Comments on: This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, March 28th Edition, Wait-a-Thon

By: starlight81

starlight81 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:52:31 +0000

i sure could use $100 worth of music.....couldnt we all...hehe..

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:51:59 +0000

AnteL0Pe makes the kind of sense that does.

I mourn my Palm, but they abandoned the market, not the other way around. The sheepish mentality where consumers pay money to profess loyalty to companies which treat them like cr@p is... wait, that's Apple right?

Seriously, though, if Apple's next iPhone is a bomb and Palm's Nova is a killer, or (good help me!) WinMob 7 actually innovates, that'll be my next phone.

Loyalty should be to our own needs and what best meets them at the moment. This ain't marriage, it's gadgets.

By: AnteL0pe

AnteL0pe — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:35:33 +0000

Palm users were loyal until they got bent over one too many times by Palm. Seriously, since the 650 which Treo has been the killer, must-have, Palm phone? Ummmmm....

This is exactly why iPhone owners are so likely to have been Treo owners, Apple produced what Palm couldn't. A modern, simple, elegant, powerful smartphone/OS. This is what Treo users have been waiting for. Palm's solution was to essentially drop Palm OS (a simple, underpowered, inelegant OS) and go with WinMo (a powerful, inelegant, complicated OS). That decision was so telling and so inline with the series of utterly disappointing announcements and product releases Palm put forth since the 650.

By: DaffyHercules

DaffyHercules — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:50:41 +0000

Wow! I just heard about this and am glad to have the opportunity to try my hand at winning a $100 iTunes card.

By: BarracudaRon

BarracudaRon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:18:03 +0000

Congratulations Dyvim! My first post for entry, Admin. does commenting "just a post to win" qualify as an entry, or must we post on-topic... just for future reference?

By: dbarnes43

dbarnes43 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:12:56 +0000

Just a post to win the prize

By: NPR_aficionado

NPR_aficionado — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:24:29 +0000

Congratulations! That is great for you! Hope you don't have to wait as long to use the gift card on the SDK apps as all those waiting for the Treo 800.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:08:05 +0000

I love that video. What I wouldn't give, however, for a Zero Punctuation review...

(warning, expletives by the dozen...)

By: marcol

marcol — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:43:12 +0000

Thanks for the 'review'. It brought this to mind, which still makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

By: fhorn2k

fhorn2k — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:39:10 +0000

Palm Users are really loyal......I stuck with them for far too long waiting for new features to be released with every minor update. Long live the iPhone!!

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:20:58 +0000

@Crackberry Kevin,

Thanks for not beating me up

By: topolina

topolina — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:20:14 +0000

Is the CLIO still around?

By: Ohappydaye

Ohappydaye — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:38:49 +0000

Palm is DEAD...

I don't believe this, they'll come back...when, I don't know. But Palm users are the most loyal group of people I have ever seen in my life. We complain and we even buy other devices, but we hang in there. We secretly cheer them on, praying that they will make a strong come back. Personally, I'm in love with the Palm OS, but I think the 800w will resurrect Palm...or at least begin the resurrection. :thumbsup:

Long live Palm!

By: Bad Ash

Bad Ash — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:10:45 +0000

Palm is DEAD...

By: rubykp

rubykp — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:15:53 +0000

that new blackberry looks familiar... hmm?

By: dolls123

dolls123 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:58:21 +0000

Hope to win

By: sparhawk

sparhawk — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:03:31 +0000

Blackberries and iPhones. What about the venerable iPaq? I still see people using them.

By: tschertz01

tschertz01 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:27:39 +0000

I used to be a Palm (Treo) true believer but having lived with the iPhone for the last 8 months or so and with the expected 3rd party apps on the horizon I can honestly say I wont miss my Palm anytime soon.

By: CrackBerry Kevin

CrackBerry Kevin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:21:09 +0000

Nice to See CrackBerry.com Make the Mainstage... There's no such thing as bad PR, right? Re: Next Outage... that info is known. Here's the details:

Rescheduled: RIM Scheduled Outage March 29, 2008

During the normally scheduled window (2a - 6a EDT)

A full 4 hour outage is scheduled for all BIS & BES users in the Americas for RIM database maintenance. Any BES connected to srp.na.blackberry.net is expected to be impacted. No mail / activations will be possible during this outage. This is a 100% outage

By: Nickbw

Nickbw — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:18 +0000

There is no such smartphone world outside of apple , Currently... sorry.

By: Dieter Bohn

Dieter Bohn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Dyvim - you'll get an email to the address assocated with your forum acct. tomorrow.

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:15:41 +0000

WooHoo! How do I get my prize? Time to get some seasons of Lost or something. =).

By: blackmoose

blackmoose — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:50 +0000

Why isn't there a Maxwell House or a Folgers' Coffee Hut on every street corner? Big established companies simply lose there ability to thing outside the box and take chances and innovate. So they sat back in their big puffy chairs and watched Starbucks do it all. The Palm had it's chance, it could have been anything it wanted to be, but it blew it. Bye, Bye Palm, it was nice knowing you.

By: Dieter Bohn

Dieter Bohn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:38:29 +0000

this thread is a Wait-a-Thon thread too! any posts in this thread qualify for a $100 iTunes gift card, drawing to be held next week.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:55:46 +0000

Congrats Dyvim!