Palm Shuts Down Blazer Versions 1 And 2, Shafts Samsung And Treo Pdaphone Owners!
Palm has turned off the proxy servers for the version of the blazer browser found on many palm phones, including popular models such as the Treo 300, Samsung i330, and Samsung i500. The audacious move leaves those phone models without built-in internet browsers.
Palm has released a new browser as a courtesy named Nweb; however it is reportably unstable and reset-prone. Also these models of phones do not have expansion capabilities as they have no SD card slot, so the browser takes up preciously limited ram space.
To add insult to injury, the replacement web browser is only available for download until October 31st according to Palm's news release.
From the press release, "After October 31, 2005, the Blazer proxy infrastructure will be taken down completely, and you will not be able to use Blazer to sign up for a free copy of Novarra nWeb Browser. If you haven't obtained nWeb by that time, you will need to search for and purchase alternate web browsing software on your own."
Hopefully the uproar from the Pdaphone community will force Palm to rescind their decision regarding Blazer, and this won’t have to go to the courts.
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I am one of the unfortunate persons that have been forced to use the nweb browser on my Samsung i500. It is AWFUL!!!!! (There are must better words to describe my true feelings, but I'll keep it clean!) I had grown to rely on checking my Yahoo e-mail and doing IM on my phone and now it's so unstable! I am going to check out Eudora Web Suite 2.1, which others have had good things to say as far as handling e-mail. Not sure if it has a browser.
Do you think this part retaliation for Samsung giving up on making Palm based devices going forward? It would seem trivial but stranger things have happened.
The new browser is still available for download. The only difference is that you can no longer register for the download from the device itself. Which when you think of it is not much of a loss since you can't download directly to the device anyway.
Sprint users can go here to register for the download.
Argh: Nweb is not a replacement for Blazer. On my i500, I used to use both Blazer and Eudora. Eudora I used when I wanted speed and text-only. Blazer I used when I wanted to access more sophisticated sites and / or needed to see the graphics. Plus, Blazer had a nice capability: phone numbers would show up as hyperlinks. Clicking on them disconnected from the web and put the call through!
Alas, although phone numbers on the very same sites show up as links in Nweb, something's broken, and tapping on the phone number results in an error; it doesn't dial the phone.
So agian, Nweb is not a replacement for Blazer. And since easy one-click dialing of a phone number from a device sold specifically as a combined phone/PDA, this is a key functionality. Someone really should start a class action lawsuit.
So was blazer a third party app? Was using it somehow stealing from Palm? I don't see why palm would be angry, unless the program somehow circumvented a service which they provided(which it looks like it didn't since nweb just came out?)
Originally posted by rcunningham So was blazer a third party app? Was using it somehow stealing from Palm? I don't see why palm would be angry, unless the program somehow circumvented a service which they provided(which it looks like it didn't since nweb just came out?)
Not angry at Blazer (they still use it) just angry at Samsung (no more Palm based products)
I have been using the nweb browser for about a month on my Treo 300 and have not experienced any problems with its stability. I did like the Blazer browser better, as I thought the screen was less cluttered. I am annoyed that I can't delete the Blazer application for my Treo.
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