Palm Pre: best thing to happen to iPhone in a while

[Applejuiced]

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I never thought I'd need to jailbreak but once I tried it there is so much more stuff you can do and change that makes you never go back stock.

Without the ability to jailbreak I would not even have the iPhone. The app store is great, but I need both to complete my phone.

 

[muskratboy]

the last fifteen for mobile devices with touchscreens.

i'm just curious what mobile touchscreen device you were developing an OS for in 1994.

i'll bet it was HUGE.

 

[kdarling]

i'm just curious what mobile touchscreen device you were developing an OS for in 1994.

i'll bet it was HUGE.

Yes.

I was working for a company that made capacitive touchscreen video gaming terminals for casinos. Let me tell you, casinos have the money to fund anything. They're the first to go after cool stuff like the Microsoft Surface, etc.

Anyway, they wanted portable Bingo terminals. Everything was called a "terminal" back then, from settop boxes (Digital Entertainment Terminal) to electronic slot machines (Video Gaming Terminal).

So we were working with about one foot square touchscreen devices for that.

Then I migrated to working on Field Force terminals (e.g. UPS handheld, phone company dispatch and test devices, etc). Some were DOS or Windows or proprietary OS larger tablets. By 2000 many companies were using custom Windows CE ruggedized terminals... err... handhelds.

 

[Consultant]

The Palm Pre is superior to the iPhone IMO after looking at it on their website.

You should read:

Palm Pre: The Emperor’s New Phone
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/01/12/palm-pre-the-emperors-new-phone/

 

[John T]

You should read:

Palm Pre: The Emperor’s New Phone
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/01/12/palm-pre-the-emperors-new-phone/

No, not really! Hardly an unbiased contribution