Palm PIM vs Series 60 PIM

It’s not a secret that the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) OS has, to this day, has one of the best PIM’s (Personal Information Manager) on the market. While this blog post barely scratches the surface of why Palm is better than S60, in that respective category, it atleast starts a discussion. At CES I’m going to try and woo some of the Palm employees at the booth to send me a review model of the new Treo 680. I’d love to give you guys a fair comparison so you don’t think I’m just making stuff up. I’m also trying to get a review sample of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N93 from Nokia. If I manage to succeed at both of these tasks you can expect a long, very long, video detailing my Nokia E61 versus a Palm Treo 680 at the software level. I want to see Nokia improve, and showing them where they are weak is the best way to do it in my opinion.

This is an issue that I have on my mind for a long time, so I wrote it to somebody who works for Nokia. I’m also posting it here:

I’ve been trying Nokia smartphones. I don’t like the 9300 and the 9500 smartphones, so I decided to go for a Series 60 device such as Nokia 6670.

It is very interesting to take a Palm III which was released about 7 years ago and compare the PDA functions with the functions of a modern Nokia Series 60 smartphone.

Source: The Joel on Software Discussion Group