Palm, finally seems to take their head out of their ass.
I hate using foul or derogatory language in this part of the site, or any part for that matter, but Palm Inc or Palm Source or Palmijiggy or whatever or whomever they are called right now, have for the longest time made me look with envy at the little Compaq iPaqs or Dell PDAs that seem so more inherently full featured relative to Palm PDAs. I never thought I would ever say the words, but I used to have Dell PDA envy.
Palm, after restructuring, and selling their limbs to science, and rebranding and everything else you can think seems to be in panic mode. They’re losing market share to Microsoft and Intel-based PDAs, and it’s only an uphill battle from their position. After too long, the Tungsten TX seems to be making its way to the front of Palm’s line and showing off some long-anticipated features such as Wi-Fi compatability, Bluetooth 1.1, a schweet color screen, 128MB of memory, a 312MHz processor, and an SDIO expansion card slot. I’m impressed but I’m not WOWed, and I think I have to be WOWed in order to continue considering Palm a viable contender before they just fall to pieces and die and we’re all left with our Newton wannabes + 10 years or so. They should update the cheesy Palm Desktop software to be more full featured as well and less OS 8-ish. Nuff said.
