All this talk and speculation and rumours and just plain lies lies lies about the new treo's that are appearing or will appear or will never appear is all very interesting but what I want to know is...when is the new line of palm pda's coming out? All seems to have gone very quiet in the last few months and normally, around this time of the year, we get the rumour mill building up some pace. But nothing so far. I think all the treo shennanigans and rumpus over the past few weeks is overshadowing this. I have a treo 650 myself so I'd be naturally interested in any new, improved treo coming out...and for me, to upgrade, it would have to be a better device before I did. Firstly, it would have to have a bigger screen, the present one is sharp and clear but just too small, especially when you get used to something like the screen on the T5 or T/X. Secondly, any new treo has to lose some of that middle aged spread. It's a big phone and a relatively big pda without the benefits of being a big pda ie big screen. And it's got to have a lot more internal memory. Make no mistake, I like my treo. I love the simple to set up and easy to use email and also like the gprs set up for relatively quick and reliable internet access but if I could get a slim line phone that provided the same level of service I'd be happy to ditch the 650. Which is why I'm always very interested to see our Jennifer keeping us all up to date with the latest phone developments.
So what's the point of all this? I am just finding that my T/X is a far better pda than the 650 and I'm using the 650 for less and less pda stuff. It's turning into more of a phone than pda for me and I'm sure there are probably better phones out there than the 650. It's funny because until the T5 and T/X came out I was very much in the "one gadget" camp and couldn't see myself returning to the seperate phone/pda scenario. It just seems to have crept up on me over the last 6 months or so and I think it is a testament to how good the latest round of palms pda's are. But that's just my opinion and is based upon the way in which I use my pda which does not involve a lot of internet / email usage.....which brings me back to the original thought, when are these new palm's going to appear? Because if they are better than the current ones then they are going to be well worth waiting for.
-murrayalex, Associate Writer, Ediburgh
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