After taking its own sweet time — first going to Singapore, then Australia — the Blackberry Connect software for Treo 650 smartphones has now been released in the US. The first mobile carrier in the US to carry the software is Cingular.
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… and apparently, that’s not a good thing.   Michael Mace,  former Chief Competitive Officer  at Palm, has a very interesting blog post on the hierarchy of status associated with the phone that you carry.  A Siemens means you’re a cheapskate (except in Germany), a Nokia is ok, a SonyEricsson means you’re creative (it’s the Apple of the mobile phone, I suppose), and the Treo reveals that you’re a geek – in the not-so-nice, nerd sense of the word.  The Treo is also considered huge compared to other mobile phones, which is why the upcoming Treo 750w is set to be slimmer, and set to lose the old-fashioned external antenna.    
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Even this late in the game, when the new GSM Treo 750w is about to be announced, Palm is still launching the Treo 650 smartphone in new territories!   Palm has announced that the Treo 650 is now available in Peru from Claro, one of the country’s leading cellular operators.  Claro has over 2.5 million subscribers on its all-GSM network. 
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It’s hard to believe that it’s already been more than two years since Palm OS 5 was released.  Much of that time was spent by Palmsource to develop Palm OS Cobalt, the then-successor to the Palm OS.  CNET News.com has an interview with two senior executives from ACCESS, the company that bought over Palmsource last year.  At the Linuxworld conference,  CNET Senior Writer Tom Krazit talked to Tomihisa Kamada (Chief Technology Officer) and Didier Diaz (Vice President) of ACCESS.   There’s no new information being provided, but it’s good to see ACCESS finally being more open with their plans.
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