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Handspring Presentation
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Thanks Jim but...I heard at a recent show that Microsoft projects 20 million smartphones in the coming year - I think that spells a tidal wave of adoption of MS smartphones.
It's color, it's windows.
R
Yesterday morning I attended Donna Dubinsky's presentation on HandSpring at Comdex Canada. It answered several of the questions you and I had when we discussed their new TREO last December.
1. They are definitely going after the RIM Blackberry space. They only do GSM/GPRS at the moment; she had hers working on the new Rogers AT&T Wireless GSM/GPRS network here (and said it was the first time she could really test the browsing experience). As a result they can do the "always on" thing -- one of Blackberry's key selling features. She is also really taken with how easy it is to get her e-mail via the TREO using this network.
2. Their focus is on making the converged device very user friendly; to that end she showed several examples.
3. They have decided to go after the wireless communications space and be number 1 there rather than being number 2 in the handheld organizer space -- thus, the decline and fall of the Visor (or at least it is replaced by the TREO 90.
4. They will get into the 1xRRTx/CDMA space via a setup with Sprint -- that will be the TREO 300 when announced this fall.
5. The one thing that RIM really gets much better is working with the enterprise market. With a 14,000 enterprise customer lead and applications being developed continuously, the HandSpring has a huge barrier to overcome to penetrate this market.
6. HandSpring has cash of $100MM with a burn rate of $10-$15MM per quarter vs RIM's >$600MM with a smaller burn rate.
7. She certainly has a dynamism and personality that gets people interested; she was also very realistic in many of her assessments of the market and its potential.
Jim
Thanks Jim but...I heard at a recent show that Microsoft projects 20 million smartphones in the coming year - I think that spells a tidal wave of adoption of MS smartphones.
It's color, it's windows.
R
Internet Phone Plans
eMarketer reports that 31 percent of wireless handset owners in the US are planning to upgrade their handset within the coming year. Roughly half of these would like access to the internet from their phone.
(Thanks to NUA Surveys for pointing to this article.)
R
(Thanks to NUA Surveys for pointing to this article.)
R
Is Email Going Away?
Junk e-mail increased a whopping 450 per cent last month compared with June a year ago. And the number of mass e-mailings has risen eightfold in just a year and a half.
Yes, spam is booming, but I didn't have to tell you that. The question is: will it kill off email? (more)
R
Yes, spam is booming, but I didn't have to tell you that. The question is: will it kill off email? (more)
R
