October 23, 2006
More Reasons To Hate Palm Treo: Mobile Video Calling? Not On My Treo
Lately I feel like Jack Nicholson's Joker in Batman, when he says, "Why didn't anyone tell me he had one of those... things?!" about Batman's cool gadgets. Every time a cool mobile app comes out, when I'm done salivating and attempt to try it out for myself, on my Palm Treo 650, I'm finding I often can't. And since more mobile apps than not do not work on PalmOS devices, there are many reasons I hate my Pam Treo now.
One more reason is mobile video calling. I may not go to Star Trek conventions, but I'm the next level down from a Trekkie. I may not want to implant RFID chips into my body, but I walk around in public with a Bluetooth earpiece, and plan to have HUD (heads-up display) goggles and wearable computing when they're more affordable.
So mobile video calling is one thing I've been looking forward to. I love desktop video calling apps like SightSpeed (even if it's been nearly a week and SightSpeed Support hasn't answered either my voicemail or email), and look forward to a mobile version. Except it won't happen on my Palm Treo. Ever.
Why not? Well, VoIP will eventually work properly on a PalmOS device (or specifically, a Palm Treo). But video calling just can't. The digital camera lens is on the back of the device. Obviously, video calling was not an application they had in mind when the device was designed. I will, of course, be more than happy to be proven wrong.
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