PalmOS no more? :(

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Liam Proven wrote:
>>My Kyocera 7135 has all the features you listed,
> 
> Never heard of it.
> 
> [Googles]
> 
> No it bloody well doesn't.
> 
> The Psion 5/5mx & Ericsson MC218 weren't phones, they were PDAs. The
> best PDA made so far.

The Kyocera is a PDA and a phone.  It runs PalmOS.

> Your phone doesn't have a keyboard at all; it has a key*pad*. The
> Psion has a three-quarter size full-travel QWERTY keyboard upon which
> it's possible to touchtype.

No, my palmtop has a *keyboard*.  It's external, but it has one.  And 
it's full size with full travel and tactile feedback.  Folds out.  Folds 
down to the same size as the palmtop.

> Your phone has a stamp-sized screen, albeit in colour. But who /needs/
> colour? The Psion has a 640x240, half-VGA mono LCD. Kinda green by
> today's standards but excellent for 1998.

The screen is small, but it's nowhere near "stamp-sized".  It's 160x160 
3" or thereabouts.  I can read it at arm's length without any difficulty.

> A proper, smooth, very fast, well-integrated multitasking OS with
> basic memory protection.

This, it doesn't have.  Doesn't really have memory protection.

> Accepts up to a gig of storage on CF.

I have *2GB* in it right now.  SD card.

> Doesn't sync well to a PC, but you never needed to. The Psion /was/
> your PIM. You could both file-transfer and simply cut&paste between
> Psion and Windows. Multitasked with all PC apps and OSs, and Mac and
> Linux too.

I sync mine to a PC and a Mac.  Works fine on both.  Plus mine has an 
MP3 player with decent sound.

> They were wonderful little machines. Never really took off in the US,
> like so much non-US tech. But then, I wondered around Colorado with my
> Newton 2100 in '99 or so and all the Murricans were amazed by my cool
> foreign toy. :¬(

Calm down.  I never said I didn't like EPOC.  I do.  I'm just saying
my Palm is quite featureful.

Peace...  Sridhar