from my experience customers want handhelds. if there are only smartphones available they would rather use tablet pc then smartphone. in company i am working for palmos version was killed by palm decision to stop handheld production - so far everyone moved to windows mobile or to tablets.
reason is 1) battery life 2) if they have to pay big price they prefer tablet then phone 3) people (users) already have phones and they don't like idea of getting another one iphone and so far android is for fanaticts and gadget addicts, especially when you consider that their value is much lower if you don't have internet connection and internet connection from phone is still something what maybe 75% of user doesn't have and doesn't care about (i know in usa its completely opposite, but for example in usa nokia is almost unknown while here 99% i know has nokia... and yes, nokia dumphone..) Ben Rittgers wrote: > 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. > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
