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Thursday, March 28, 2002Smartphone market could spell trouble for Palm/Handspring [PDABuzz.com]
The article is terse, very little detail... but the precept that SmartPhone devices will bring about the end of Palm OS is so obvious that I am forced to place my lower-case palm against my forehead.
The SmartPhone platform seems geared primarily for providing a mobile view into Outlook's data store. Other functionality is limited due to the nature of the device, and therefore secondary. That sounds much like the design philosophy of Palm, the only difference being the target device: Compact Phone vs. Compact PDA.
If my prediction holds true, that the SmartPhone will supplant PDAs for causual users... the market for "classic" Palm devices will shrink drastically.
Palm is following Microsoft's zig when they should have zagged. Or they're following the wrong Microsoft zig. Same difference. See the last four paragraphs of "Fire and Motion" by Joel Spolsky.
Cell World Awaits 500-Lb. Gorilla: "Microsoft, which proudly points out that various American cell-phone service providers will soon carry Windows-powered devices on their shelves, recently said it plans to capture 25 percent of the cell-phone market by next year." [Wired via PocketPCHow2 Log]
So Many Phones, So Little Need: Here is a run down of all the new handsets announced at CTIA. [Wired via PocketPCHow2 Log]
I would buy a Motorola 280i if it were available today. It's a very small tri-band GSM phone with GPRS and Bluetooth, which are the exact qualities that I seek right now (it has other stuff too, like MP3 and J2ME), Unfortunately for Motorola, it isn't due until July. May as well wait for Microsoft's SmartPhone to reach the market.
