Should HPC:Factor have a Palm-Size PC Forum?

Perhaps you're right, but I think due to the mega-hit of the HTC HD2, we may see Windows Mobile stuff for a while now, especially with the XDA forums..

This site was written for H/PC devices, the databases are for H/PC devices, containing content on H/PC devices and the support section contains document for the H/PC. I would not want to retool any of these at any point in the future to support any other device type.

I think there should be a forum for PSPC and one for PPC. Why not? This is the only useable Windows CE forum left. The Pocket PC FAQ Forum is dying a slow horrible death from cyberterroists. All other former Pocket PC forums are only about Windows Mobile phones

> This would not include Pocket PC 2000, 2002, 2003, 2003 SE

IMO those should have seperate forums, just like HPC pro and HPC 2000, and I wouldn't bother with phones or anything after CE 3.0, because that's all so well supported already.

Why don't you want to support PPC 2000 or 2002?

Simply because by market cap the PPC has too broad a user base, so as with every other H/PC support site in history the PPC user base would quickly swamp the site with their own needs drowning out what we do here so well already. I have no specialism or interest in PPC either, so as the man said -- stick to the knitting.

If there were any other PPC forums, I'd agree, but there are'nt any. We need one.

It hadn't occurred to me that a PPC section would overwhelm the other areas of the forum. Since I don't own one and don't take them seriously, I would've thought said section would die from loneliness rather than grow monstrous.

But C:Amie's warning makes new sense to me.

Jake

There aren't any?

http://www.mobilitysite.com/boards/

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?Cat=0&C=4

http://www.blastwp.com/forums/

http://www.pocketpcjunkies.com/Uwe/ForumList.aspx

http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=4

http://forum.brighthand.com/

http://www.pocketpcaddict.com/

Questions vs Answers

Im sure a few folk here with know how are willing to try things, were on most of those forums it's a question : can i do this? No... extended it would be no, because that all i know and i just got this little thing because it was cool, and or the company thought it was a good idea at the time.

Edited by thcrw739 2011-07-29 11:56 PM

I think we should really refrain from discussing about PPC forum in this thread. If this goes on we need a separate thread. I only mentioned it in a comparison to PSPC forum, and in reply to an earlier post that brought it up.

Let's stick to PSPC in this thread

We can see how much attention it would get for 6 months and decide to keep/remove it.

I know the thread is getting quite old now, but I thought perhaps the subject could be revisited. I do like the idea of a Palm sized PC forum section--albeit perhaps a general one-off section. I.e. they're not split into CE 2.0/CE 2.1 based platforms--just a unified section. I am of course not a staff member here haha, but I'm just thinking of suggestions that of course don't have to be followed.

I still say that's what Off Topic is for - and I say that even though I acquired yet another Palm-size PC today (Uniden UniPro).

Weird how more than a month has gone by and I can't see much of a difference to the site. Maybe you weren't planning any changes no matter what our thoughts were, or you were solely interested in an opinion from the community. I don't know...

I never figured you for a bronie Paspie... :/

On a side note, I voted "no" on mistake. I think having a section like this would be a good idea. However, I wouldn't want it detracting from HPC's and HPC discussion.

My question is would the Palm-size unit area be limited to Palm-sized pcs, or would they include pocketpcs? Is there a difference technically?

Or is it just general acceptance that there is some cutt-off where one ended and the other began?