Palm Treo 700w at Verizon Wireless plagued with many problems

Release of Windows Mobile Treo smartphone by Palm constituted pinnacle of Windows Mobile platform. After this achievement Microsoft employees at mobile division loosened up, relaxed and became comfortably oblivious to the fact that globally Symbian still has over 80% of smartphone market share. It seems that only thing that counts for them is the US markt only…

However some clouds are gathering on the horizon: not only Palm OS powered new Treo smartphones are coming (that have better single-handed usage and require less keystrokes than Windows Mobile to achieve functions) but also existing (on sale!) Treo 700w is plagued with many problems:

• small memory size of Treo 700w causes speed reduction of transfers of CDMA EVDO network
• it is possible to transfer only 25 music files with Microsoft DRM purchased over Internet
• AUTD on the Treo 700w uses SMS from the Exchange server to tell Pocket Outlook to synch – so users get charged for SMS messages (texts) although in reality they would prefer polling
• ROM upgrade with push email and stereo audio over Bluetooth for Treo 700w – has not been released yet – although other Windows Mobile phones already have it released

Tags: Microsoft, Palm, Verizon Wireless

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