Garmin Palm Device With GPS

Moritz writes "Garmin is introducing a PalmOS5 handheld with GPS, MP3 and 32MB of memory. That's very nice, but why is there no bluetooth? Why can't somebody just get the spec right? Other than that this seems to be a nice addition to the PalmOS lineup."

Comments

Re:Screw bluetooth...

[Mr_Silver]

No, Palm OS is a lot smaller than the equivalent Pocket PC or whatever Microsoft is calling it now.

Whilst this is true ...

32Mb is a lot for the average Palm device. Mine only has 8Mb and I've never got close to filling it.

I disagree with this. 32 Mb is a lot of memory for the average Palm device - that is mainly greyscale and used extensivily for PIM.

But with the Tungstun Palm are rapidly entering PocketPC space ie. movies, sounds and things other than your basic PIM/ebook applications.

A 5 Mb spreadsheet is 5 Mb whatever platform you put it on. On a PocketPC, this will take up 50% less space because it has double the memory of a Palm Pilot.

Sure, applications are smaller but the datafiles will still be the same. I could upload my entire company phonebook to a 32 Mb PocketPC, but not to my 8 Mb Palm. The fact that Palm apps are smaller doesn't really help me here.

With the Tungstun, Palm are entering the power user/road warrior/business professional market who will want to fill their PDA up with databases, spreadsheets, presentations, MP3's and movies and quite simply 32 Mb is not enough.

Finally how much does it cost these days to stick 64 Mb in anyway? If Palm want to break PPC's stranglehold on the high end market (as Palm never were there in the first place), they have to accept that a 5 Mb data file will still be 5 Mb whatever platform you put it on and, with a Palm, that takes up a lot of what precious little space you have.