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RE: Installing POTS takes too long. Cellular a natural in In
Cell phone cloning is mostly dead now with the new standards and bonding of the low level firmware developers at the source of internal development. Thus, you have more reliable billing and service activation and deactivation from a more secure and central source.
One advise to PalmSource, have someone independantly audit the manufacturing so you get every nickel from the OS license agreement. Getting burned from that other overseas manufacturer who never paid out all the royalities due is a hard lesson I'm sure you have learned by now.
RE: Installing POTS takes too long. Cellular a natural in India.
Do I hear "Acer" NOT being mentioned here? Or is it another firm not being mentioned that I can't recall?
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I think that if PalmOne released a T/E with a 320X480 screen, at least 32MB of RAM, 312MHz processor or better, SD slot (maybe 2?), bluetooth (or wifi, or both), they'd have a winner. the PUC may be pushing it, but I'd definitely buy that model with or without the PUC. I'd just buy it sooner if it had it. List price: $250-350.
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In this day & age if ya snooze, ya lose. PalmOne needs to, at the very least, reshuffle things a bit to have "big" launches in spring & fall and "interim refreshes" in the midsummer (same time as the T2 last year).
Techie guys are bored stiff in the summer and often are salivating for new goodies to buy. A Treo 610 and a T|E2 (with VG and OS5) would have been perfect mid-summer launches, with the OS6 heavyweights coming out in late October (too late for the back to school shoppers by then!).
Instead, we have had the Treo 600 for Verizon (*yawn*) and nothing else of note this long, hot summer. At the very least, some nice rumors or some minor OS upgrades for the T|C and T|3 would have been appreciated!
Oh well, let's just sit tight, hope that PLMO's using this downtime to crank up their quality control & manufacturing outsourcing issues and by late August some concrete T4 specs should start to trickle in!
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However, I agree that a company like HP could really make a difference - just imagine what a great combination HP quality + Palm OS would make. Don't hold your breath, though - HP are enthralled by the Dark Side.
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I would speculate that the Qtech devices will either be low end standalone PDAs or mass marketed SmartPhones. Eitherway, they are not looking like playing in the same retail space as PalmOne - primarily North America and Europe - instead focussing on Central/South America, India, and with only a minor stretch of the imagination China.
Pure speculation on my part - we need more info from QTech themselves.
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Sony's strategy (if there was one) was deeply flawed. Rather than focussing on customer needs and deliverying products that better met those needs, Sony seemed to be obsessed with trying to impress with gadgetry. They seemed to be committed to pushing the boundaries of what could be done, at a technical level, rather than exercising judgement as to whether this so-called "innovation" was actually something which would be useful in the real world. In reality, "innovation" means finding better answers; not merely doing something for the sake of impressing technology buffs.
I shouldn't be too critical. Early on, Sony tried to take on Palm (and Hanspring) at their own game. They were making headway. But Palm and Handspring were in the middle of a price war at the time. After suffering a lot of red ink, Sony tried to do something different; they tried to differentiate their products so that they would not have to slug it out on the basis of price alone. Sony were right to change tack - they just took the wrong one.
I hope Sony re-enter the market at some stage and make me eat my words. A great company like Sony could make a real mark on the PDA market, if only they take it seriously.
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Completely agree ... and that is one of the traits of the 18-25 male market. They had innovative, solid products, but IMHO their downfall was that they had a new model out every 2 months. They really needed to push dropping their prices to be competitive to a wider audience. I see a lot of Clie units in the hands of exec's and "C" level staff in companies - more so than PalmOne products (though Treo600 usage is growing fast).
I really hope that QTech have a solid business model in place and get through version 1.0, and 1.1 products and build a rep in Latin America and India BEFORE they make any push in a US market. Its brutal here.
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Sony could have ruled the Palm device business if they aimed for more of a wider market than the handsome margin botique focus they had with their Palm devices. Also, with Sony, you never ever know the underlying currents of their operations unless you spend a lot of time around Ginza and know Japanese well. So who knows what their real focus is concerning this.
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Installing POTS takes too long. Cellular a natural in India.
... and I thought it was because installing a landline based infrastructure to a residence could take up to 2 years. Cellular has huge advantage in that envronment. Far cheaper to install a cell tower, and provide cellphones instead of handsets.
But, will the people take to SmartPhones over simple handsets? Wish QTech all the best ...
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