Yahoo is not rocket science, and it sure ain't Google. And Yahoo probably (justifiably) doesn't want to pay Google prices for a feature that just doesn't matter that much to the great majority of their users. Because the great majority likely fall into two camps:
1. Too dumb to use anything EXCEPT whatever search engine they're spoon-fed by Yahoo.
2. Too smart to ever use ANYTHING spoon-fed to them by Yahoo.
I'm a Yahoo user. But even when they switched their search engine to Google, I still tracked over to google.com for all my searching. Google has created a *tres chic* brand, and Yahoo can't appropriate that.
But on to my main point....
Have you people even been to yahoo.com in the past few years?! Suggesting that full-text web searching is somehow a critical Yahoo feature is just silly. Only the most technologically myopic of grandmas and carpenter uncles actually searches with Yahoo.
Yahoo excels at being a ==PORTAL==. My personalized Yahoo page is very convenient. CLICK->categorized personalized mainstream news, weather, basic calendaring, etc.->scan, scroll, scan, scroll->sip coffee->CLICK->on to/., then fark, then memepool, etc.
The Treo is clumsy?! Dude, do you wear a Speedo or something? The thing has a very practicaly keyboard, AND it fits in your pocket! And it's very durable. I've dropped mine at least a half a dozen times, and I abuse the hell out of the flip.
And I forgot to mention maybe the most important fact of all: Sprint gives you unlimited access to their (relatively) high-speed Vision network for a flat 10 bucks a month. Beat that (in the US)!
Handspring's Palm phone, the Treo 300, is far and away the best convergent device on the market right now. At least for my purposes:-)!
It's got a killer color screen, an excellent keyboard that works really well, it runs every Palm 3.5 app I've tried on it, and it fits comfortably in my pocket.
SMS, e-mail, browsing the real web, excellent calendar and contact management. The only things it lacks are:
Expansion slot.
Bluetooth.
Better sound support (for music playback).
But if you really need a wireless productivity tool in your pocket, this is the only option. Palm Pilot, Blackberry, and cell phone, all in one.
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Yahoo is not rocket science, and it sure ain't Google. And Yahoo probably (justifiably) doesn't want to pay Google prices for a feature that just doesn't matter that much to the great majority of their users. Because the great majority likely fall into two camps:
/., then fark, then memepool, etc.
1. Too dumb to use anything EXCEPT whatever search engine they're spoon-fed by Yahoo.
2. Too smart to ever use ANYTHING spoon-fed to them by Yahoo.
I'm a Yahoo user. But even when they switched their search engine to Google, I still tracked over to google.com for all my searching. Google has created a *tres chic* brand, and Yahoo can't appropriate that.
But on to my main point....
Have you people even been to yahoo.com in the past few years?! Suggesting that full-text web searching is somehow a critical Yahoo feature is just silly. Only the most technologically myopic of grandmas and carpenter uncles actually searches with Yahoo.
Yahoo excels at being a ==PORTAL==. My personalized Yahoo page is very convenient. CLICK->categorized personalized mainstream news, weather, basic calendaring, etc.->scan, scroll, scan, scroll->sip coffee->CLICK->on to
The Treo is clumsy?! Dude, do you wear a Speedo or something? The thing has a very practicaly keyboard, AND it fits in your pocket! And it's very durable. I've dropped mine at least a half a dozen times, and I abuse the hell out of the flip.
And I forgot to mention maybe the most important fact of all: Sprint gives you unlimited access to their (relatively) high-speed Vision network for a flat 10 bucks a month. Beat that (in the US)!
It's got a killer color screen, an excellent keyboard that works really well, it runs every Palm 3.5 app I've tried on it, and it fits comfortably in my pocket.
SMS, e-mail, browsing the real web, excellent calendar and contact management. The only things it lacks are:
Expansion slot.
Bluetooth.
Better sound support (for music playback).
But if you really need a wireless productivity tool in your pocket, this is the only option. Palm Pilot, Blackberry, and cell phone, all in one.
And no, I don't work for Handspring :-)!