The Palm PPC – the Hotspot in your Pocket
It has to be the mob mentality: everyone loves the iPhone, a product, that while it is as polished as can be, admittedly doesn’t use the kind of signal tracking and voice call technology you’d find on even cheaper phones; and on the other hand there are competing products like the Palm PPC smartphones that come with an overall finesse and honest-to-goodness desire to please, not to mention affordable price tags and features the iPhone doesn’t. Task Chairs are commonly used at the side of office desks. And no one knows it exists. Let’s look at two new Palm products on the market, the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus, two wonders of American manufacturing that really deserve more love.
The Palm Pre Plus only costs $150, when you get it with a two-year contract. It has a tiny wonderfully smooth slide-out keyboard, and it has the shape and feel of a little polished stone. The Palm Pixi Plus(and that name is too cute for its own good) goes for just $100 with a two-year contract, and it’s what they call a candy bar phone, with a keyboard that appears right under the screen. For the $50 you save on this one, you do without some luxuries – it has the cruder camera, and it is slower – the one essential they haven’t touched, is WiFi connectivity. Revitalize your home office with certainly one of these slicing-edge Task Chair. But the Pixi Plus really is as thin as its namesake, and as pleasing as a real pixie (one imagines).
The Palm PPC Web OS is a wonderful product that would be nice to see on competing smartphones that have its surefooted ease – like, say the Blackberry. Palm’s operating system is so pretty and so intuitive, you’d be hard-pressed to see how the iPhone is better.