Houston Palm Users Group

Stephanie Fowler wrote in to ask if we could post this job listing:

Lead Handheld Software Engineer

Position in Plano, TX. Our client is the leading developer of innovative business and productivity software solutions for handheld mobile computing
users.

This position will be responsible for development and maintenance of software Products. The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

Minimum of 3 years’ experience developing software commercially.
Must have one year of experience developing for Palm OS using C or C++.
C++ skills are required with at least two recent years of experience.
Requires a good understanding of object oriented methodology.
Experience with other handheld platforms such as Symbian or Pocket PC is notrequired, but would be a plus.

All interested individuals can send resumes to: sfowler@duffygroupinc.com.

If you or someone you know would be appropiate for the job be sure to get in touch with her!

Sorry for the downtime guys, the hpug.org domain had expired and I forgot to renew it. Don’t worry, we’re good now until April of 2005. Now I just need to catch up with posting about the last few meetings.

Mike Hammack writes in:

Any idea where I can go to download the right hotsync manager for my Samsung SPHi300 pda/phone? Thanks. Mike

I spent some time on the Samsung site but I when I navigated to the i300 support page it said there were no files available. Anyone have any ideas for this?

A little bit of the logic behind this table: First off, each table heading is sortable, so if you click any of the table headings you can sort the rows by that criteria. Street price is a rough measure of what I found the lowest price to be online, it may be a little low but is more accurate of what you’ll pay than the list price. Weight is in ounces, memory is in megabytes. The pixels column shows you the total numeber of pixels, which is expressed in the screen dimensions. “MattRating” is a subjective rating of how I think each unit rates as a gift, taking into account all its features, expandibility, the unit in comparison with what else is available, and price.

chart: Buying a combination PDA/Phone, like the popular Treo series, is an entirely different kind of decision than buying a straight PDA. First of all, the prices on these tend to be rediculously high, but very few people pay anything close to the list price because phone companies subsidize the cost of the phone when you sign a contract or as a reward for being a good customer. Since many people are already attached to a particular phone carrier, their choices will be limited by what their company offers. Second, with a PDA/phone purchase, most people want a phone first and a PDA second, which means things like weight and size are more important to the final decision, while those can be compromises in case of a regular PDA, such as the Handspring Prism, which was a hefty unit but very popular because of the features it offered. Finally, battery life is crucial in making a PDA/phone buying decision, and there is no good objective way to quantify battery life in a way that we could compare each unit side by side except with unit testing, and without access to any of the models that can be tricky.