This Palm Treo 800w from Sprint gives me headaches. Instead of a regular launch with a nice press release and all that we keep hearing rumors about release dates and prices. The Palm Treo 800w was expected to hit the stores on July 13th and therefore it appears to be available online from Sprint now.

We’ve heard about unofficial Treo Sales earlier this week from Sprint. The rumored prices were $350 for a two year contract and $600 without a plan.

Going to Sprint online you will get a Palm Treo 800w listing for $249.99. That’s with a two year agreement and after $100 mail-in rebate. That’s about exactly what we’ve heard before. If you don’t want the iPhone or the Instinct, if you’re done waiting for the HTC Touch Diamond or the new BlackBerries, this Palm Treo is a very good alternative. But otherwise it’s just too expensive compared to its competitors.

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Well the schematics above are pretty clear aren’t they? They describe the Palm Treo 800w and its specs. The official release date of this Palm is July 13th but in the mean time let’s see what this photo has to say about it.
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Sprint will launch the Palm Treo 800w earlier than expected. We’ve heard that before but it appears it has just been confirmed (check out the picture). Although rumored to arrive on July 22nd, this Palm is going to arrive prematurely. Corporate version will be available even sooner than that, on July 9th. Is Sprint trying to get some attention around the July 11th day? You know, the day the iPhone will be out in stores?
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With the WWDC coming up in less than 48 hours, people seem to forget there are other upcoming smartphones out there. Such is the case of the Palm Treo 800w which will be fully released on July 13. I think that every handset coming out in the months to follow the iPhone 2 official release will take a hit.

Why choose the Palm Treo 800w? Here are some details that might turn you into a Palm lover:

• 1150mah battery,
• 320 x 320 display,
• 100MB of program memory,
• 170MB of storage memory,
• WiFi, microUSB connector,
• 2.1-megapixel camera,
• ARM1136 processor,
• Windows Mobile 6.1 (5.2.1944),
• standard on/off switch on the top for the ringer,
• button to control the WiFi.

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Details of the new Palm Treo 850 has been released. All this information was leaked from the Vodafone Roadmap for 2008. The anticipated phone has been rumored to feature a Windows Mobile Professional OS and will be running on a 400MHz processor with 100MB of RAM.

Its a quite nice looking device, similar to the Centro but it appears smaller and much more polished. This is just the kind of design refresh a struggling Palm could really use. The phone was shown briefly during Bill Gates keynote. The Treo shown at the presentation isn’t anything of today’s available or known smartphone and it clearly sports Windows Mobile Professional logo and the Start and OK button which is another indication that this must be the Drucker supporting a touchscreen interface.
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A new ROM update for the Treo 755p has just been released under the name ROM version 1.07. And guess what — Palm describes it as:

This software update is a tune-up that improves audio, stability, software quality and device usability.

Can’t be any vaguer than that. With the way the description’s written, the update might be mere bug fixes and the like. But hey, then again, a vague update is better than your OS collecting cobwebs, right? It takes around 45 minutes to completely update to Palm Treo 755p ROM version 1.07. Different installation methods for Windows and Mac are available.

See the update info page.

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Palm is taking pains to reach a new customer base. In effect of disappointing sales, and in an effort to rebound, Palm has released an unlocked version of the Treo 500v. The erstwhile Vodafone-exclusive is now available for subscribers of other networks. The Treo 500v runs on Windows Mobile 6, and features a QWERTY keyboard, microSD card slot, and 150MB of onboard memory. Read more about the Treo 500v.

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Here is MobileWhack’s Top Ten Cell Phones of 2007.

1stApple iPhone Cell Phone
2ndSamsung F700 Cell Phone
3rd Motorola Razr2 V8
4th LG Shine
5th Palm Centro SmartPhone
6th RIM Blackberry 8310 SmartPhone
7th Helio Ocean Phone
8th Samsung BlackJack 2
9th Nokia 95 8GB Version
10thSony Ericsson K810 Cybershot Camera Phone
11thLG Veiwty
12thHTC Shift

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Here is our list of the Top 10 Cell Phone Companies of 2007 based open performance and growth for the year.

1st Samsung - Been quite a amazing this year for them, answered all of their competitors moves in every sector not just phones.
2nd Apple - 5 million iphones in 6 months, enough said.
3rd Blackberry
4th Nokia
5th LG
6th Sony
7th HTC a bit of a surpise, these people are small outfit from Hungary lol amazing.
8th Motorola
9th Palm
10th Meizu rip offs in China

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Here is a video introduction I found of Googles Andriod Platform.

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Can Palm make a comeback in 2008?, once a almighty company that laughed at its rivals attempts to compete with them, it is now sadly facing the biggest struggle for surival of its live. 2007 has been a very horrible year for Palm and everyone is at a lost for a reason why. Everybody knows Palm, their phones are world class, whole communities (like Apple and Blackberry have) are dedicated discussing everything Palm. God can only hope that it doesn’t go the way of Sony’s walkmans. But really when you think about it a bit, Palm has still got so much going for it, they cuts cost recently (But Sadly Job cuts), they got a new CEO (Former Apple executive, you can’t get better than that), the brands still strong, there products are great and hopefully they will have a million geeks behind them in 2008. I think all they need now is Google Andriod and their set.

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It seems that a treocentral forum user, who goes by the name of Malatesta, found some interesting information regarding 4 projects that Palm is currently at work on and one of them is quite possibly the Palm W800. Apparently the user was reading emails exchanged between Palm and the FCC and dug up four code names of current Palm development. He then goes on to explain how he came to his conclusions about how the Palm W800 may very well be on the way. You can head over to treocentral and check out the original forum post to see for yourself.

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Verizon Wireless has finally sealed the deal with Palm to include the smartphone Palm Treo 755p under its product line up. This handset is already available for Sprint subscribers for more than 6 months.

Designed to meet the strong demand of business professionals to stay connected all the time, Verizon’s Palm Treo 755p supports Microsoft Direct Push technology to access emails and calendars as quick as possible.

Additionally, it is fully equipped with a QWERTY keyboard for easy Web browsing and e-mail, a 1.3 megapixel camera, color touchscreen, and mobile Google Maps. You can view and even edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

It comes in exclusive deep blue-green color and is available online and by phone through 1-800-2 JOIN IN. Palm Treo 755p will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores starting January 7, 2008. Retail price is set at $400 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract.

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Palm’s in trouble big trouble once a global leader in producing awesome smartphones, Palm this year has had a very hard time competing in this sector. Even bringing out awesome products such as the Palm treo 755p has not helped there fortunes, basically they have totally stuffed up there marketing and product promotion this year, as well as other companys like RIMM and Apple coming on the scene doing a better job in the sector. Today Palm announced that there earnings that will be reported soon will be down and that a new product that was to be announced before XMAS holidays will be delayed, so there goes the Xmas sales for them. One can only hope their turn around in 2008 will save them.

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The Palm Treo 755p smartphone is now available to Iusacell customers in Mexico. This CDMA phone comes equipped with Microsoft Direct Push technology, as well as integrated Google Maps for mobile. The 755p lets users take advantage of the operator’s 3G network (supporting speeds up to 3.1 Mbps), with blazing access to the web, email, IM and multimedia apps.

The phone boasts integrated support for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as PDF documents. The full QWERTY keyboard makes text/email entry convenient. We’ve been following the versatile Treo 755p ever since its FCC approval.

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Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone and Fixed Network operators, along with Palm Inc. has announced the availability of the Palm Treo 750 smartphone in India. This is the first ever Palm Treo smartphone that Airtel is releasing on its extensive network and it will also be the first Windows Mobile based Treo smartphone to be launched in India.

The Palm Treo 750 smartphone combines a world GSM phone, email, broadband wireless, and Windows Mobile—all with world-renowned Palm ease. It’s capable of 3G for fast data access and comes with Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology for Windows Mobile.

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Palm afficianados (and Vodafone customers) can look forward to the new Palm Treo 500v smartphone unveiled at London today, boasting 3G/UMTS high-speed internet access on the mobile phone. Based on Windows Mobile 6, the Treo 500v features a full-fledged keyboard, support for streaming videos - that’s right, YouTube comes to your Palm now - a large screen and apps for IM. Initially available for Vodafone customers in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK and South Africa, the Treo 500v is bundled with the usual slew of Microsoft office applications including Outlook. There’s also Windows Live for Windows Mobile.

One of the niceties of the Treo 500v is that it allows your laptop to share data access with the mobile phone, effectively letting you stay online within Vodafon’s coverage area. There’s also Vodafone live!, a portal for news, sports and entertainment. Palm has also thrown in a 2.0 megapixel camera. On board, there’s 150 megs of memory, with support for microSD memory cards. Bluetooth support rounds up the feature list.

Available in two colors: glacier white and charcoal gray.

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Palm’s hotly rumored “Gandolf” will be a larger release than expected, a new leak reveals through updated specs. The Windows Mobile phone keeps a similar form factor and same Vodafone branding as before, but now has a darker color scheme and a bigger screen. It is now a metal-accented smartphone and should officially take its place in the Palm lineup as the Treo 500 series and will come in more than just the white, Windows Mobile 6 version shown in the past.

In addition to Windows Mobile, the Treo 500 will lack a touchscreen and feature 3G internet. The budget emphasis also won’t stop the handset from featuring the same 64MB of RAM as the more expensive Treo 700wx or 3G wireless Internet through HSDPA for those on GSM providers.

Also finding its way into the phone would reportedly be a 2-megapixel camera, 256MB of built-in flash for storage, and a Bluetooth transmitter with stereo audio support. Updated release information isn’t included, leaving releases beyond Vodafone a mystery.

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Electric Pocket’s Ringo Mobile, the leading ringtone manager for Pocket PC Phones and Windows Mobile Smartphones, now supports Windows Mobile 6.0. Along with this comes other features and more options for identifying incoming callers.

This new feature lets users identify who is calling with an MP3 or a glance at a picture on the screen. Among the new features of Ringo Mobile is the ability to quickly and easily associate a picture or other graphic to appear when incoming calls arrive.

Ringo has long been the best selling ringtone manager for Palm’s Treo smartphones, such as the Palm OS-based Treo 755p and the Windows Mobile-based Treo 750w, with features such as playing MP3 tunes as ringtones and assigning ringtones to individual callers or groups of callers.

Ringo Mobile is available from the Ringo web site at ringomo.com for US$24.95.

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Palm has launched their Treo 700wx smartphone in Israel in cooperation with Pelephone, the leader on cellular provider services at Isreal. The phone will be inserted in the CDMA/EV-DO network and is already available at Pelephone stores.

About the smartphone itself, the Treo 700wx features a touch-screen display with 240×240 resolution and comes with the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. It has a QWERTY keyboard to make life easier for everyone, a 1.3 megapixel camera to shoot some cool photos, and supports the usual Bluetooth headsets. Inside there are 64MB of RAM to make it faster, and to store all the data you need to have on the smartphone there is a slot for a SD memory card that can hold 2GB.

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Someone tipped off Gizmodo today with some great info on the upcoming Treo 800w, which is set to be released in Q4 2007. Apparently the 800w will features lots of improvements for Sprint users, including EV-DO Rev. A, 320×320 display, 128MB RAM, 256MB flash, Windows Mobile 6, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, an expansion slot, and a 1.3-megapixel camera.

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