Recently, there hasn’t been much good news coming out of Palm’s(except for the occasional Centro success story) – anyways, I am sorry to report the following new bits of bad news:
Sprint Treo 755p possibly EOL’d
The folks at treocentral’s report that Sprint representatives have informed them that Palm’s Treo 755p is now discontinued – the intended replacement is the Centro.
However, a silver 755p is rumored to be rereleased on April the 20th…
AT&T kills 680 on the 1st of June
In the same thread, another user claims that an AT&T Business Care Manager has informed him that AT&T will EOL the Treo 680 on the date mentioned above.
Treo 680 price falling
Amazon Austrtia currently lists the Treo 680 at just 250€, with prices falling fast.
In the end, the trend seems to be clear to me: business devices running Palm OS are on their way out of the marketplace. Even though the Palm OS may still stay alive a little longer due to the Centro; developers must look for alternatives immediately!
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On expansys.it you can find a Treo 680 for just 209,95 euro http://www.expansys.it/p.aspx?i=137488
On tim.it in “special offers” you can find a Treo 650 for 150 euro.
The demise of the Treo 680 is not very surprising, as featurewise the Centro and the Treo 680 are very similar. And its nearly the same story with the 755p. You could bet that many people turned to the cheaper, lighter, smaller, more convenient – and did I mention cheaper? – Centro instead.
So I am a bit surprised by your headline, and also by your conclusion. In my experience, corporate IT-departments are very reluctant to install anything on their smartphones (or let you install anything, for that matter).
I guess most of your software customers buy programmes for their own handset, not for a corporate one.
Update: treocentral.com got an answer from a Sprint representative denying the demise of the 755p. They claim “inventory shortages”.
I confess that I don’t believe that the 755p is so overwhelming popular, but bad inventory management by Palm/Sprint suffices.
Not bad inventory management by palm… palm is still a very small company in the greater scheme, and they just don’t have the resources to ensure smooth production of so many units (while the 755p isn’t overwhelmingly popular, it certainly has its fans. That combined with what really is the overwhelming popularity of the centro limits them significantly). This has happened in the past: back when the Treo 650 was released, palm couldn’t keep up with demand for it.
Hi medevilenemy et al;
I have heard similar things from a HTC insider at last year’s CeBit – Palm’s order volumes are too small to be of any significance for manufacturers…
Best regards
Tam Hanna