You may wish it to be so, but it is not. While Palm infrequently produces a patch for a particular issue such as a change in Daylight Savings Time, the Palm device itself is considered an appliance with its OS cast in ROM. The operating system evolves, but only new Palm devices see the fruits of that evolution.
-- Bill On Apr 22, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Edward Fultz wrote: > Using this reasoning we should never expect any improvements to > Windows. No, the operating system is an evolving product and, as > such, when improvements are available they should be given to the > customers. I work with many applications and they, too, provide > updates. > > Edward Fultz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (978) 807-4225 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bill Sheehan > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 9:24 AM > Subject: Re: [Treo] Maybe I've been too harsh on Palm email apps... > > > Hi Vishal, > > Based on Palm's history, you have what you have. There will be no > new ROM. Garnet will continue to run. There will be no upgrades to > Palm or Chattermail. Why should it be otherwise? You bought a > product based on its current features, not its hythothetical future > capabilities. > > You do realize that the Linux-based Treo won't be available for the > next six to twelve months, don't you? > > --Bill > > On Apr 21, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Vishal Sheth wrote: > >> Palm has taken over Chattermail and Opera. Are they going to come >> out with >> new ROM or something for their existing customers? What about the >> Treo 680 >> customers? When they change to Linux base, what will happen to the >> Garnet - >> 5.4.9? Upgrade to Opera and Chattermail or something? Does anyone >> have any >> clue? >> >> >> >> >> >> Vishal >> >> >> >> _____ >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of Don >> Ferguson >> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:22 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [Treo] Maybe I've been too harsh on Palm email apps... >> >> >> >> That's pretty much my observation as well. I use Versamail more >> than I >> used to now that I'm on hosted Exchange, and apart from the plain >> text >> format if what it sends, I'm reasonably pleased with it. I got to >> make >> fun of my Blackberry enabled friends this week, too! >> >> I hope that now that Palm owns Chatteremail it can integrate even >> more >> features into Versamail - maybe rename it PalmMail, or TreoMail or >> something better. I must admit that now that I've had a taste of >> real-time push email on my Treo it would be difficult to go back to >> just >> doing email on my laptop. >> >> Cheers, >> Don >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> com >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> com] On >> Behalf Of >> Jeffrey Kaplan >> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:05 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> com >> Subject: [Treo] Maybe I've been too harsh on Palm email apps... >> >> A strange outage in Comcast somewhere in Pennsylvania prevented me >> from >> accessing my email last night (I'm in New England, my email is on a >> hosted domain in Pittsburgh). So I used Versamail to check for >> anything I needed to respond to. And it really wasn't that bad. I >> don't like the way Versamail formatted my replies, but that's another >> issue. :) >> >> (BTW, I don't need recommendations for an alternate email client, I >> don't do this often enough to make buying a different/better one >> worthwhile.) >> >> -- >> Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org >> The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol >> >> Tips for the Innocent Bystander: 39. Do not take a shortcut through >> the woods. >> >> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
