Common sense about smart phones

Recently, a colleague told me that he intends to change his mobile phone to a smart phone next time, that is, a mobile phone based on Microsoft, Palm or Symbian operating system, which has powerful PDA function and unlimited expansion. He hopes to buy this kind of mobile phone when the technology is mature and the price drops to about 3000 yuan.

My colleague's "smartphone dream" seems to be quite calm. He not only understands the charm of smart phones, but also knows that smart phones need to be improved now. He has set his own price psychological line.

Compared with my colleagues, what do users who have already bought smartphones think? As brave "early recipients", what kind of joy and trouble did they enjoy? In response to this topic, the reporter interviewed/kloc-who used nine kinds of smart phones, such as Panda CH860, dopod 686, Lenovo ET 180, CLP cect8380, Nokia 92 10, 7650, 3650, Sony Ericsson P802, Treo 180.

"Mobile phone, pager and business communication are indispensable", which seems to be a thing of the last era, but now it sounds like a joke. Who says pagers and business communication are essential? The person who invented this sentence never imagined that the mobile phone was powerful enough to swallow a pager and a business connection in the blink of an eye, and became a "mobile phone, one is enough". That's not enough. It wasn't long before the mobile phone was enough, and a more powerful mobile phone came. It is a "smart phone" which integrates communication and calculation.

It is always difficult to define new things. Some people say that only the Microsoft smartphone operating system is a smartphone; Some people say that the four general operating systems-Microsoft PocketPC Phone edition, Microsoft smartphone operating system, Palm operating system and Symbian operating system are all smart phones. And more people have broader standards. They think PIM (Personal Information Management)+Extensibility is a smart phone, such as the famous Motorola's Java mobile phone A388. What this article will discuss is: an open operating platform, a mobile operating system with complete development support, and products based on these operating systems. At present, there are several such operating systems: PocketPC mobile version, smart phone, Palm, Symbian, Linux and Java platform. According to IDC's latest global data, Symbian mobile phones account for 70%, Windows only accounts for 5%, and PalmOS accounts for 10%. It is predicted that by 2006, Symbian will drop to 53%, Windows will rise to 27%, Palm will be flat, Linux will drop from 0 to 4%, and other mobile phones will drop from 15% to 6%. This paper only discusses the top three mobile phone platforms: Windows, Symbian and Palm.

A, Microsoft platform:

1, PPC mobile phone

At the end of 2000, Microsoft introduced PocketPC, the operating system of PDA. By 2002, the business opportunities of smart phones were just emerging. Many PocketPC manufacturers want to launch PocketPC with integrated mobile phone functions, so in August 2002, the Microsoft PocketPC 2002 Phone Edition operating system optimized for mobile phones came out in a hurry, and then the manufacturers launched the so-called PocketPC mobile phone (hereinafter referred to as PPC mobile phone). That is, June 5438+October 2002 10, the first domestic PPC mobile phone dopod 686 went on the market. Advertising makes people always ask, "What is dopod?" ? "What is a smart phone"?

Dopod 686 can be regarded as a pioneering work that PPC mobile phones are concerned by the domestic market. Subsequently, Panda launched CH860 and Lenovo launched ET 180. I don't know what the expected sales volume of the merchants is. It is reported that up to now, the sales volume of dopod 686 is about 20,000, which is the best-selling PPC mobile phone in China.

Anyway, after all, PPC mobile phones have opened up a world, and several brands of PPC mobile phones are experiencing the first test in the hands of tens of thousands of China users.

I have a strong pursuit of open systems.

Mr Guo, who lives in Hefei, is a technical engineer. He is 35 years old. Recently, he bought a panda CH860 by online mail, which cost 6800 yuan, plus accessories and so on ***7500 yuan.

Mr. Guo has been in contact with PC since 1995 and is a skilled computer user. Teacher Guo said that his pursuit of "open system and functional DIY" is very strong. He bought a smart phone because it can communicate with the computer as an extension of it. Mr. Guo chose CH860- dopod 686, Lenovo ET 180 and Panda ch 860 among the currently available models. Dopod was not selected because its battery is non-detachable; The reason why ET 180 is not selected is that it has no CF extension. Teacher Guo thinks that CF expansion is just like USB expansion of PC. You can add new functions by purchasing CF-supporting hardware.

CH860 meets all his daily needs for portable devices: mobile phones, large-capacity address books, convenient calendars and reminders, e-books, portable reading materials, slide shows and memorizing words. Because he is proficient in computers, he found many third-party software to expand the functions of CH860: software that can display battery and disk space; Software that can personalize ringtones and pictures; Chinese SMS patch; Support e-book software including PDF and other formats; Multimedia playing software; Voice dialing software; Infrared remote control simulator: PDA function key extension software; Word memory software; Electronic English-Chinese dictionary; Telephone firewall software and so on, although there are some English software, but it is also very convenient to use.

Mr. Guo said that other applications such as GPRS, GPS, digital camera and large-capacity hard disk can also be expanded at any time, but they are not needed at present, so they are not added.

But to be honest, Mr. Guo still has a lot of dissatisfaction with CH860:

1. The battery is the biggest problem. You can only use it for one day at a time, including listening to music and reading novels for 2 ~ 3 hours and making 6 ~ 10 phone calls. When the power is lower than 25%, the telephone function will be automatically turned off or can't be used normally. Fortunately, I bought a CF extension back clip with a spare battery 1800mV.

This clock is too small. Because the ringtone and the call are played through the loudspeaker, the voice played by the call is too loud for people around to hear; But the bell is still very small. He used the audio editing software cooledit to improve the system ringtone by 20 decibels, only slightly better.

3. The system is unstable and crashes.

4. The machine is too big and heavy, which is inconvenient (especially when it has a back clip).

5. We haven't found a mature PPC programmable database, which is inconvenient to collect and input data.

However, he does not regret the decision to buy CH860: an open system with unlimited functions, which conforms to the DIY spirit. For him, through software settings, all the requirements for portable digital devices are basically met: data carrying and demonstration; Music and English study; Writing function that can be carried out at any time; A large number of comprehensive contact information is very convenient; You can use GPRS, GPS, digital photography, slide show and other functions at any time. When friends who used PocketPC joked that his PPC phone was heavy, he laughed at them "mobile phone, PDA, MP3, no one can be less". In short, Mr. Guo believes that "it is still worthwhile after using it."

After the reporter's online interview, Mr. Guo took his precious mobile phone on a business trip. Mr. Guo is a typical mobile phone user. He regards it as a PDA beyond the function of mobile phone. However, Mr. Guo doesn't use GPRS mobile phone to surf the Internet, but there is a class of PPC mobile phone users who prefer the internet function of PPC mobile phone as a wireless terminal that can surf the Internet at any time.

PPC phone is my data phone.

Mr. Li Yiyuan is the department manager of an internet company and often travels. A few months ago, he bought a Lenovo ET 180, and then participated in the "One-year Unlimited GPRS" activity of China Mobile, and bought a data SIM card bound with the SIM card number of the mobile phone.

Now, how does Mr. Li use his ET 180? First, he logs on the company website through GPRS to handle some company affairs. Besides, he often reads novels, listens to mp3 players, takes notes with notes, and looks up Kingsoft. In addition, China Merchants Bank's handheld online banking is also his favorite application. Because of frequent business trips, I have a lot of free time, but reading a novel on my mobile phone, time passes unconsciously. He equipped 128M SD card for ET 180, and stored more than 200 novels, including almost all the works of Jin Yong, Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Stephen King. It is no exaggeration to say that this mobile phone is a handheld library. Using GPRS to log in to pda.xiaoshuo.net, a novel website specially designed for handheld devices, it is very convenient to download a novel in less than one minute.

Because the data SIM card is used, Mr. Li's ET 180 cannot be used as a mobile phone. This may be a big accident for the manufacturer. Mr. Li explained: "I don't want to give up the convenient and easy-to-use mobile phone. The biggest problem of this PPC mobile phone is that the basic telephone function is not satisfactory and it is not very convenient to use. From time to time, I realize that it uses Microsoft's operating system (which means it loves to crash and often needs to be restarted), and the probability of death at critical times is very annoying. "

Mr. Li Xueling, the head of Netease, also bought a PPC mobile phone-dopod a few months ago, and he also used it as a "data mobile phone". He said: "I don't use the function of mobile phone very much, so I will make a PDA, and I can use GPRS to surf the Internet and read web pages. I want to monitor the online news of our company. If there is something wrong with the news, I can see it outside and call back to the company. "

The reporter also met another dopod 686 user, who also felt that his mobile phone function was poor, and now it is no longer used as a mobile phone.

The characteristics of these users are that they want to surf the Internet on their mobile phones and have a PDA with GPRS. Instead of buying PDA and CF GPRS card extensions, they chose to buy PPC mobile phones.

The reporter suddenly felt that this was a bit uneconomical, because the price of PocketPC+ CF GPRS card with voice function was much cheaper than that of PPC mobile phone, for example, Acer10 (2400 yuan) +CFGPRS (1400 yuan) = 3500 yuan. The price of a PPC mobile phone is probably more than 6000 yuan. Mr. Li Yiyuan agrees that this seems a bit extravagant, but it is mainly to save trouble.

First of all, PPC mobile phone should be an easy-to-use mobile phone, but now its telephone function is really unsatisfactory, only a "PocketPC with telephone function" instead of a "mobile phone with PDA function". PPC mobile phone is a new cross-industry thing. Microsoft's PocketPC system itself is not specially designed for mobile phones, and PocketPC manufacturers generally lack experience in mobile phone manufacturing. All these reasons make it impossible for you to buy the current PPC mobile phone as a mobile phone, but a PocketPC with one more function (mobile phone function).

2. Microsoft Smartphone

Just when users complained about the defects of PPC phones, Microsoft smartphones came out. The test of the Chinese version of Microsoft Smartphone 2003 has been basically completed, and it will be listed in China in early August. Before its release, CECT8380, a domestic product of self-localized smartphone 2002, was first listed two months ago. Some users who bought PPC mobile phones should have been PocketPC users, so they chose PPC mobile phones because they didn't want to bring two devices-mobile phones and PocketPC. Those who bought Microsoft smartphone 2002 phones shortly after the launch of Microsoft smartphone operating system and before the bugs were fixed one by one are almost all out-and-out enthusiasts.

You don't know smart phones unless you are a player.

Yang Dan, a native of Xi, is 22 years old. He graduated from computer science and has just joined the work. He said to the reporter with a little pride: "Have you ever used the master of registry optimization on Pocket PC? I made it up. Now at least 60% of China PPC users use my software, although it is free software ... "

More than a month ago, Yang Dan went to Shanghai and bought a CECT8380 for 4800 yuan.

Yang Dan already has a Toshiba PDA. His motivation for buying 8380 is obviously different from that of PPC mobile phone users. He doesn't need a laptop. So why buy CECT8380? "Because it is the first smartphone listed in China, and probably the first foldable smartphone in the world, I have been paying attention to smartphones for a long time," Yang Dan answered me.

"What do you do with it?" "After all, this 8380 appears as a mobile phone, so I mainly use it to make calls, take photos with its camera, and sometimes use it to listen to MP3 players and watch movies. I also installed trial versions of many games, expanded the caller ID function and installed personalized ringtone software. "

When the reporter was still questioning the necessity of buying a smart phone after having a PocketPC, he said this sentence: "I think PDA is PDA, and mobile phone is mobile phone. PDA and mobile phone are irreplaceable, just like PDA and notebook are irreplaceable. My 8380 is a' mobile phone integrated computer function' and a real smart phone. " Because of these beliefs, Yang Dan firmly supports the smart phone, even though it has just come out.

Despite this, Yang Dan does not shy away from the problems of the Microsoft smartphone he bought:

1, the battery is also the weakness of 8380. The number of calls is less than a day. Whenever he watches a movie, he always thinks about how much electricity is left. When the battery is low, he can't even look at it, for fear that the battery is dead and he can't make a phone call.

2. the 2.RAM is very small. Although it is equipped with 32MB MMC, it also uses Panasonic's 256 MB SD card. But maybe he is used to using a PDA. He used to put all the programs in RAM, but few programs were always full.

3. There are also crashes. For example, once he installed a 3D flying game, he quit very slowly and then crashed.

3. There are still few third-party software for smartphone 2002. Comparatively speaking, there is much more software on PocketPC, but the software of smart phone is not compatible with PocketPC, and the software that PocketPC can run cannot run normally on smart phone.

8380 users really complain a lot. An 8380 user named commander said: "I bought 8380 for the brand name, multimedia function and open operating system of Microsoft. Now I feel that Microsoft is a thief boat. After all, Microsoft is a PC, and it is still a novice in the mobile phone industry. The function of mobile phone is very weak, even worse than ordinary mobile phone. Some common functions on the mobile phone, such as automatic on-off alarm, incoming call firewall, mass sending, photo posting and so on, are not available. Although these functions can theoretically be supplemented by third-party software, it is even more deadly to install software with digital signatures. All third-party software development programmers have to pay Microsoft a certain fee to get Microsoft's digital signature, so a lot of free software and * * * software can't be used, let alone develop their own software. "

Another 8380 user said: "What I am really disappointed with CECT and Shenzhen University is their service attitude. After-sales service personnel are not as familiar with 8380 as users, and some defects could have been well solved through follow-up service. However, CECT and Shenda's after-sales service personnel knew nothing about this and shirked their responsibilities. They simply can't see the sincerity to solve the problem, nor can they help users feel disappointed and angry. "

The performance of 8380 makes the Microsoft smart phone system itself questioned: "Instability has nothing to do with localization, mainly because of Microsoft's weak lock and mobile phone functions and weak support for Java. In short, it can be seen that Microsoft's smartphone system is still immature, and mobile phone publishers need to do a lot of work and are strictly restricted by Microsoft everywhere, and these manufacturers are often not professional mobile phone manufacturers and mobile phone software developers. "

Although some enthusiasts shouted "Don't send rubbish like PPC2002 mobile phone", others lamented SmartPhone2002, but their eyes have turned to dopod 5 15, which will be released on August 15, 2003, using SmartPhone2003 operating system. They are also eagerly looking forward to joining dopod 535 supporting Bluetooth around the end of 2003, and collecting all the news about dopod 696, which will be the new version of PPC mobile phone. It is said that it will be built with Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition (that is, the operating system is renamed Pocket PC 2003 Mobile).

Enthusiasts belong to enthusiasts. Smartphone products are expensive and their functions are not perfect. Winning the mass market is not easy.

Who is more promising, PPC mobile phone or SP mobile phone? An insider replied: According to Microsoft's intention to squeeze into the mobile phone market, Microsoft will focus on developing its SP system. The industry predicts that Microsoft will eventually merge the two systems of PPC mobile phone and SP mobile phone, but at present, in order to fight against other systems, the two systems are still developing independently.

Second, Symbian platform.

Symbian company was founded in 1987, which is a joint venture invested by Nokia, Motorola, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. It specializes in developing mobile phone operating systems and supplying them to various mobile phone manufacturers. At present, mobile phones using Symbian operating system account for 70% of global smartphone shipments, which has formed a de facto monopoly. There are also many third-party applications on Symbian system. As an operating system on mobile phones, Symbian is not less popular than Windows on PCs, but few people know the name, which is not unrelated to Symbian's low-key style.

Nokia's Symbian products have quietly entered China and have been sold in China for several years. Unlike PPC mobile phones, these products do not deliberately emphasize the difference between their open platforms and ordinary mobile phones. Many users of Nokia 7650 and 3650 don't know what third-party applications their phones have, but just use them as ordinary phones with cameras. However, there are still some users who are familiar with computers and play mobile phones on Symbian platform very well.

A mobile phone is most like a PC, and the more like it, the better.

Mr Wang Qingwei, aged 35, is the deputy general manager of an advertising company. He wants to use a mobile phone with computer function from 1999. He must have a keyboard and keyboard layout like a computer, and he can receive emails and browse the web. At that time, he discovered the Nokia 9000.

1 years ago, he spent 6800 yuan to buy a Nokia 92 10C. Mr. Wang believes that only Nokia's 9000 series mobile phones can meet his long-term demand for mobile phones.

First of all, he needs a very large phone book-he has the address book information of 1500 people, which can be consulted at any time. Secondly, it has powerful scheduling and transaction management functions. Mr. Wang records all his daily affairs on 9265,438+00, uses the spreadsheet function of 9265,438+00 to make an expense table, and usually inputs it every month.

Sometimes it is necessary to show customers their latest TV advertisements. Mr. Wang put them in Nokia format and put them on his mobile phone.

Mr. Wang also uses his mobile phone to browse WAP pages. When he is on a business trip, he seldom buys newspapers and magazines. It is enough to browse the news with 92 10. Yahoo English Station is specially optimized for 9 1 10 and 92 10. Generally, a mobile phone can only read 70 words on a WAP page, but it is very convenient to read 1000 words on a page with 92 10 at Yahoo WAP station. Besides, he also watches wap.sina.com.cn. Traveling abroad, 92 10 has a world clock software, which can conveniently check the "local time" and "hometown time". Mr. Wang often uses the "e-book" function, so it is inconvenient to take so many books with him on business trips, so he uses 92 10 to read e-books and 92 10 to read Historical Records and Twenty-five History. E-books, password management and other software can be downloaded from websites in www.epocn.com and www.my-symbian.com and paid for. After work, Mr. Wang also downloaded and tried more than a dozen games.

He doesn't use the email function of 92 10 very much, because most email attachments are relatively large, which is inconvenient to put away. Generally, the notification of email headers can also be solved by SMS.

Mr. Wang is very satisfied with the stability of 92 10c. He has been using it for more than a year, and he has never crashed while talking on the phone or surfing the Internet. Only when watching videos or searching a large number of databases has there been a crash, which is generally stable.

What also makes him feel is that Nokia's telephone function is very easy to use, and the sound and hands-free playback from the microphone are clearer than those from the fixed telephone. "It's a boutique mobile phone" with elegant multi-party calling function. The ringing of incoming calls is crisp, not as small as that of some PPC phones. Charge once every 2 or 3 days, and the standby time is ok.

Looking at the pencil-box-like 92 10, I jokingly asked Mr. Wang if making a phone call with 92 10 is like sticking a pencil-box on his face. "no! I usually use hands-free, put it within/0/.5 meters from myself, and usually talk while writing, "Mr. Wang added humorously." "Calling with 92 10 looks like 007."

Mr. Wang has two complaints about his mobile phone:

First, I feel that Nokia's after-sales support for high-end users in China is a bit poor, and all extended functions need to be found by users themselves. The price of online Symbian English software purchased by China users is also very high. A game is about RMB in 200 yuan, and e-book software also needs 170 RMB. Second, although 92 10 supports PC synchronization, it is more complicated and difficult to use than PC synchronization of PPC mobile phones. When there are more than 1000 names in his address book, I don't know if it is a Chinese Bug or something, and the synchronization with PC has never been successful. Finally, he had to borrow his friend's ET 180 mobile phone, upload the 92 10 address book to 180 in red one by one, and then use 180 to synchronize with outlook.

The reporter found that Mr. Wang is very used to the handheld device with keyboard input, 92 10, and doesn't like handwriting, so he doesn't choose a product with only handwriting. Although that kind of mobile phone is relatively small, Mr. Wang thinks that the convenience brought by the keyboard of 92 10 exceeds the defects brought by bulkiness.

To buy a mobile phone like Nokia 92 10, you need to find a computer channel like Digital China or a big mobile phone agent like Zhongfu and Longteng. Basically take the computer channel, you need real computer users and people who know the goods to find it. The latest Sony Ericsson mobile phone P802 uses Symbian operating system, which is not the case. For several months, people can see it in every mobile phone store, which has set off a small craze. However, due to its price of nearly 10,000 yuan, there are many viewers and few buyers. However, the young Mr. Zhao Xiaotao is an 802 user.

2' s mobile phone function is my most satisfactory.

Zhao Xiaotao is 25 years old. He graduated from university in 2002, majoring in finance and minoring in computer. He has worked in a newspaper 1 for many years. More than a month ago, he bought a Sony Ericsson 802 with Bluetooth headset in the Ericsson mobile phone shop in Xidan, Beijing, and spent 9800 yuan.

When the reporter asked him why he bought 802, he smiled and said "to cool down". Indeed, Sony Ericsson 802 has a beautiful appearance and exquisite workmanship. This is a product similar to a mobile phone, without the slightest taste of a computer or PDA. Because the 802 mobile phone looks good and there are few users, it is very respectable to take it out and make a phone call.

After working for more than a year, Mr. Zhao has many contacts in his Outlook address book. He synchronizes the address book to his mobile phone and uses a stylus to click on the location on P802 to find the phone number or email address. In addition, some office documents such as Word, Excel and PPT can be read on P802. Although the office documents on 802 can only be read and cannot be changed, Zhao Xiaotao did not find it inconvenient.

He downloaded some games from www.my-symbian.com, www.allaboutsymbian.com and other websites, such as the famous doomsday game, motorcycle, air combat, mahjong, shooting game and the simulated commercial game "Dream Coffee House". We also downloaded an MP3 software with animation special effects, a third-party camera software supporting 802, file management software FileMan, financial management software, and even recipes, time zone software, weather forecast software, auto repair common fault software, database software handybase, handyday schedule management and so on. When he is free, he also takes photos with P802 and listens to MP3.

To Mr. Zhao's satisfaction, the power consumption of 802 is ideal, and the battery of 1000 mAh can last for 5 days. Mr. Zhao often thinks how this mobile phone can save so much electricity.

P802 has also done a good job in GPRS networking functions, such as supporting email filtering, prohibiting browsers from popping up advertisements, and supporting Cookie. However, when browsing HTML format or embedded wallpaper, garbled code will appear, and garbled code from Foxmail will also appear.

Mr. Zhao is dissatisfied that the built-in storage capacity of 802 is only 16MB. To fully expand the application of P802, it is necessary to add a memory stick DUO memory card, and each card costs more than RMB 128M 1000. At present, Zhao Xiaotao has not bought it. In order to prevent 802 from running slowly because the memory is too small, we can only install less software and take turns to install it.

He also regrets that P802 has no Wi-Fi function. If supported, he can use his P802 to surf the Internet, whether in Starbucks coffee shop or in the newspaper where Mr. Zhao works.

Mr. Zhao once called to inquire about setting up GPRS after-sales, and found that Sony Ericsson's service level was good. After answering the question, he wrote down his message. The next time he calls, just say his name, and he can quickly pull up the service records.

If the mobile phone of Microsoft platform relies on its brand influence in PC industry and the familiar interface of computer users, then Symbian relies on the offensive and defensive alliance of mainstream mobile phone manufacturers and many years of experience in making mobile phones. With the popularity of mobile multimedia and some high-end applications of Microsoft and Palm PDA, Symbian is also trying to transform itself, constantly adding PDA and multimedia functions to it.

Because most of the vendors who follow Microsoft's mobile phone platform are IT vendors, lacking experience in making mobile phones and in-depth understanding of telecom networks, their mobile phones may be qualified PDA, but there are more or less serious defects in their mobile phone functions. In terms of ease of use, what is the proportion of skilled computer users to mobile phone users? For people who are not familiar with computers, the availability of Symbian mobile phones may be better.

I have heard that Symbian wants to do Windows on the smart phone platform, which is not empty talk. Symbian has indeed accumulated for many years, and its strength is extraordinary.

Third, the Palm platform.

Once upon a time, Palm handheld computers once occupied 90% market share. In mid-2002, Palm Source cooperated with Handspring to produce two Palm mobile phones, treo 180 and treo270. However, the positioning is strange, neither high-end nor low-end, hardware configuration and performance are also lacking, and the market performance is average. When Palm enthusiasts waited for Palm to launch the Palm Tungsten W mobile phone, they were not disappointed to find that it was just a mobile phone that rigidly bound Palm and mobile phone through headphones. Fortunately, with the merger of Palm and HandSpring, the new Palm mobile phone treo600, which the two companies are working hard to build, will be launched soon.

In China, from September 2003 to June 2003 165438+ 10, two mobile phones, CECTtreo 180 and 270, were launched successively, both of which were authorized by CLP. Up to now, it is estimated that there are only a few users who buy Palm mobile phones in China, but thousands of people (some of them use parallel imports, because, like Palm handheld computers, some users buy parallel imports directly from Hong Kong or abroad.

I use treo 180, but I expect treo600.

Two months ago, Mr. Wen Bin changed his Nokia 8250 to Treo 180, which was brought back from Hong Kong on behalf of a friend and cost about HK$ 2,000. Palm mobile phone is chosen because Mr. Shan likes Palm handheld computers.

At present, for Mr. Shan, the most important function of this treo 180 is to synchronize the address book and schedule with Outlook on the PC. Sometimes even several times a day, because "there are new contacts and new things to remind yourself every day", treo 180 will automatically ring to remind you. He also uses the email function occasionally.

The main dissatisfaction with treo 180 is the power problem. TREO 180 can only be used for half a day at most. Sometimes, just after being fully charged, a few long calls can run out of batteries. I can't buy a spare charger, so I can't take care of my company and my family, so I have to carry a charger in my schoolbag at any time.

In addition, "fatal errors" crash from time to time. However, the menu and interface are still unreasonable: it is difficult to make a phone call with one hand, especially the recent dial-in and dial-out that are often used on mobile phones need to be called out from the drop-down menu. In addition, when you press the numeric keypad to make a phone call, it usually takes about half a second to respond after pressing the key, which is often unpleasant when you use it late.

There is also a big shape, which is easy to fall off. The back pocket of trousers is not suitable either, it is too big.

Mr. Shan knows that Palm's next mobile phone will be TREO 600, and he hopes that the new TREO can completely get rid of these troubles.

It seems that Palm is excellent as a palmtop computer, but it also lacks the experience of telephone manufacturing like the mobile phone manufacturers on the Microsoft platform when producing mobile phones. Of course, Palm is experienced in manufacturing portable devices. Palm products have a group of loyal users and enthusiasts in the industry, and there are many third-party applications of Palm, which can be directly transplanted to Palm phones, not to mention the support of giants like Sony. Therefore, there is still a chance for Palm mobile phones, and according to IDC's market forecast for smart phones, the market share of Palm mobile phones will be flat in a few years, maintaining around 10%. Ultimately, it depends on whether Palm's new mobile phone lives up to expectations.

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The new market of smart phones is born by two forces. On the one hand, it is "mobile phone-centric", that is, Symbian platform; On the other hand, it is "computer-centric", that is, Windows platform and Palm platform. The former has rich experience in mobile phone manufacturing, while the latter has rich experience in multimedia and portable computing devices. Our conclusion is:

Conclusion 1: At present, the smart phone technology is not mature and is still developing and perfecting. As a mobile phone, it needs to be power-saving, compact and never crash, but as a data processing and portable entertainment terminal, the handheld computer can't reach the level of a mobile phone at present.

Conclusion 2: The user base of smart phones is not yet mature. The users interviewed by the reporter above, whether business people or ordinary enthusiasts, are more or less familiar with computers and fever numbers. For most users, smart phones, like ordinary high-end mobile phones, are mainly selling points, such as big screen, MMS, WAP and transaction management, rather than their open systems and infinitely expanded DIY functions.

New things are always like this, pessimists doubt whether there is such a user market; Optimists firmly believe that mobile phones will develop into intelligent networking terminals, and there will be a smart phone market beyond PC. What is certain is that at present, it is still a process for many businesses to cultivate the market, just like a half-baked apple with fruit, but it is still green and needs patience.