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By: Zetta Bodon

Zetta Bodon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:30:37 +0000

I need to say that my decision to purchase a Palm Pixi with Sprint provider was each a rational and emotional one. I suggest, the Palm Pixi is wonderful and functional. And coupled with the program top quality of Sprint, it appears absolutely nothing brief of the revolution within the creating. I think that Palm and Sprint have (almost) hit it off famously. I did a good deal of exploration ahead of obtaining the Pixi but overlooked at minimum just one issue. The Pixi will not, yet, enable me synchronize my e-mails between it and Outlook. As far as I’m concerned, this really is a drawback I am facing unless Palm comes up with a option swiftly. With my previous SmartPhone running a Windows OS, it was a snap to synchronize e-mails as well as other info with one’s Pc. But Pixi’s inability to do so is generating lifestyle a tiny challenging for me mainly because I have to Bcc just about every e-mail, I send out, to my e-mail address and then manually transfer it for the ’sent’ folder in Outlook. I hope Palm, or at minimum a third-party, will appear up having a option very quickly that will quickly permit me synchronize all my e-mails, and ideally all essential information, between the Pixi and my office Personal computer.

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Mobile musings and wireless wanderings » App wars — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:04:03 +0000

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By: Philippe Winthrop

Philippe Winthrop — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:56:08 +0000

Russ - I wholeheartedly agree with this vision. In fact, I have commented on this on my own blog. http://bit.ly/3tmQbH

By: Jon Spinney

Jon Spinney — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:11:02 +0000

Hi Russ. Yes, you’re absolutely headed in the right direction. I’ve always thought ‘thus-far’ modes of distribution and discovery needed alternatives to better support both developers and subscribers/users, and it sounds like Sprint agrees. At the same time, I also think carriers are best at managing networks and billing relationship with subscribers. I tend to think these billing relationships in this new era of choice also present newer opportunities for carriers to harvest valuable subscriber behavior data, and described this in a post recently - http://tr.im/AOUq. Curious what your thoughts are about this, and if by offloading services through new distribution methods, you limit your ability to know what subscribers are doing. Or, is who, when, and where enough subscriber intelligence to become a smarter carrier?

Best,
Jon

By: Tomas - University Place, WA

Tomas - University Place, WA — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:31:14 +0000

The carriers also need to recognize, accept, and not fight the smartphone equivalents to GetJar.

Things such as “WebOS Quick Install” for the Palm Pre and Pixi devices, which allow installation of third party apps, and the third party apps (and tweaks) themselves need to be recognized and accepted by the carriers, and ways found to “play nicely with others.”

Smartphones are, after all, tiny computers that make phone calls in their spare time. Whether carriers like it or not, the owner/operators of those tiny computers WILL play with them and put applications on them that the manufacturer and carrier never imagined.

My Palm Pre has a number of “tweaks” and unofficial third party applications running that make it a much better device for my particular uses than it was “out of the box.”

Thanks for listening! :o)