Friday, June 21, 2002
Handheld operating system showdown
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 02:59 PM
http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2870297,00.html
ZDNET has a matrix showing the Pocket PC OS vs. the Palm OS, and a comparison of how each OS stacks up. For the love of all things holy, who writes these things?
They arrived at the correct conclusion that the Pocket PC wipes the floor with the Palm OS, but the chart is riddled with inaccuracies. Download.com only has 386 Pocket PC apps? Who the hell uses Download.com to look for Pocket PC apps? They even say that Palm only has 1840 apps. It's not the 20,000 that Palm quotes, but it's certainly more than 1840. The problems continue - they show Palm at 33 MHz and Pocket PC at 206 MHz. Palm should be at 66 MHz and Pocket PC at 400 MHz (yeah yeah, I know). The Pocket PC may have a strong power-on password and Excel security, but the Palm OS supports file-level security, which the Pocket PC does not. And how exactly does the Palm operating system "work with more operating systems"? They might be referring to licensees, but unless I'm mistaken, the Pocket PC now has more partners. Maybe this article was written on June 11, 2001.
"With all the flash of Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system, one might easily assume that it's the far superior handheld OS. But we wanted to really compare the features of Pocket PC 2002 and Palm OS 4.0 to see exactly what you get with each. The contest isn't quite as one-sided as you might suspect. Pocket PC has the clear lead in multimedia, but Palm's OS works with more operating systems and PIMs and has a giant library of third-party software to supplement many of its shortcomings. As with many things, your particular priorities will ultimately determine which OS is a better match for you." Source: Peter West
ZDNET has a matrix showing the Pocket PC OS vs. the Palm OS, and a comparison of how each OS stacks up. For the love of all things holy, who writes these things?
They arrived at the correct conclusion that the Pocket PC wipes the floor with the Palm OS, but the chart is riddled with inaccuracies. Download.com only has 386 Pocket PC apps? Who the hell uses Download.com to look for Pocket PC apps? They even say that Palm only has 1840 apps. It's not the 20,000 that Palm quotes, but it's certainly more than 1840. The problems continue - they show Palm at 33 MHz and Pocket PC at 206 MHz. Palm should be at 66 MHz and Pocket PC at 400 MHz (yeah yeah, I know). The Pocket PC may have a strong power-on password and Excel security, but the Palm OS supports file-level security, which the Pocket PC does not. And how exactly does the Palm operating system "work with more operating systems"? They might be referring to licensees, but unless I'm mistaken, the Pocket PC now has more partners. Maybe this article was written on June 11, 2001."With all the flash of Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system, one might easily assume that it's the far superior handheld OS. But we wanted to really compare the features of Pocket PC 2002 and Palm OS 4.0 to see exactly what you get with each. The contest isn't quite as one-sided as you might suspect. Pocket PC has the clear lead in multimedia, but Palm's OS works with more operating systems and PIMs and has a giant library of third-party software to supplement many of its shortcomings. As with many things, your particular priorities will ultimately determine which OS is a better match for you." Source: Peter West
