Newton bests Windows UMPC in Cnet competition

Those saddened by Palm's death spiral should check out Symbian (Series 60 and Series 80).

Windows Mobile is nothing but solid garbage. Between the half-implemented screen orientation modes, the the laggy performance, short battery life, and useless applications that come with it (Pocket Word is a joke... "Just like the Desktop Version" my @$$!") , to things like freezing when Bluetooth tethering (to the awful bluetooth implementation to BEGIN with) , It's amazing Microsoft sells any of them.

I was dumb enough to buy one. Thank goodness for eBay.

So? My 4 years old Clie could probably beat the pants off the UMPC if you were to rate it on Battery Life (anywhere from 4-8 depending on backlight, MP3 playback, etc) and price. It'd been more interesting to compare the Newton to the CE devices or the Windows Mobile powered PDAs.

This was about as scientific and logical as Spontaneous Generation or CNET's MP3 vs. DRM'ed WMA debate.

Fucking Newton trolls just won't die, will they.

The newton fills a space that is lacking today since the death spiral of Palm.
Now would be a great time to unleash a PDA that focuses on simplicity as and functionality as the original Palms and Newton did.

Apple could kick it up a notch and put an e-ink screen and NAND flash memory in for weeks of battery life.

They're not all that cheap really. I sold a Message Pad 2100, complete with original box and manuals, for $275 on eBay a few years back. That's really quite expensive for a 10 year old, commercially unsucsessful PDA... Must be an apple thing, I recently sold a 4 year old PC and a Mac G4 cube, both were from the same year and equivalent performance. The PC was worth about $40, the Mac $250...

I had the Newton 130 and the Messagepad 2000 which i had upgraded to the 2100.

This was probably the best PDA i ever owned in relation to the time then!
Todays PDAs and/or smartphones have got better and multimedia and color screens and so on.
Compared to the revolution

Ben wrote: I had a Newton for a while and sold it on ebay. I can't recall which it was (first model with backlighting... 330?), but it was truly horrid. Lucky for me, it was mint and someone gave me $75 for it.

It was a 130, and that was probably me that paid the $75 bucks on eBay, since that is exactly what I paid for mine. You didn't know what you had...

That's kind of funny. I had a Newton for a while and sold it on ebay. I can't recall which it was (first model with backlighting... 330?), but it was truly horrid. Lucky for me, it was mint and someone gave me $75 for it. :D

I wonder if the Zune will go the way of the UMPC... big announcement, viral ads, and tons of marketing and then... nothing.

omg. he omg'ed you.
ha. i got 500 clams here waiting for apple to rebestest them all.
iWant.

OMG is right as in, the new hotness UMPC got beat by its outdated, unsupported foe. OMG indeed.