01-10-2003, 09:00 PM
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Handspring and RIM getting together?
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-980085.html?tag=fd_top
"The Toronto Star on Friday quoted Handspring President Ed Colligan as saying that it was logical for his company's Treo handheld and other competing wireless devices to use e-mail software developed by RIM, which is best known for its BlackBerry two-way e-mail device. As companies that make personal digital assistants add more wireless features to their equipment they will want proven technology, such as RIM's, to handle wireless e-mail, he told the newspaper."
Sort of makes me wonder if this is a first step to a merger. Neither are doing that well. RIM is a media darling, but the truth is, HP sells more iPAQs in 6 months than RIM has sold Blackberrys period. Handspring has fallen into the "other" line of every market share report I've seen in the past 15 months. Of all the complaints I hear about the Treo, it is its lackluster email. The RIM's biggest shortcomings is PIM. Seems like a perfect union.
"In separate comments to Canada's National Post newspaper, Colligan said he expects consolidation in the market for mobile handheld devices, especially if the U.S. economy does not rebound soon. Colligan was in Toronto to visit Rogers Wireless, "If the fallout takes two years more, then there will be some consolidation,'' the paper quoted him as saying."
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01-10-2003, 09:08 PM
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Seems like a perfect union.
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... except that there's no promise of profitability in such a merger. :?
Seeing as how long it took to release a GPRS update for the Treos, I'm not optimistic on the two moving quickly enough.
--janak
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01-10-2003, 09:24 PM
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Yeah...It would make sense if at least one of the 2 had it together. I think RIM is closer than Handspring, but that's pretty much a moot point. Soon integrated keyboards and always on email will be integrated into most of the devices (I give it less than a year before the first PPC ones make it on the scene.). Then the RIM and Handspring advantage are pretty much done. Good is already moving in on the market of RIM and that's going to do nothing more than divide the same market into 2 or more players so that neither will be able to survive. Kind of like how Ross Perot killed President Bush (Sr.) bid for reelection.
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01-10-2003, 09:39 PM
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... and, to top it all off, RIM is releasing GSM/GPRS and CDMA/1xRTT versions of their devices this year.
I'd love to see RIM's always-on technology continue, but I don't think this is going to be the savior.
--janak
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01-10-2003, 09:54 PM
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I can't wait till always on email for the PPC. Then I can throw my Blackberry away!
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01-10-2003, 09:55 PM
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RIM launched the GSM/GPRS and the CDMA versions last October. I happend to get a 6710 for a client of mine - and though I must say I did like the features (on paper), the unit did not perform well - what can you do on an 8MB Device....running Java?
The 6710 was slow, lots of out of memory errors and not so good GSM coverage. Ended up returning the unit.
As for the news that RIM might buy Handspring, I was reading somewhere last week that PalmSource might buy Handspring.
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01-10-2003, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by icatar
I can't wait till always on email for the PPC. Then I can throw my Blackberry away!
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Me too! I want one of the PPC makers to buy RIM for the technology.
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01-10-2003, 10:19 PM
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I agree with you all. We want "always-on" email on a PPC with an integrated thumboard in a small device. 
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01-10-2003, 10:34 PM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by GadgetDave
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Originally Posted by icatar
I can't wait till always on email for the PPC. Then I can throw my Blackberry away!
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You should try using Symmetry Pro. Always on email for the PPC and the Treo.
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01-10-2003, 10:37 PM
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Need it to work for Corporate Email while on the go. I travel 50-75% of the time.
Also, I believe Symmetry Pro requires you to leave a computer on somewhere so your email can forward or something like that.
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