Comments on: Palm vs iPhone

By: Opod

Opod — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:59:55 +0000

If the iPhone isn’t the revolutionary device, I’d be really interested to discover what is.

By: pedagangIT

pedagangIT — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:14 +0000

greate info … i want to buy iphone 3gs

By: Crash

Crash — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:30:11 +0000

I use my Palm PDA every day and it has never, lost a single file or crashed. My wonderful iMac, you know, the one that’s supposed to be so stable? It crashes once or twice a week. The iMac usually crashes when I’m doing something really complicated, like typing in a word processor. I need this on my telephone why? I plan to replace my portable phone with a Palm based smart phone because I want something that actually works.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:43:01 +0000

Here’s a list of PDA’s I’ve owned prior to the iPhone…

Palm m100, Palm V, HP Jornada 728, Hp Jornada 720, NEC Mobilepro 900c, HP Jornada 520, Sony Clié NR-70, Sony Clié UX-50, Palm TX, Dell Axim X50, Compaq iPaq 3900, HP iPaq 1900, Palm Lifedrive and an ATT smart phone.

Of all these devices, my iPhone DESTROYS them all! The part about not having a stylus in this article…it’s the best part about the iPhone!!! Which would you rather, wipeable finger prints or permanant scratches from a stylus? Easy answer. Yes, there are screen protecteds, but they are bubbly and awkward to apply and then your screen doesn’t look anywhere as nice as it could. I don’t own a case for my ipione or use a screen protector…I just put it in my pocket! It’s more durable than the list above. The screen is made of the same glass as scratch resistant glasses! It comes with more memory than all of the previous list combined! No contest! Not to mention how irritating it was to install programs on the list above. Palm was definately easier than Windows Mobile, but iPhone takes that to another level. Never easier! Just hit one button in the app store and it’s installed. No havng to “jerry-rig” it to work. It just works! iPhone takes the cake!

By the way, I wrote this on my iPhone!!!

By: jwhite

jwhite — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:41:26 +0000

I switched to an iPhone from Palm TX recently. There is functionality that is missing in the iPhone. While I am eagerly awaiting Documents to Go, I would prefer to have an integrated task list with iCal. The other feature I want is Pocket Quicken. So I can definitely see the preference for Palm for some users.
Even without those programs, the iPhone 3G was alluring enough to finally upgrade from my 10 year old phone with the broken screen. The mail and phone integrated with my personal contacts was great. I also like browsing the web to lookup info on the fly. I have been having fun with apps, PhoneSaber rocks! I realize that other phones have had these features, but I am all about simplicity of the user interface. To say that the UI is better almost as an afterthought misses the whole point. The simplicity and ease of use are the main reason that I finally switched. I work with a lot of early adopters across platforms so have seen multiple phones in action. The ease of use for the iPhone was so far beyond that it cannot be overstated. A simple list of features and programs fails to capture that main advantage. So while many phones may be able to claim superiority on specific functions, they have not enticed me to want to use them. I typed this on my iPhone, by the way.

By: Neldot

Neldot — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:37:13 +0000

Palm Os is still good. It still does what I need to do.

People that snaps up every year with a new o.s. and a new device, when there are old devices than still performs better, are just silly squanderers.

Big computer companies express their gratitude to stupid and wealthy consumers.

By: timothy

timothy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:55:07 +0000

I like iPhone better but that’s just me

By: Huub

Huub — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:01:10 +0000

Iphone over Palm!

If one wishes an office suite ON there phone …. then I think he/she not of this age.
Office suites these days come over the web like Google Apps.

I didnt bother reading more so .. I phone.

By: raincloudcat

raincloudcat — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:27:36 +0000

When was the last time people were so excited about a phone. It does email beautifully, voice mail is perfect, people are designing applications that are actually interesting to use, the calendar application is the best out of all of the platforms. There are a few small imperfections but Steve Jobs and the Apple team have really blown away the competition. All of the new cell phones are basically in a race to catch up with the iphone.

By: CPUGenuis

CPUGenuis — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:41:33 +0000

i personally like palms better.

sure the iphone has more of a polished OS, but palms have convience such as Hotsync (which has already saved me once or twice!!!!), they can use expansion cards (micro-sd, or sd), and there are more apps for them.\

but if the iphone could catch up on those things, it would definately pwn it’s way to the top.

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DataViz Media Coverage — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:51:21 +0000

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By: 7egend

7egend — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:38:08 +0000

I think the iphone is great for what it is. It has been explained numerous times why 3G was left off, and that was for the sake of the battery, which I would much rather have that extra 2 hours of power over the 3G network. Business “solution” phones lack one major thing and that is battery life, Apple is a pretty strong believer in having enough battery life to do the tasks that need to be done.

Editting Word documents is not a function for a mobile device in my opinion, if you are in the need to edit documents, you must be fairly important and surely would have been provided a laptop or would have already bought one by now. As far as viewing a document to give approval over it, the iphone can do it. Leave the document editting to the laptops.

Apple avoided the pressure touch screen to avoid having to replace every iphone’s screen within 6 months. Heat sensitive touch screens are the way to go with mobile devices due to the abuse they take. Not to mention a stylus is the worst thing you can touch a screen with, it scratches and abuses the screen. Keep your ugly useless stylus away from my beautiful iphone touch screen.

Blackberry and Palm’s user interface is just bulky and cumbersome, nothing like the iphone which is smooth as silk and easy to use. Not to mention you don’t have to spin and uncomfortable ball in the middle of your phone, or put your thumb into positions that should be in a karma sutra book to scroll the side wheel on a phone.

Is the iphone revolutionary? No, it’s just a vast improvement over the devices that existed at the current time of it’s introduction. Look around now and tell me phones haven’t improved leaps and bounds over what they were before the iphone was introduced.

Apple set a new standard in quality when they introduced the iphone.

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By: QWERTYKEYBOARD

QWERTYKEYBOARD — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:18:02 +0000

Frankly, BLackberry has worked in the past for me, everything about it has been great, I think as time goes on Palm seems to fall farther behind Blackberry and Iphone, I say Iphone, it looks great, seems to hae much more updates that are more noticable for me. Iphone is just the hands down winner.