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Top 10 Reasons the iPhone is Incomparable - Wait-a-Thon - Phone different

Comparisons to the iPhone just wont stop, despite the fact that the iPhone is pretty much incomparable. Dont believe me? Ive got ten reasons to back me up. And these arent minor feature gripes or personal peccadilloes. In proper Apple fashion, these are just 10 simple little words…

May 2, 2008 - Apple, Microsoft, Palm, RIM - Comments (0)

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, April 26th Edition - Phone different

Brian has branched out his excellent Tips column to TreoCentral, with a handy, dandy gem for contact lookups. By accident, however, he seems to have included screenshots from the 1999 vintage Palm V PDA’s app instead of the latest, greatest Treo 2008 version. The 2-bit, non anti-aliased interface is a dead give a–

What? Those are screenshots of the latest, greatest Treo?

Gulp! Moving on…

April 27, 2008 - Apple, Microsoft, Palm, RIM - Comments (0)

Is there something that sounds less underwhelmed than *sigh*?

Palm Wanda is the Treo 500v successor - Engadget

Wow, look at what Palm and Vodafone are bringing us now via the good people at Boy Genius Report, the Palm Wanda. Terrible name (please tell us it’s just a codename!) aside, the specs are looking pretty decent with triband GSM and HSDPA covered as well as GPS for your navigational needs. The sheet also lists a “BURY” hardwire kit for car use and Windows Mobile 6.1 as the OS of choice. Launch is currently set for the September 2008 timeframe with the price set at roughly $350 — though, of course that’s a contract price.

January 5, 2008 - Palm - Comments (0)

Dang near perfect!… If it were running a finished, next-gen, game changing Palm Linux OS.

This will, unfortunately, be one of many high-end WinMob 6.6.6. devices emerging, crowded and barely distinguishable (”special sauce” not-spoken nor withstanding)…

Sigh.

Palm Drucker ( Treo 850v ?) to Replace Treo 750v - WMExperts

CES may start tomorrow in Las Vegas, but there’s big news from Europe coming out from BGR. They’ve scored a Vodafone product roadmap. As was predicted (accurately, by yours truly) over at TreoCentral, Palm is going to be replacing their Treo 750 in July of 2008. We don’t have a full picture yet, but we do have some specs: Quad-band GSM, Windows Mobile 6.1 (Pro? We assume), 320×320 Flush (!) screen (gotta be touch? We assume!), 2mp camera, 1500 mAh battery (huge!), GPS, WiFi (!), Bluetooth 2.0

Kind of reminds me of the famous line about “Xerox will never sell anything called a ‘mouse’!”

Succeed or fail, good or bad, Jobs has consistently shown vision and guts with Lisa/Mac (abandoning the CLI for the GUI), iMac (abandoning the floppy and intro’ing USB), and now iPhone (abandoning the tiny keyboard for the soft, multi-touch interface.)

Rubinstein may have just highlighted the difference between someone who can competently run a division, and someone who can excite an industry, and that worries me for Palm. They may have needed an Ive much more than a Rubinstein (and Apple has probably locked up their Ive and thrown away the key…).

(And this doesn’t even, yet again, get into how amazing Hawkin’s team did with the original Palm, the Palm V, the Handspring Visor and Treo, and how they’ve just fubar’ed it all since then — the opposite to Apple’s decision-making indeed).

John Rubinstein Palm vs. Steve Jobs iPhone - Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Rubinstein and Jobs could not agree on the iPhone’s strategy wrt the Keyboard. This tells me that Rubinstein has a separate but perhaps also compelling vision on how the keyboard needs to be incorporated into smartphones. I can’t wait to see what that vision entails