These guys are spot on:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/21/dear-palm-its-time-for-an-intervention/

Palm (well... "Access" .. all sorts of companies being sold, merged, etc all over) really needs to get their open source PDA OS .. into a device that one might.. you know, be able to buy.

I friggin LOVE the Palm OS, but Garnet is getting way stale. Meanwhile, Windows Mobile.. just sucks ass, really hardcore like. It's absolutely, positively, the crummiest attempt at a mobile OS that I've ever seen. Symbian is nice, but it's always way slow and typically found .. just in smartphones, not PDA phones.

The iphone.. has a polished UI but I love me a touchscreen, and Apple's attempt isn't by any means perfect. Come on Palm, surprise me, throw us a nice OS on a modern phone. I keep finding myself going back to using my Treo 650 because it's such a nice OS, but the phone is so bulky that it's not always ideal, and I'm tortured to use a thin-but-worst-os-ever-created-srsly blackjack.

Maybe I'll just get a damn blackberry (I can use my school e-mail through push exchange on Windows Mobile or through their blackberry enterprise server so it's no big difference as far as that is concerned) and deal with not being allowed to use third party apps. I know in the 650 and the blackjack, 95% of any instability can be traced squarely to a 3rd party app (yes, VersaMail on the 650 is third party, though included)

at my job the company gives us blackberrys.reason is that so we email all the paper work from the lading bills.and all of our reciepts that we get from the customers.but we do get a charger for them only 32 dollars a month.and comes with its own plan as much usuage as we can for the same price all the time.

These guys are spot on:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/21/dear-palm-its-time-for-an-intervention/

:+1:
For now I'll stick w/ my slow Symbian w/ the nice battery life. Shawn went w/ a WM phone so he could use it w/ the MaxQ datalogger, but we both enjoyed our Palm OS devices back in the day.

Are even the newer symbian devices slow as hell? That bugged the hell out of me with the two Series 60 phones I owned (I think the latest being Symbian S60 v8 (Nokia 7610))

Are even the newer symbian devices slow as hell? That bugged the hell out of me with the two Series 60 phones I owned (I think the latest being Symbian S60 v8 (Nokia 7610))
Mine (M600i w/ a reflash) seems to be fine w/ handwriting turned off. But I usually don't do more than a couple items at a time. Mobipocket is almost always open, and then the Calendar, Phonebook, QuickContacts, a game, Bluetooth, that's about it. :)