Palm’s PDA’s are now more than three years old, and no updates are in sight. As August traditionally is the time of blowout sales, quite a few units may be moved soon. Ryan Kairer’s team traditionally has had excellent links to Best Buy - let’s look at their offers:
First of all, Palm’s PDA’s are discounted a bit. The Z22 can be had for 90$, the TX goes for 255$ without any extra accessoires.
Treo-wise, little is offered. However, Centros can be had for their ‘list prices’ or - under some curcumstances - for just 50$ with a 2yr contract.
As usual, no warranties can be given on stock and effectivity: some stores can always run out of stock or choose to stick to the regular pricing…
When Palm makes the news these days, they’re always described as a “smart phone maker”. The PDA business is dead: everybody has a cell phone, and people don’t want to carry two devices. There will be no more Palm PDAs. Sad, but true.
Hi Isaac,
to be honest: I really like my Treo…and wouldn’t mind a TX with a cell phone inside either.
A smartphone can be a PDA as well…it just depends on the form factor. Look at the WM boxen for a few excellent examples of this in action…
all the best
Tam Hanna