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Sprint and Palm add Bluetooth voice dialing to Treo 800w

Posted by Joshua Karp on Jul 29, 2008 1:03 pm 3 comments
Filed in Handsets, Palm, Sprint, Windows Mobile

This thing hasn’t been out for more a week, and already Palm and Sprint have issued an update that enables a significant new feature. A new page over at the Palm support site has just gone live, noting the availability of a new patch that brings full voice dialing over Bluetooth support to Palm’s new king of the hill Treo 800w. Oddly absent from the first shipment of handsets, it’s still good to see both Palm and Sprint taking a proactive approach to delivering new features to their customers. Then again, both of these companies need all the help they can get to retain subscribers and users respectively, so any little bit might be too little too late.

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  1. On Jul 29, 2008 @ 3:33 pm, backbeat Said:

    You mean they slipped it in the backdoor while assuming no one was wise enough to realize it was supposed to have been enabled in the first place. If it walks like a (lame)duck …

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  2. On Jul 29, 2008 @ 4:03 pm, Mumsthe Word Said:

    Don’t mention standalone GPS.

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  3. On Jul 29, 2008 @ 10:05 pm, mrHiDefinition Said:

    Big deal…

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