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 Originally Posted by epz3
It would be sweet if you could flash older treos with webos.
Nice dream, as most of us with Treos for the past 3 years have been looking for upgrade or at least an update with a stable and more advanced Palm OS.
Probably won't happen for 2 reasons:
1. Hardware. The Pre has a much more capable processor and much more RAM. Old Treos would not be able to handle WebOS. Even if you could install it, which is highly doubtful, it would chug on a Treo. It would be like running Vista on a computer built in 2000. Not pretty. Also, they need to be streamlined. configuring any OS for multiple phones takes programing time. New phones will attempt to keep this drain low--especially while Palm is still hemoraging. Treo support is over--and has been for quite some time.
2. Money. Palm and Sprint need money. Bad. They need/want to sell new hardware, get new 2 year agreements, and hopefully, take some subscribers from the other cell companies. Selling $10 upgrades on inadequate hardware won't give them the money they need and will demand too many of their resources. Palm will may also offer a "cloud" for you to store your data. For a fee, of course.
Over the past 3 years, new phones have come out and our Treos are starting to look like rotary dial phones. If they suit your needs, there's no need to upgrade. I remember my family were "late adopters" of touch-tone phones. Dad didn't want to pay the extra buck, and "the rotary phones worked just fine, thank you."
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