Treo 700w launched at CES 2006
The launch of the new Treo 700w powered by the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system at the recent Consumer Electronics Show 2006 (CES 2006) on 5 Jan 2006 has got Palm supporters vomiting in their pants. With TREO going to the dark side and adding the ever buggy and virus prone Microsoft Windows Mobile to its line of PDAs ( my ETEN M600 running the Windows Mobile 5.0 hang 3 times this morning) , things aren’t going to look sunny. Its not going to be easy for Windows to live next to an open source product. The sentiments are felt in this article on CNET called “A marriage not made in heaven”. I guess it was more of a financial decision rather than a sentimental one as Treo does need to stay afloat selling something the masses enjoy.
“Customers want speed,” said Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless executive vice president and chief operating officer. “Offering BroadbandAccess on the Treo smartphone for the first time satisfies these growing customer needs. By combining Verizon Wireless’ BroadbandAccess service with the flexible and robust Windows Mobile operating system, the Treo 700w smartphone gives mobile professionals and businesses access to their most critical information at lightning speed.”
Treo 700w Tech Specs :
- EV-DO access for fast downloads of data, email and large attachments;
- Robust Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system;
- Intel(R) XScale(R) technology-based processor;
- Ability to send and receive email from multiple corporate and personal email accounts, with built-in support for Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile, Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and other POP3 and IMAP accounts;
- On-device access to Microsoft Office Word Mobile, Office Excel Mobile and Office PowerPoint Mobile for viewing, editing and creating Word and Excel Mobile documents, as well as viewing PowerPoint Mobile presentations. In addition, with Picsel PDF viewer (included on installation CD), customers can view PDF documents;
- Unified messaging application, including email, SMS and MMS;
- Support for Wireless Sync to provide the convenience of push email and easy access to personal information-management tools, such as contacts and calendar, as well as enterprise tools, such as device management and file synchronization; and
- Enough memory to manage business and personal digital needs in one place with 128MB of memory and 60MB of dedicated user storage.
- New 1.3-megapixel camera to shoot crisp, clear digital images and videos;
- Integrated Bluetooth(R) 1.2 wireless technology for communicating with compatible headsets, car kits, computers and printers equipped with Bluetooth technology;
- Removable battery and non-volatile memory;
- Voice Command for voice dialing;
- Expansion card slot (SD, SDIO, and MultiMediaCard compatible); and
- 240×240 transflective (TFT) screen.
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