Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo

miradu writes: "TreoCentral has just posted an intriguing article about how the Handspring Treo has Flash ROM - something that Handspring claims it doesn't. They've worked with Brayder Technology to create applications to utilize this newly discovered feature. It brings up the question, Why do developers lie about features in a device - especially if they are features that are wanted? Does anyone know any other examples?" Strange -- hardware manufacturers don't often underestimate their products' capabilities, do they?

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Clearly its to future-proof it

[rjw57]

Move forward 6 months. Handspring now announce the 'quadro' PDA with the flash ROM feature and everyone rushes out to buy more PDAs to replace the one they have. This doesn't cost the manufacturer anything though since they already spent the moeny designing the flash stuff so they appear to have launced a new product with a feature people want with no net outlay -- and they've had 6 months of people unwittingly field testing the design for them...