Heh do you work for Palm? Face it, if you're carrying a Treo, you have a dinosaur in your pocket. You don't have to have personally used the device to know what it's capable of. There have been several reviews posted over the past few days by reputable technical columnists (David Pogue, Walt Mossberg) that give you an idea of how it performs. Here's a link to a matrix summarizing many of the reviews thusfar:
http://valleywag.com/tech/critical-consensus/the-iphone-scorecard-272765.php
Since you've asked what it can do above and beyond the Treo, let's review. Bear in mind, some of the functionalities are similar but done much better. Others are truly groundbreaking.
1. Visual voicemail (the ability to see the voicemails that you have and listen to any one without having to listen to others first)
2. The best web browsing experience ever. Have you seen how the web navigation works? No mobile browser comes close to the real deal than this one. Granted, the big issue here is that the iPhone uses the horrible EDGE network. The saving grace here is that the iPhone has wifi and will prioritize wifi over EDGE for data connections wherever possible
3. Multitasking. Palm OS.... hahah Need we go there?
4. On screen keyboard. You have to watch the demo from Apple's website to see how truly intelligent it is. It actually increases the on screen key availability for certain letters based on the remaining word possibilites in the dictionary. Early reviews say it's great. 2-3 days of use, it's horrible. A week or more, you're flying with it. You need to get used to it. The advantages are clear... reclaiming all of that screen space it KEY
5. Cursor movement. Did you see how to reposition the cursor? When you put your hand on the screen it brings up a magnifying glass enlarging the type and easing the move of the cursor to another position
6. Best implementation of google maps to date
7. A mini version of OS X... an awesome, up to date, fully featured OS
8. The first touch screen iPod
9. The likely future ability to download music from the iTunes store directly to the iPhone
10. Breathtaking user interface
11. Custom ringtone support in iTunes 7.3 (any song in the iTunes store can be made into a ringtone). This is rumored but likely true come tomorrow (today at this point)
12. Phone activation from home, not in store, through iTunes... to avoid pressure from pushy salespeople in stores
13. Multitouch. No phone/pda can handle more than one touch at a time to do anything. A first time feature anywhere
14. gyroscopic sensors that sense how the phone is held, changing the orientation of the screen from portrait to landscape automatically
15. Coverflow. Wow... scroll through your music collection by album cover and seelect albums and songs from them. Try doing that on your Treo
16. Answer a call while listening to music by clicking on a point on the cord. The music fades out and is put on hold and you get the call. Click again it hangs up the call and fades the music back in from where you left off
Again, can the Treo do a lot? Yes. Has Palm innovated AT ALL in the past 5 years? NO. The Folio? What an embarassment. Remember my comment earlier about companies that innovate? How RIM was one of them? Well, since my earlier post, RIM has announced a 3 for 1 stock split and reported better than expected earnings. Palm has also annonced earnings. A disappointing quarter, as expected. Quarterly profits and revenues are both down
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