1. VGA screen in PDA (Sony has it already, Bsquare too)
2. better battery endurance (never can have enough battery)
3. stylish chasis design. (come on now, iPAQ is getting uglier and uglier by each itteration. And the rest of PPC start to look like PC beige box. No personality what so ever.)
4. Linux has a Palm OS 5.0 emulator fallowed by PPC. (That would be a big laugh)
5. roaming wireless. (finally that built in WiFi has more use beyond an inch of your desktop transceiver)
6. After market modification. (chasis, memory, glowing buttons, etc)
7. PDA software is as good as desktop.
8. Truely original gotta-have-it PDA game instead of another desktop look alike or port.
I guess only Nexio, and that PCphone currently are on the market with VGA. But the BSquare definitely has VGA. and I know Sharp will produce 3.8 inch VGA display.
Yes. But then he'll find something else he' wouldn't like. Which is great BTW. People like Foo should keep on telling the world what is wrong with the current batch of devices. That's the only way progress will be made.
That's right...the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If someone doesn't berate device manufacturers for their less than perfect efforts, innovation would stagnate. When the next wave of devices hit the market, I'll be right here standing on my little soapbox. :P
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These are going to be very interesting times
I hope so, because so far..2002 has proven to be a dud for cool new products (with the exception of Sony). 2003 should be interesting, with new PalmOS 5/ARM hardware, and a potential new release of PPC based on WinCE.net. What I would really like to see in 2003 is LOWER prices on high-end hardware to help drive more wide-spread adoption of multimedia PDAs. We need to purge the market of all these damn grayscale organizers. There are too many low-end Palms floating around out there.
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Foo Fighter will get a Pocket PC with a transflective screen, so traffic here will drop a bit.
Ha! I keep waiting...and waiting...and waiting.
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1. VGA screen in PDA (Sony has it already, Bsquare too)
The PC-EPhone (http://www.PC-Ephone.com/feat.html), which hasn't seemed to find a market, has a VGA screen and has several interesting design features:
VGA touchscreen (sorry Foo, not transflective)
CDMA (but not CDMA2000 1x)
Bluetooth with available handset (but not headset)
Flip-up clear plastic screen protector
Interesting (but slightly awkward) form factor
I hope that the first version of this product finds enough success in the US that its designers are willing to go through a couple more design iterations. With the right upgrades, this could be a killer machine.
This has been touched on already, but I'll push it a little further.
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It is ground up rewriting to work natively in the ARM based OS.
Herein is the hole Palm has dug themselves, which will make this
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At some point Palm will presumably drop the PACE emulation environment.
not happen for a loooong time.
If current apps work well in the first OS5 release, they, of course, won't be touched by their developer. Ever. You know the type most of the "15,000" Palm apps are. The person that wrote it has grown up, or graduated from college, or switched to PocketPC long ago, or died. These apps won't be written. If it works good enough, people won't even seek a native replacement. But as long as people use the emulator, they can't drop it (that's the 'hole' I mentioned above).
The ones that will get rewritten are the serious apps that can make use of the StrongARM horsepower, are written by professional developers and will sell for $50+ (to a few dozen people).
Now games are a different matter. Developers can suddenly do what they couldn't do before, so new apps will be written. But again, since these can only be used by people with new devices, sales will be small and prices high. Not the things that gave the Palm OS it's original success.
You know, we're not psychic - submit it to the news@ alias, and we'll take a look. :wink: I don't like the thinly-veiled accusation that we only public "good Pocket PC news". Submit it, and THEN point fingers if we don't publish it, ok?
You know, we're not psychic - submit it to the news@ alias, and we'll take a look. :wink: I don't like the thinly-veiled accusation that we only public "good Pocket PC news". Submit it, and THEN point fingers if we don't publish it, ok?
Imagine if auto makers decided to use 3 or 4 different gas types for "their" car model. Imagine being able to only go to 1 of 3 or 4 gas stations because your car supports only brand "x".
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Your example is an apt one. But, imagine one person had the patent on a gasoline combustion engine in 1900. All the car companies had to pay him a royalty and ingratiate themselves to this person to use his patent. In fact this almost happened, but Henry Ford fought the guy who had the pattent and won. What would the world of autos have been like if this had not happened? It would have been set back 20 years just as the PC world was. Hundreds of millions perhaps billions of people the world over have not gotten computers as they have gotten cars, TVs, and VCRs. Why? Because of Microsofts pathetic OS. XP and 2000 have finally arrived with stability and the power to do really useful things in a somewhat user friendly fashion, but it is long in coming and it has been painful and expensive. We could save 10 more lost years if Linux would pass MS in the desktop OS this year as it did in the server OS a couple years back, but that doesn't look like it will happen.
Just my vision of what has and might have happened. It is really too complex a question to really answer definitively.
Re: Heading into 2003, it will get interesting
Which is great BTW. People like Foo should keep on telling the world what is wrong with the current batch of devices. That's the only way progress will be made.
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