Comment Re:Great thingies (Mine is a Tungsten C) (Score 1) 143
I've had a variety of PDAs since the original Visor, including a Clie. However, my Palm of choice ---- and the unit I still use everyday -- is the Tungsten C, which came out in 2003.
I had a TX after my original unit went dead but it just didn't perform like my TC. The TC has Wifi (rather than bluetooth; why didn't & doesn't Palm put WIFI in all its units, including the Treo?), it is blazingly fast (400 mghz, faster than the TX and today's Treo),a great screen, and it has a thumb board, which is what makes it so great for me. I never liked Graffiti; I do A LOT of work on my PDA on documents and email and I would be dead without the TC thumb board.
So, I dumped my TX, bought broken TCs on eBay and have two units that work. The TC is fragile & I've learned from experience not to carry it in my pocket. I now have a holster for it and it has worked flawlessly since I hobbled my primary unit together about a year ago.
Note to Palm: There are a lot of us out here who want a standalone PDA and not a smartphone. While we aren't as numerous as the smartphone pool of customers, you would have us almost to yourself, without a competitor. ("Almost," because HP still makes NEW standalone PDAs.) Why neglect a solid niche market with fans who have been loyal to Palm but whose loyalty is beginning to wane because of your neglect. Keep us in your fold and jump back into the PDA market with two feet and bring to market innovative, great Palm PDA products. If you wait too long, those of us who were loyal to Palm will not be so loyal when we eventually are forced into the smartphone market. After all, why be loyal to someone who turned its back on us and left us in the cold to hobble PDAs together from used parts?
Scott in Philadelphia
I had a TX after my original unit went dead but it just didn't perform like my TC. The TC has Wifi (rather than bluetooth; why didn't & doesn't Palm put WIFI in all its units, including the Treo?), it is blazingly fast (400 mghz, faster than the TX and today's Treo),a great screen, and it has a thumb board, which is what makes it so great for me. I never liked Graffiti; I do A LOT of work on my PDA on documents and email and I would be dead without the TC thumb board.
So, I dumped my TX, bought broken TCs on eBay and have two units that work. The TC is fragile & I've learned from experience not to carry it in my pocket. I now have a holster for it and it has worked flawlessly since I hobbled my primary unit together about a year ago.
Note to Palm: There are a lot of us out here who want a standalone PDA and not a smartphone. While we aren't as numerous as the smartphone pool of customers, you would have us almost to yourself, without a competitor. ("Almost," because HP still makes NEW standalone PDAs.) Why neglect a solid niche market with fans who have been loyal to Palm but whose loyalty is beginning to wane because of your neglect. Keep us in your fold and jump back into the PDA market with two feet and bring to market innovative, great Palm PDA products. If you wait too long, those of us who were loyal to Palm will not be so loyal when we eventually are forced into the smartphone market. After all, why be loyal to someone who turned its back on us and left us in the cold to hobble PDAs together from used parts?
Scott in Philadelphia
