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How Palm's Treo Got Boost From BlackBerry Lawsuit
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Palm ramped up its marketing campaign for its Treo smartphone while rival Research in Motion was embroiled in a patent fight, the Wall Street Journal reports. 'The result: at least 1,500 new inquiries about the Treo in the past few months from corporate customers, resulting in 600 free trials, Palm says. In total, Palm says it has more than doubled its number of sales leads since October. "The doors have been opening," says Ed Colligan, Palm's chief executive. At a November staff meeting, Mr. Colligan says he told his staff to "step things up. We have to go back and knock on doors and respond as fast as we can." ... Internally, Palm executives say they believe that the Treo will outsell BlackBerrys by the end of this year.'"
Blackberries SUCK. They are slow, delete messages with the swiftness of molasses, have few applications, can't use the screen for any interaction, and more. With the combination of GoodLink for email syncing to Exchange, the Treo is a winner. RIM's solution is really FAR in the past. Just because you are the biggest, doesn't mean you're the best. With RIM's legal troubles they have let open the floodgates to let others see that there are better solutions than the 'market leader'.
This, coming from a person who managed both Goodlink (with Treos) and a Blackberry Enterprise Server. People get so touchy with their devices that they don't want to switch (NO, I LOVE MY BLACKBERRY NO TREO FOR ME! -- and vice versa).
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
Here's the score on Palm and its Treo:
Hardware: Famously prone to failure.
Software: Palm thinks so highly of its PalmOS that it has switched over to Windows Mobile!
If you *did* like PalmOS, as I did, this is not an encouraging sign about Palm's support for the platform (you still can't make an appointment starting at 11 pm and ending at 12:30 am, or view national holidays, on the Calendar).
If you don't like PalmOS, well, you may be one of the first Windows Mobile fans on the planet, or you're shopping for a Nokia.