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Originally posted by foo fighter
And for those who still think I'm wrong for wanting my PDA to play MP3 tracks, you had better look at the latest news item posted at CNET News.com, apparently Palm executives have, finally, admitted that features such as wireless internet access, color displays, voice recognition, and MP3 playback are going to converge, even on their handhelds.
Foo
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Foo is right. I have been a long-time PPC owner (though not a "techie" by any means). I brought a Treo 300 about 2 weeks ago and I LOVE IT! My reason for owning a PDA was the capability to interact with Word and Excel from my desktop. Imagine my surprise when I read in a Pocket PC Thoughts forum that not only can I do that with a Palm, but apparently the Palm software works BETTER than the PPC. Something about retaining more formatting when syncronizing files. This was the height of arrogance/indifference by MS and was enough to push me to try Palm. The only thing I miss so far is the ability to listen to MP3's. I had never even heard of MP3's when I brought my ipaq 3 years ago. About a year ago I started burning MP3's and now it is the most frequently used aspect of my PPC. IMHO the surprising part of Palms position on multimedia is that multimedia is perfectly suited for Palm's target market (younger professionals, college students, etc).
As I said earlier, I love my Treo. The ability to access the internet live (no avant-go download) faster than many folks can do from home, to read and respond to email (in 3 years I was NEVER able to get this to work on my ipaq), and do all this without a seperate ISP has exceeded my expectations.
I do miss the MP3 capability and there isn't as much software that is useful to ME as I had thought there would be, but all in all I am happy to be in the "Palm" world.
My only bit of advice, don't turn this site into a PPC bashing forum. Both OS have their strengths and weaknesses and we all have a vested interest in seeing both of them succeed.