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I was under the impression that Tapwave was going to still be around, but just discontinuing the zodiac in favor of using their technologies for more profitable sales.
This comes as a rather big shock! I'm admittedly very depressed on this. They had great quality, and one hell of a good product.
Someone mentioned that they (Tapwave) didn't innovate. I would disagree. Sony came closest to having a similar hardware setup, but in as much as they were different, they were also better! Somehow, I just don't see how they could fail (but they did) to get the mass developer group and supply chain on board for marketing. They did indeed have better quality.
My wife has a very recently purchased (I think it's now 3 months old) Zod2. I'm glad I got it for her when I did. Despite only having a 200 mhz processor, it's dedicated 8mb ATI graphics chip and landscape capability and stereo speakers built in are just ahead of anything Palm puts out today, and the Zod2 is what,... 2 years old in development time? And the price was even cheaper!!
Sony had similar stories to that. They were ahead of the curve in performance, style, and overall capability. They're only problem was pricing. as they were a lot more expensive.
Overall, this sucks.
Only Samsung, LG and Palm now left selling PalmOS devices, and LG hasn't even put a product out on the market yet. Reminder: Samsung put out one of the Palm OS4x flip phones. This device was circa Palm Vx and m500.
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