This has been tackled before (and certainly will be again), but Stephen Wildstrom explains why we’ve been seeing so much innovation with Palms lately (the Tapwave Zodiac, the Sony Clie UX50, the Treo 600) while Pocket PCs remain largely uniform. We do know that Microsoft is supposed to be loosening up a bit and letting manufacturers take more risks with Pocket PC design, but it’s certainly taking a while to see some results.
