The days of the $200 PDA are gone forever. The Palm market lasted longer than most (Windows Mobile manufacturers exited several years ago, and the low-end HP units are now $400 +). If you want just a Palm OS device w/o phone then the Acceda and the Janam units will have to do.
I do find your comment that phone service is "secondary to our real needs" somewhat myopic. None of my customers carry only a PDA and no cell phone. Asked which they would give up first, I would bet the PDA would lose. So let's do some math: option 1 would have been to buy a Tungsten E2 at $200, and get a free phone with a cell contract at $49 per month, and I carry 2 devices. Option 2 would have been (and now is) to pay $99 for a Centro (current market price in my area), plus $49 per month for cell service, and I carry one device. So option 2 costs me less money and cuts my device count in half; that seems like a good deal for the consumer. It's not the PDA portion of the device that costs $49 - 159 per month, it's the cell service. From: luis maldonado [mailto:luis.maldon...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:27 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Classic emulator interface on Palm Pre Whatever the solution is in moving our apps to the new webOS platform is fine. however, it doesn't solve the issues of the PDA platform disappearing from the face of the planet leaving a PDA market without the necessary hardware to run these applications that are more of a realtime data collections than phone conversations. the beauty of the TX and similar PDAs is their pricing structure, once that is gone, then we have the Symbols and the like able to charge an exhorbitant price for PDAs which are used just to collect data and nothing more. so we're stuck with an expensive monthly phone service which is secondary to our real needs... There is a market out for these units, it's just not sexy enough.... and offcourse it doesn't have the 49.99 to 159.99 monthly service fee tag to go along with it.... Luis. > From: llebl...@cam.org > To: palm-dev-forum@news.palmos.com > Subject: Re: Classic emulator interface on Palm Pre > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:31:26 -0700 > > Edward Jones wrote: > > > I wonder how "Classic" will cope with Bluetooth and SD cards > > ...and conduits and beaming... > > > Luc Le Blanc > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ _____ Windows LiveT: Keep your life in sync. Check it out. <http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_042009> -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
