Useful Treo 750v Review

I keep loosing this link so I thought I'd stick it here:
http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3415

An actually useful review of the Treo 750v (Vodaphone). Latest reports indicate the Treo 750 won't be available in the US until 3Q2007. By then Vista will be established and maybe Mobile 5 will have an update to match?

And the winner is...

Is it funny to you that Access, the company that makes the Palm OS (they bought it from, well, palm), recently won an award (of sorts) for making the best PDA/SmartPhone web browser?

FYI that browser, the NetFront browser, is not available for the Palm OS.

So maybe you're thinking they just haven't gotten around to releasing it for the Palm OS. Plausible, except this is the 3rd year it has been named best browser. You'd think they'd have it dialed in by now.

A quote from the press release is in order:

ACCESS' NetFront Browser continues to be the browser of choice for the
world's leading mobile handset manufacturers and mobile operators. Featuring a
number of unique technologies, ACCESS’ NetFront Browser has been designed to
enable a rich and robust mobile Internet browsing experience.

Apparently Access doesn't think the Palm OS is running on "...the world's leading mobile handset[s]..."

Welcome to Business 3.0

http://www.access-company.com/news/press/Current/110106_pocketpcmag.html

What's really wrong with the Zune?

The real zune screw-deal appears to be the Windows Media Store. I listened to a TWiT podcast last night (This week in tech) and they said people who had bought songs through the windows media store could not use them on the Zune. Apparently Zune has its own DRM, separate from the DRM system used by Windows Media 10 (probably related to the whole Zune "Welcome to the Social" song sharing for 3 days deal- Windows Media's DRM doesn't support 'sharing').

So if you bought songs from iTunes, you can't use them on Zune.
If you bought songs from Napster, you can't use them on Zune.
If you bought songs from Sony, you can't use them on Zune.
If you bought songs from Windows Media Store, you can't use them on Zune.

I guess you don't have to worry about filling up the 30 gig drive anytime soon.

On a side note: I think this Zune is akin to the first XBox. Wait for the Zune360 and we might have something exciting on our hands. I'm thinking Zune wireless syncing with the 360, and using Live credits to buy media (songs, tv, and movies).