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PalmOS was so much more usable than PocketPC EVER was. PPC was just insanely broken on so many fronts I was ASTONISHED by it when I -- foolishly, as it turns ou
by ubermonkey 5y ago
PalmOS was so much more usable than PocketPC EVER was. PPC was just insanely broken on so many fronts I was ASTONISHED by it when I -- foolishly, as it turns out -- bought a late model HTC in about 2009.
Among other things, you couldn't even use IMAP with the native mail client. I mean, seriously. In 2009.
- causi 5y agoIndeed. At the time I was a rabid purchaser of PDAs and I wished desperately to get Palm OS with PPC hardware. Probably every color PDA Palm ever built had an LCD that buzzed like an angry hornet. Palm ergonomics were next-level, though. The Lifedrive is probably the best-feeling device of any kind I've held in my hand.
- ubermonkey 5y agoMy only venture into WinMo was an ATT/HTC 8525, which was really a nice piece of HARDWARE, but the software use utterly useless. The best Palm device I ever had was a Treo 650, which I actually ended up using on and off for a long time b/c it worked SO WELL, and the screen wasn't terrible. (As long as we're talking about interesting hardware: the Danger "HipTop" device was pretty great from a form factor POV, but was hamstrung by lack of real desktop connectivity as I recall.)