Treo 700p Smartphone
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Palm, today unveiled perhaps the most anticipated smart phone, the Treo 700p, which comes as a huge relief for all the Treo users as it addresses the most significant complaints that people had with one of its predecessors, the Treo 650. With so much hype surrounding the launch of the Treo 700p, it doesn't disappoint me one bit with whatever info I've gathered so far. The Palm Treo 700p comes with hardware and software innovations centered around usability, connectivity, multimedia and compatibility. Also it is the first ever Palm OS CDMA-based Treo smartphone to offer the broadband like speeds of the EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) network
Like its predecessor the Treo 700p also runs on the same operating system, Palm OS 5 and both use the same general form factor, a 320-by-320-pixel screen above a miniature keyboard that makes writing emails easier and also what it means is a much better resolution than Windows Mobile 5.0 phones. Perhaps the most striking thing about the phone is that it does support EvDO, a standard that supports from 400Kbps-700Kbps data transfer speeds and the Treo 700p is backwards compatible with 1xRTT. You can also use your Palm Treo 700p as a Dial-Up Networking adaptor. Using a USB cable to your laptop or Blue-tooth connectivity, you can have high-speed browsing using your unlimited EvDO data plan.
On the multimedia front, the phone features a 1.3 Mega-Pixel camera through which can send photos on the fly, no need to switch from the camera to the MMS or email application. Also the Treo 700p comes with its own multimedia application that supports both streaming audio and video called Pocket Tunes. The Treo 700p sports a new Pocket Tunes UI from Normsoft and the most interesting multimedia feature is support for streaming audio and video (Windows Media Player format including MPEG4, H.264, and others) which the Treo 650 lacked. It includes 128MB of memory out of which 60MB is user available. However users can extend their phone memory capacity with the help of the SD card slots that has been provided. Perhaps the disappointing thing is that it does not have a GSM support, one highly anticipated feature and the prevalent standard used by most countries except the U.S.
Pricing and availability for the Palm Treo 700p smartphone will be announced later by Sprint and Verizon Wireless.
"The release of this Palm OS based product on the latest high-speed network technology is music to the ears of our dedicated installed base of Palm OS customers and clear validation that we intend to continue to focus on multiple platforms for our solutions," said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm, Inc. "This flagship product - the second new smartphone Palm will introduce this calendar year -- offers our world-class usability combined with a smarter phone, wireless email, built-in browser, and rich media capabilities - all at blazing speeds on the EvDO network."
Other Treo 700p Features and Benefits
-- Superior phone functionality, including personalized ring
tones for various categories of callers and the ability to
ignore a call with text messaging;
-- New voice-memo application, which can be used to create custom
ring tones, add voice annotations to photos or simply record a
memo;
-- Enhanced email and messaging, including better Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003 ActiveSync support, which now includes
contact sync in addition to email and calendar, as well as
threaded SMS/MMS messages in a single chat view and
out-of-the-box support for Yahoo!, AOL, and Gmail;
-- Smarter, faster web browsing using a new and improved version
of the award-winning Blazer browser;
-- Full PDF support using DataViz(R) Documents To Go(R) Version
8.0, which also offers native support for Microsoft Word,
Excel and PowerPoint; and
-- The fast, friendly and familiar Palm OS platform, Version
5.4.9.
In-box Treo 700p Smartphone Applications
A CD in the Treo 700p smartphone box includes extra applications
-- some free, others for a fee -- such as VoiceSignal, for users who
want voice dialing, and Avvenu, for those who want access to their
home- or work-computer files while on the go. A secure VPN software
client is provided by anthaVPN. Anyone with downtime could appreciate
games from Handmark (Solitaire) and Astraware (Bejeweled), while those
with a commute may find Palm Traffic to be a useful application. For
book-lovers, the CD also includes Palm eReader as well as software
from Audible Inc. for listening to audio books.
New applications for the Palm OS platform continue to be developed
and improved. Two recent additions include scanR, which cleans photos
of whiteboards and documents and delivers the results as a PDF file,
and Lower Mars' Mobile Golf Pro, which uses the Treo 700p smartphone's
streaming application and the Blazer web browser to stream videos of
golf lessons and tips. On the enterprise front, Good Technology has
enhanced GoodLink's push-email experience and security capabilities.
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Stumble It! | Posted by Paul on May 15, 2006 3:12 AM
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