Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Alabama, USA
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FCC Screw-Up or Palm/Handspring Screw Up?

For VisorCentral user's who visit on a regualar basis, you have most likely witnessed the unfoldings of the Palm/Handspring submissions to the FCC (and subsequent withdrawls).

After the submissions have occurred, both have been withdrawn. Accordingly, due to neither, Palm nor Handspring having "Checked the Box". So, what do you think? Was it Palm, Handspring or the FCC that messed up? Just out of curiosity... I can care lesss of the originator.

Registered: Feb 2000
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Or even better this;
Maybe Handspring and Palm did this as a publicity stunt. I mean look at all of the posting around the net on these devices. By pulling them only makes it better because people are trying to learn more and more about them. The Treo has gotten such great press that it could not have gotten in any other way. In my humble oppinion, I think that this was a marketing stunt by them, and judging by the reaction of this board, it has worked great.

Registered: Oct 1999
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I agree with Ben. The lawyers hired by multi-billion dollar companies to make FCC filings don't "forget to check the boxes." Not two of them in a week, that's for sure.

Registered: Dec 2000
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I don't know. The only way I can see this as Handspring or Palm's intentional publicity stunt is if the devices are ready to go and will be released soon. If not, they're killing sales until the release, (just like the m505 introduction). Neither company can afford this right now.

All sources seem to agree that these devices will not be released for some time. Thus, the FCC fiasco is only going to hurt both Handspring and Palm.

My guess is that someone in each company simply "forgot to check the box," and those people have already received their pink slips accordingly.

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mrjoec
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Registered: Jan 2000
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I think they needed to know if they could get approval. They submitted the paperwork with a mistake so they could be pulled until they are ready to go. They probably meant to pull the items before someone got a hold of the info, but waited too long.

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Howard

Registered: Feb 2000
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Deliberate

Teh Treo mistake was deliberate. Those that thing it was a mistake is naive. Whats the odds of Handspring and Palm making the same mistake at roughly the same time? How hard is it to check a box? Making the announcement wont affect PDA sales because these devices are aiming at a different customer base.