Palm Pre. True iPhone competitor, running Linux :-)

[Johnsie]

The Iphone is a fad. It will get old and something new will come along. The phone industry changes alot and Apple has had it's 15 minutes of fame.

With regard to the Pre. I heard Plam were having some financial difficulties. I don't doubt that the software is good but it's all Apple, HTC and Samsung these days. Sony Ericcson posted their second yearly loss today.

I was all for HTC but I'm having second thoughts now due to HTC's inability to ship units effectively...

http://blog.three.co.uk/2010/04/19/a...sire-delivery/

[ukripper]

The Iphone is a fad. It will get old and something new will come along. The phone industry changes alot and Apple has had it's 15 minutes of fame.

With regard to the Pre. I heard Plam were having some financial difficulties. I don't doubt that the software is good but it's all Apple, HTC and Samsung these days. Sony Ericcson posted their second yearly loss today.

I was all for HTC but I'm having second thoughts now due to HTC's inability to ship units effectively...

http://blog.three.co.uk/2010/04/19/a...sire-delivery/

Palm is bought out by HP

[cbecker78]

How can Palm $crew this up???

Three words: That creepy woman

[Giant Speck]

Three words: That creepy "woman"

Fixed that for you.

[jack frost]

Ok, OpenMoko is taking ages and Google Android has a very limited interface. Well behold:



It's an amazing gadget running Linux (I don't know if the interface is OSS, tough). It has a gorgeous accelerated interface and true, amazingly well done and integrated, multitask, it also has a very fast CPU (If I recall correctly is something between 800 Mhz and 1 Ghz).

More info:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/13/p...now/#continued

Reasons why it could be an iPhone killer (as in features):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQzCd2OnoM

Palm Pre GUI conference (part 1):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6l0birqeig

does the openmoko sync with ubuntu ok? evolution etc?

[pwnst*r]

The Iphone is a fad. It will get old and something new will come along. The phone industry changes alot and Apple has had it's 15 minutes of fame.

With regard to the Pre. I heard Plam were having some financial difficulties. I don't doubt that the software is good but it's all Apple, HTC and Samsung these days. Sony Ericcson posted their second yearly loss today.

I was all for HTC but I'm having second thoughts now due to HTC's inability to ship units effectively...

http://blog.three.co.uk/2010/04/19/a...sire-delivery/

You wouldn't have NEAR the amount of good smart phones currently if it wasn't for the iPhone. Competition is a good thing to those who are not blinded by branding.

[jetsam]

Is it possible to get a dumb cellphone and a smart tablet and make them talk to each other?

It's a real question... I don't know much about the cell phone and data access stuff at all.

[cbecker78]

Fixed that for you.

LOL! True, very true.