Palm as phone is probably worst choice anyone can do. it lacks basic functions
of ordinary phones and it has extremely poor battery.
before i was carrying PDA and phone. after i was 'forced' to use treo because of
program i was working on igot used to use treo as phone and PDA for everything
else and i still miss my old phone. imagine battery lasted 1 week, i saw
confirmation when sms i sent arrived and it was able to show me my current
location...miracle...treo lasts one day, to show current location i need to
attach gps and some gps software and sms confiortmation is possible but you must
write some code to front of every sms....
so as result as soon aspalm stopped doing pdas and focused on phones its not
interesting anymore and i can imagien its dying...when for same price you can
have some Nokia which is maybe not as good as pda but its definitely much more
usable for everything important
T3 was great device though i never ownedit personally, i used it only in work.
T5 i am using most of the time is unstable mess, but i found how to live with
it. lifedrive is best palm device i ever saw, thought it suffers from nvfs a
bit, after i will replace harddisk with compact flash i hope it will never leave
me. and for phone, as soon as my phone based project will end then bye-bye treo
and i hope i will never meet you again
so back to original subject. T3 is still relevant, people who have it will use
it, because there is simply nothing better available. and for big companies palm
is long time dead because
1) T|X are extremely buggy and if you ever tried to use them in big amounts you
spent most of time by fixing and changing them. i know, all customers of company
i work for change to windows mobile devices because of T|X buggy digitizers and
other problems connected with it
2) E2 which is still available is slow, suffers from first versions of NVFS and
generally price difefrence is so small that you can better buy T|X - if you
insist on it
3) Treo smartphones are not supported by any mobile company here in slovakia,
which means you must buyt them for full price. companies who order hundreds of
devices will never buy smartphone when they can buy some pda and get phone
almost for free from provider.
4) as result all available devices are useless. and almost for same price you
have windows mobile device with integrated gps.
so now imagine you are manager of company, everything in your company is windows
based, you need to get solution runing for 500 users, what you would prefer?
palm, or anything else?
so i am sorry for that, but from my point of view today palm is only for
hardcore fanatics, or individuals. and question if T3 is still relevant doesn't
matter, if you are fanatic or if you want to make your software as good as
possible it will work on it or you will make it work on it. if you don't care
and you do something for limited target then all you have to care about is T|X
or Treo680 or higher - or completely different platform
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