Loading ...T-Mobile finally offering the Treo 600 in retail stores
Treocentral has a piece about how the Treo 600 is finally being offered by T-Mobile in their store outlets. Previously you had to order it through PalmOne (or earlier Handspring), although for the first five months after the T600 came out it simply wasn’t supported by T-Mobile. Apparently the earlier Treos did not sell all that well, and so T-Mobile was gun shy about offering yet another. This doesn’t surprise me at all about T-Mobile. It seems they are finally starting to understand that convergence devices that offer email, personal data synchronization with the PC, and huge amounts of utility via thousands of applications and hardware ad-ins doesn’t just apply to corporate users, but to lots of non-corporate but tech-saavy consumers. No, your average 18-year-old who wants a phone for ring-tones, text-messaging and talking with friends is not about to pay hundreds extra for this phone. I think T-Mobile’s marketing department has way too high opinion of themselves if they think that they can pigeonhole a demographic into a specific phone. They can do this by crippling the phone, or by not offering it, but then you risk driving the customer to a provider who does offer it. Maybe T-Mobile is finally learning to be more open in this respect???