Tom Stoneham’s Palm Blog: “I work in a humanities department at a university and I can tell you that only about 30% of my colleagues know what a flash drive is. And those who do know about them see them as simple replacements for floppy disks: easier to carry and higher capacity, but essentially no different.
Now think what the T5 offers to those people: a way of carrying their files (and email and PIM data) with them which allows them to view and edit the data without a desktop. For most people, that sounds like a true alternative to a laptop. Laptops are big and heavy (especially cheaper ones with bulky PSUs), they are a fiddle to set up on a train or a plane, and unless you make it you primary computer, there is no automated synchronization of data. In contrast the T5 is small and light, has a good battery life (and a small PSU), has a bright clear screen which is perfectly adequate for quickly looking something up in a document, allows simple editing of Office files, and is automatically synchronized at the touch of a button.
To put it bluntly: the T5 could be the killer device for people who want to transfer data between home and work (or two offices) but don’t want to lug around a bulky laptop. At the moment they use floppy disks (or flash drives or simple email files to themselves) and the T5 offers a significant increase in functionality for them.”
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