Comments on: Treo 800w Bluetooth Voice Dialing Update Now Available

Treo 800w UpdateThe Treo 800w update to enable voice dialing over Bluetooth which we wrote about last week, is now available for download. Palm's support page states:

This software download will enhance the convenience of hands-free calling, as it will enable the use of your Bluetooth headset or car kit to initiate voice calls on the Treo 800w via Voice Command voice dialing software.

The update can be downloaded at Palm Support. There are options to update via a Windows Installer, microSD card and over the air by visiting: palm.com/800wota on your device.

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Cool, now only standalone GPS remains, I believe...

SeldomVisitor @ 7/28/2008 9:02:53 PM # Q
...of the features (probably) promised to Sprint if that sales guide is any...er...guide.

I wonder if there were any financial penalties involved with this or if there was some slack time. I suspect there WERE financial penalties but have zero evidence of that other than just thinking how companies do business with each other.

RE: Cool, now only standalone GPS remains, I believe...
TooMuch @ 7/28/2008 10:09:40 PM # Q
SV, are you using the 800w? Have you done the update?

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hkklife @ 7/28/2008 11:34:50 PM # Q
Hah! SV would NEVER use a device with so many bells'n whistles ....nor one as fiddly and pedestrian and utterly unnecessary and...devoid of merit like the 800w!

This actually probably does seem to be some kind of new record for extraordinary speed in getting an update cranked out for a newly-released device on Palm's part. Or rather, perhaps, on Microsoft's part?



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: Cool, now only standalone GPS remains, I believe...
SeldomVisitor @ 7/29/2008 8:24:54 AM # Q
>> SV, are you using the 800w? Have you done the update?
>
> Hah! SV would NEVER use a device with so many bells'n whistles...

That is incorrect. If I had an unlimited data plan and was stoned out of my gourd at the moment, I easily could see springing for a device like the 800W. Ever since the Treos were first mentioned (nee 180), I've thought they were cool. Thinking a particular type of device is cool, however, does not mean thinking a device can sustain a corporation ad infinitum, especially a relatively dinky company that cannot easily match the sheer mass of The Damn Competition w.r.t. just about everything that counts. [I keep those two very-separate thought streams separate as much as possible, BTW, and post accordingly]

Have I mentioned that I have three Amigas?...and that the Amiga was my first non-home-built Personal Computer that served me for YEARS before I finally conceded defeat and gave in to the "IBM PC"-compatible onslaught? Early adopter indeed...

> ...This actually probably does seem to be some kind of new record
> for extraordinary speed in getting an update cranked out for
> a newly-released device on Palm's part...

According to this:

- http://tinyurl.com/800wsalesguide

Palm has released an "update" simply to bring an already-on-the-street device =ALMOST= into compliance with how PALM has already marketed the device.

Since THE entity to whom (to which?) Palm does its marketing is ... you know ... =Sprint=, I think that first post up there in this thread pretty much addresses a quite likely "motivation" to "update" the Treo 800w so "quickly".

Please note that, on the same page that ==said== the 800W had over-bluetooth voice command it says the 800w has ==standalone== GPS capability.

So =almost= there...


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Installed via OTA, no issues

jeffreytz @ 7/29/2008 8:05:25 PM # Q
Backed up via Sprite to memory card first, pointed the webbrowser to the site, hit the linke, installed the CAB, did the entire thing in about 5 minutes. No issues, seems to work although I'm continuing to use my Parrot minikit's voice dialing as its easy and insanly loud. Voice Command did add a new feature to the Parrot, though, that of playing the ringtone of the incoming call. I'll probably turn on notifications too when connected to BT.

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