Windows Phone Thoughts: Treo Ships

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I supose the fact that almost third of my posts to date have been Palm related isn't doing anything for my first impression. I promise I’ll dig up more Pocket PC related stuff soon. :-)



Handspring has started, or will start, shipping the Treo, their new cell phone Palm combo. Some have proclaimed that the Treo is a failure; I on the other hand think it’s a fine use of such an operating system and if they weren’t charging Pocket PC prices for these things, they might actually sell. I think the ‘everything-in-one-package’ idea is a fair one (not original, and not for me) and the integrated keyboard is a good step for Palm, but none of those features really strike me as Earth shattering.

As I said on Tech Musings a while ago in relation to another brilliant and well reasoned Palm product: “I assume [Handspring] has determined that there is an audience that this device will appeal to and is targeting that audience; but quite clearly I am not in any way a part of that audience.”