Foo Fighter Reviews his 2003 Predictions

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pocketfactory.com/archives/000147.html#more' target='_blank'>http://www.pocketfactory.com/archiv...00147.html#more</a><br /><br /></div>"Almost a year ago I posted my predictions for the PDA market in 2003. Since the hour glass is nearly empty, I thought now would be a good time to take a look back and grade my accuracy. Overall, I don't think I did too bad. The original thread can be found at Pocket PC Thoughts. Here we go..."

[Timothy Rapson]

To me, the biggest disappointment of the year in PDAs must be that neither Sony nor PalmOne got on the stick and delivered a standard tablet model with virtual grafitti. This is such a no brainer guys. The PPC did this one thing absolutely perfectly. Yet, we have PalmOne and Sony completely wasting their time rehashing the M505 into the TE and the T615 into the J35 with the same stupid old static Grafitti. Worse yet, it is Grafitti II, that is even worse than the original plain hard Grafitti.


The best innovation of the year is clearly the new Toshiba VGA E805. If anything can save Toshiba in the PDA market, this is it. If no one releases a standard Palm OS soft grafitti model (my dream is a Zire 71 with 1 megapixel swivel camera, virtual grafitti, and 64 meg. I would pay $300+ for that, but a Sony TG-50 mated to a NX80V would produce fine offspring too.) by next February 1, I will be getting a Toshiba E805, Who knows, by then maybe Toshiba will offer their Japanese camera model (E550G?) with that VGA screen. I would drop some real money for one of those.

The consumer story of the year must be the fact that the PPC market has three models for about $200. Remarkably, the Ipaq H1935 is a far better buy at retail ($199 or less after rebate) with a full 64 meg, than the Axim X3 (with only 32 meg and $229 price) than the Axim is direct. Last week TigerDirect was selling brand new Toshiba E355s with WM 2003 for $149. Palm OS models are clearly offer lower feature/dollar ratio than the PPCs by far.

Foo sure got a lot more of his predictions more right than I EVER do. Congrats on another good year, Foo. :ladysman:

[huangzhinong]

The best innovation of the year is clearly the new Toshiba VGA E805. If anything can save Toshiba in the PDA market, this is it.

Unless Toshiba lower the price to $399 soon just like E750, otherwise, E805 will only be geeks' toy. It won't save toshiba. Most users won't even know it is 640*480 resolution.

[Palmguy]

The best innovation of the year is clearly the new Toshiba VGA E805. If anything can save Toshiba in the PDA market, this is it.

I agree. Hopefully this concept will finally come through with the more reliable manufacturers (*cough* HP *cough*) with better QC than Toshiba. From extensive reading over at Brighthand, for those of you who don't know this about the e800, it seems commonplace for devices to have multiple dead pixels. I'm growing tired of 240x320, especially with the big push this year in wireless equipped handhelds. Until many websites become optimized for handheld viewing, if they ever do, QVGA absolutely blows IMO. Native rotation would sure be nice too.