So, what do you recommend for POS devices? We use Palms with a receipt
printer for our Point of Sale terminals for customer's delivery drivers.
They are not likely to upgrade to a cell phone. It works on the
Centro and Treo, but we don't officially support cell phones. We
provide are customers with handhelds, our software, and the receipt
printers.
Microsoft still sells handhelds with Windows Mobile (for a while yet).
There was talk about jumping to Microsoft, but that means the handheld
developers (There are two of us.) have to quickly learn the SDK and
rewrite the software in a very short time period. If Microsoft handheld
will also go the way of the dodo, then the effort of switching would be
wasted as well.
I don't really see people printing receipts from an iPhone or Android
phone. Even in the Apple store, the employees carry Symbol Palms for
scanning barcodes and inventory control. It is possible that they could
not easily adapt their software for the iPhone? I have never seen
anyone use a cell phone for "professional" handheld applications.
Do you think cell phones may be the wave of the future with WebOS,
Android, iPhones, and such replacing Symbol Palms for POS? I don't know
whether or not we want a device that has a monthly fee or a contract.
I am ready to switch, but I would like to know to recommend to the
decision makers at my company.
Ben
Philip Sheard wrote:
I agree with you about Windows Mobile. I used to be a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner, and I jumped ship because it was such a lousy OS.
Companies like HP and HTC will continue to make WM devices, and guys in
suits will still buy them, but there is no more future in WM that there is
in Palm OS.
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