Treo 700p Smartphone

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.