Loyal Palm User moving to PPC, Why should I?

[gusanitoverde]

Dear Pocket PC Community.

I have been a loyal Palm user for almost 5 years now and I am totally tired of the operations of Palm, Inc.
I am frustrated at them, since I have been waiting for the bragged OS6 Operative (Cobalt) in their mysterious Tungsten T5.
Now seems that the T5 will be boasting an OS 5.4 and not the long awaited OS6. And will have the hardware encasing of a mid range Palm that they sell, the Tungsten TE.

They have always done the same thing. They change a little thing and they sell it as a new and latest handheld deceiving their clients when half a year they are bringing a new model with features that have been awaited since a long time.

I will be honest, I am very reluctant about Pocket PC. As a matter of fact, I am a proficient user of the Windows platform and got so tired of it that I moved to Mac OS X and I am happy ever since. Ironically, palm announced that the OS 6 will not support Mac Platform anymore and PPC seems to be my only choice if I need a PDA that will connect to my Mac.

Is there any good persuaders here that could tell me why should I move to PPC and leave Palm? Here are some arguments I chew on:

Sadly to say the PPC platform has nothing as practical and easy to use like Palm Desktop for PC, so I don’t think that PPC could synchronize to anything its PIM information. Turning on a PPC takes time compared to Palm. I press the Calendar or Address book and the addresses are there. I have sticky notes with alarms (Note Pad application). The greatest plus is that the Palm is able to synchronize EVERYTING to the PC. Battery endurance also is greater in Palm. (I knew this guy that was boasting his PPC, and one day his data was gone since he didn’t charge his handheld, I asked him where was his back up of information, and he told me that his PPC does not synchronize with his computer as a Palm does) The PPC is a computer in itself? Accessories, software is all better in Palm. Programs are fatter in a PPC, take more memory, which makes the overall capacity of storage of the PPC relatively smaller to a high end Palm. Programs like Pocket Word (which is not as complete, and when passing your documents to a PC you loose formatting) are nothing compared to Wordsmith for Palm or Documents to Go for Palm. Resolution in the screen was led by the Sony Clie, a Palm powered device. The best camera was a Sony Clie, Palm powered 2 Mega Pixel Camera, which was may last device. The non-biased reviews in the internet including Bargain PDA.com are placing the Palm Platform as the best in handheld computers. The world’s market in handheld computer is led by Palm , Inc.
I am straight forward since this are issues I need to get convinced about, not by a salesman, but by users like me. I use my PDA mostly for serious purposes, I don’t do gaming (I like it though) but I don’t have time for it. I mostly use my PDA as a business tool, like a personal secretary, to remind me of appointments, sticky notes with alarms, and the Palm Desktop functionality which I use the mostly in my job. And from which my job depends a lot.
I mean, the Palm is the greatest electronic organizer in the world. Why should I move to Pocket PC?

Here is another question and the most difficult. Which Pocket PC should I get?

I was looking at the Dell HX 4700. Should I?

[Minnion]

First of all pocket pc are what their named, they do pretty much the same functions that a pc does. Second of all they have the same capabilities and features a palm, battery life isn't as good because the divices have allot more power than palm. Thirdly it's the iPAQ HX4700.

[Bokkie]

I am switching from Palm to ppc for many reasons, but motivated by office requirements and expectations.

You are right about Palm messing around with the OS. They might continue to lead the market but I wonder if it's now too late to maintain it? Connectivity is an issue and also integration with pc's affects what we need to do at work. If you look at what you get with the hx4700 for example you'll be pleasantly suprised. True, the Palm will always do some things better than ppc, and the ppc will always do some things better than Palm.

You can't really lose either way but I generally find that where Palm has more apps available, most of the good ones are expensive in relative terms, and some of what you pay for on Palm you get standard with ppc. True, ppc might not have as much 3rd party software available, but most Palm/ppc users tend to use a nucleus of applications and both camps are more than catered for in that respect.

Also, there has been a lot of in-fighting in the Palm community and Sony's withdrawal was a major blow to them despite the 'spin' that played it down. The next 12 months may be important for Palm. I believe they have enjoyed an encouraging growth recently, but ppc will always chip away at that. The market is big enough for both.

[slm2fly]

I switched from Palm OS to Pocket PC during the beginning of the year and never regretted, my MAIN reason for switching was that the Tungsten C I had was constantly crashing when I was using the internet Explorer and the fact that the C was the only product Palm had that had 802.11b and the long await secure digital card with 802.11b from Sandisk was just a pipe dream. I love my Ipaq 4150 and I will NEVER go back to Palm OS.

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