Palm Europe prices up Treo 680 smart phone
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Taking pre-orders Palm has begun taking orders from Europeans for its upcoming Treo 680 Palm OS-based smart phone. The updated stubless and RoHS-compliant version of the Treo 650 will retail for Â£329 inc VAT if you want one unallied to any specific mobile phone network.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Details of Palm's new smartphone are emerging ahead of the product's launch on Wednesday. According to details of a scanned advertisement from the Dutch subsidiary of The Phone Shop, which has appeared on numerous blogs, the product is called Palm Treo 500, itÂ uses a standard version of Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system, runs on 3G (third-generation) mobile phone networks, and will be sold byÂ Vodafone Group. Vodafone had an exclusive agreement for theÂ Palm Treo 750v. A source familiar with the launch confirmed details in the ad, including the name of the product, OS, and Vodafone as a carrier partner, but declined to provide further details ahead of the launch. The Treo 500 appears to be targeted at the consumer market and is equipped with the Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS, which doesn't support touch-screen functionality. The lack of this feature and possibly some others could mean that the new smartphone will be priced lower than the Palm Treo 750v, which at â¬500 ($689) has been targeted at business users. In an interview on Monday, Jens Schulte-Bokum, head of the global terminal division at Vodafone, declined to comment on whether Vodafone planned to offer the new Palm smartphone in addition to the Palm Treo 750v, saying only that the operator is "still in discussions with Palm to refresh that lineup." Â
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Handheld computer maker palmOne Inc.  PLMO.O on Monday posted a quarterly profit, versus a loss a  year earlier, on stronger revenue spurred by solid sales of its  Treo 600 mobile phone and other digital devices.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Those wanting to get their hands on a Treo 650 this year will need to sign up for service from Sprint PCS. Sprint has cornered the market for this year, scooping up all of PalmOne&#39;s capacity until sometime in 2005.
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PalmOne svela Treo 650, l&#39;atteso smartphone che rispetto al suo predecessore si arricchisce di una batteria rimovibile al litio e di funzionalitÃ  wireless a corto raggio. Il telefonino corredato di organizer
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Ziff Davis - The enterprise makes way for mobile video as WiMax advances, Palm's new Treo 650 and Windows mobile productivity all share the stage at the CTIA Wireless show in San Francisco.
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Full details Palm and Vodafone have, as expected, just announced the Treo 500v, a 3G smartphone aimed at the YouTube and MySpace generation and which sports Palm's curvy new handset design in iPod-like white and black versions.â¦
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PalmOne has unveiled the latest version of its popular Treo smartphone. The Treo 650 features a number of modifications that make the device more useful, while not changing its basic design or core capabilities.
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Palm joined Verizon Wireless in announcing on Monday the availability of the Treo 755p smartphone through that carrier. While not the breakthrough product that some had been hoping for, the 755p refreshes the Treo line for Verizon.
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(InfoWorld) - Palm will begin sales of the Treo 750v, a Windows Mobile-based 3G (third-generation) smart phone, next month. The handset is the first Windows-based Treo to be offered in Asia. Palm hopes the release of the 750v will boost the company's international sales, said Paul Blinkhorn, Palm's vice president for Asia-Pacific. "We need to replicate the momentum we have in the U.S. in other parts of the world," he said during a Singapore news conference. Priced at S$1,268 ($798) without a contract, the Treo 750v will be sold through Singaporean operator MobileOne. Based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, the 750v supports GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), and WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) networks. Palm also hopes to offer the 750v in other Asian countries, said Sharon Ee, a spokeswoman for Palm. The 750v offers a 1.3-megapixel camera, 60MB of memory for user files, Bluetooth, a QWERTY keyboard, and a color touchscreen with a resolution of 240 pixels by 240 pixels and support for 65,000 colors. Weighing in at 154 grams, the handset also includes a slot for miniSD (Secure Digital) memory cards. In addition to Asia, the Treo 750v will also be available in Europe next month through Vodafone Group.
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(InfoWorld) - As part of a strategy to generate greater revenue from mobile data services, Vodafone Group has collaborated with Palm to launch a smartphone modeled after theÂ Treo 750vÂ but at a fraction of the price and with a newly designed user interface. Vodafone will exclusively sell theÂ Palm Treo 500v, which debuts in Europe in October, for three months, after which the handset will be available to other operators and retail outlets, in Europe and Asia, Roy Bedlow, vice president and general manager of Palm Europe, said Wednesday. Vodafone had a similar agreement with Palm when the operator launched the Treo 750v last year. Pricing of the 500v will vary according to market. The handset will be available free or for a small fee together with a 12- to 18-month contract in the U.K., according to Vodafone spokeswoman Helen Brockett. In Germany, pricing for the handset will begin at â¬30 ($41) and increase slightly according to the conditions of the operator's two-year contracts. By comparison, the Treo 750v sold for more than â¬500 with a two-year contract in Germany when it was launched. However, unlike the Treo 750v, which is targeted primarily at business users, the 500v lacks touchscreen capabilities, largely to lower the handset's cost, Bedlow said. The phone runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system, which doesn't support touchscreen capability, unlike the Professional version used in the 750v model. Although the Treo 500v runs on 3G (third-generation) networks, it doesn't support the more recent version HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) protocol, again mostly for cost reasons, according to Bedlow. But the new smartphone is packed with a few features missing in the 750v, including a new interface designed to give users faster and easier access to Vodafone Live mobile Internet applications. The applications are shown in a carousel that users can manipulate for easy navigation, according to Bedlow. In addition to Live, the carousel includes a number of applications such as Google Maps, YouTube and eBay. The Treo 500v is designed for one-hand use, according to Bedlow. Like the Treo 750v, the 500v supports Microsoft Direct Push technology to deliver Outlook mail, as well as Vodafone's own push e-mail service. Users can also configure the handset to send and receive e-mail from the Vodafone account or from other e-mail accounts. "With the Treo 500v, Vodafone wants to broaden its user base for mobile data services such as the Internet and e-mail," Bedlow said. "The handset makes more features of high-end mobile phones available to more users." The new smartphone has 150MB of internal memory and a slot for a microSD expansion card. It is also equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology. As part of the European rollout, Vodafone will offer the Treo 500v next month in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., with other European countries as well as the Asia-Pacific region to follow, according to Bedlow. The Treo 500v will not be available in the U.S., although Palm is planning new devices later this year for North American market, according to a company spokesman. Â
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PalmOne Inc. PLMO.O on Monday swung  to a quarterly profit from a year-earlier loss on a 62 percent  jump in revenue, spurred by solid sales of its Treo 600 mobile  phone and other handheld digital devices.
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PalmOne's Treo 650 sports a sharper screen, faster memory and an improved camera.
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Palm Inc.  on Tuesday unveiled  a new smart phone under a partnership with British mobile phone  giant Vodafone Plc , marking Palm's biggest effort to  get a foothold in the European market.
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PalmOne today unveiled its latest addition to the Treo Smartphone range, the Treo 650 targeted at mobile professionals. Available as either a digital dual-band or quad-band world phone, the
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The PalmOne Treo 650 Smartphone with high-resolution screen, Bluetooth, swappable battery and extended multimedia capabilities was officially announced today.
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In an effort to address customer complaints about the Treo 650&#39;s memory capacity, handheld maker PalmOne will provide a software update for the smart phone&#39;s memory.