08-12-2005, 01:00 AM
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Palm, Inc. Finds Windows Mobile Attractive For Business
http://news.com.com/PalmOne+grabs+Microsoft+Exchange+license/2100-1047_3-5829076.html
"In an interview, Palm Chief Financial Officer Andrew Brown said that building a Treo that runs on the mobile version of Windows might help the company woo corporate customers who have been reticent to buy its Palm OS-based gadgets. "CIOs don't get fired for using Microsoft products," Brown said, though he did not say whether Palm has such a product in the works."
We need a forum just for the Treo/Windows Mobile rumors I think. :wink: Regardless of what Palm is actually doing right now with shipping devices, they seem more committed than ever to being a device manufacturer and being platform agnostic. Mr. Brown continues: "Despite that shared heritage with PalmSource, Brown described Palm as neutral to the operating system its devices use--and the types of e-mail servers to which they connect." What do you think? Is the Windows Mobile powered Treo a sure thing? I am absolutely convinced recent pictures and videos are authentic, but a prototype and a shipping device are two different things.
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08-12-2005, 01:14 AM
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Mystic
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Re: Palm, Inc. Finds Windows Mobile Attractive For Business
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
We need a forum just for the Treo/Windows Mobile rumors I think. :wink:
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I thought we had already.
Surur
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08-12-2005, 04:11 AM
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Thinker
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Re: Palm, Inc. Finds Windows Mobile Attractive For Business
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
...they seem more committed than ever to being a device manufacturer and being platform agnostic...
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I think that would be just plain COOL 8) . I don't know if they would just sell hardware though. To kick the OS habbit would be very tough to do. Maybe they would mix it up a little. Do some Palm OS and do some other OS while selling hardware. This way palm people can have their cake and we can get stuff like the Treo.
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08-12-2005, 09:19 AM
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Intellectual
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You appear to have forgotten the "it's all a fake, a FAKE I tell you! Oh man they're out to get us with those fakes. WHERE'S MY TINFOIL HAT????" poll option.
From what I've seen and read, I'd probably put the chance of this hitting the shelves within the next 12 months at about 90%.
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08-12-2005, 10:24 AM
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Intellectual
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Here is what the Cobalt ver of the next gen Treo will look like:
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08-12-2005, 11:52 AM
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Mystic
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Pretty nice looker. I hope they put WM5 on it soon, so it can become functional also.
Surur
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08-12-2005, 12:46 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by mangochutneyman
Here is what the Cobalt ver of the next gen Treo will look like:
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Where'd you get the info that this will be Cobalt? It's not in cooltechtimes piece that's the source of the image.
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08-12-2005, 12:50 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by Surur
Pretty nice looker. I hope they put WM5 on it soon, so it can become functional also.
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Yes, but not with a 240x240 screen!
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08-12-2005, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by mangochutneyman
Here is what the Cobalt ver of the next gen Treo will look like:
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Alex, Why does that look more like an artists rendering than an actual photo of a device?
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08-12-2005, 02:58 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Alex, Why does that look more like an artists rendering than an actual photo of a device?
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Looks like a pretty good drawing (to my untrained eye) and I guess the professsional way it's done means that it's unlikely to be a fake. If that's the case, one has to wonder if it's a promo drawing and this device might appear in the not too distant future.
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