Lexus Dealerships Deploy Palm Handhelds
Palm, Inc. and Lexus announced that Lexus sales teams are now equipped with Palm m500 handhelds. Lexus has purchased 3,000 Palm m500 handhelds for use in dealerships nationwide. While customers test-drive vehicles, look under the hood or kick the tires, Lexus salespeople can access the most up-to-date and detailed vehicle information on the fly.
The Palm handheld coupled with Lexus Vehicle software, a custom application created by Single Tap, allows Lexus salespeople to go paperless while maintaining the benchmark level of customer satisfaction for which the luxury car dealer is known. Salespeople equipped with a pocket-sized Palm handheld and the custom application can provide customers with interior and exterior options, photos, pricing plans and more.
"We think Palm technology is very innovative and that it will add to the Lexus dealership and purchase experience," said Mike Wells, Lexus vice president of marketing. "Equipping our sales associates with such an efficient resource tool will definitely benefit our already time-starved customers."
Serving Lexus' target customer audience requires the company to enlist creative, tech-savvy and innovative sales and marketing approaches. In addition to salespeople using Palm handhelds, potential customers with Palm Powered handhelds can download car data directly from the Lexus Web site and easily receive, store and share pictures and details of their dream cars. Using Palm handhelds accentuates the luxury, quality and customer satisfaction equated with the Lexus brand.
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RE: Bummer about the tree!
Sorry to hear about your comp... What did you end up building/buying? :p
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RE: Bummer about the tree!
This is great news, because I plan on going to the Lexus dealership at the end of the month for my new toy, 2003 RX300! I'll be able to bust out my Prism and get options and tech specs, in the Palm of my hand!
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Ryan, I'm sorry to hear about the accident and I hope everyone in your complex gets back on their feet ASAP.
Anyway, that's a really good way to make use of Palm handhelds, and I'm surprised that more companies and corporations haven't used this as an advantage for them. Palm handhelds do some cools stuff, don't they?
RE: Bummer about the tree!
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-Pepper
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RE: sorry about the lose
3,000 T|T's are 1.5 million dollars. That is a LOT to spend just on the handhelds alone. Not to mention of course the custom software they had to have designed.
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RE: sorry about the lose
You're saving a lot of money by using the M1XX's with around the same features.
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RE: sorry about the lose
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Besides, I don't think that the prices are changing every minute - syncing at the beginning of the week or morning should certainly cover up to date pricing.
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p.s. Here is the PDA showroom link:
http://www.lexus.com/showroom/model/pda/index.html
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Showing Customers Photos on the m500?
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Too bad for Palm that Sony is going to associate themselves with Rolls Royce. The announcement is forthcoming.
RE: Showing Customers Photos on the m500?
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RE: Showing Customers Photos on the m500?
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Worse news yet, Alan Partridge (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/partridge/) is set to drive a Lexus in his new series. Lets see if he can do to Lexus what Gareth Cheeseman did for the Ford Probe!
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Bummer about the tree!
About the Lexuses, its totally awesome to see a car company utilizing PDAs like this. The opportunity to expand your bussiness utilizing modern technology is very impressive, and it is actually relatively shocking that so many companies out there are NOT using PDAs
-Pepper
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