Comments on: Saucepans and Stew Pots: Study Says Consumers Ditched Treos for iPhones. Sorry, Palm

By: Mark Zhong

Mark Zhong — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:03:39 +0000

I am actually doing this, lol. I have a 700wx with Sprint and my contract ends in a week so I am going to go get the iphone yay!. I have been reading about them and looking at accessories. I found this site: http://www.theiphoneshoppe.com/

Seems like they have decent prices anyone used them before?

By: Jim Ratliff

Jim Ratliff — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:14:22 +0000

I had been planning to wait until there was a 3G iPhone, but I was having so much trouble with my Treo 700p (Verizon) after a recent update, that I chucked it and bought an iPhone. I love the iPhone, but I do miss (a) copy and paste and (b) the ability to search contacts, events, etc. for text. You'd think those would be easy additions for the iPhone.

By: MikieMikie

MikieMikie — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:10:23 +0000

@Bitcher:

You need to address him properly or the SP (Steve Police) will be paying you a visit. It's "The Steve."

-- Mikie

By: Kent Pribbernow

Kent Pribbernow — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:30:18 +0000

I can NAVIGATE to internet (and not that tiny litle browser what iPhone have),

What exactly are you referring to when you say NAVIGATE? You find it easier to tap on the browser icon or what? Because your implication that Palm's Blazer browser is somehow magically superior to Safari is laughable at best and fallacious at worst. That's like comparing a motorized wheelchair to a Lexus luxury sedan.

Palm's web browser, much like the operating system it runs on, is a toy that is best summarized in two words: Fisher Price. Now run along and play with your toy. There's a good boy.

By: Bitcher

Bitcher — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:05:21 +0000

you don't like iPhone? Think yours is better and iPhone is crap? Then get the hell outta an iPhone blog and go back to your palm blog dipwad! You think you found someplace to come drop your wounded bull$hit about your dying phone and disparage the iPhone then go find someplace else boy, your trolling crap couldn't fall on more deaf ears.

When you're old enough to get a job kid and buy your own phone rather than have your mommy & daddy give you their hand-me-downs, and after a year or so when you've saved enough french fry money to buy a phone come back and tell us which phone you bought. And then disappear again.

Nothing like an ignorant basher finding a blog for a phone they don't own to come and reassure themselves that since they can't afford the blog phone they have the best piece o' crap they can afford.

Now back to bashing Steve for the next item on the agenda.

By: beadgc23

beadgc23 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:29:31 +0000

Upgrade path: Newton 100>Newton 130>Various Palm Pilots>Various Cliés>Treo 650(excellent)>Treo 680(terrible)>iPhone 8GB which is the best so far.

The Newt OS was a work of genius, way ahead of its time - and sadly way ahead of a processor that could run it at a decent speed.

The Palm OS which was once the best thing since any kind of bread is now a horrible unsupported mess. Happy to see the back of it...

By: Uri

Uri — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:37:48 +0000

i got the iPhone because win mobile interface seems so overloaded. There are like 6things on the screen at once, the iPhone has like 2 and in little colorful icons. But yes, i had to avoid update 1.1.1

By: John Milton

John Milton — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:21:35 +0000

Lets see. Im using an 3 years old Palm Zire 72 as GPS solution (with an external bluetooth GPS receiver), have Bluetooth A2DP (iPhone, dont know what the heck is this), a lot of games, I can see a lot of video files encoded in with a lot of codecs (not only .MOV), I can edit Word and Excel documents, I can see PDFs, I can NAVIGATE to internet (and not that tiny litle browser what iPhone have), chat with my friends (real chat and not via sms) and also a lot more things. And if there is something that is missing you have a lot of useful and REAL SDKs (not iPhones web based useless development invironment) whith who you can develop your needed app to use OFFLINE (without the need to have a conection to internet to use a notepad aplication). To swith to iPhone? Whell, I dont think so.

By: Quagmire

Quagmire — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:02:24 +0000

switched from a Tmo Dash. Fine HW and carrier, but win mobile 6 made me puke.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:38:06 +0000

I got a Treo 680 last Christmas and dumped it for an iPhone. Even though the Treo did things the iPhone can't, I wouldn't go back. I love my iPhone.

By: Bitcher

Bitcher — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:14:44 +0000

I know I just barely got rid of my 680 on eBay for a decent buck. Today I'm sure I would have lost my shorts on the deal.

By: bf pierce

bf pierce — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:25:50 +0000

i came over from the blackberry camp. so far no regrets, but i won't bash the 'berry, its a damn fine device as well.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:14:46 +0000

I also dumped my Treo 680 for the iPhone

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:32:01 +0000

Great sense of humor while providing easy to read content. Thanks for sharing!!

By: Jonathan Doe

Jonathan Doe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:59:47 +0000

Former 650 user here, and man am I happy to be rid of it. Bulky case, balky software --- bleah!

By: Meh_Whatever

Meh_Whatever — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:57:46 +0000

I never could carry a Treo. Too bulky.

In other news, my iPhone battery has given up and wants me to pull the plug. Figures I'd get the freak battery that only lasts 3 months and 16 days.

Bleh.

I mean, I'm sure it'll last longer, but only if I charge it every 6 hours.

Geez.

By: MacSheikh

MacSheikh — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:35:50 +0000

I'll definitely be getting an iPhone once its out here in Asia. And guess what i'm using now...yup, a Treo!

"Today, it’s the Amish horse and buggy of Smartphones."

Lol! That's funny!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:31:23 +0000

holy crap I gave my treo 2 years ago and went to a berry- then went from the berry to the iPhone-

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:23:40 +0000

Hey Kent,

Ill raise my hand, I switched from a Treo to the iPhone. The best change I ever did.