HandmarkExpress To Be Bundled with Verizon Treo 650
Handmark, makers of Pocket Express and other award-winning applications announced that they will be including a 30-day trial subscription to their popular Pocket Express service for all new owners of Verizon Treo 650 smartphones.
The Pocket Express service includes wireless access to news, stocks, sports, weather, movie listings, 411 directory search, and maps & directions. In their own words, “It’s the best way to discover who, what, when, where, and how to get there delivered automatically and on-demand to WiFi PDAs and smartphones.”
The Pocket Express trial will be available via the included software CD in the Verizon Treo 650 box.
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With so many truly *free* services out there, even free “mobile” services of this type for the Treo, I am wondering wy anyone would want to pay for this sort of thing. Each is selectable in its own right from a number of freely (or low one time fee) available applications, and can be added or deleted as needed, not to mention the good old browser. But Handmark has a simple offering that may appeal to users who just want info, and don’t like choices, so who knows?
Sure, it’s expensive in dollars and *especially* in RAM, but the idea is nice - many smartphone-centric functions available from one application.
My issues with it are:
* The lackluster support (their support consists of blaming “third party applications” for repeatable blank screens - very common problem with this app - but gives no guidance as to which apps are known to be an issue). “Buh-bye” if you want that much money and can’t even answer that basic question.
* My Treo doesn’t have 4MB free RAM, much less 8MB. You gotta design for the hardware we’re stuck with.
* Very frightening privacy “agreement.” For that much profiling, I’d expect them to pay ME to use it…
Really, it’s the data optimization and unification that sets the service apart.
You can set it to retrieve all of the news, etc that you need, and it’s pre-formatted for the Treo.
I’ve tried looking up movie listings in Blazer - it’s a miserable experience.
Other than DA, what services are you talking about?