I agree. It's obvious from such a rediculous statement that this is really the only course of action. The two choices are ...

#1 Break the stranglehold of the unions and pay a terrible price in doing so. This gives you a change to reform, get fit, and actually compete with imports in the long run. You risk losing everything, but you have a good chance to survive and succeed.

#2 Stay the same course as in the past 75 years, keep the status quo, and enjoy the immediate survival. Slowly but surely, these leeches will take product competitiveness lower until lower. To change course will become harder and harder with each passing year. If you never break them, then you are GUARANTEED to collapse.

Oh sure there is. Just move your face closer for wide angle shots and farther away for zooming. This thing oughta usher in the new world order. :-/

My prediction ...

Colligen, Hawkins, & Dubinsky ..., the Palm trifecta, are all cashing out on Palm, Palm OS, Palmsource, PalmOne, and any other sorta Palm. Hawkins and Dubinsk are now at the point that elementary apps are ready to be written for Numentaware. Colligen dumps the 900 pound gorilla called Palm for about $25/share. All three cash out, and dedicate their efforts and experience to the upcoming brain factory.

Whatever suitor buys the Palm Inc albatross and gets a little now for a lot lost later. The Treo now has great carrier traction worldwide, a great name among the herd, and currently is still a competitive device. All in all it looks great to the clueless investor sheep who read balance sheets and think that Palm Inc will still have the horsepower for strong future growth.

Palm OS is history. The Palm platform has just been gutted by ignorant and greedy fools. They made their bucks and severances and are off to help other companies succeed alike.

The Treo technology advantages are history and there is no longer enough intellectual capital and "fascist vision" remaining at Palm. The revolutionary and wonderful Treo ideal is EOL. The fools who buy Palm will languish on with a few upgrades, refreshes, and carrier relationship updates. They may even eventually get feelin' froggy and attempt a major new Treo revolotion. It will go over about as well as Ford's Mustang station wagon concept. The cancerous "design by committee" and "screamin for profits now" corporate culture will doom it all to failure. The MotoSamsuNokiHTCetc+MSFT juggernaught will absorb the remainder of the current smartfone world and the Treo will be a nice note in tech history.

The trifecta can at least cash out hansomely and look forward to changing the world again. Who knows, the brainware concept seems plausable, their track record speaks for itself, and they are certainly much wiser corporately this time around.

Meanwhile back over at PalmInfoCenter, we wait for the final post to take place. The glory days of the Palm economy are winding down. Those glory days extended by the Treo. Nevertheless we are sure to be faced with switching to the dark side and it's big corporate minions, or finding a new tech ideal altogether. Kinda surreal.

BTW, all the above is true. I'm an analyst.

" 'The Stopgap Version To Hold Us Over Until Photon' for all we care; let's just get some product moving in the pipeline, eh?"

... that kind of analysis is what keeps me coming back to this site, even when I have better things to do. Hillarious!

#4 Thanks for the neat mini-review. What is cool here is that you actually share the useability, which the mhz-mips-megabyte crowd seems to overlook. Here's a good one on the Treo & HTC in the real world ...
http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2006/05/treo_700w_vs_ppc_670.html

Nor a touch screen?

Even more screenshots are revealed. I cannot believe this. MAX really may be huge!!!

http://www.palminfocenter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30210

Honda has definitely driven em' back to the drawing board with the Ridgeline. MT Truck of the Year and loads of other hardware are proof that the market is screaming for truck functionality with roadcar manners. I've wondered for years why trucks that are 95% used for transportation and some light hauling / towing are still saddled with the 1930s straight rear axles etc etc etc.

Drove the Ridgeline once and bought it within the month. Absolutely phenomenal handling, manners and rock solid structural integrity compared to anything "truck" I had tried before. If Dodge brings this to showrooms (with AWD) & proper execution in the next 2 years, it will be a blowout for them. This concept is hotter looking than my Ridge even dreams about.

Yes #13, I think we're looking at a similar design to the Moto Q. Probably 240x320 and not a square screen. The internal pics @ FCC show it to be rectangular.

None of the internals resemble anything produced by Palm in the past. I'm not saying it's impossible, but this does not look to be a Treo.

I'm pretty impressed actually. This is definitely a pre-production model, so the color(s) and fit / finish are certain to be upgraded by production time.

It's GSM too.

http://www.palminfocenter.com/images/ique3000.jpg

Pics over at PalmInfoCenter. Very attractive.