Dear Palm: It's time for an intervention

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jeffharris @ Aug 22nd 2007 10:26AM

Yes, absolutely.

I've been a Palm user since the Palm Pilot Pro (1997? EGAD!). I've gone through Palm III, Palm IIIxe, Palm IIIc. When I saw the first big pivoting screen Sony Clié NR70V, I switched. It seemed even then, 2002, that Palm was in design stasis.

When my Clié died, I was bereft and reluctantly moved back to Palm and the TX. It's not a bad thing, but the OS just seems like it hasn't changed much since version 3, maybe 2. The mystery Garnet or OS 6 or whatever Palm is/was calling it never seems to materialize. And I thought Palm had Apple roots (shipping, stable products), not Microsoft's (delayed, bloated, stolen or acquired) bastard heritage.

I looked at the Treo line. While somewhat compelling, I HATE those nasty little keyboards; I have adult fingers. Call me crazy, but I like using a stylus and Grafitti.

I always thought that a truly GREAT Palm PDA phone would combine all the best features of the Palm TX... 128MB RAM (or more), big screen, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, SD card slot, on-screen keypad OR Grafitti ... with the phone guts of the Treo line, sans the crappy smurf keyboard.

Apple beat 'em to it, in some ways, with the iPhone. But I STILL like some of my old Palm software: DateBk 6, SuperNames, Brainforest, Vindigo.

So, why can't Palm do something like this instead of existing in it's un-dead state?

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