Palm Now Offering Online Service for Treo Users

[Ed Hardy]

Palm, Inc. has launched a public beta of a new online service for owners of some of its Palm OS and Windows Mobile smartphones.

This free service -- called MyPalm -- features:

• Free 24/7 members-only phone assistance
• Personal MyPalm account and homepage
• Alerts and updates about software and accessories 
• Insider tips and interactive learning tools
• Wireless delivery of software and services (Palm OS Treo users only)
• Exclusive offers

It is currently available only for those with a Treo 650, 680, 700p, 700w/x, or 750 who are located in the U.S. A Canadian version is expected soon.

To learn more or register for this service, visit www.mypalm.com.

Everyone who signs up to use the MyPalm Beta can receive the full version of Astraware's Sudoku game for free.

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[jigwashere]

This sounds a lot like Addit.

[Ed Hardy]

This sounds a lot like Addit.

AddIt is an application that runs on your Palm. MyPalm is completely online, which should take care of the people who complained about delayes updating AddIt whenever they HotSynced.

I thought MyPalm was going to be something like .Mac, but I guess not.

[holvoetn]

And once again the largest part of the world gets neglected ...

[PDA Bach]

Perhaps it is yet-to-come, holvoetn?

[Antoine Wright]

Actually its using teh AddIt program on the 755p to connect. Not a bad featue, or idea. But it does kinda prove something that I stated a while abck about Palm getting some kind of web service backend to their devices before teh rollout of that new device category. This, plus the backup, plus some hosted apps (subscription for the latter) would make a nice product if priced and done right.

[Magellan]

Why is it Treo only? It seems any Palm with wifi or Bluetooth through a cellphone could use this also.

[Adama D. Brown]

Why is it Treo only? It seems any Palm with wifi or Bluetooth through a cellphone could use this also.

Because the other Palms aren't running $400 selling prices.

[mad2fly1]

This and their new backup service are just another way of palm trying to kill the handheld. People wonder why the handheld is dieing, it's because everyone already pronounced it dead. When you can't get many newer apps to support the better screen of a TX, which by the way Palm still sells, many people decide why bother with a better product when I can't use it to it's full potential.

[holvoetn]

With all due respect, their new backup service is not even worth that name.
There are way too many open loops in the process to make it a failure resulting in user data loss !