. Colour screens, more memory, expansion packs. It was PDA-heaven (at least, once I got past the dust and screen flips ).
I got bored with Palm. I had a Palm III and then a Palm VII. I was stuck with 2MB of RAM and no real multimedia capabilities. Then, I saw the Compaq iPAQ. Wow, what a device! Plus, it synced with Outlook out of the box. Sounded like a great device.
I've always found Pocket PCs more fun to play with. Palms work great but are best when they are basic. Pocket PCs are better at the general "fun factor" (in my opinion).
Palm is just so boring. If you get it strictly for PIM I understand, but in my eyes that's all they have. I was amazed at the T3 when it came out it had that wow factor. After one hour of playing with it, the wow wore off. My T3 is on ebay as we speak! No palm compares to my e805!
Also, PPC is meant to function more like a computer than a beefed up Franklin Planner. We are not exactly, entirely, quite there yet. But I am happy to get on to this bandwagon.
I hated the constant need to convert any kind of data into PALM format. Any kind of Word, Excel, MPEG, MP3, Acrobat, HTML, etc. file that I wanted to view on my PALM had to be in a proprietary format. There was no such thing (there might be now) of native file format viewers.
With the PPC I can take just about any regular unconverted file and use it with very little hassle. I think this had a lot to do with the fact that PPCs use a directory file structure instead of some kind of internal database for every file.
Also there was almost no interactivity between applications. On the PPC I can click an Acrobat link in PIE and it will load, launch and view Acrobat Reader.
And of course PPCs could do straight out of the box what Palms were just then touting they could do (sort of...).
I haven't kept up with current Palm capabilities, but I would suspect that the above issues are still issues.
I wound up doing everythig I could with my Palm. I modded the case so that alarms were louder, loaded every hack I could find, added memory (TRG) so that instead of 2 Meg I had 8. It was O.K., mind you I could surf (it was ugly, but it worked), read my email, etc. I finally gave up when I ached for a color device and Palm kept saying: "When we can release a color device that will last as long as a mono device on a pair of AA batteries, then you will get a color device". Instead of waiting for what would become the Palm IIIc, I bailed! :wink:
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I'm a recent switcher. It was just that, there STILL aren't any PalmOS drivers for the WiFi SD card! Otherwise I would have stuck around for a while, maybe. But this Toshiba, with dual expansion, it's just ... man! The multimedia and value and wireless options got me over the fence. Stupid Clie.
I had 4 Palms (Palm Pilot Personal, Plam V, Palm 505 and Tungsten T). I never considered a PPC because they were too big. When the H2210 came out, I give it a try and got hook.
Now, I just got the 4150, I really like the fact that I can surf the net on Wi-Fi (not through a proxy). And multitasking is a big thing. On my Palm TT, I was running the GPS, and if I wanted to look at a contact, I had exit out Mapopolis, loosing all my navigation info, get the contact info, then re-launch Mapopolis and re-configure my destination.
I would say multitasking is the best feature PPC provides. But, it's more expensive to cutomise it (software). And PPC doesn't have to software that the Palm has.
But, it's more expensive to cutomise it (software). And PPC doesn't have to software that the Palm has.
This is quite true. That's one thing I miss about PalmOS. There are quite a lot of programs that are free and/or much cheaper.
I think the ratio of Palm S/W to PPC S/W was about 10 to 1. I wonder what the ratio is now. Any ideas? I thought Handango had those stats somewhere. I couldn't find them.
Why did you originally switch?
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