New Palms: Zire 71 and Tungsten C

securitas writes "Today Palm released their latest in the PDA arms race: the Zire 71 and the Tungsten C. The Zire gets a color screen, digital camera and multimedia capabilities such as MP3 playback and 640x480 VGA video playback -- interesting since the screen is 320x320. The Tungsten C gets 802.11b (WiFi) connectivity and a VPN client to protect your data while in transit. More at InternetNews, PC World and Business Week/CNet."

Comments

And why would I upgrade?

[digitect]

Funny, my Palm m100, upgraded to 8mb still does everything I need. Sure it doesn't play 31337 videos and MP3s, but 95% of what I need a PDA for can be satisified by an Ebay m105 for

Sorry, Palm. I love ya and all, but until you make a PDA that can replace the usefulness of a cheap laptop, I've got no reason to upgrade.

Re:Palm screens too small...

[tuffy]

I'm saying that Palm needs to look back at what jumpstarted the industry

Before Palm, where wasn't much of a PDA industry. The Newton was a great piece of hardware, but Apple didn't stop production because they were selling too many of them.

(Sorry about the blank post, had a bit of a mouse slip-up)

Re:NO Bluetooth

[WinterSolstice]

What I have found in my personal Bluetooth net (Apple G4 desktop, Powerbook G4, S/E T68i, Palm Tungsten T) is that Bluetooth is an almost technology. It almost solves all your problems. It almost is awesome, and it almost is worth the trouble.

For example, I love the SMS bluetooth stuff on the Tungsten. I can feel my phone buzz during a meeting, and just hit my hotkey on the palm (which I was taking notes on) to see/respond to the message. But I can't send attachments or text via SMS unless I use the email program to dial my ISP. WTF?

Again, I can hotsync with my Mac using Bluetooth. This is super awesome. But, I can't hotsync repeating appointments with my phone. Only single occurance appointments. WTF?

The bluetooth headsets which could be so hot for gaming/chatting/etc if they would work with every device (the SOCOM/CS/Diablo implications are fantastic), but OS 10.2 doesn't have the voice gateway working properly for the headset, and the Palm ignores it entirely! WTF?

See, my point is that everything Bluetooth can do is already implemented in hardware, but all the developers are still pushing beta software for it. If the market people will just cool their jets for a bit, it will become amazing. Too bad we'll probably lose the single coolest Super Local LAN due to the lack of good software.

Sounds like OSS to the rescue?

-WS