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Palm and RIM to Collaborate on Treo Software

Posted by Hemos on from the what's-the-sound-of-two-hand(helds)-clapping dept.

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?"

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  1. Good Move by jamesgamble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a really good move on both sides. RIM's software is proven, while their hardware still has some crazy quirks. Palms hardware is proven, as is Palm OS, but a combination of the two pieces will make a great product.

  2. Palm goes both ways by skitheboat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could Palm have a strategy that is any more confusing? I hope that they have some master plan in all of this and that it doesn't leave out making their hardware (smart phones) more reliable. Mine crashes more than Windows and my friends in on his 5th one. I can't imagine how they can improve quality when working on so many platforms.

    1. Re:Palm goes both ways by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Interesting

      wierd I have the exact opposite eperience..

      my Treo 600 is rock solid. my Journada was nothing but a reboot moster that ended up smashed and thrown in a drawer the 12th time it lost everything just when I needed to use it.

      I can not stand pocketPC devices while ever cince I switched to palm with Sony and then to the treo, I have yet to be disappointed. I even run unstable software. I watch mpeg4 videos on my treo every day and that app people mention about crashes due to the beta software.

      There really is no rhyme or reason to pda instability.

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    2. Re:Palm goes both ways by Monkelectric · · Score: 2, Interesting

      My 650 crashes constantly, and my dell axim does as well :)

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  3. Still comes up short. by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From what I read, it will sync Mail and Cal. People are getting used to the latest Blackberry Enterprise server, which also does Contacts and Tasks. MS Outlook 2003 Exchange + Mobile 5 (read: Treo 700) will support Mail/Cal/Con/Task/Notes. If this really is only e-mail and Cal, it's not enough IMO and people will flock to Treo 700 because they want "all of outlook" and not "some of it".

    Palm has also said this was in the works for well over a year and a half, with no resolution. What gives that they finally got this out the door, all-be-it in a feature-missing version?

  4. still "synchronizing" with desktops? by Douglas+Simmons · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm thinking that by now these devices are advanced enough and people are dependent on them to the point that coordination with a "primary" unit at home with the on-the-go device is getting phased out.

    By the way, way back I remember a slashdot article about a thing you hook up to a PDA that projects a laser keyboard onto any flat surface, and with it you can type away and it would somehow detect which non-existing keys you're hitting. Are they any good (if they're still being sold that is)?

  5. Palm - Mail and Calendar SYnc by futuresheep · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We've been using the Intellisync Mobile Suite for our enterprise users with great success. The client does an excellent job of providing email/calendar/contact sync via sms push. It's almost as fast as the Blackberry's we support, depending more on the users phone provider than on our Intellisync server.