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不仅是因为iPhone根本没在美国以外的地区发售.! W& t3 P- C( ~
更主要的是Treo在中国销售的650和680都是很多地方都差一大截的,根本与目前的Treo755无法相提并论(不仅是硬件,而且包括系统方面)..* H+ Y2 o; u0 G# ]7 f; y
3 T# K" f/ L% s不过也可以看看别人的意见..相对而言,如果你是商务用户,Treo在很多方面要胜出; 如果你是普通的消费用户,仅外形一项iPhone就足以把TREO 打得满地找牙了)4 t6 ~; Y1 ~3 T- B5 h; F( R3 r
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Editorial: 10 Rounds with the iPhone
4 K; O/ q4 K) ^. K3 U" EBy: Tim Carroll) D% s% T8 o* H4 o$ {
July 4, 2007iDay has come and gone, and the first iPhones have made their way intothe hot, grubby hands of gadget geeks and Apple cultists. It's animportant phase: how well is this svelte little beauty going to bear upunder the hypercritical gaze of enthusiasts without the patented SteveJobs Reality Distortion Field surrounding it? In the words of theBoston Globe's Hiawatha Bray:+ p% L9 L, X- M* U) M( d
9 j: J+ V4 z* d0 e"After the relentless buildup of the past sixmonths, the temptation to trash Apple Inc.'s new iPhone is pretty muchirresistible. If only I could." But Miss Bray shouldn't fret: PIC is more than happy to give in totemptation. Six months ago when Steve Jobs claimed to have“revolutionized” the phone, we put the so-called “God Machine” upagainst Palm's Treo and concluded that while formidable, it's not theperfect device and could be beaten. Now that we have fresh, unbiasedopinions coming in, it's time to see whether or not the Treo stillpasses muster. Let's take a walk down memory lane...* T2 g( V' O1 e0 k
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500,000 freaking first-weekend sales.That's the number being floated by analysts after the iPhone'smassively hyped launch. You can practically hear the AT&T execslaughing all the way to bank: half a million new two-year contracts intwo days is a massive coup for them that no doubt has Verizon feelingmighty foolish. (Verizon, if you'll recall, reportedly rejected the iPhone, for fear of giving Apple too much control over their subscribers.)
8 Q5 R7 D* {! NBut this was to be expected: with all the iPhone mania in the press andApple's own genius marketing, the launch was always going to be huge -attracting not just Apple fans and gadget lovers, but eBay scalpers aswell (current going price: $16,000 AUD.) Interestingly, a few sites have reportedthat most Apple stores still have plenty of stock. Were Apple hopingfor a sellout? Who knows, but by any measure it was still a greatlaunch for them and AT&T. It will be interesting to see how salesfare once the craze calms down. ?- I8 W E) Y3 L& C
I'm saying all this to point out that we're not here to debatethe success of the iPhone - because no one could deny it was a goodlaunch – but simply to see how it stacks up against Palm's bestefforts. Let's get started.0 I, t' N" w. \7 |! [2 i
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8 H7 H% A5 }/ g4 W8 G0 sWith all the bells, whistles and doodads that are part and parcel ofthe modern cellphone, it's sometimes easy to forget that you have touse these things for talking, too. Fortunately for all of us, it's easyto declare a winner in this category: it's the Treo by a wide margin,almost purely by the virtue of one simple thing: buttons. Real,honest-to-god physical buttons that you can feel without needing tolook. Touchscreens are fantastic – in fact, I can't see myself everbuying a device without one again – but they are not the be-all andend-all. iPhone in particular is going to require two-handed usage moreoften than phones with buttons. This is a completely unavoidablesituation on a control surface with no tactile feedback. No gettingaround it. / [; g# K b# l" Z/ t$ M
Plus, dialing a contact on a Treo is as simple as tapping out a fewletters, whereas on the iPhone you'll need to 'flick' through pageafter page to get to the number you're after. Yes, you can skip to acertain alphabetical section of your contacts, but that's still not asprecise or as quick. Visual voicemail is very impressive, but notenough to compensate for the other problems. Finally, only Apple couldcome up with a phone that requires two steps to hang up from anotherapp and then call it “revolutionary”. Next, please! Treo 1, iPhone 0.7 c0 c; ]" [1 @) C1 u1 n
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6 k% b5 _% K0 k% t- x4 Q9 o* \5 BHere'sanother easy choice, and partly for the same reason as last time: realkeys are simply easier to type on than virtual ones. But there's moreto it than just that: stunningly, iPhone doesn't support MMS, amessaging feature that has been around for ages now. Want to quicklyfire off a picture to a friends phone? It's email or bust, pal. Bigkudos to Apple for implementing threaded SMS, a feature pioneered onthe Treo, but they still come up short. Treo 2, iPhone 0.
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This one's a little more complicated. Do we judge the Treo purely onit's built-in Versamail - which has copped a lot of flak forinstability issues - or do we expand the field to include third-partyemail applications like the excellent Chattermail? To keep thingssimple we'll use Versamail as our comparison. iPhone's email isvisually impressive, and has features like in-line photos that leaveVersamail in the dust. It's also compatible with POP3, IMAP and Yahoopush email, so consumers – the main target market – will find most oftheir bases covered.: `+ r2 S3 _, Y+ O1 V
Of course, iPhone users still have to contend with a virtualkeyboard. Plus, for the business user, it's hard to go past a Treo,which can be configured to do any kind of email you want. And if you don't likeVersamail, then you have other options. If you don't like iPhone'simplementation, you're stuck with it. So while iPhone's email isvisually impressive, it's still not as functional as a Treo – which iswhy this round goes to Palm. Treo 3, iPhone 0.: v6 `' j1 ?7 O% c; K; Y7 d4 m/ H
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And now the tables turn. Listen up, Palm: Blazer is a joke. It waspretty good a couple of years ago, but nowadays is just not up toscratch. iPhone on the other hand gives us a stripped-down version ofSafari, a speedy and well-designed desktop Web browser now optimisedfor a small screen. But this ain't no Pocket IE or Opera Mini: itrenders full web pages and meshes them with intelligent touch-controlsto give us what is unequivocally the most impressive mobile web browserto date.5 j# H! |5 b m5 \3 k
There's no Flash, there's no Java. But that's true of prettymuch every other mobile browser as well. There's no 3G, which is acrushing omission for such an advanced device, but wi-fi is in there ascompensation. All in all, features like the realistic rendering, smartzooming and smooth landscape switching set a new benchmark for mobileInternet that will be hard to match. iPhone 1, Treo 3.
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$ C2 G) b z- o4 N5 D2 r" Q0 |The cellphone camera is a wonderfully useful thing to have. While youwouldn't want to use one to capture important pictures – wedding,birthdays, stuff like that – they're great for those spur-of-the-momentsituations. Palm's cameras to date have been woeful; the Treo 680'scamera does a great job given that it's only got 0.3mp to work with,but in this day and age the idea of shipping a VGA camera on asmartphone is ridiculous. Even the more advanced 1.3mp cam in the 700pand 755pis average at best. iPhone, on the other hand, has a pretty good 2mpcamera. It looks pretty terrible in low light situations, but then veryfew mobile cameras don't. Of course, you can't MMS those pictures toyour friends... but that's not the camera's fault.# ^- C1 Z2 ?; J9 [) g1 d
Thestrangest omission is the lack of any kind of video recordingfunctionality. Were Palm's video recording of any real quality I wouldgive this round to the Treo, but since all Treo videos are limited to amaximum resolution of 352 x 288 they're usually not worth takinganyways. iPhone wins. iPhone 2, Treo 3.8 e7 m, U) t( p( u* P& P
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: B/ ]& B( s! w- N+ t5 X! FIf you're willing to shell out for additional software, then I'd hesitantly give this round to Palm, for which you can bolt on useful stuff like Bluetooth A2DP and even an iPod interface if you're so inclined (see mOcean); which can stream a large selection of internet radio stations; and CorePlayer which can play the world's most popular video format, DivX.
' L$ f. Q9 }' Y5 G% q6 SBut out of the box an iPhone blows the Treo out of the water, and it'smostly due to two things: a large screen and iTunes. I personally can'tstand iTunes, but I know I'm in the minority there; most seem to findit more than acceptable, and it's hard to argue against the simplicityof its syncing process. Palm instead relies on third-party musicsyncing with clunky nightmares like Windows Media Player, and since thetransfer speed is so slow you're usually better off going through thecumbersome process of inserting and removing SD cards in order to copy files with a high-speed card reader.
" i8 G; p# b# z" ~$ M$ x8 uiPhone's iPod functionality is visually stunning, with the supremelyuseless but eye-pleasing Cover Flow demonstrating just what you canachieve with graphics on a mobile device if you make the effort. Likemany things on the iPhone, it looks so prettyyou can't help but want to play with it. It's odd that Apple hasn'tincluded any kind of background playback controls - apart fromplay/pause and next via the earbud button, but that's not adealbreaker. I've never liked the way the iPod handles playlistcreation and 'flicking' the touchscreen to get through your librarycould get frustrating in the long term, but overall it's just a bettermedia player than the standard version of Pocket Tunes that Palm includes with the Treo. iPhone 3, Treo 3.' f: a* Q0 Y' N
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Make no bones about it, Apple's new multi-touch technology is indeedrevolutionary. But as we've touched on earlier, touchscreens are thenot always the best way to input commands. The iPhone is going torequire two hands to use in most situations. That's just not goodenough to best the Treo's combination of touchscreen, hard buttons,exposed keyboard and intelligent one-handed d-pad navigation.
. c4 Z/ k- p" |9 nAsstated earlier, to hang up a call from another app in the iPhone, youhave to first switch back to the on-call screen and then press end call– and try doing that without looking. On a Treo you press the redbutton. To switch apps on an iPhone, you'll always have to navigateback to the Home screen first, whereas on a Treo you have all the majorfunctions one button away. These also double as a way of turning thedevice on, so even when it's switched off it's easy to get what youwant with one press/ (You may also have to press the center button tounlock the keyguard, depending on your settings.) Not so with theiPhone; first you'll have to turn it on with the top-mounted powerbutton, then slide your finger across the screen to unlock it, thenpress Home, then open whatever it is you're after. Unnecessarilycumbersome. Apple should employ a tap counter.+ p: w7 y8 ]0 h+ L; Y
Palm OS can't claim total victory: Garnet is ancient and has well-known instability issues, but these are a lot rarer on the newer 680 and 755pTreos, to the point of being a non-issue. Overall it's still the mostuser-friendly mobile OS. Oh, and last but not least, iPhone can't evencopy-and-paste. Like MMS, it's a stupid omission for such an advanceddevice. Point to Palm. Treo 4, iPhone 3.
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The iPhone comes with a pretty good built-in software package thatshould satisfy the needs of most average users. But you shouldn'texpect to get anymore out of it than what's already included; you'll bestuck with iPhone-compatible web applications as your only source ofextra functionality. Given iPhone's gorgeous UI and powerful OS (astripped down version of the Unix-based Mac OS X), it's an egregiouskick in the face for smartphone fans. This thing is begging for third-party support, and the Mac developer community is an asset that Apple is foolish to waste.$ B- e6 @" G! }8 b
It may be that Apple will eventually open up the iPhone – in fact, I'malmost certain of it – but for now it just screams wasted potential. ATreo on the other hand offers an app for almost anything you mayconceivably want to do with your phone, from call recorders to games to note-taking apps to shopping lists to diet assistants to password keepers. Don't like the built-in phone app? Replace it with something jazzier like DialByPhoto. Don't like the PIM apps? Replace them with something more powerful like Agendus or Datebk6.% v1 U& N. W" ], n; _( T7 B
No contest, Treo wins. Treo 5, iPhone 3.
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0 X1 ?9 N2 |9 m' k1 U' ]) kBy all reports the iPhone is a solidly built device with a surprisinglygood battery life, although you're still not going to get more than aday out of it. It features WiFi, Bluetooth and an array of intelligentsensors that will adjust the brightness, lock the screen and rotate thepicture. It's got a handy Treo-style silent switch, a large screen anda 3.5mm headphone jack, and it's thin. In short it has everythingthat Treo owners have been clamoring for for years. Palm should beembarrassed. Although the Palm has the edge on speed – having had 3Gfor awhile now – and the benefit of physical buttons, it's not up tothe same standard.9 F: t6 k1 b) Z- W
Apple's hardware has always been of high quality andspecifically designed to inspire gadget lust. iPhone is no exceptionand kills the Treo stone-cold dead in this category. iPhone 4, Treo 5.( {6 M6 W: K9 W) g( a
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6 e! P9 z+ C2 EI'll keep this short: Palm Desktop and Hotsync have always been reliableworkhorses for me, but they are outdated and don't fully meet the needsof modern mobile devices. iTunes on the other hand looks modern, syncsvideo, photos and music effortlessly and is can sync your PIM data withOutlook, probably the most popular desktop PIM software. As mentionedearlier, I have no great love for iTunes, but it's definitely asuperior syncing solution to the Palm Desktop. iPhone 5, Treo 5.
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0 Y) A9 {5 w& u$600 with contract is a lot to ask for a phone. Especially afirst-generation product. To put it bluntly, it's exorbitant. You canget a Treo 680 for free nowadays on a contract, and with that you couldget an 8GB SD card, a sweet pair of wireless headphones, all the best third-party Palm OS apps and still not pay as much as you would for an iPhone.
/ a/ |/ j" N. A9 QFeel free to challenge this in the comments, but this little black duck sees a Treo as better value for money. By far. iPhone 5, Treo 6.
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Regular PIC readers will have seen me make these points at one time oranother ever since the iPhone was announced, so my conclusion won'tcome as much of a surprise: when you break it down category-by-categorythe Treo still has a slight edge over the iPhone.
j" H, o0 |& f& k, BThis could change in an instant: Apple could announce tomorrowthat they're opening up the iPhone to third parties, and it wouldinstantly neutralize Palm's biggest advantage. Apple are also morelikely to issue patches and new features than Palm; their track recordwith things like the 700p ROM update is hideous. And eventually, thatexorbitant price is going to come down./ o* W& B* b, Z9 }5 x$ S6 a
But that's all hypothetical. In the here and now, the Treo isstill the best smartphone available: user-friendly, fully featured,expandable and as versatile as you want it to be. It may crashoccasionally. It's not pretty. It's not going to stop people in thestreet. But it's still the more useful and productive device with better value for money. And that's what really counts. -Tim
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