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Re: A Look at Palm's Latest OS

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Post by sandGorgon » Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 4:32 AM UTC

iuyhgtfvgbhjn wrote: post #19

sandGorgon wrote: post #17

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You are wrong - the next billion (or two!) live next door to China, from where we are seeing the emergence of the first sub $200 (full, unlocked price) phones this month [ http://www.priceindia.in/tv/spice-mi-300-price-%E2%80%93-che... ] That price figure is going to fall way, way lower once the Android supporting Mediatek chipsets enter full production [ http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semicon..…

What about the Asian market more than 10km from the coastal cities? The same market that has one Nokia1100 per village in Africa aren't about to buy $100 smartphones for each of their kids.

That particular market is snapping at Nokia's heels as well. While its sales have stagnated, new contenders have risen very fast in the ultra-low cost market

[http://toostep.com/debate/two-year-old-micromax-becomes-indi...]

Re: A Look at Palm's Latest OS

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Post by wazoox » Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 6:27 AM UTC

hexley wrote: post #37

wazoox wrote: post #35

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I have a Pre plus, uptime is in weeks (out of updates, I had to reboot it only once in 6 months), and the interface is really far ahead for multitasking, and I multitask a lot with it; mp3 + web + contacts + an app or two all the time, and it rarely hiccup if ever.

Umm, don't mean to burst your bubble but the iPhone could do all that from day 1, sans "multitaskin"g. Is this word now becoming as meaningless as "bricked"?

Wow, apple fanboi? I was talking of the fact that my Pre plus is fine, not commenting on what other platforms do or don't.

That, and I despise Apple Walled Garden anyway so the qualities of the iPhone are moot. And iOS 4 multitasking sucks, ergonomically. They messed up, even multitasking on jailbreaked iPhones 3.x was better, though far from as neat as the WebOS version.

Re: A Look at Palm's Latest OS

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Post by blub » Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 4:25 PM UTC

blub wrote: post #31

mikedouglas wrote: post #15

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You'd be surprised. Worldwide mobile phone ownership is up to 5 billion[0]. Meanwhile, much of the first world has already transitioned to smartphones. If you wanted to jump on the cheap phone trend, you're ten years late. Whatever margins existed once are now gone. Nokia, the king of cheap phones, just fired their CEO and replaced him with a software guy from Microsoft. Apple, HP and Blackberry know exactly what mar…

That doesn't mean that smartphones can't get better & cheaper, displacing some of the feature phones. Smartphones are ~26% of the entire market, I'll give you the source for that tomorrow.

The source is Mobile Business Briefing.

Re: A Look at Palm's Latest OS

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Post by barkingcat » Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

barkingcat wrote: post #3

teeohhem wrote: post #2

Great OS, but it came to market too late. Not to mention WebOS was half broken when it was released. It STILL does not have voice recording capabilities, which eliminates a ton of app-potential. I love it...but it is too little, too late, Palm.

The palm pre has an app called zocoder that can act as a voice / sound recorder The apis have changed a lot, perhaps since you last looked?

Correction, the app is called zcorder

http://www.precentral.net/zcorder-brings-voice-recording-web...

It can't record phone calls though, but I imagine that was some sort of security precaution on the part of palm.