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What market? There were mobile application stores since 2000, at least. Handmark is one of them.

The only "market" Apple has pioneered with the iPhone is the multi-touch enabled smart-phone.

Tetris! And exactly for the reason you mentioned. Though I wish they had included an unlimited option. I am done with everything and now I am just trying to beat my best personal scores. Find it here - http://store.handmark.com/products/detail.php?id=660
BTW, it's the only software I have ever paid for - desktop or mobile. (does not mean I pirated all others - open/free is sufficient for my needs).

With 802.11 there is a pretty cool application called express that handmark software has out called express - if you've tried web browsing on a pda you know it's pretty painful. this app makes it a more friendly experience in the form factor, and provides news feeds, stocks, address lookups tied to a mapping feature, weather updates, etc.. cool thing is it caches client side so you don't have to maintain the connection - you can set it to auto update or whatever.
i also have sms messages sent for service monitoring and have an ssh client that has saved my butt numerous times when away from my regular box.

I have even transcoded entire DVDs down to ~400 MB using dvd::rip, put them on my 512 MB SD card and have watched the entire movie on my PDA in Landscape widescreen. The resolution is excellent for a PDA and the 400 MHz X-Scale CPU is very quick. Battery life is OK, but with the BoxWave miniSync (w/Car and Wall adapters) I never worry about it.

The best part is the price of my setup:
$300 PDA
$80 Ericsson T68m BlueTooth Phone
$99 512 MB SD Card
$40 BoxWave miniSync + Accessories
$40 Iambic Agendus Pro
$40 SnapperFish SnapperMail Standard
$50 SplashData SplashWallet
$35 Mapopolis 1-year North America w/o GPS Support
$30 BlueNomad WordSmith
$15 MMPlayer
$12 ZLauncher
$10 PDAMill Solitaire
$0 OliveTree BibleReader+
$0 BigClock
$0 MyCheckbook
$0 HandyShopper
$0 HandZipperLite
$0 IconMgr
$0 SeaTraffic
$0 TuSSH
$0 upIRC (limited shareware)
$0 Warfare, Inc. (shareware demo)
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$751

I actually paid $611 total for all the above because I purchased many of the software items listed above long ago for my previous PDAs, but the above is what someone would pay to buy it now.

Keep in mind that the two screens aren't the only deal here.

Stylus/touchscreen input doesn't just mean analog input, but also mouse-like input. Just look at the games on the Palm or PocketPC that could never be done with a GBA's inputs, (like, Warfare Incorporated. It's not necessarily innovative, but it is at least different.

A couple of other things I've noticed about the Treo after another day & a half's use:

The system supports "snoozing" an alarm (like it did before), but in a more comprehensive way. You can click a "done" button to get the screen the hell away from you, in case you're in the middle of something important, like a game of Warefare, Incorporated. After that, a little flashing asterisk will appear in the upper-left corner of the display, which you can click on to bring up again. Otherwise, the alarm will re-appear in a minute or two. Alternatively, you can still Snooze it for... 15 minutes, if memory serves. If more than one alarm is set for the same time, or if more than one as gone off since you've been paying attention, they appear in a list. This is MUCH nicer than having to click "Snooze" on half a dozen items if you've left your Treo in your bag all day. You can also click on an individual item in the list, to jump to the datebook and edit/delete/whatever it. Well done, Handspring!

You can now send SMS directly from the phone; not just receive. Of course, the ability to look up numbers in your Contacts is nicely integrated. According to Sprint, there are no charges associated with sending or receiving SMS messages. I can't speak for other carriers. Supposedly, the messages are also threaded. Since I haven't used it for long, i can't verify how well this functionality is implemented. However... I had an informal conversation with a tier 2 tech, after befriending her by teaching her about the Treo 600, which she'd not even seen yet. She said that Sprint is currently having problems with their SMS system (and apparently has for the last two weeks), and that during that time and until further notice, you cannot send or receive SMS messages through Sprint. I know this to be partially false, since I've had no trouble receiving messages. However, an attempt to send a message was met with the following error:

"This service will be available soon. You will receive a text message when it is ready. Until then, you can use Short Mail to send text messages to any other wireless phone from the browser."

Now, this message appeared in bold red text, as a part of the message I sent, in the outbox. It was not an error reported by the Treo, nor an incoming SMS, but a message generated my Sprints messaging server. When I initially asked about this, I was told that Sprint didn't support sending SMS. When I explained further (and mentioned that this was one of the selling points of the Treo 600, and something that Sprint was touting), she admitted the issues with the SMS system. Oh, one other item of note: According to Sprint, there is no charge for sending or receiving SMS, locally or internationally.

With regard to my previous comments about the camera being very discrete: it's only hidden on the carbon (CDMA/Sprint) version of the phone. The silver (GSM) version's camera is significantly more obvious, though whether a non-geek would notice that it's a camera, and not just a black dot is a matter of conjecture. On the carbon version, is easy to make it look like you're just trying to read your PDA at a better angle. It helps if you make goofy-looking "Huh?" faces. ;-)

The ability to attach photos to a contact record and/or caller ID reference does not appear to be a feature that's part of the factory Treo. You'll need to download a 3rd-party application to support it.

There has been some conjecture as to whether or not the Treo has built-in GPS hardware. The Phone Preferences info box had this to say about it:

"Select "Enable 'Location Privacy' if you would like to prevent Palm OS applications from receiving your location information (approximate latitude location). For your safety, your location information will always be provided during a 911 emergency call, regardless of whether

I suppose hasbro will argue that they have a portable version of their monopoly game.

Incidentally, they do.

To be fair, Hasbro does have a reasonable claim here - the officially licensed PalmOS version of Monopoly was recently released.