News Flash: PalmOS Treo 700p Announced!

Bob Russell · 05-15-2006, 01:16 AM

It's official! Palm has announced an EV-DO (high speed data) PalmOS Treo 700p as expected. Verizon and Sprint will announce availbility soon.

The phone is also the first Palm Treo smartphone to include DUN capability (i.e. connect your laptop to the internet through the smartphone via Bluetooth or USB). Data plan prices are not yet announced.

There is 60meg available user memory, threaded SMS/MMS messages, Bluetooth v1.2, a 1.3 megapixel camera and more!

For some excellent coverage, check out Palm Addicts where there is product information, and much more.

There is also coverage at Brighthand and I'm sure a multitude of other sites already.

The Palm product page is here.

If you find good product information please feel free to add new links in this thread and let us know what kinds of great info you see.

Bob Russell · 05-15-2006, 02:48 PM

You can see a nice (and still being updated) list of references to the 700p articles here at Palm Addicts....
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmad...o_700p__2.html

paulkbiba · 05-15-2006, 07:30 PM

A big dissapontment to me on two counts: first, no WiFi and second not enough memory. I was prepared to buy one, but will hold off unitl I see what the Sprint version of the 700w is like. It will either be that or the Sprint 6700 Smartphone. I'm getting a bit tired of the limitations of the Palm OS, as much as I love my Treo 650.

As a matter of fact, I broke out my old Ipaq 4155 and loaded up uBook and will be reading on that from now on. uBook has come a long, long way since I used it last. I already have eReader Pro and Mobipocket on it so I'm pretty good as far as ebooks go.

Chaos · 05-15-2006, 10:30 PM

Thing about memory is that it's so cheap. But you can then look at this two ways... Why didn't Palm put in more (very cheap - especially in bulk) flash memory? Or... Why can't you just go buy an SD card to make up for that lack? I'll leave it up to each person to take it whichever way they wish.

Wifi, sure, a bit of an issue... but I think the problem may not be Palm, but the fact that no carriers would want a phone with full-featured wifi in it, as it would cut into their ability to gouge on data plans.

(Begin minirant. Why can't Palm define a Content-Type encoding? UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, SOMETHING, so any browser set to default to an encoding other than ISO-8859-1 handles their pages properly! Bloody little question marks that show up since I use UTF-8 for... Everything, by default. End minirant.)

Bob Russell · 05-16-2006, 10:50 AM

More links to info from Palm Addicts as they continue to update...
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmad...o_700p__2.html

05-15-2006, 01:16 AM	#1
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	News Flash: PalmOS Treo 700p Announced! It's official! Palm has announced an EV-DO (high speed data) PalmOS Treo 700p as expected. Verizon and Sprint will announce availbility soon. The phone is also the first Palm Treo smartphone to include DUN capability (i.e. connect your laptop to the internet through the smartphone via Bluetooth or USB). Data plan prices are not yet announced. There is 60meg available user memory, threaded SMS/MMS messages, Bluetooth v1.2, a 1.3 megapixel camera and more! For some excellent coverage, check out Palm Addicts where there is product information, and much more. There is also coverage at Brighthand and I'm sure a multitude of other sites already. The Palm product page is here. If you find good product information please feel free to add new links in this thread and let us know what kinds of great info you see.

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05-15-2006, 02:48 PM	#2
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	You can see a nice (and still being updated) list of references to the 700p articles here at Palm Addicts.... http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmad...o_700p__2.html

05-15-2006, 07:30 PM	#3
paulkbiba Connoisseur Posts: 84 Karma: 45 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: United States Device: Nokia e61i, iPhone	A big dissapontment to me on two counts: first, no WiFi and second not enough memory. I was prepared to buy one, but will hold off unitl I see what the Sprint version of the 700w is like. It will either be that or the Sprint 6700 Smartphone. I'm getting a bit tired of the limitations of the Palm OS, as much as I love my Treo 650. As a matter of fact, I broke out my old Ipaq 4155 and loaded up uBook and will be reading on that from now on. uBook has come a long, long way since I used it last. I already have eReader Pro and Mobipocket on it so I'm pretty good as far as ebooks go.

05-15-2006, 10:30 PM	#4
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	Thing about memory is that it's so cheap. But you can then look at this two ways... Why didn't Palm put in more (very cheap - especially in bulk) flash memory? Or... Why can't you just go buy an SD card to make up for that lack? I'll leave it up to each person to take it whichever way they wish. Wifi, sure, a bit of an issue... but I think the problem may not be Palm, but the fact that no carriers would want a phone with full-featured wifi in it, as it would cut into their ability to gouge on data plans. (Begin minirant. Why can't Palm define a Content-Type encoding? UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, SOMETHING, so any browser set to default to an encoding other than ISO-8859-1 handles their pages properly! Bloody little question marks that show up since I use UTF-8 for... Everything, by default. End minirant.)

05-16-2006, 10:50 AM	#5
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	More links to info from Palm Addicts as they continue to update... http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmad...o_700p__2.html

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