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Palm and RIM to Collaborate on Treo Software
Rayaru writes "Palm and RIM have apparantly signed a deal allowing the Treo 650 to use RIM's email software. "The partnership with RIM is unique in that it is Palm's first chance to give Treo customers automatic synchronisation with calendaring." It's interesting that the deal also includes "future Treo products with the Palm operating system." Perhaps a Treo 670 Palm version is in the works?"
The newer treo's series number is actually 700. Apparently this is News for Proofreaders.
I may have missed something, but wasn't RIM's Blackberry software found to infringe on a software patent held by someone else, and they were ordered to shut down their wireless e-mail service in the United States? I'm wondering if they will be developing software based on the patented tech that RIM was already slapped down for.
Palm was going to include this functionality before, but (if I recall correctly) RIM sued them over a patent violation.
Amusing considering RIMs current legal problems with patents.
"apparantly" is not a valid spelling. One should use "apparently".
Please, don't become just another statistic.
>>Results 1 - 10 of about 1,390,000 for apparantly
>>Results 1 - 10 of about 110,000,000 for apparently
They mean automatic "push" synchronization, where your phone's calendar and e-mail are updated wirelessly over the cellular network. That's where the Blackberry has the default Treo beat. (Though there is a really nice piece of non-free software called Chatter that can do push e-mail for the Treo 650 with IMAP servers like fastmail).
When I moderate, I only use "-1, Overrated". That way, I never get meta-moderated!
calendaring - daring to calen?
language is raped on a daily basis..
just remember that fist can be a verb without verbification.
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-By attempting the impossible we can achieve the absurd..
If your company doesn't install the agent on the Exchange server, then yes, you have to do it to the desktop but that's not what it was designed for.
Actually, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) came later. The devices (remember when they were called the Inter@ctive Pager?) were originally designed to sync via your desktop. The direct sync to the mail server was a later addition, and of course now that's the standard (and most reliable) way to do it.
EricSome BlackBerry programming stuff
Note that this announcement is for BlackBerry Connect, which essentially gives Palm access to the protocols that BlackBerry devices use to talk to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). You still end up using the Treo's mail client -- the actual BlackBerry software (which is all written in Java and runs on top of RIM's own VM implementation) is not part of this deal. (That's covered by a different program called BlackBerry Built-In, which includes the VM and everything needed to run the standard BlackBerry software.) This is all about improving the Treo's ability to connect to different mail/contact servers. It won't improve the software on the Treo itself.
EricBlackBerry programming stuff
After 3 stages of support I got to a high-level support person at Verizon and he said they see far more problems with all of the combo devices than phones only. It's still just too tough to pack the combined functionality and get a reliable product. Some will work just fine but the stars really have to align.