[glen VanDenBiggelaar @ Sep 12th 2007 5:16PM]

Palm is a company that has been dead for years, just nobody told them. For years the products have been buggy, slow, and unispiring. It took them forever to bring out color PDA's to the low end market and then they were so underpowered people looked away. The Treo line was cool -about 4 years ago, but now its a joke. The software is slow at best. The things keep crashing when you answer a call. I think the problem is they are always about 4-5 years too late with their products. I am not sure if it just takes that long to bring it to the market, or if the guys working there have no clue on the market place around them.
Now, how to turn the company around? I really don't see a good fix. They need to throw everything out and restart from the ground up. Forget about the software, Run Windows or lynix, but the palm OS is run its life cycle. The new Treo 500 launch yesterday are a joke. A Treo with no touch scree WTF? There are plenty of cooler phones on the mark with touch screens, I predict another flop for Palm.

[trumpton @ Sep 12th 2007 6:40PM]

I've got the Treo 500 in my hands now and - FOR THE PRICE - it's a very nice phone indeed. Most phones in the low end price sector do not have touch screens - and most punters aren't bothered by that either.

They just want an attractive phone that can do the basics well - and on the evidence so far, the Treo will deliver just that.

It's going to be offered free with Vodafone contracts in the UK and it looks to be an impressive package.

It's not for me mind - I want more features in my phones - but I wouldn't be so quick to declare something 'a joke' when you've never even seen the thing, let alone used it.