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Limitations in Current Breed of Palm Handhelds?
JabrTheHut asks: "Having been a Palm user for over two years now, I've upgraded to a Tungsten T3. While the features I'm used to using have not changed, I have become increasingly frustrated by what I see as a lack of progress. It doesn't seem to want to deal with text files (there is no import feature for the Palm Desktop notepad or memo pad, for example). Also there seems to be no way to copy arbitrary files to the Palm - all files must be "owned" by an application. With a 256MB SD card I expected to use it to copy files between work and home. Has anyone else noticed these or other shortcomings and have figured out ways around them?"
It should be the current bread of PDA's.
Jeesh.
Buy a Windows handheld.
Haha. Just kidding.
(ducks his head)
"Nokia is not a country, it's the capital of Finland!" -Moderated "Informative". Yeesh.
Pocket PC has its own annoyances, but amazingly, it's one Microsoft product that does less arbitrary intervention on the user's behalf than the competition. Better yet, many ipaq's can be flashed with linux, and the Sharp handhelds, which are unfortunately no longer being sold in the US, run linux out of the box. As for the file transfer on an SD card thing, just get a cheap USB2 SD reader/writer. Way faster than transferring using the palm, and only like $10. There are a couple software products for PalmOS that will let you transfer files directly, or use it as a card reader for the SD card. I think FileZ is one of them, but there are others.
Seriously, it is. Even the worst PocketPC is far more functional, and they are quite stable and reliable.
And that doesn't even mention Linux-based devices, which really haven't taken hold yet. I think it's just a matter of time before they do, although there needs to be a good shell around it. I thought the Zaurus was a good start, but (a) they just aren't big in the states, and (b) they aren't up to snuff yet.
Simply put, a PocketPC is what you want, well, in your pocket, these days. Palm used to be king, but it's stagnated, and even in it's heydey it was difficult to write applications for, so even though you saw a lot available, 98% of it was crap (and still is). Sure, there's plenty of crap for PocketPC's as well, but there's a higher percentage of actually useful software.
Forget Palm. History will do the same, soon enough.
If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
What you forgot to point out is that most folks would be better off by simply avoiding Linux in the first place. Its the operating system for autistic asperger syndrome self punishing losers, and not regular folk who need something that "just works".
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Clueless Slashdot member is incredulous that a small sandwich sized computer does not have the power of a full desktop version.