[mdlug-discuss] One more reason

[Peter Bart]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:24:39 -0500
"Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

> > From: Garry Stahl
> > One more reason to not touch apple with any length of pole.
> 
> I'm planning on upgrading from my Treo 650 soon. From my perspective,
> there are three potential candidates: the Palm Pre, the Motorola
> Droid, and the iPhone.
> 
>  The iPhone's out for reasons like this. (And that leaves aside the
> fact that you need to develop on a Mac, *and* pay $100 for the SDK!)
> 
>  The Palm Pre's interesting... but there's no simple, automatic
> migration of my data from my Treo to the new WebOS platform. So the
> fact that it's from Palm is of no particular importance here, aside
> from sentiment. But I'm not sure I want to use Javascript as my
> primary development language, and I'm not sure Palm has staying
> power. Wish it weren't so, but...
> 
>  Then there's the Droid. Not as open as I'd like, but open enough. The
> hardware supports USB host mode, believe it or not.
> (http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=124) Uses Java, has a *gorgeous*
> screen, etc. I know what *I'm* going for.

What about a Nokia? <http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/>
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Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
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