Palm Treo 800w and Treo Pro accessories revealed, boredom hard to fend off

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pheer6224 @ Aug 31st 2008 1:00AM

I really hate fanboy banter, but one really must ask you people to stop bitching about switchable batteries when 25% of your coverage is on the iphone.

By the way, the treo pro is a WINMO PHONE.

Palm is entirely different and I think any palm user will tell you that the excitement comes from the available apps, not the devices. Also, you guys are gonna lose me as a reader if you keep saying that palm sucks. It seems pretty damn uninformed to say that palm never did anything for the industry. Hell, they made the first touchscreen phones and also a platform that held it's own against many competitors and paved the way for winmo, symbian, the iphone, android, qtopia, LiMO, Access, WinCE, and most standardized mobile operating systems today.

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Chris Ziegler @ Aug 31st 2008 1:35AM

A company's glory three, five years ago buys it nothing in this industry, and it certainly doesn't buy it any free passes on this site. Are you suggesting that we run a few Palm puff pieces because the Palm V was a stellar device for its time (which it was, may I add)? Yes, you're right, the Treo Pro is a WinMo phone -- but so are the HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, and Sony Ericsson X1, all of which have brought revolutionary skins to the table and industrial design that meets or exceeds the standards set by Palm's best.

Point is, Palm came into the business as an innovator and a pioneer. It's not innovating right now -- it's just starting to try to keep pace after years of leaning too heavily on its brand name and its business customer base, and the Treo Pro is a perfect example of that. We'd love to see what Palm could do if it went back to its roots, got Nova out the door, and kept refining its design language.

It's also critical to remember that coverage does NOT equal praise. The iPhone's lack of a replaceable battery is inexcusable, and we've never suggested otherwise.

So yes, if you're looking for validation that everything's peachy with Palm -- or any platform or device, for that matter -- perhaps this site isn't for you. We're just trying to tell it like it is.

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