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eTard · 06/08/2008, 10:46 PM

yep... this pricing structure could change everything in my opinion.. heck, it might even change what I decide to do to be frankly honest. I have a low enough tolerance for their slowness to market with modern phone technology offerings, now.. to add some whacky seeming price structure and "upgrade fees" that may mean a higher price than other vendors of this same phone.. they may just force me to cast the only vote I can to show my disapproval.. bailing out on them. I have a NE2, which means I am no longer under contract.. so if they **** this whole deal up, I may have had my fill & can bail at no cost to me. I badly want to go the iPhone route but the inability to carry over notes, memos, todos and just existing Palm formatted data & native tools has been the only thing stopping me. But with the coming new, smaller, 3G model, and Apple finally opening up to making native applications - no more reason to only have web based applications, it might be the time and hold out with the 650 for a tad bit longer. LOTS of treo users went to iPhone and lots more 'want' to except for these limitations. I think opening up downloadable native applications you can house on your phone, which are in development, you can expect to see Treo app developers (or the kind) making porting solutions to bring that data over as arguably, the Palm is the most used PDA phone. No other phone has had as many apps made for it as the Treo, but now that the iPhone is opening up to developers, I think the iPhone will be the next Treo in terms of apps being made for it. If I saw iphone geeks making software that allowed me to keep all my legacy Palm data.. I am gone.. and this seeming pricing structure is just one more reason for me to want badly to bail out. I guess we will know in a weeks time, but I thought this whole deal was done for me.. until this slipped pricing structure this last week. it changes everything as that phone and the old technology is just not worth that kind of money nor being forced into a costly data plan for such out dated technology.

06/08/2008, 10:46 PM	#166 (permalink)
eTard Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 218 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	yep... this pricing structure could change everything in my opinion.. heck, it might even change what I decide to do to be frankly honest. I have a low enough tolerance for their slowness to market with modern phone technology offerings, now.. to add some whacky seeming price structure and "upgrade fees" that may mean a higher price than other vendors of this same phone.. they may just force me to cast the only vote I can to show my disapproval.. bailing out on them. I have a NE2, which means I am no longer under contract.. so if they **** this whole deal up, I may have had my fill & can bail at no cost to me. I badly want to go the iPhone route but the inability to carry over notes, memos, todos and just existing Palm formatted data & native tools has been the only thing stopping me. But with the coming new, smaller, 3G model, and Apple finally opening up to making native applications - no more reason to only have web based applications, it might be the time and hold out with the 650 for a tad bit longer. LOTS of treo users went to iPhone and lots more 'want' to except for these limitations. I think opening up downloadable native applications you can house on your phone, which are in development, you can expect to see Treo app developers (or the kind) making porting solutions to bring that data over as arguably, the Palm is the most used PDA phone. No other phone has had as many apps made for it as the Treo, but now that the iPhone is opening up to developers, I think the iPhone will be the next Treo in terms of apps being made for it. If I saw iphone geeks making software that allowed me to keep all my legacy Palm data.. I am gone.. and this seeming pricing structure is just one more reason for me to want badly to bail out. I guess we will know in a weeks time, but I thought this whole deal was done for me.. until this slipped pricing structure this last week. it changes everything as that phone and the old technology is just not worth that kind of money nor being forced into a costly data plan for such out dated technology. Last edited by eTard; 06/08/2008 at 10:55 PM.