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For those of you in overseas markets, Palm officially announced the Treo 500V. Co-branded with Vodaphone, this runs Windows Mobile 6; includes a 320x240 color non-touch screen and 256 Mb of onboard memory, and will be available October 1.A few things I thought were interesting:
No touchscreen-this would drive me batty after owning previous Treo models, but undoubtedly this reduces cost and thickness, and this phone is obviously aimed at new smartphone users. Having no touchscreen means two softkeys are included underneath the screen, Nokia-style. I personally hate this method of navigation, but many worldwide are quite used to it.
Palm has eschewed the regular Treo dock connector for a standard mini-USB port.
Notably, I see no silent switch which has been a mainstay of Treo models since the beginning. This seems to reinforce that Palm is not going after adult business users with this model.
Photo courtesy of Engadget
Some site in the Netherlands is posting pre-release photos of the new Palm device. Looking like something right out of a 1980s sci-fi show, two amazing colors are displayed! I know this is thought to be aimed at the youth/bargain smartphone market, but the screen should really be bigger. The white one looks like a Zen mp3 player. My 755p
looks far better. Anyway, Palm has some new device for overseas markets to announce tomorrow, so we'll just have to wait and see. They say it's not centro, we know it's not the Foleo, so what is it?
Stating that Palm needed to focus all attention on a new mobile platform for all their devices, Palm CEO Ed Colligan announced yesterday afternoon that they were dropping the Foleo smartphone companion as it was currently configured and designed. This is surprising, since they were almost ready to ship the device.If you followed it, the Foleo was going to be basically a 10" notebook that worked with your Palm Treo. With a full keyboard, it would allow you to access email, spreadsheets, documents and surf the web but did not have a hard drive and did not run Windows. Critics questioned the need for such an "in-between" device, more than a handheld but not quite a notebook computer.
The most interesting aspect of this device to me was that it ran Linux, and was instant-on, with no boot-up time. Applications would have been easily developed by third parties just like they have been on the Palm OS. From the Palm blog:
Jeff Hawkins and I still believe that the market category defined by Foleo has enormous potential. When we do Foleo II it will be based on our new platform, and we think it will deliver on the promise of this new category. We're not going to speculate now on timing for a next Foleo, we just know we need to get our core platform and smartphones done first.read more | digg story
Gizmodo has claims to an official leaked promotional photo of the much rumored Palm Centro. With all the information on the net on this item, it does seem to be legit that Palm is releasing this device. Rumors are that this will be a low cost Treo-like device possibly aimed at a younger market than the other Treos. Remember this is all speculation but the picture sure looks authentic, no?
read more | digg story
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