The other day I was in Best Buy and I happened to notice a Palm device that that cost like $500 and it had no cell phone capability built in. It was straight “old school” Palm Pilot like.
I couldn’t believe it. I knew that Palm still made PDAs that weren’t Treos, however, I had no idea that they cost $500. I figured that there was a misprint on the price so I asked one of the dudes in the blue shirt how much this thing was supposed to really cost and, low and behold, it truly was $500.
Someone please explain to me how a Palm Pilot with no cellular technology can cost so much more than a Treo that does all of the same stuff plus doubles as a cell phone? I just don’t get it.
I guess that Best Buy wouldn’t sell them if people weren’t buying them. I just had no idea that the $500 PDA that isn’t a cell phone also market was still a big one.
There’s no device at that pricepoint on the Palm site. Highest price handheld is $299 – Palm T|X.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tx/index.html
Best Buy must have had the thing mis-marked. I even asked blue shirt dude if $499 was the right price because I didn’t believe that it was that high.
The highest price palm I saw at Best buy, here in Canada, was something like $299. Which I think is still too high because with a long enough contract you can get a blackberry much cheaper.
Before making a post without any sort of proof or substantiated story, please do your research. That is like saying BlackBerry’s suck because they use Java (LOL) as an OS. Either way, you look stupid for the comment… come on guys…
Personally I need one without cell phone technology for nursing school. We are not allowed to have cell phones during clinicals at the hospital and I need something to look up drugs on. Any suggestions on anything cheeaper?