Dave, you are correct, it’s no longer easy to define a smartphone. Me personally I feel that a phone is a smartphone if it lets me work the web and also interact with work documents. Not specific but that’s the way I see it.

I attended a wireless technology panel in Atlanta a few weeks ago and the first question was, “What’s a smartphone?” I’m not sure I agreed completely with any of the panelists – the only one who had a real concrete definition was the guy who said something about an open OS that you could install things on, but that would exclude the iPhone. In the old days, I think smartphone referred to a phone having PDA+PIM functionality. Now, who knows where the line is? I think it’s much more a gradient in functionality than smartphone vs non-smartphone.

Yeah I am getting confused about what the definition of smartphone is. I was always under the impression that a smartphone had no touchscreen. Yet I see Treo’s being called that and my new i760 has smartphone all over the box

I thought it didn’t have a touch screen. I thought it was just like the Motorola Q.

I got some hands on time with it today in NYC and it felt nice. For $100 it should really open up the smart phone market to a wider range of customers. And for the record, we at Sling Media will be supporting the device. :)

I’m tempted to get one to try the PalmOS out; I’ve been pretty happy with my Windows Mobile Smartphone (WM5, so no Standard/Professional), but I can’t seem to find a good IRC program for it.

Also, I hear the Centro has RevA. Not that Rev0 is as slow as edge (hi, iPhone), but I’m one of the users who voted “tether” in the poll earlier… any little bit helps, and keeping my real name far away, PDAnet works on the PalmOS, too.

That’s $100 and Sprint owns your cellphone soul for two years. :-)

It costs as much as an iPhone 4GB if you don’t contract with Sprint for two years.