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Palm creates “synergy” with Pre – will it do the same for social aggregation?

by Phil Barrett


Today while reviewing the weekly carnival of the mobilists, I came across a review of Palm’s new Synergy over at atmaspheric.

What’s most interesting about Synergy is that it accesses the “cloud” in order to sync all your calendar, email, and contact accounts.

Unlike Microsoft and Apple’s iphone, you don’t need a central computer to sync or save data. There isn’t even a button to sync.. all you do is use the device and when changes, additions, or deletions are made, the Pre will automatically make the updates through the cloud to the original sources.

For example, if you are accessing your facebook contact list and you update a phone number on your Pre, it will auto-sync your facebook account.

As I commented on the original post, wouldn’t it be super if they went one step further an aggregated & synchronized all your social data? It would be like Yahoo’s oneconnect or friendfeed for mobile – but native to your mobile OS.

By leveraging the cloud and aggregating all data, we could see some nifty new services that create the semantic web experience (or web 3.0) many have been talking about since the term “Web 2.0″ was coined.

  • http://www.alaindoutre.com/ Alain Doutre

    So wicked- thanks for the update Phil. I am eagerly awaiting this phone as a huge Palm fan.

  • http://www.alaindoutre.com Alain Doutre

    So wicked- thanks for the update Phil. I am eagerly awaiting this phone as a huge Palm fan.

  • Josh M

    Does Palm come back into the limelight again or will this be an all show no go? After reading the comments, and watching the YouTube post, (which was great to see thanks) I am left wondering if the new Palm Pre will bring back the once strong Palm into the mobile arena.

    As of right now we have Blackberry (Mr./Ms Business), and IPhone (Young Guns who want more style in their morning conversations). I know there are more phones out there but come-on. Will the new Palm Pre be able to take on either, or will its ability to do all things well but nothing great make it eventually lose the battle in the mobile world.

  • Josh M

    Does Palm come back into the limelight again or will this be an all show no go? After reading the comments, and watching the YouTube post, (which was great to see thanks) I am left wondering if the new Palm Pre will bring back the once strong Palm into the mobile arena.

    As of right now we have Blackberry (Mr./Ms Business), and IPhone (Young Guns who want more style in their morning conversations). I know there are more phones out there but come-on. Will the new Palm Pre be able to take on either, or will its ability to do all things well but nothing great make it eventually lose the battle in the mobile world.

  • http://www.burningthebacon.com/ Phil Barrett

    Palm is uniquely positioned to capitalize on something that is missing in the market… a mobile device that can serve both consumer and business needs while delivering a great user experience

    Judging by the demo, this is the first device to offer a truly intuitive & compelling experience to compete with the iphone.

    There isn’t anything from samsung, RIM, nokia or otherwise that comes close because they are still focusing on technology & features instead of getting the experience 100% right.

    technology will always get trumped by user experience :)

  • http://www.burningthebacon.com Phil Barrett

    Palm is uniquely positioned to capitalize on something that is missing in the market… a mobile device that can serve both consumer and business needs while delivering a great user experience

    Judging by the demo, this is the first device to offer a truly intuitive & compelling experience to compete with the iphone.

    There isn’t anything from samsung, RIM, nokia or otherwise that comes close because they are still focusing on technology & features instead of getting the experience 100% right.

    technology will always get trumped by user experience :)