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Dick Betts National Real Estate Speaker

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Bentonville, Arkansas

National Speaker specializing in Smartphones, business building skills, management programs and keeping agents up-to-date on the latest technology. Covers North America.

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Don't Blame the Treo

Jan. 15, 2008

After another batch of horror stories about defective Treos, in person and too many emails to count, I have decided to put another blast out to the Real Estate Community.

If you are going thru Palm OS Treo's like candy then you do have a problem, but one that is fixable!  Sad fact most carriers are not knowledgeable about Smartphones so they will just keep giving you new ones.  The biggest problem isn't the phone it's the fact you have a 3rd party software program being loaded into each new Treo.

Picture this, you have a great program you used on your Windows 95 computer, you want to transfer it to your XP's or Vista, your computer crashes; same with Treo's.  Some folks will say just have Palm build a system that catches these bad programs.  Mission Impossible, more then 28,000 programs have been built for Palm OS and many never clear them with Palm.

So Palm has recognized this problem since 2005 and has taken many steps to correct it.  I speak about it daily and have tried to teach the carriers but due to turn over etc at the carrier level we still have the same problem.

I have created a web page explaining in detail how you, the owner, can solve the problems of crashing, looping and freezing.  I explain a "Soft Reset" and something new to most of you a "System Reset" (which is not a "Hard Reset" that wipes out your system).

Please pass the word!  If you know anybody who has complained about "I am on my 3rd Treo" send them to my site.  The vast majority of Treo users live happily ever after, but the ones with problems have no where to turn and that's why I am doing this.

Go to www.DickBetts.com and look for "Tips and Tricks" then click on the Palm OS tab across the top.


Dick Betts
National Speaker and Trainer
NAR Certified e-PRO Trainer
Dick@DickBetts.com
www.DickBetts.com

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