It must have been an enourmous amount of money to begin with, in view of the cost of launching an innovative product such as TREO. I can only but assume that it has been carefully calculated that a GSM product will be marketable to a wider market globaly to assist a smooth expansion to other venues. That is also, I assume, with great consideration & anticipation for an immediate revenue ramp to be able to expand or grow faster in volume shipment. GSM however, as we all know, is still a predominant network globaly & gaining grounds as per todays article (link provided below) that brought about for the TREO to be based on GSM. Nevertheless I, like you, would love to see one on a more superior network like CDMA ASAP.........But, by far, I can only see the market for CDMA product highly concentrated solely for the U.S. market even though of its (CDMA) presence in Korea & now China...Japan on the other hand is also currently adopting the network as we speak...........BTW, Do you know first hand if Handhelds on the current CDMA is upgradable to 3G CDMA 1x? With GSM, TREO is upgradable to GPRS by a software & Handspring is offering it free to TREO users. I'll say, another good anticipation by the management in an event that Carriers move forward for the upgrade sooner than expected..........Please excuse my grammar, English is my 2nd language............
http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1335&page=1
Did it ever occured to you that perhaps Handspring probably is saving you time & money by announcing it sooner than it was supposed to?
I have the thought of seeing the pressure it is going to drive on the PDA organizers price tags once the Handspring TREO, Samsung 1300 & Nokia's communicator/smartphone are at the resellers shelves. Especially being that the TREO is available for only $399.00......A Visor coupled with a developers module cost about that much.
If only software & hardware developers could sit down with Handspring to crack down a price structure in proportion to the TREO price, maybe the Visor line could be saved.
Ciao
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It must have been an enourmous amount of money to begin with, in view of the cost of launching an innovative product such as TREO. I can only but assume that it has been carefully calculated that a GSM product will be marketable to a wider market globaly to assist a smooth expansion to other venues. That is also, I assume, with great consideration & anticipation for an immediate revenue ramp to be able to expand or grow faster in volume shipment. GSM however, as we all know, is still a predominant network globaly & gaining grounds as per todays article (link provided below) that brought about for the TREO to be based on GSM. Nevertheless I, like you, would love to see one on a more superior network like CDMA ASAP.........But, by far, I can only see the market for CDMA product highly concentrated solely for the U.S. market even though of its (CDMA) presence in Korea & now China...Japan on the other hand is also currently adopting the network as we speak...........BTW, Do you know first hand if Handhelds on the current CDMA is upgradable to 3G CDMA 1x? With GSM, TREO is upgradable to GPRS by a software & Handspring is offering it free to TREO users. I'll say, another good anticipation by the management in an event that Carriers move forward for the upgrade sooner than expected..........Please excuse my grammar, English is my 2nd language............ http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=1335&page=1
Did it ever occured to you that perhaps Handspring probably is saving you time & money by announcing it sooner than it was supposed to? I have the thought of seeing the pressure it is going to drive on the PDA organizers price tags once the Handspring TREO, Samsung 1300 & Nokia's communicator/smartphone are at the resellers shelves. Especially being that the TREO is available for only $399.00......A Visor coupled with a developers module cost about that much. If only software & hardware developers could sit down with Handspring to crack down a price structure in proportion to the TREO price, maybe the Visor line could be saved. Ciao
Read an article that TREO CDMA will be formally announced after the initially released of the products in the U.S. sometime Feb.