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<\/p>\nSo…I’m switching back to my little Sony Clie’. For the PIM functionality. For now anyway…<\/p>\n
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The iPhone is nice…don’t get me wrong. It’s a great phone, even if AT&T isn’t a great carrier…(Hi Tico!). And its touchscreen interface is a work of engineering art. Absolutely magnificent. But Apple seems to be completely clueless when it comes to Personal Information Management software, and why it’s an important part of a ‘smartphone’<\/p>\n
My little Sony Clie’ is five year old technology and it runs rings around the iPhone when it comes to basic PIM fucntionality. There are additionally dozens of little annoyances to the iPhone that are unique to it, and which have not been fixed since its introduction. Crap like applications that don’t switch into landscape mode although they logically should. The damn quirky touch-keyboard would be a lot easier to use if it existed in landscape mode more often. I’ll say this though, fumble-fingering with the iPhone’s touch keyboard has actually made me a hell of a lot faster with the Palm’s stylus keyboard. I’m still no better then I ever was with Palm’s own quirky ‘graffiti’ text entry…but I’m lot’s better with the stylus now. Tons better. It’s like my fingers have achieved a whole new level of dexterity. \n<\/p>\n
Where the iPhone excels and the Palm doesn’t is as an entertainment device. But that’s largely because of it’s third party apps. I have the Pandora app loaded on my iPhone and it is a joy. I’d never really cared to use the iPhone as a music player until I put Pandora on it. My iPod is a third generation one with no wireless connectivity. I often have it on my belt though, because it can hold my entire digital music library and the iPhone can’t. But with Pandora for the iPhone I can listen to my Pandora stations while working around the house or at work. I love it. <\/p>\n
I strongly doubt there will ever be a Pandora for Palm devices, although Palm application development isn’t exactly stagnant either. I can get really nice media players for the Palm that handle many different media formats including even the open source ogg format. No Apple device I think its safe to say, will ever natively support ogg. The media industry absolutely hates the open source movement, and Steve is being his usual jackass control freak self about what he’ll let third party developers do on his hardware.<\/p>\n
Which is in the end, probably the biggest reason I have now for dumping my iPhone. I still have until this coming July on my AT&T contract (like everyone else who bought iPhones when they first came out…). That gives me plenty of time to wait and see what happens with the Google Android platform. My hunch is by the time my contract is done, Android will have it’s own Pandora and who knows what else. Maybe even something comparable to the Palm desktop that’ll sync across multiple platforms including Linux.<\/p>\n
But for now it’s back to the simple Palm device for my personal data. It’s five year old technology and it beats the pants off of Steve’s reinvention of the telephone. Nice work there Steve. I can sync the contact book with the iPhone…awkwardly…by way of vCards. The iPhone itself doesn’t do vCards, but I can export a vCard from the Palm Desktop to the MacOS contact book and from there to the iPhone. And back the other way if need be. But…sheesh… I don’t really need calendar synchonization on the iPhone if I’m going to be using my Clie’ again.\n<\/p>\n
Now I need to go find a nice belt case for the Clie’… Since I’m going to be wearing it again probably for the next eight months or so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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