PDAs are PIMs afterall
Dave:
Chocolate sundae, indeed. For most of us, traveling with a Pocket PC is like ordering a seven-course meal to go when all we need is a snack.
Besides, on my Palm, I can do all this:
- View and edit Word and Excel files
- Link to Money or Quicken
- Send messages to pagers and digital phones
- Heck, send voice messages to any telephone
- Play .WAV sounds
- Save and view photographs
- Create animations and morphs
- Watch videos and Webcams
- Track my position with GPS
- Control my TV, VCR and more
- Play the piano
- Make my Palm look like a PC (yikes!)
- And yes, Mike, browse the Web
I can, but I usually don't. And I suspect that most folks -- like me -- won't be doing most of these things most of their time on the run. Still, it's nice to have the enabling software a click away and free to try. It's also nice to know that I can expand my modest digital companion with a host of cool hardware accessories: keyboards, MP3 players, digital cameras, modems, phones, GPS receivers and more.
But play DOOM on a PocketPC? Do you also kick back and watch Titanic on your handheld television? Thanks, but no thanks. For the Palm, I can recommend a solid selection of games that were actually designed for the small screen, terrific diversions and amusements when you're stuck in the mall return line or trapped in an endless meeting.
Hey, Mike -- PDAs make great PIMs. For everything else: Get a laptop. Get a Gameboy. Get a life.
It really does not matter which device one chooses to use. They both provide the basic functionality needed from a PDA. If one wants to spend the extra cash, the Pocket PC does offer more power and it does run a version of Windows (yikes!), but the palm is cheaper and fufills more than all the needs of the normal user. The only real reason that the Pocket PCs are dosing as well as they are is the Monopoly known as Microsoft. If they ran a proprietary OS like the Palm does, no one would pay the price for them. For the user who is money wise and wishes to use the real industry standards and not the unilateral dominating standards of Microsoft, the palm is the choice. The Pocket PC is for the user who does not mind endorsing an oppressive company in order to get a few more whistles and bells that few others are cmopatable with anyways.
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