Comments on: Next Generation Handspring Treo Shown

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/3659.html

Not sure what the funny sticky out thing at the top is -- my SE T610 doesn't have one (and neither does the P800)!

FBN

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How about the SE P800, Nokia 3650 etc?...

Anyway, it's still not determined whether the Treo 600 will have integrated BT. My gut tells me probably not though...

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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

-Pablo Picasso.

Uh let's see:
1. Bluetooth would allow you to connect your laptop to the Internet through your phone.
2. Bluetooth would allow you to connect to printers from your phone.
3. Bluetooth would allow you to access the Internet wirelessly without using some kind of service plan and/or indoors where phone service is crappy, plus at higher bitrates.
4. Share stuff wirelessly with your friend's Bluetooth PDA, phone, etc.

Come one people! Bluetooth is exactly the thing that would make a Palm OS phone more than just a phone.

I'm with you on that. If my phone dies, I can stick a couple of quarters in a payphone and get by. If my Palm dies, I would have to adjust my my workstyle, drag around a laptop, etc...

-Pablo Picasso.

WRONG AGAIN!! Please tell me what other 3 or 4 PalmOS 5.x smartphones have been announced?!! Like I said before, the ONLY other os 5.x smartphone on the horizon besides the Treo 600 is the SGH-i500 period! Every other device known of like the Kyocera 7135, Samsung SPH-i330, Tungsten W, GSPDA Zircon, GSPDA Onynx, and etc are all OS 4.1 or earlier! The only exception is the Weblink H500 which uses the Huntec Relfex technology and thus is not capable of voice (thus nullifying it). Try to get your facts straight!

Secondly, Handspring no longer sells its products directly to consumers! Its success will be predicated upon the relationship it has developed with various cellular providers. So far it has become a Tier 1 level partner with SprintPCS and Orange and will maintain at least a Tier 2 level partnership with T-mobile AFAIK! Thus the pricing, extent of susidization, and sale of these Treos will be determined NOT by Handspring but by the cellular providers themselves. Ultimately, the success of these products won't depend soley upon the lowest price but on which providers will support which smartphones, which will work best with which network, which can generate the best new revenue streams, and etc...

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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

-Pablo Picasso.

Well, you got me again. :) Let me express my point in more general terms. I don't believe that the typical (non PIC) consumer differentiates beyond PPC phone and Palm OS phone. Before long there will be so many Palm OS phones out there that HS will get lost in the background noise. Barely another face in the crowd.

> i.e its vs. it's

Should be ...

i.e. its vs. it's

Does posting on the internet spell the death of the English language as it is (it's) written?

Possibly ... but blame Gutenberg - he put printed media within reach of the common man. It has been a downhill slide since then 8^)

~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~

Dust up your language before insulting others. Writing is a form of communication, and *its* misuse can confuse matters to no end.

e.g i.e. vs. e.g

i.e = "which means"
e.g = "for example"

Palmmongrel, I wish you would figure out that including the second comma in the above sentence (between the words "out" and "or") is grammatically incorrect. Back in the 4th grade, I learned that this sort of punctuation mistake is called a comma splice (a GRIEVOUS SIN that all good writers loathe to commit).

Let he who has never made a punctuation error in a post cast the first stone. :)

I was tought that i.e. (with the trailing period ^_^) means "as in."

It is all about the cool.

I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation. We're in space.

Are that okay you's grammer and speling police with? ^^

Jim

http://discussion.treocentral.com/tcforum/showthread.php?s=&postid=222175#post222175

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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

-Pablo Picasso.

I too would have presumed that an OS5 device in 2003 would be 320x320, but reports are that it is 160x160.

Thanks, robrecht

That looks like a Tungsten T to me.

Hmmm... I just enlarged it. Now I'm not so sure. What IS that?!

http://www.treocentral.com/content/Stories/229-1.htm

-- doesn't look like the sketches, is what I say. But the sketches are probably wrong.

http://prn.newscom.com/cgi-bin/members/thumb/wmark?doc=PRN/prnphotos/docs/033/285&size=512

http://tinyurl.com/dg3g

http://palminfocenter.com/print.asp?ID=4641

PalmInfocenter.com
Opinion: Mike Cane's 2003 Palm OS Predictions
Posted by: Ryan on Monday, December 30, 2002 10:52:04
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1) Palm SG Acquires Handspring
HandEra disappearing from the shelves is one thing. To
have the sequel company of Palm Computing founder Jeff
Hawkins go under is just catastrophic PR. The merger
will be papered over with Hawkins wanting to retire to
do brain research and the Big Lie that Palm SG will
gain knowledge and experience from Handspring's
Communicator efforts. Palm SG will continue to use the
Handspring name as a brand for wireless devices. (And,
no, they will not bring back the Springboard -- get
over it!) The acquisition will be a stock swap with no
cash changing hands.

We're already onto next year's lead Prediction:

1) Sony Buys PalmSpring

on most european networks (irish, english, french at least) you buy a handset and its locked to the network. they lock to the network quite often for the duration of your minimum contract in return for the subsidy they give you.

the word on the street about handspring was that they were targetting networks instead of consumers - this way we consumers get cheap treos!

-kev