Comments on: AvantGo Going Away
AvantGo has been around since the days of the first Palm Pilot's. The service provided mobile formatted online content channels with an offline browser and desktop synchronization client. It started out as a Palm OS service and was also ported to Windows Mobile PDAs and Symbian Phones. PalmInfocenter published a review of AvantGo v3.3 way back in April 2000.
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RE: They are still around?
That all has changed. There was opportunities left and right to improve it but now just conjecture. I hope they do something fun for their last text send. Prehaps, some variation of "What hath God wrought?", the first Morse code message.
Goodbye AvantGo
In any case, it was a great service at the time. Hope they have some more innovative plans for the future.
RE: Goodbye AvantGo
I seem to recall some time ago they began to position themselves to move away from what started as a quasi-RSS reader for PDA's to more of a focus on specific enterprise application, mostly relating to databases. Now that I see the Sybase connection, it makes sense. It's good to see that a company can transition to a new model as the Intertubes and the devices that use it evolve.
Perhaps some parallels with Palm in that last vein.
End of Contract with Sprint- to become a "Pre-vert" or go Android?
Thanks for the years of service
This was also the way that I found PIC.
Palm IIIc -> M515 -> Treo 600 -> Treo 700p -> maybe Pre?
RE: Thanks for the years of service
They really seemed to lose their footing starting with the OS5 release, as it took them AGES to get a fully OS5-compatible client released and then even longer to get the bugs worked out. Of course, shortly thereafter is when the Treo began to take the world by storm and the rest is history.
I actually discovered a number of interesting sites & stories over the years using AG. And my father (who still uses a Palm OS PDA since he has no need or desire for a smartphone) still used AG until quite recently since he could never get the hang of managing RSS feeds.
AvantGo, you will be missed but (mostly) fondly remembered!!
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p->?
RE: Thanks for the years of service
RE: Thanks for the years of service
Like Khris, this was my first experience using an online browse. I had a modem form fitted for my Vx, actually came from the IBM workpad (remember those?) and I would browse websites at some killer speeds like 14.4 or 28.8K or something. Hey, it got me out of a bind or two when on the road tho. Used to grab e-mails with that combo too. Even got a little port that converted the Vx connector to the stupid new one on the m505. Made that Vx modem + converter block + m505 work if held gently. Thot I was on the cutting edge with the T3 going EDGE thru my SE T637 later on. Fun stuff.
Thanks AvantGo for the killer app and service. I'll miss syncing my favorite sites to my PDA while doing other tasks, then having instant "online" speeds when I read them later on. :-)
Pat Horne
RE: Thanks for the years of service
*sniff*
Since 1996: Pilot Pro, III, IIIe, Nino (yeah...oops!), IIIc, VIIx, m505, NR70V, NZ90, NX60, T3, Zire 72s, NX80V, Treo 90, Treo 650
RE: *sniff*
YMMV
Hey Palm! Where's my PDA with Wifi and phone capabilities?
RE: *sniff*
I used that with various PalmOS devices without internet and then continued using it with my Treo because it was better than waiting for Blazer or OperaMini.
The iPhone and Pre finally have a good and fast enough browser that I don't feel like I need the offline content.
RE: *sniff*
Since 1996: Pilot Pro, III, IIIe, Nino (yeah...oops!), IIIc, VIIx, m505, NR70V, NZ90, NX60, T3, Zire 72s, NX80V, Treo 90, Treo 650
Adieu, AvantGo
It was a great run, good bye.
Sync and go - now gone.
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-Einstein
So long and thanks for all the fish!
I fell into the habit of using my cell phone to read mobile versions of various web sites (all bookmarked in Phone Faves, thank you very much) and stopped syncing with AvantGo so regularly. Life changes and so habits follow it.
What's the next incarnation for AvantGo? It was a company with vision and with talented engineers. I hope something good comes next.
AvantGo Replacement
RE: AvantGo Replacement
It syncs RSS feeds very nicely, and even downloads the whole article. If you really want to download static webpages (not news) try out plucker.
(Both are free)
http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg
RE: AvantGo Replacement
yes! and don't bother upgrading to a car! that horse and buggy you drive works just fine!!!
RE: AvantGo Replacement
Gekko wrote:
yes! and don't bother upgrading to a car! that horse and buggy you drive works just fine!!!
I can't believe that after your "upgrade" experience with the Pre, you have the audacity to keep making that comment. Sometimes, "old" just works better.
Hey Palm! Where's my PDA with Wifi and phone capabilities?
RE: AvantGo Replacement
Gekko wrote:
apples and oranges. now stop being silly.
As are someone's M505 and your "new" Centro. Sometimes "old" just works better.
Hey Palm! Where's my PDA with Wifi and phone capabilities?
Avantgone. Vindigone.
On a related note, they have followed the demise of Vindigo, an equally old app that just recently closed doors (but somehow the server still syncs some channels). In the early days, Vindigo used Avantgo's sync technology before they built their own. Vindigo IS still relevant in the age of the Smartphone - still better than anything I've seen written for the iPhone so far. Local OFF-LINE content for movies, restaurants, bathrooms, shopping, directions, and more. It was fast, well organized, affordable and had an ugly-as-hell GUI. Avantgo was essentially replaced by Blazer and just died slowly - If anything needs mourning, it's Vindigo.
Treo 755p FTW!!! (sorry, Preh).
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They are still around?
I used to *love* avantgo.
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