The future of Treo
May 30th, 2007 |I am not optimistic when Palm comes out with this:
It’s…a laptop! But it’s not just a laptop, it’s a “smartphone companion.” So what Palm is basically saying is that either the Treo is already so good that there is no room for improvement (which I don’t buy) or that having a separate device to give the user full screen access to data on their Treo is what consumers want (which I don’t buy either). This thing costs $500 and you can’t install any 3rd party applications on it. All it does is communicate with your Treo. So why not just buy a $500 laptop running Windows to do what this thing does, plus a bunch more?
I used the T-Mobile MDA for a while and was not really satisfied at the performance. It was slow and the e-mail software had some problems. It sounds like these Windows Mobile devices have come a long way and my tech guru has pointed me to the newest T-Mobile device, the Wing.
Maybe it’s time to give up the Treo for good.
