RicRicho

Status: Dropped after much testing and brainstorming
Basic concept: Hotsync to online web server direct to act as an intelligent online conduit to favorite web apps.

One of the big frustrations of dealing with the Treo is being anchored to a desktop for syncing. I cant remotely sync unless its some kind of web based app service which ties me down to Cingulars ridiculously slow G2 service and everything being online… What I want is the responsiveness of Palm apps on my Treo and the accessibility, copy and paste and desktop convenience of online web apps…. If I could somehow link my Palm apps via bluetooth, wifi, USB, 3G to a network device (as if it was my laptop on a private or public network) but in fact have a server that emulates the hotsync request and then acts as a virtual conduit to may favorite services such as:

• Palm Calendar to Google Calendars.
• Palm To do to Google Base
• Palm Memo to Google Base
• Or to the similar Yahoo alternates…..

Denied :-(… if the idea was viable then I’d have a web based emulation of the Palm Desktop application written get it working properly… but. The roadblock seems to be Palm’s neck hold on using the desktop sync app as the sole means of allowing the Palm device to talk to third party data apps… what a pity… if someone out there has worked out how to emulate the Hotsync API.. especially the network hotsync API I think a lot of people would find new life in their palms… another nail in the coffin.