Earlier today Palm announced the Treo 680, the first consumer oriented device from Palm that comes in 4 different colors; Graphite, Copper, Arctic, and Crimson.
The Treo 680 is a quad-band GSM device that will run the Palm OS and come with 64MB and a VGA digital camera. The Treo 680 will not come with Wi-Fi, however, aside from that looks to be fairly similar to the Treo 700p from what we can tell.
A carrier for the Palm Treo 680 has not been determined as of yet, however, EngadgetMobile thinks that it could be Cingular.
Palm Treo 680
Forgive me for the pun, but I just couldn’t resist. The question, however, is a valid one. Will the T-Mobile Dash slow down BlackBerry Pearl sales at all?
T-Mobile unveiled it’s new Windows Mobile powered smartphone yesterday. The Dash has:
- 2.4-inch transflective TFT display
- Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE
- WiFi and Bluetooth
- 128MB flash, 64MB SDRAM, microSD slot
- 1.3 megapixel camera
- myFaves support
- 960mAh battery (vs 1130mAh on the Moto Q)
- 4.4 x 2.5 x 0.5-inch body (vs 4.57 x 2.5 x 0.47-inches on Q)
- 4.2 ounces (vs 4.06 ounces on Q)
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I was just reading over on Gizmodo where the Palm Treo 700wx from Sprint will be released on September 3rd. This is Sprints version of the fairly popular Windows Mobile powered Treo that first came out on Verizon.
If you really want a Treo that runs Windows Mobile 5 on Sprint’s network, this, hopefully non-hardware glitched, non-software bug ridden device can be yours for only $650 big ones or $150 less if you sign a 2-year contract with the carrier that arguably has the worst customer service, something you will need to use often if the trend of glitchy hardware and buggy software continues.
The Treo 700wx is way too expensive. It cost more than your middle of the line laptop. No wonder Palm is struggling to keep it’s head above water. They just don’t get it. Someone should have been paying attention to how the Motorola Q, albeit buggy with hardware and software issues of it’s own, destroyed the Treo 700w after it came out. Most people aren’t willing to pay that kind of money for a mobile phone, especially if it doesn’t work all that great.
Palm, Treo 700wx, Sprint
According to Sprint Nextel COO Len Lauer, Sprint Nextel will add the Motorola Q to to it’s line-up of mobile devices in the fourth quarter this year.
Although the Morotorla Q has been known to have a technical glitch or two as compared the BlackBerry, Verizon sales are seen as a total success and Sprint is hoping to bring some of that good fortune to their network.
It will be interesting to see if sales of RIM’s BlackBerry 7130e on Sprint will be affected by the introduction of the Motorola Q.
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Motorola Q, Sprint
I just read a PC World Survey of the top 5 PDA Phones in their September 2006 issue and, believe it or not, not a single BlackBerry made the list. Unfortunately, I could not find the guidelines by which PC World tests and evaluates PDA Phones, however, I would have to imagine that a significant amount of value is placed on a built-in digital camera as all the devices that made list have one.
I am really having a heard time believing that the SideKick 3 came in at number two.
[Via PC World]
PC World
Palm announced last week that it will introduce a new UMTS/3G, Windows Mobile powered Treo running on Vodafone’s network to European customers by the end of the year.
The Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphone that will result from this collaboration will represent an industry first by operating on Vodafone’s 3G/UMTS network and delivering the hallmark Palm experience on top of the Microsoft Windows Mobile(R) operating system. The new Treo smartphone will be available first to Vodafone customers in multiple European countries, including the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and Netherlands, before the end of the calendar year.
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Palm, Treo, Vodafone, Windows Mobile 5.0
New SingTel MobileMail™ Targeted at 1.2 Million Subscribers
SINGAPORE – 20 June, 2006 (CommunicAsia) – Consilient today announced that
Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia’s leading communications
group, has selected the Consilient Push™ email solution to bring mobile push
email to more than 1.2 million subscribers. The product, called SingTel
MobileMail, will be formally launched in July, 2006.
SingTel’s agreement with Consilient marks the Asian debut of a consumer
mobile email product that is based entirely on open standards, a key
differentiator for SingTel in choosing Consilient. Open standards refer to the
underlying architecture of SingTel’s mobile email solution which makes it
highly interoperable with multiple phones and email systems and capable of
scaling to millions of users.
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It looks like Motorola and Telus are going after would-be BlackBerry users right in Research in Motion’s back yard. Telus will be the first carrier to offer the Motorola Q in Canada.
According to Telus’s website, the Motorola Q will be $249.99 with a three year contract with voice, email, and data plans totaling $80 per month or more thru June 30th.
I have never been one to cry “BlackBerry Killer”, however, I have been a fan of the Q going way back to when we were calling it the RazrBerry (incorrectly I might add). I have been tossing around the idea of carrying a BlackBerry and a mobile phone and the Motorola Q along with the Mobile ESPN phone are at the top of my lists right now.
Motorola Q
Motorola Q, Moto Q, SlingBox