Windows mobile vs. palm os

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Ok, I'm kinda seeing some misinformation here, like PALM os doesn't have much development, is only good for first time users, etc etc.

Multitask. You can mutlitask in a large sense of what you would expect mutlitasking to be. You run PocketTunes, it plays in the background even when you exit and load another app. You load Blazer while listening to PTunes, if it is set to load the same page you were on when you exit, it loads the exact same page you were viewing if you quit and come back. If you quit your email client while viewing a specific email, when you reopen the email client it opens on the exact same email you were viewing. If you were composing an email and quit, it saves the draft and opens writing the exact same email state you quit at. If you do ALL of these at the same time, guess what? It behaves exactly how you would expect.

Aside from the evil thing that people hear about PALM os not multitasking, you have to realize this means in most use cases you get the functionality of mutitasking exactly as you would expect and WILL NOT RUN OUT OF PROGRAM MEMORY.

Every IM client (free and paid) supports running in the background and gives alerts while not in the application.

And you can customize the living crap out of the PALM interface with Zlauncher. As far as 3rd party apps, good luck sifting through the thousands of PALM developed apps out there...

Here are some actual cons:
-Palm databases require more care when it comes to deleting apps, etc. You can cause database corruption which can result in system instability. Fixable and easy to avoid, but you should be aware of it.
-Palm file system is not what you are used to with windows. It doesn't look the same and it doesn't function the same, takes getting used to.
-No wifi drivers currently.
-Interface requires some tweaking with 3rd party apps to make it look better, but you can achieve very nice results.
Just a quick example http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...p-C3BA4944.jpg
-NVFS file system can cause dbcache resets. What this means in a nutshell, system tries to flush the cache but might flush something that needs to run in the background on accident. Easy to fix with Resco Locker, but you need to be aware of it.