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Subject: Re: palm or pocket PC?

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 01:04:17 06/09/02

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On June 07, 2002 at 20:20:28, martin fierz wrote:

>aloha!
>
>i've been thinking about porting my checkers program to some mobile platform. i
>was just wondering which... can someone tell me what is more popular at the
>moment (and for the gurus: how about the near future?), palm or pocket PC? or
>anything else? also, am i right in the assumption that on the palm you have much
>less resources (ram, cpu power)?
>
>cheers
>  martin

Hi Martin,

It seems that the cheapest Palms cost about a quarter of what the cheapest
PocketPCs cost. I'd guess that this alone will tend to limit PocketPCs to a
niche market, while Palm remains more accessible "to the masses". I have just
bought a Palm, and a purchase of Chess Tiger followed soon after - in spite of
the limitations of memory and CPU (33MHz on my device) it is still surprisingly
strong.



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