CDMA Treo 755P Information Leaked….

They’re still making Palm OS based devices?
Yuck. Why, g-d, why?!

Because Windows just wasn’t meant to be on a phone.

Can I trade AA miles in for Cathay Pacific miles ?

What is the difference between Asia miles & The Marco Polo club ? Are these different from Cathay Pacific ?

Bottom line if I wanted to go to Israel on Cx miles as stated in your posts, ultimately which milage program would I want to transfer starpoints into.

I started reading on the Cathay Pacific website but it’s really confusing.

Thanks in advance for your help Dan.

Please don’t direct me to > getting the most out of your miles/starpoints

I am a frequent flier here and have sent many people to your website.

the palm os is just much better and faster then windows by far and windows will freeze very frequently and also dan is this just a purim shpill couse if it will be true i can make up a tre 799wx if i want and say it will have wifi and a 4 mp camara so please to let us know who told you or where did you see it please thanks

the wiz

Anon-There is no good way to trade AA miles for Asia miles.

Marco polo club is just the elite levels of Cathay Pacific-ignore these if you’re not flying on paid flights.

I’ll make a post soon on how to understand the CX website and mileage program, but suffice it to say that CX is usually going to be the best bet for Israel tickets.

Wiz-I work as a Palm Phone moderator at pdaphone.com
I have a pretty nice collection of unreleased phones!
Why would I joke about this?

Dan,

Thanks so much I will be waiting patiently for the CX mileage post.

Dan, you work as a moderator?
so if you do actaully have an eye on unreleased phones, give us some insight. i am looking now to get the Sprint Moto Q i like the keypad and i text alot, and i like windows it works for me
are there any phones coming out that are like the new verizon taht is a clamshell phone with a keyboard if you turn up the screen.
http://www.mobileburn.com

wadda ya say??

it looks like AA is dumping Short-Haul Redemption Rates

Is this the Palm “Sherlock”?

Oh how I love my windows based phone. And I now, and always will hate the palm OS. Do I have experience? Of course! Lets see: Palm III, IIIe, IIIxe, M100, M500, Sony N-760c, and Treo 270. And over time, the Palm OS has frozen on me more than my old Windows ’98 comp would. I tried out my friends Treo 650 and after using it for 30 min., froze on me twice. There is no reason why it should freeze even once with 30 min. of straight usage.

Windows Mobile/Pocket PC Edition I have owned: Audiovox Thera, Toshiba E300, Mpx200 and 220, Audiovox SMT5600, and now a Samsung Blackjack. The ONLY TIME these would freeze on me was either testing out beta programs or playing it while having it overclocked. Thats it! There is a HUGE reason why most of these don’t come with a reset button on the back.

If you offered me a Palm Life Drive or an Ipaq 1910, I would gladly take a 1910, even if it is 2 years older and holds siginificantly less memory. Im here for the usability and reliability, not a popularity contest.

The only time my 700p crashes is when I put on an incompatible program.

I find that the only time a Windows Mobile device will freeze is when you leave too many windows open at the same time.
Palm doesn’t have that- with the Palm OS, all the programs in memory are running- all the time! You just open another program on top of it! Aside from limits to numbers of programs in memory, this makes a flawed design.
Windows is the way to go.

I’m afraid Dr. Doctor that you have it completely backwards!

The beauty and simplicity of the Palm OS is that once you leave the program it is closed-it does not keep running and hogging up memory.

However with all of the reincarnations of the Windows CE OS that I’ve tried out the programs keep running even if you close them and you have to go into memory control to shut them down.

This is the reason why windows based smart phones require far more memory than a palm phone…

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I’m afraid Dr. Doctor that you have it completely backwards!

The beauty and simplicity of the Palm OS is that once you leave the program it is closed-it does not keep running and hogging up memory.

However with all of the reincarnations of the Windows CE OS that I’ve tried out the programs keep running even if you close them and you have to go into memory control to shut them down.

This is the reason why windows based smart phones require far more memory than a palm phone…

By Dan, at 1:12 PM, March 07, 2007
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I find no problem with that at all. If anything, its more convenient. I can go back and forth between programs without having to wait through repetetive loading times for each program. I can keep going back and forth between media player, my messaging program, and and the jb5 explorer with no visible slow down, and can simply switch through each one with the press of my back button.

Wow, this old thing again?
Look, Dan and many others here already know my preference so I’m going to put that behind me and won’t even go there for the moment.

However, I would like to add that whether you beleive one system is better or not, you have to understand that you’re not going to go convincing others like this. There are some enthusiasts who will always beleive that their system of choice is the “better” one, possibly tainting their view of the competition (not unlike rooting for your home team, even if they stink). I’m talking about on both sides here.
On a larger scale, you see this every day with Mac vs PC enthusiasts (They’ll both refuse to see any merit in the other side, despite the fact that they each clearly have their own advantages/disadvantages).

Take for example what “the wiz” above said:
“the palm os is just much better and faster then windows by far and windows will freeze very frequently”
Now, this is not a very convincing statement. Much better and faster by far? That sounds like fan talk, not intellegent reasoning. That sounds like some kid saying “Its just better, because.” Give an example if you want to give your statement merit. And freeze frequently? Come on… This is how rumors get started. That’s a cheap shot based on the history of OTHER MS products… Windows Mobile is not like Desktop PC windows, everyone who’s used it knows that. Most current WM devices don’t even have Reset buttons because most people won’t need them.

Now Dan, I’m suprised at you in particular- We all know which side is your favorite, but since this is your blog, and you’re a “moderator” in a PDA forum, you should be the voice of reason here.
“Because Windows just wasn’t meant to be on a phone.”
Tell me why PALM OS deserves to be on a phone any more than Windows does! They’re both valid PDA operating systems, and neither one was designed to be used as a phone initially… If that’s your rationale, then you should say that the only smartphone OS that belongs on a phone is Symbian, since that’s the only one that was DESIGNED to be on a phone!

Then there’s this gem:
“This is the reason why windows based smart phones require far more memory than a palm phone…”
oh my my… where to start on this one… Windows Mobile doesn’t “require far more memory”, however the users demand much more of their device since it CAN truly multitask. With palm, since it is a singletask-based OS, you generally can’t do the things that would require more memory!
By the way, they do have ipaq ppc’s running just fine with only 16MB (I used to have one), they’re just not the popular choices because people want high end.

Anyway, I’m not going to go picking apart the rest of the various statements made that I feel are misleading or silly… I just want to say one thing in conclusion:
The PALM OS has its merit in that it IS simple and clean. Some people I know find Windows Mobile confusing and perhaps un-intuitive, and so for them Palm is a better choice. To say that the system is “better”, however is a stretch… better is a relative term, and people like me who have Skype, instant messenger and Windows media playing in the background while I’m downloading a 30MB new custom level for Quake (which has been ported from desktop windows to windows mobile) from a friend while I look up what’s new on ctownbochur.com using pocket IE, well, a Palm just wouldn’t cut it.