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Differences
Between Pocket Pc And Palm---
Pocket pc…the first thing a new user will think of is it's big screen, the round thingy on the medial of the button's pad (which is call a D-PAD, a two type slot for memory and Peripherals , can surf the net instantly , can chat with your friends with instant messenger and have privacy of you're own, and most of all it is a Windows powered PDA which of course it's virtually like a computer. When a new and inexperience user thing of a Palm type PDA, the first thing they will thing of it's that: it's only an organizer!, it has small screen(compare to pocket pc type PDA) it has about 2mb of RAM for low end which everyone knows that they can get a 34mb of RAM for a low end Pocket Pc which cost about just 100$ more if you compare a Dell's Axim Pocket Pc which is the cheapest that sells around 199$ for the basic with a 99$ for the low end Palm Zire or known as the m150, and even some new user might think that a Palm cannot surf the net(which it can).People who never used a Palm might think that they can only jot some note's but cannot used it to edit or complete there work on Microsoft Word and Excel (which is wrong, they can edit their work on an application call Document's To Go which is seemlier to Word and Excel from Microsoft).
So I am writing this article to
hopefully correct what people might wrongly think of Palm's and Pocket Pc because not all Pocket Pc are much greater then Palm and vise versa. For this compression (it took me a while to get my hands on them, but it's worth it)I have a Palm M130 which is a low end color Palm, Tungsten T for the high end Palm, to compare it over the Dell Axim X5 300mhz(basic) which is a low end pocket pc and the Dell Axim X5 400mhz (advanced) the high end pocket pc.But also, I will compare with them with other Palm and Pocket Pc divises.The Dell ,Tungsten T and the m130 will be my main compression.
Pocket Pc specs(Dell Axim X5 (Advance and Basic):
Processor-both has the Intel Xscale PXA255 300mhz(basic) and 400mhz(advance).
RAM-34mb(basic) 64mb(advanced)
ROM-34mb(basic) to 48mb(advance)
Screen dimensions -3.5 inch
Screen-Both has color screen able to produced 65000 color and both has 320x240 pixels.
Palm specs (Palm m130 and Palm Tungsten T)
Processor-Motorola Dragon ball EZ 33Mhz for the Palm m130 and Texas Instrument OMAP 144Mhz for Palm Tungsten T.
RAM-8Mb for Palm m130 and 16Mb for Palm Tungsten T.
ROM-4Mb for Palm m130 and 8Mb for Palm Tungsten T.
Screen Dimension-The screen for palm handheld are about the same as pocket pc one's, the only different is that Graffiti input area are static so the screen are a lot smaller now if you measure the activate screen.
Processor
-Even though pocket pc runs on a 300mhz to 400 MHz but compare it to a palm handheld which has a 33Mhz to 66mhz, the speed are about the same as pocket pc one's (if you compare side by side and that said, you can only see a little difference ( Ppc is faster of course)because pocket pc has higher graphic and the Os need higher speed then a palm Os handheld. Palm operating system which is Os 1.0 to Os 4.1 uses the Motorola Dragon ball processor EZ 16mhz,33mhz and 66mhz.The new palm operating system which is Os 5.0 uses the new ARM processor which is Texas Instrument OMAP 144Mhz.The new processor is much more faster then the fastest 66Mhz Motorola Dragon ball processor .The Tungsten T is the first palm handheld to used the new OS and the new processor meanwhile the palm m130 runs on the old processors which is the 33Mhz Motorola and OS 4.1.The 33Mhz it's not fast and I would say it's sluggish and application starts popping up slowly one's you run heavy application like Document's To Go or your memory left about 2mb or less. The 144Mhz is fast , I would say super fast because application pop's out instantly, even Document's To Go pop instently.For pocket pc, even both(the basic and the advance) differ about 100mhz, the speed are a actually about just the same. Microsoft Operating System for both of the Dell Axim which is Pocket Pc2002 cannot fully optimize the new Intel Xscale processor for example let's say you have a 300mhz processor, it will be just about the same speed as a 400mhz processor, only about a few application takes advantage of the new 400mhz processor such as Windows media player, but even some pocket pc user's are complaining that the old version of Intel processor before Xscale which is Strong Arm running on 206mhz are significantly more faster on Windows Media Player and didn't produced sluggish Video quality as much as the 400mhz processor. But if you want to compare video quality with a Pocket Pc to even the highest end palm which is the Tungsten C which has a whopping 64mb of RAM, a new processor(again) which is the Intel Xscale PXA255 400mhz and a new OS which is OS5.2.1,the image video quality of all Palm's are still poor. This happen because Palm Operating System os1.0 to even to the newest os5.2.1 cannot optimize good streaming playback video. For mp3's, Pocket Pc is also still the winner. The Tungsten T as you all should know by now didn't produced good video quality as well as the Dell Axim 400mhz, even the 300mhz succeeded to triumph over the Tungsten T.With the m130...hmm, if you wanted to really watch short video, forget about the palm m130 because the image quality is sooo poor ,you cannot even see what's going on in the background of the video because it's to sluggish .
Memory-
16Mb hmmm.... I can't even breath in a 16Mb memory...I can get a low end pocket pc and it still have 32mb on board: That's was my first reaction of a palm memory. Palm divesis actually consumed less memory then pocket pc, so if you have a 16Mb of memory for your palm, don't judged it so fast because if a low end pocket pc has a 32mb, it will be divided into two, one for memory which will be given about 21mb for storage memory(installing programs) and one more for program memory about 9mb(for running a program) ,you don't get all. Now I know some of you will say ''21mb...that's still a lot) but pocket pc as I said earlier consumed a LOT of memory! about each great design and has nice graphics type application that you install may consumed about 1mb or 2mb whiles Palm may be consumed about 200k to 600k.Some will still say it's still a lot but when you plus Avantgo files, Internet temporary files, high graphics games, utilities that you downloaded, themes,books,patches and updates, and more, you may be left a mere 5mb to 4mb, and then after that, you have to run them also using the memory from program memory .Some applications need a lot of memory from program memory such as Active Sync, Windows media,Micorosoft words, excel to run them and when the program memory is finished it will take what's left of memory from storage automatically and used it to run those programs. For example lets say you have 5mb of program memory and 5mb of storage memory left and you wanted to open pocket Microsoft Word, the memory will now become 5mb of storage and 4Mb of program memory's meaning pocket word actually consumed 1mb of program memory to run it or lets say you have about 4mb of storage memory and 0.5mb left for running programes,and you wanted to open word, it will take 1mb of memory from storage automatically because there is not enough memory to run pocket word and after you have finished with pocket word , pocket pc will not stop this program automatically , meaning even tough you have tapped the close bar or the [X] icon, the application may be still running ,so you have to stop them manually if you want that memory back. And this part is where all palm devises shine because if you take a Tungsten T which has 16Mb it will gave 14mb and all 14mb will be left for storage memory and program memory meaning that you can install and run on them both without consuming memory separately and for the Tungsten C which has 64mb it will gave you 51mb and all of that memory will be for installing and running a program whiles a 64mb Dell Axim will only give you about 36mb or 48mb for installing and what's left of that 64mb will be for ruining programs.
Screens-
Pocket Pc has much more bigger screens if you compare it to the Tungsten T and huge if you compare it with the m130 because the palm m130 has 23% to 27% much more smaller then usual palm screen. But if you compare it to Sony's Palm that is there Clie Nx, and Z series, there all has much more bigger screen then normal pocket pc do ,even the Compaq/HP Ipaq which has 3.8inch screen cannot win with the Sony because Sony Clie's Nx and Z series have about 4.0 inch screen.Anyways,pocket pc uses screens TFT type,wich makes the screen looks gorgeous inside and outside. Palm Tt and m130 uses the reflective type of screen which is nice but not as nice as TFT, but the new Tungsten C uses the TFT type screen which makes it as gorgeous as pocket pc ones. You can even compare the difference between T|C and the T|T which of course the T|C is the winner. With videos....pocket pc can used all screen for wider audience but risk sluggish video but if they want, they can shrink it so that the video quality is much more better but Palms,...they have to stuck with their small screen but the Clie NX and Z can used all 4.0 inch like the pocket pc...but bigger screen doesn't mean much and can be useless if you only used the PDA for PIM or simple notes. It's only a necessary and can be useful to used it only if you used you're PDA with heavy applications such as Word,Excel,Internet or heavy notes. Yes....game's can be fun using bigger screen but after a while you don't noticed much difference and sometimes can be painful to your eyes. People think that bigger screen can be much more exciting and fun but hay....smaller screen means less battery cosumption,you'r CPU becomes faster, less painful to your eyes but bigger screen also means much more easier to read ebooks,read Avantgo channel, surf internet,chats,edit your work easier on word and exscel,watching video with wider audience , and play more great looking games that needs bigger screen like Sim City2000.
-Button's(D-Pads)
Before the T|T and T|C came out the only difference between Ppc and palm are that Ppc has a D-Pad and the screens are big.D-Pad's...... ''What are they?''....can they take over all 4button's that I usually play games with?''.That question may have made some people wondering. Well D-Pad's are actually same as the up and down button for palm, the only difference is that they have a left and wright function and their is two type of D-Pad's one is 4way that is up-down-left-Wright and another is 5way that is up-down-left-wright-enter
.The 'enter' function is useful if you are sick of pulling your stylus from its silo to tap an application that you want to enter. With the 5way D-Pad you just scroll and if you want to select an application you just pushed the center of the D-Pad to perform the enter function. They can replace your 4buttons that you usually play game with(addres,inbox,home,and calendar) but it's hard too pushed it as spescillaly if you are playing games and you are pushing the button fastly because sometimes you miss the button you should be pushing. But still, the D-Pads cannot replace the whole function of you're stylus for some reason. The T|C and the T|T also uses the D-Pads, the difference is that if you pushed the center button when both of them in off mode, the clock setting will pop out. Pocket pc can't perform this tough....
-Storage and peripherals
You should know by now what is SD,MMC,CF,Memory Stick, so I shouldn't bother to explain what it is ,but I will summaries it so it's easy to understand the usage.CF slot...the majority of it is used in the Ppc platform but there is a CF slot for Palm but the majority of it are used in the PPC platform, I think the only Palm that used CF slot is the TRG pro(I think), Sony Clie Nx,Z,Nr sries and maybe older palms.So why PPC used this slot and some PPC are not using it.? Well for start, not all PPC used this slot now days because its
-an old format
-big (if you compare it to SD,MMC, and Memory Stick)
-to make the PPC smaller
But some company still used it because of the
-a lot of usage such us Modem's,Wi fi,bigger memory
-cheaper to make and to buy
-some slots like SD, MMc,Ms cannot catch up with CF peripheralas such as modem,wirreless phone card, bigger storage capacity because SD and Mmc are too small to produced them into this kind of peripherals but maybe one day Sd and Mmc will have this options but for now we have to wait for a long time.
Palm usually ships their Palm with SD/Mmc slot and memory stick for Sony's palm(the high end Sony's Clie may have CF slot).Ppc now days also ships with SD/Mmc but some Ppc like Dell Axim,Hp h2200,Acer n10 has the SD/Mmc and CF slot(its call dual expansion slot).So you have too really read carefully what the Ppc comes with because not all of them comes with CF slot and I really recommended you chose a Ppc with dual expansion slot because you have lots of possibilities if you have CF slot and CF card are much more cheaper then Sd and Mmc and much-much more cheaper then memory stick.
-Extras(hardware)
Pocket PC
-All ppc have a voice recorder but not all Palms have these options. The T|T has this option tough but for the palm m130....no.
-All ppc have D-Pads but not all Palms has these options. But palms now days, I think will have this option because the mid-range Palm Zire 71 has a D-Pad look alike.
-Some PPC has removable battery and some has a secondary battery like the Axim but all Palms until the new Tungsten C doesn't have a removable nor a secondary battery.
-Even the most cheapest ones(PPC) has bigger screen at least 3.5 inch.
-About all Ppc are much easier to reset because you don't need to find a hair pin to reset you're devised.
PALM
-About 70% of Palms have a vibrate future, I think only the Hp h5455 has the vibrate future.
-Palm alarms are much louder.
-Palms are much smaller and lighter.
-Palm doesn't consume much battery.
-Has a universal connector.
-Easy to carry.
-Not to vulnerable.
-Many palms nowadays come with cameras.
-Some Palm have thumb keyboard built in.
OS (OPERATING SYSTEM)
When some people tells you that a Palm handheld are easy to used, well........ they are so WRIGHT! Palm OS are much easier to used then pocket pc but Palm ease of used to it has its price. Palm cannot minimize applications like the Ppc platform and palm cannot control the processor speed of the handheld,cannot run two ore more program and so on.. but Ppc also has it weakness that is when you minimize a program ,the program are still running so you have to stop them manually.Ppc also divided memory into two main categories, one for installing program and one for running programs not like palm which memory are both for running and installing programe.Battery indicator also one of the main weakness of ppc because for ppc,you have to manually check you battery(there is no shortcut by doing this) but palm...you have a shortcut to see how you're battery are doing. Installing and downloading program are also harder on ppc especially for new users because when you want to download something there are 3 links:Mips,Hit3,StrongArm and this can make some new user confused because they don't know which want to chooce.But the great thing about the OS(ppc) is that you can select different kinds of themes(some have animated ), application looks a lot better, has the start function to quickly go to another application, can control how many program memory you have, have built in great application such as Pocket word and excel, Pocket Internet Explorer, Windows media player and have 4 kind of data input to choose from such as Trenscriber,Block Recognizer(Graffiti ),Letter recognizer(Jot) and keyboard. With Palm you only have the options of Grafitti /Grafitti2 or keyboard and Palm main weakness is it OS it self because when you used a pocket pc then go back to a Palm hendheald,Palm Os looks like it's to simple and the application such as notes ,addres,looks like a children's notes book and address compare to a ppc which has a lot of functions and looks more adultness(is that a word?) to it. The smaller screen of a palm also makes the letters on the palm smaller and harder to reed and even tough you maximized the letters it would then be a lot of works scrolling with you're stylus. Palm OS also can't run two or more programs so you be the judge of that...
So would you like a Palm or Pocket PC....?hmmm.When I read an article about the diffrence between pocket pc and palm I really hated when they said "it really depends on you" because it didn't help me decide to buy witch product because a lot of people are selling and buying Palm. Why?.....I think the biggest factor many people are buying Palm because Palm have been selling and making them for a long time and they have more shers then any of the PDA maker so people are influence by this factor because they think Palm is the greatest useable PDA out there and some people buy them because they really need a small form factor PDA with a lot of function but there is a small form factor pocket pc PDA like the HP h1910 but even the HP H1910 pocket pc didn't catch many attention to people such as businessman's, because many of them don't have time to learn this and that and they are afraid that one day when they putt peripherals on the H1910 it would be bigger and bigger like the Compaq sleeve for the ipaq h3xxx and h5xxx which is wrong because the Hp H1910 can't even support more peripherals such as Bluetooth or Wifi because the lack of IO for it's SD slot. So with the hp h1910.... maybe one day it might destroyed Palm's reputation as making PDA with small form factor but for now we have to wait because only the hp h1910 can really compete with other smaller Palm handhelds.The View sonic V35,Toshiba e310,e330,e335, Asus A600 and other smaller Ppc can help, but it's still not small enough to compete with Palms .
But for the future ahead I better recommended you buying a pocket pc because it has a great future ahead, it has surpass total shipment of a Palm handheld for the first time in this year, it is virtually a computer, for 199$ low end ppc you get just about the same thing as a high end ppc have, but 199$ for a Palm you get a mid-low end which has a lot of different if you compare it with high end palm , a lot of great build in software,bigger screen,bigger memory, faster proscessor, a lot and hard to learn at first but when you finally learn all about you need to know about ppc, it's more fun and better then a Palm handheld.
POCKET PC(pros)
-much bigger screen, even for the cheapest one's.
-some have dualexpension slot
-99% have D-PADS(the mitac mio 580 doesn't have a D-Pad and maybe some other older ppc)
-all have voice recorder
-many kinds of data input such as Transcriber, Block Recognizer ,ext.
-easier to reset
-virtually a computer
-minimize option
-can control program memory
-many great built in future such as Pocket Word and Excel, Pocket Internet Explorer ,ext
-low end are just about the same as high end
-bigger memory
-higher processor
-many shortcuts such as Start, ext..
-even the low ends have 320x240 pixels.
-many-many themes to choose from even some has animated one's
-applications has a great and professional looking to it.
-some has removable and backup battery.
-Intrenet Explorer has "fit to screen option"
-Cons
-much harder to used and learn
-Ppc activesync are not so great as Palms hotsync
-will suck the hell out of you're battery life programs such as Windows Media Player,Word and Excel,Pocket Internet Explorer, ext
-programs have to stop manually
-application consumed much more memory
-bulkier on high and low end
-memory are divided into two
-always need to reset to recover more memory
-no easy launcher like Palm
-Installing and downloading program can be hard
-not so easy to navigate
-Palm(pros)
-Easier to learn
-much smaller means easier to hold
-memory can be used both for program and storage
-Don't conusmed much battery
-Palm Os launcher are the greatest
-Don't produced much reset
-Have many kinds of hack(Is that a good think?)
-Applications consumed less memory
-The OS used full potential of the Intel Xscel processor so it's faster
-about 80% palm has the vibrate future
-Shortcuts are easier to remember then Ppc becouse they are place in an orderly manner on the launcher
-all application are put on the launcher or placed in one placed(this are the greatest thing about Palm becouse you don't have to dig to faind application)
-80% of Palm can be put in the shirt pockets.
-many many free and share application to download from
-many people are using and salling it so easier to learn and to buy
-less expensive (99$ for the Zire)
-easier to navigate
-Cons
-application looks to simpale if compere to Ppc
-half of all palms still have static grafitti means smaller screen
-only high end Palms have bigger screen
-only small number of Palm have D-Pads
-even the expensive Palms still have printed icons on the addres,to do,ext buttons so it's much easier to fead away
-cannot surf websites especially built for microsoft such as Hotmail,ext.
-don't have great build in software, only a number of third party software like Documents To Go can catch up with the Ppc platform applications
-lower end graphics for games and applications
-applications and games doesn't look as good as you get on Ppc
-poor video and mp3 quality
-dosen't have minimize option
-only small portion of palms used TFT type screen
-cannot run two or more application at ones
-4k limit on Memo
-with about the same price as high end pocket pc example : 249$ for the high end Ppc(Dell Axim X5 400mhz) with the mid-end Zire 71 wich sells for 299$
*this was all done using pocket word
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