Wednesday, August 7, 2002
And the two become one
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 07:21 AM
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,431809,00.asp
The article "Targeting the PDA" discusses the convergence aspects of bringing the PDA and phone worlds closer. The article is quite interesting, even though its main focus seems to be on the challenges Palm faces in this market. Personally, I feel that Palm has very little to offer in this middle ground. Honestly, the best advice anyone can give Palm is to not get in the way of initiatives that giants Symbian and Microsoft are cooking up.
"But Microsoft's latest handheld operating system, Pocket PC Phone Edition, may be a more immediate threat. It gives licensees one more way to give traditional PDAs wireless capabilities and customers such as Christopher Bell another reason to believe switching from Palm to Pocket PC was the right decision. ... "I was ready for better Windows integration and a new programming challenge," said Bell, chief technology officer of the People2People Group, in Boston, who switched from Palm to Pocket PC a few months ago."
The article "Targeting the PDA" discusses the convergence aspects of bringing the PDA and phone worlds closer. The article is quite interesting, even though its main focus seems to be on the challenges Palm faces in this market. Personally, I feel that Palm has very little to offer in this middle ground. Honestly, the best advice anyone can give Palm is to not get in the way of initiatives that giants Symbian and Microsoft are cooking up.
"But Microsoft's latest handheld operating system, Pocket PC Phone Edition, may be a more immediate threat. It gives licensees one more way to give traditional PDAs wireless capabilities and customers such as Christopher Bell another reason to believe switching from Palm to Pocket PC was the right decision. ... "I was ready for better Windows integration and a new programming challenge," said Bell, chief technology officer of the People2People Group, in Boston, who switched from Palm to Pocket PC a few months ago."
