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The WRONG Way to Sell a $600 Phone

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Yesterday my company ordered several of the newly released Treo 700p smart phones for myself and two other people in the company. The list price for these is $649 per phone (before any discounts). The Bottom Line is that if you are selling something that expensive, then you better make sure ...

Wifi on the Treo

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

For quite some time there has been discussion about Wifi on the Palm Treo 600 and 650. The other PalmOne models - T5 and Zire do support WiFi via an SD card, but PalmOne has always claimed no drivers for the Treos. Tonight word comes from TreoCentral that a member ...

Sprint PCS Allows Tethering for Treo Phones

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

According to an article at O'reilly, Sprint PCS now allows tethering (or using a phone with a computer for Internet access) for Treo 600, Treo 650 and the upcoming PPC-6601 phone (via SprintPcsInfo.com): "my understanding is that no, we do not have a restriction on these devices from a pricing/plan standpoint. ...

PalmOne Announces the Treo 650

Monday, October 25th, 2004

After months of waiting, PalmOne finally announced the Treo 650, an upgraded model of the Treo 600 smartphone (via TreoCentral). I own and use a Treo 600 so this comes as good news. Well, until they announce the price... (rumors are that it will launch for $599 on Sprint PCS ...

Viewing Treo’s SD card under Linux

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Today I ran into an interesting problem with my Treo 600 and Redhat's Fedora Core 2 Linux. I was trying to transfer something over to the external SD card in the Treo. A few days ago I got the external SD card reader to work after some fidgeting, but today ...