A couple of reasons... for starters Palm OS works with my Mac, and I wanted easy backup/loading/etc. capability. Also, I really like that Palm will let you load applications and documents on it - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. as well as little applets (I have an awesome alarm program that I downloaded for free). I like the touch screen and stylus input, it makes it very easy to copy/paste rather than typing a bunch of stuff if you're composing email or whatever.
Oh, I LOVE the camera -- it takes really nice resolution photos, considering it's a camera phone. And the LJ Mobile application for Palm is cool -- take a photo, compose a post, post to your LJ right from your phone, it's all automatic! It's kind of awesome.
Also with Treo you can "beam" stuff (documents, games, programs) from one Treo to another just by pointing them at each other and pressing a button. It isn't something I use a lot but it's pretty cool when I do. :)
But more importantly than any of that, the Treo was cheaper to start and had a $100 rebate, plus the monthly service (I have Sprint) for Treo was WAY cheaper for the services I wanted. Like, $30-$40 a month cheaper than Blackberry or iPhone. So I can't say that Blackberry doesn't do all of those things and more (I honestly have no idea), because the price differential was so extreme I didn't really look at it very closely.
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Date: 2008-05-02 06:42 am (UTC)Oh, I LOVE the camera -- it takes really nice resolution photos, considering it's a camera phone. And the LJ Mobile application for Palm is cool -- take a photo, compose a post, post to your LJ right from your phone, it's all automatic! It's kind of awesome.
Also with Treo you can "beam" stuff (documents, games, programs) from one Treo to another just by pointing them at each other and pressing a button. It isn't something I use a lot but it's pretty cool when I do. :)
But more importantly than any of that, the Treo was cheaper to start and had a $100 rebate, plus the monthly service (I have Sprint) for Treo was WAY cheaper for the services I wanted. Like, $30-$40 a month cheaper than Blackberry or iPhone. So I can't say that Blackberry doesn't do all of those things and more (I honestly have no idea), because the price differential was so extreme I didn't really look at it very closely.