Palm Sherlock Shows up on Sprint Roadmap

(2) sounds like a smart idea if the long-overdue 700p ROM update won't be able to fix all the problems, as Palm's response to the treocentral open letter suggests. 750p maybe?

Maybe it's the Secret Third Business. A man can dream...

Given that the code name suggests some kind of enhanced search functionality, I think it's clearly either the "mystery device" or (more likely) includes a feature set that is foreshadows it.

I think it could possibly offer built-in GPS and enhanced Google Search / Maps that utilizes location information; perhaps you could see a map of all the nearest ATMs, etc.

It might also offer a Google app that can search your Google Desktop Engine files (and gmail) and offer on-the-fly access to these files by downloading the file when you click on a search hit. This could work by having a Google or Palm hosted web server that communicates with an enhanced Google Desktop Engine on your broadband connection. Think of it as "Your World From Your Palm (R)"

Why would a CDMA radio require a model number change? They didn't do that for the 600 or 650.

This does NOT "replace" anything like the others. It's "new" to Sprint.

Pat Horne

Yeaahh.. Instead of Sherlock, how about Hemlock, Vaporlock, or Flintlock.

Anybody else notice the irony in Steve Jobs's iphone keynote where he says "we have 200 patents on this phone which we intend to defend vigorously", then they steal the name (iphone) which cisco owns the copywrite to.

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David

>Anybody else notice the irony in Steve Jobs's iphone keynote where he says "we have 200 patents on this phone
>which we intend to defend vigorously", then they steal the name (iphone) which cisco owns the copywrite to.

The further twist of irony is that Cisco's iPhone uses GPL'd software all through it and doesn't provide the source code, once again violating copyright (rather, copyleft, but the GPL technically is a copyright license).

It's also just a Linksys VoIP phone with a sticker saying "iPhone" slapped on the box. Obviously the name was so good that it wasn't anywhere within the manual, or even on the product itself.

Palm TX + 1GB SD + Motorola v3x = awesomeness

Another irony: If it's really called Sherlock, Apple will probably sue as it's a trademark for their search utility...

Doesn't take a detective to see that it should. Maybe that's the reason for the code name after 3-4 years of begging Palm.

Pat Horne

Does anyone know which US carrier currently is the most , ahem, "forgiving" towards built-in wi-fi in smartphones? I count two on Verizon (Samsung i730 & Audiovox XV6700). Cingular has, I think, just the 8525. Sprint only has the PPC6700.

At any rate, I wouldn't put too much effort into trying to decipher the context behind the "Sherlock" codename. I mean, the T|T was "Oslo" and look how little that had to do with the actual product!

Or for that matter, any of the following codenames!:
http://homepage.mac.com/alvinmok/palm/codenames.html

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

> ...Maybe that's the reason for the code name after 3-4 years of
> begging Palm...

Then again, maybe the Marketdroids at PALM got a little humor and knew that it would be accompanied often enough by Mr. Watson (aka Dr. Watson)?

> ...What news did I miss?

Announcement of the iPhone?

(giggle)

I thought that 7% dropped happened a week ago already. Nothing else going on today? It looks like it will hit the 52 week low soon.

Surur

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