Palm uses Blackberry outage to their advantage

The last few days, more information has been unearthed concerning weekend outage of the Blackberry network. While the problem seems to be boiled down to a matter of simple maintenance, this isn’t stopping smartphone competitors from using the outage to their own advantage.

Palm whipped out a full page advert in newspapers across the US which prominently proclaims “Palm smartphones include voice, e-mail, text, Web, calendar, and contacts. And most importantly, uptime. Connect to your Microsoft Exchange Server. No third-party servers and no nationwide blackouts.” If this isn’t in response to RIM’s shady outages, than it’s just very convenient timing.