Okay, first things first: Who said the Treo 650 will be upgraded for direct push. Names, dates, places or publication, if you please.
Second, are you aware that Direct Push is an entirely different technology from today’s AUTD? Are you also aware that not only would Palm have to rewrite the code including drivers, the carriers would have to test and certify the upgraded device for their network? And who would bear the expense of supporting said upgrade? And all of this on top of the fact that Palm did not even license the entire ActiveSync product for the 650 to start with?
Now, before you go off half cocked, I am interested in upgrades. In particular there is a large installed base of SMT5600 and MPx220 users, of which I am one. I would love to just upgrade and have all the new stuff. But it is simply is not going to happen. Good for you if Palm elects to go the upgrade path, but it was a blinding flash of the obvious that it isn’t going to happen for me.
As I said before, I may be missing something here. So help me out and post the names, dates, places or publications where it was said the Treo 650 would be upgraded. That will give hope to all of us wanting an upgrade path. Otherwise this is a non starter.