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TREO Localization problems - Palm neglects local markets? April 22, 2007 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Why people should buy Treo smartphone if they can't use the built-in QWERTY keyboard to type texts in local languages? The disappointment lies in this, that actually Palm doesn't support localisation, i.e writing Greek characters with the embedded QWERTY keyboard the device has. It left this problem up to a company named PARAGON (www.penreader.com) !! The role of this company is so critical that throughout all these years you couldn't purchase a PALM TREO (PALM or Windows) if they didn't have ready the QWERTY Keyboard localisation for bi-lingual ability to write both Greek and English characters. Sometimes you even have to wait for more than a year after official device release (this happened for TREO 270) Currently this company asks for $4.000 - $5,000 in order to develop such a program for the TREO 750 running Windows Mobile. The reason , as they say , is that no subsidiary company of PALM in South Eastern Europe have asked them to develop such a program. The disappointment goes further, if you see that they developed such a program for HTC Tytn and Fujitsu-Siemens POCKET Loox T830 !! So imagine how they block the Greek market, having in mind that the differences between the QWERTY keyboards of these devices are minor. They don't have to invent a new program. They have it ready !! PALM is not interested in Greek Market with 93% of a population of 12.000.000 people having a mobile device ? Why should you by a TREO 750 if you can't write both in your native language (Greek) and in English ? Why BlackBerry , Samsung and even Fujitsu-Siemens do care and provide products with such an ability ? Credit: Christopher Katris from Greece.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 6 Comments ]
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