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"While at the breakfast and sitting next to HP handheld and mobile computing vice president Rick Roesler, I grabbed his device and played around with it for about five minutes to see if it sets any sort of new bar for a smartphone that hasn’t already been set by one of the other leading smartphones on the market such as Palm’s Treos, Research in Motion’s Blackberries, or the various Windows Mobile-based devices on the market (such as my Audiovox XV6600). I was not impressed."
This can't be good....David Berlind over at ZDNet came to the conclusion within 5 minutes that the iPAQ hw6500 is not a great device. His main observation is that it comes equipped with WM2003 instead of 2005. I'll admit, I am a bit curious why? Why would you release a new device at this point with the old OS?
This device is not a SmartPhone is a Pocket PC Phone Edition. SmartPhone do not have usually Touch screen. I said that because this kind of phones owners are driving me crazy buying the Smartphone version of Tweaks2k2 when in the reallity they have to buy the Pocket PC version.
Now, I gotta try one myself. This guy sounds very uneducated in the ways of the smartphones. He's completely stuck on functionality of how one other phone works, and can't let it go.
Yes, I agree that 5.0 may offer a few things, and hopefully stabilizes the OS. Though right now its causing headaches for developers and wrecking a lot of existing software. So in the short term, is it really that much of a benefit to have. And yes, thumbwheels might work pretty good, we get it, we dont disagree!
That being said, a lot of peoople have never used a thumbwheel, and/or dont like to use them..! So the exclusion doesnt really make or break the devices. And 2003 was a pretty darn good iteration of the WM OS.
And the glaring idea he didnt get thru his head is, this thing hasnt been designed and alll the code written in the past 5 months. Not that it feels like it sometimes, but they put these things thru a ton of testing, and rather than set it back by re-writing code, drivers, etc... for 5.0, they released what looks like a promising phone and beat the other similar phones it competes with into the market by almost 6 months...
And have there even been a lot of WM5 -Phone releases yet, I would bet there is a bunch more behind the scenes to get these up and running.
Its not that hard a concept to grasp really, so his whining about no 5.0 (which besides the thumbwheel it seems he doesnt even know what it offers) makes him look a little silly and not very credible.... Oh well.
So Ill wait and see for myself, these thing have some pretty cool converged features. Of course so do the rest of the crop in early 2006, oh, the same time this thing gets 5.0.... sheesh...
(Oh yeah, and All-In is already compatible with it!!! )
I was always put off by the its screen dimentions. If it's a Pocket PC shouldn't it be able to run Software as it was intended, can't see the majority of developers ensuring that their apps run on a square screen.
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