Palm Losses and Alternatives to Palm Smartphones
Tom Martin -- Fri, 06/27/2008 - 07:07
Sales of the pricey Palm Treo have fallen enough that the popular Palm Centro has not been able to make up for them. The company lost money in its fourth quarter.
Palm did add Verizon to it distribution for the Centro a few weeks ago, which should help.
But this is quite a loss in the high end phone market for a company that once was the beneficiary of RIM's legal problems.
Is Palm out of it, or could they ride the Centro to longer-term consumer success?
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That's a good question. I have the original Treo 600 and am looking to upgrade. Part of me want to stick with Palm and get the Centro (which I could migrate all of my Palm applications to). The other part of me wants to get the new iPhone when it comes out. I'm not sure I could live without a Qwerty keyboard though.
Well, the iPhone has a qwerty keyboard, it just doesn't have physical keys. But, I have a Blackberry and and iPhone and I think I'd have a hard time depending on the iPhone for email (but that's my primary app).
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The physical keyboard is a pretty big thing for me. Why would you have a problem with the iPhone for email? How good is the blackberry as a phone?
I'm nowhere near as fast at typing on the iPhone as on the because I have to look very carefully to hit the right virtual key.
The Blackberry as a phone is great (I have the 8800). Live wireless synching with Outlook or Entourage is nice. Phonebook is therefore easy to use. Audio is good (unlike Treo). Blackberry internet - at least with AT&T as a service provider - is unusable. iPhone is pretty good at times for a phone (and wait til 3G, then maybe it will actually be good).
8800 has no camera (as a corp geek you're not supposed to have a life?) but I think the next gen added cameras.
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