Bye bye Palm Pre

I wrote about the Palm Pre back in June.  Just heard that Telstra have no plans to introduce it to Australia.

The Pre, and Palm are dead, they just don’t realise it yet.

“About those PDA’s, what about the cameras?”

“Why didn’t you write about the cameras on the PDAs you reviewed?”, asked a reader.

Quite simply, because all PDA camera’s are shite, that’s why.

Here’s two pictures showing why:

PDA, and mobile phone cameras fail in the following areas:

picture quality responsiveness (lack of) ie. take a photo, wait for the PDA [...]

Palm Pre Tethering

Tethering is the process of connecting your phone to your laptop, and then using it as a modem.

Carriers hate this when you do this without them knowing, because you’re using their bandwidth for something they have not costed. ie. the Palm Pre will use x amount of the internet (bandwidth), where a laptop [...]

About that Palm Pre

It’s been a week since the Palm Pre was released in the USA.

The reviews on the first day were glowing.

By tech journalists.  Who I generally distrust, as they haven’t met a free lunch, or product, they have not liked. Heck we just need to look at the reviews of the BlackBerry [...]

The Good, the Bad, and the

I’ve carried these four PDA’s around for the last three weeks.

If it was my money, there are only two I’d consider. Leaving one I could live with, and one which would make me reach for my trusty scatter gun.

So, I give you the Sony Xpedia X1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Touch HD [...]