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 Originally Posted by shadowmite
If they made a palm have a built in hard drive, I for one would NEVER buy it, and I'd hope everyone else wouldn't either. Hard drives are a design flaw. They WILL go BAD... It's just a matter of time... For a home computer or laptop, fine... But a phone!?!? It better never need a replacement hard drive! Anyone buying a device like that is asking for issues.
Heck, look how many Apple iPod's have hard drive issues now, all because of bad sectors...
 Originally Posted by Perry Holden
I believe the next Sprint Treo will be out in December 2005. I can't see Palm, nor Sprint letting the Holiday Season or quarter vs. last year financial quarter comparisons get trashed without a repeat of a Treo "introduction". As well, GSM carriers now have EDGE, I can't see Sprint wanting to wait another year before getting an EV-DO Treo out there. Just my speculation.
Cheers, Perry.
Agreed....X2
There is no really good reason for Palm to try to merge the Life Drive and the Treo. There are many bad reasons....cost and reliability being at the top of the reasons I can think of.
I'm truly hopeful that Palm has an EV-DO handset prepared by Christmas. I can't see them sitting back and letting M$ units jump up and grab all this new EV-DO biz w/o some sort of quick come back.
 Originally Posted by grndslm
As for WiFi...I doubt the Treo would pick that up because also again...in smartphones wifi is a niche of niche....just too few people that really demand it when there's stuff like EV-DO and bluetooth that don't have MANY more benefits than wifi. Also another reason I doubt it is because OS 5 can't seamlessly roam between different types of wireless networks. I predict the Treo getting wifi in 2 years and not this one. But, who knows? Maybe palm's dumber than I think.
I disagree that it's a niche market. Yes, ppl can use EV-DO, Edge or MAYBE BT (let's remember that BT is not a Wi-Fi competitor, but a cable replacement technology...in fact, BT is MORE of a niche market that's just warming up in the US); but they have to consider that not everyone will want to pay the high prices for these data plans. And Wi-Fi is reaching so many homes these days (if go to the 3rd floor and turn on my laptop, the AP list goes for more than a page!) Let's face it, Wi-Fi is pervasive and whether they use it or not, ppl want it. Palm wouldn't be dumb to include it, I feel (for marketing purposes) just the opposite is true.
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