Thursday, February 3rd, 2005, 7:03 am
Palm versus iPod
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A heated thread in Slashdot discusses why (or why not) the iPod is a better music player than a Palm. Here is a snippet:
Many people don’t need PDA functions, and even for those of us who do the standalones have advantages:
- Price – a 4GB SD card will cost much more than a flash based 4GB MP3 player.
- Size – iPod minis and shuffles are smaller than any PDA on the market and even the biggest current iPod Photos compare favourably on pocket real estate.
- Capacity – 60GB SD card or even CF microdrive? I don’t think so. Fair enough, most people don’t need the full 60, but even the sensible 20GB capacity doesn’t have any real competition from publically available cards, and plenty of people like to have their whole music collection with them to choose whatever they feel like hearing.
- Ease of use – iPods are set out (extremely nicely) to play and organise music. PDAs are not, and as such have loading times, fiddly small buttons and touchscreens that are hard to use one handed.
- Battery life – big fat backlit colour touchscreen or small, clear, functional monochrome display.
Cited by: PalmAddict
