Palm Talks About the Treo 700p MR

Steve Sinclair, Palm's Treo Product Manager, has posted a new entry on Palm's new corporate blog titled "Anatomy of a Software Update + 700p Maintenance Release Info."

In this article, Steve attempts to explain to us the internal process at Palm for determining when to release a software patch and when a full software maintenance release, or MR, is needed. A MR, as stated in the blog, "are big efforts" that usually try to address several issues rather than just one specific issue. MRs also require wireless carrier certification before the update can be released to customers.

Steve, in his article, informs us that the Treo 700p MR is in fact in carrier testing right now and that Palm is expecting to be able to release the update on or around May 28, 2007. The announcement of a potential release date had mixed reaction. I for one am looking forward to the release of the 700p MR. Knowing that Palm is working on it with their carrier partners and working out the bugs, to me, is a good thing. Others where very vocal in pointing out that May 28th is almost one year to the day of the Treo 700p's release and wondered aloud why it look Palm so long to get the update out.

You can read Steve Sinclair's blog post here.