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I gots me some smartphones to play with...

One of Guam's premiere telecomm companies, GuamCell Communications, was nice enough to let me borrow two brand-freakin'-new smartphones, the first to be released for public sale on Guam.  I got my hands on the Audiovox Thera PocketPC with the latest version of Windows CE and the Treo 600  with the latest PalmOS. 

I'm supposed to test/evaluate/criticize/compare/contrast the units and their relationship with Guam's new wireless data services for the TV segment on technology I host every Tuesday, “Tech Talk with Jason Salas.“  It's basically me being goofy and playing with different toys, and trying to explain complex concepts in plain English.

I admittedly haven't played with the PalmOS since the grayscale days of my old Palm III, and since joining the Church of Gates, I've naturally been playing with and developing for Windows operating systems.

I'm lucky to have friends in the know...my good friend Jamil Justice is my company's creative director, and as an artist, is (surprise, surprise) a Mac guy.  And as such, he's more inclined to the Palm stuff, so we're going to do a tag team report next week.

In the meantime, it's hella fun playing with this stuff.  I'm already building some administrative services to run over the phones, since they can both tap the actual World Wide Web, not a WAP offshoot.  And I've been working with GuamCell on developing a business plan for hosted LAN services, wherein they provide a private gateway to a library of apps we write and host for our network ff of our web server. 

If I can ever stop playing MP3s on the Audiovox unit, maybe I'll get around to working on the story...

Posted: Jul 22 2004, 07:49 PM by guam-aspdev | with 3 comment(s)
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# July 22, 2004 5:07 PM

jason salas said:

i'm posting thiis now w/ the Tthera phone with Pocket PC 2004. SWEET!
# July 23, 2004 6:56 AM

Jason Salas said:

I can't velieve I'm saying this, but I'm finding that I like the Treo's web features better than the Thera. The PalmOS browser is always-on, as opposed for the need to connect to the Verizon-supplied proprietary network interface on the Thera. Also - and this was a shocker to me - I enjoyed the user experience a lot more with the PalmOS browser compared to Pocket Internet Explorer.

The latter didn't have a status bar, so you've no idea where a page is in terms of its loading completeness. Also, graphics appeared to be richers and supported more cleanly on the Palm device.

Wow...
# July 23, 2004 8:22 AM

Jason Salas said:

I'm also coming to learn that the browser on the PalmOS-enabled Treo does graphics a heckuva lot better than PocketIE. The former displays them just about as nice as they'd come up on the desktop WWW, while the latter shows severely pixelated renditions of images and graphics. Ouch. In IE's defense, there is a menu option to not load graphics, which helps.
# July 23, 2004 7:09 PM