Has it dawned on any Mac users that “We Are In Trouble!” I have loved my Treo for Years and now, what am I going to do? Be religated to some “oh by the way” customer who get’s a fill gap OS just to keep me from filling up email boxes. I hope someone is still banking on those Mac clients, they can still get some of my money.

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Of course that won’t be a sustainable value-add, especially in face of a sleek Moto Q, but we’ll see (if the Q turns out to be like the ROKR…). I’m disappointed that Palm could not build or switch to multitasking OS w/protected-memory model of their own, but as long as they continue to innovate with usability then they’ll have customers. They’ll probably fail at this eventually, but they have done better against Msft than I predicted 7 yrs ago, and it’s easy to see why if you compare PDAs or smartphones.

When it all comes down to price efficiency, then Palm will probably disappear. Dell is better at this sort of thing.

But for now, a reliable Treo is a good Treo. Hopefully, Palm will control the UI enough that it won’t even be obvious that it’s running Windows.

To Jesse: that won’t work because of the carrier subsidies in the US. The device manufacturer will not be able to compete with carrier devices that are half or third the price. You’re talking about selling a $30 razor blade against $10 Gillettes, or a $600 game console against a $200 Playstation. NO ONE can survive like that, not even Apple. It’s hard enough to gain market share even if you had a device that cost the same amount.

Om Malik: Palm, the company that ignited the handheld computer market, capitulated, and switched away from its own house OS to a Windows Mobile operating system. In other words it has just become yet another Windows-handheld device maker, and lost…

Holy Fudge, its CDMA, so I can only use it in the US, and I want to make cheap international calls..so I need a GSM devices..still waiting..

Chris Holland, you got what you wanted, Natively supported Wifi is coming..there are a few more that MS is pushing UT to get to market with a few carriers…you will hear soon.

I’ve been using Palm devices ever since 1999. Almost religiously. I was an addict and strongly believed in their superiority over PocketPCs, Psions, iPaqs, Nokia Communicators and all the other crap.

Palm didn’t care… They built the Palm V which was a remarkably sexy device then and left the marketplace shortly afterwards. Handheld innovations came from Sony and Handspring, even from Microsoft.

Years pass by. Palm boasts a new company name every now and then, merges and divorces its software division. They do nothing else. And now: A WindowsCE powered Treo. Holy crap…

Nowadays Palm is in a state reminding me of Apple prior to Steve Jobs’ re-recruitment. With one significant difference: No Steve Jobs at sight. I am sorry for them.

It’s going to take somewhat more visionary companies to truly bring devices that don’t suck to the U.S. market, ones who are built from the ground-up to profit from IP convergence.

Verizon, Sprint, Cingular/ATT are all into ferociously protecting their oh-so-precious revenues from “voice minutes”, even if that means ostensibly telling us consumers to go f*** the h*** off.

Fair enough. In time, what goes around will come around.

BTW, there are very few OS’s that are running on different devices to allow for seamless interaction..so even though it doesn’t make sense to you, to a majority of the people that want enhanced productivity and don’t give a damn about the OS wars or MS vs. Google – this makes sense!!!

Secondly, not for nothing, but HTC actually makes the Treo 650, and is supposedly building the 700w as well. In fact, HTC manufactures some of the products for all of the companies that you listed. Source your rebrands before villifying Palm next time – it’s ok to dislike aspects of the Treo or Palm OS, but back it up with something a little more substantial.