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Originally Posted by maswell
You have to realize the "problem" with products like the treo have been, and still are, that it is a convergence device. The treo is a palm pilot with a phone attached to it. Are your contacts part of the palm application, or are they part of the phone? Is the bluetooth a phone implementation or a palm implementation? Hell, Im surprised they got voice working over bluetooth, and yet you can still use bluetooth GPS systems.
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But even Palm's PDAs with Bluetooth are extremely limited.
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Originally Posted by maswell
You have every right to be disappointed (and I will be, if this isn't fixed by the time my GSM 650 gets here), but you shouldn't be surprised.
At least you can be happy that salling clicker works great!
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But Salling Clicker does NOT work great! This is ridiculous. Over three-quarters of its features do NOT work on Palm devices!
Here are just a few:
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let you regain control of your computer when the screensaver kicks in using Salling Clicker... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers can pause iTunes using the Salling Clicker, or adjust the volume, or pause any DVD player, etc., etc., etc… when the phone rings... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers have proximity detection (and this leads to a whole other list)... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let the Bluetooth phone perform event triggering... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let you send and receive SMS messages through your phone using Address Book (and even breaking that 160 character limit by doing it through Address Book)... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let you dial a Bluetooth phone through the Mac OS X Address Book... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let Mac OS X use your Bluetooth phone to dial and send faxes... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let the Bluetooth phone send caller ID info to the computer and display it on screen... but not Palm.
Other Bluetooth phone manufacturers let you answer, talk and listen to the Bluetooth phone via you computer... but not Palm.
It is not a question of implementation. It is that I question their refusal to implement it when every other manufacturer does. There is no technical limitation. It is not even a matter of not having a true multi-tasking OS, so what IS the deal Palm. Are you afraid we will not continue to fork over our money to upgrade every year. You should worry about building your customer base, not retaining it.