Gizmodo: 700p

Palm Centro vs Treo 700 vs iPhone vs BlackBerry Curve

Wilson Rothman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:17:21 EDT

Here's the new $99 Palm Centro from Sprint, cozying up to an older Sprint Treo 700p. In the gallery below, you'll see more shots of the 700 comparison, plus the inevitable Centro vs iPhone. (Aw, you know you want it.) Then, after jump, Centro faces off against BlackBerry Curve.

Comparison with T-Mobile RIM Blackberry Curve (with Wi-Fi):

Treo 700p Unwrapping And Activation

Jason Chen — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:04:24 EDT

Rob, the bespectacled tech impresario lothario, made a video of him unwrapping, starting up, then activating (and activating, and activating) the Treo 700p. Some discoveries: downloads and uploads are quite speedy, camcorder features are alright, and the size isn't too much different from his old Treo 600, but is much faster. Not an in depth review, but interesting nonetheless.

Thanks Rob!

Palm Treo 700p Video Review

Jason Chen — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:01:21 EDT

Mobility Today has a long video review of the Palm Treo 700p. If you're at all interested in getting a Treo, or if you're curious as to what this can do, give it a look. The guys at MobTod seem to really like it.

Palm Treo 700p [Mobility Today]

Palm Treo 700p Video

johnb — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:47:42 EDT

DLMag has some video of the Palm Treo 700p in the wild. It's long as all get out, but you get to hear Palm people talk up their latest and greatest.

Exclusive Palm Treo 700p briefing [DLMag]

Palm Treo 700p Released

Jason Chen — Mon, 15 May 2006 01:25:22 EDT

You remember that time when you were a kid and you snuck downstairs on Christmas Eve to catch your parents putting presents down under the tree, pretending to be Santa? Then remember how they gave you extra presents to make up for shattering your still undeveloped soul? This is kind of like that. Except now you get a Palm Treo 700p!

The new Palm OS Treo has EVDO, 128 Megs of memory (60 for the user), Built-In Dial-up Networking with Bluetooth support, 1.3 megapixel camera, SD Card storage, and email access to Outlook, Yahoo!, AOL and Gmail.

The internets are asploding with news of this ~~cancer-curing~~ impressive device:

Digital Lifestyle
Digital Lifestyle Video Unveiling
TMC Net Review
Mobility Today Announcement
Mobility Today Podcast

Palm Launching Palm-based Treo 700 on Monday

johnb — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:25:29 EDT

Word around the PDA-fire is that Palm is launching a Palm OS version of the Treo 700 on Monday. How do we know this? Some brightwads over at TechWorld posted, then yanked, a story about the smartphone.

The biggest deal is that this thing can act as a wireless modem via Bluetooth or USB. It has a 1.3-megapixel camera, 312-Mhz processor, and 128 MB of memory. Sprint and Verizon should be carrying it this summer. It will definitely be interesting to see how the sales folks differentiate these two phones from each other. "See, this one uses Palm, which is like Apple. And this one uses Windows, so you can play Quake 4."

UPDATE - We got ourselves a pic.

Read the whole story after the jump.

"Palm is launching a Palm version of its Treo 700 smartphone next Monday."(?) [WirelessDoc]

Sprint Confirms Treo 700p Launch Date - 5/28

Jason Chen — Wed, 10 May 2006 07:59:31 EDT

Well, the May 28th date we last reported on seems to be the firm date for the Treo 700p. Coming from "The Spring Retail Sales Playbook", the calendar date is marked for the launch of the Palm Treo 700, Blackberry 7130i and LG LX550.

If you've gotta have the Palm OS version as opposed to the Windows Mobile version of the 700, start getting your finances in order for this EVDO, 1.3MP smartphone.

Sprint Treo 700p launch date confirmed by Sprint [gadgets on the go]

More Treo 700p Information Surfaces

Travis Hudson — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:57:17 EST

Some more information, including this scan showing a lot of the key features and a targeted release date of May 28th, showed up over on the Treocentral forums. Rumors are that this will be a Palm OS powered Sprint smartphone that will include EV-DO, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and an SD expansion slot. Bunch of mumbo-jumbo? Probably, but we'll keep you posted.

Possibly Treo 700p info leaks [MobileTracker]

Rumor: Sprint Treo 700p in May or June?

Joel — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:09:22 EST

Palm Infocenter is running a rumor from one of their readers that details the specs and release date of the Palm OS-based Treo 700p. Saying he was shown an internal Sprint webpage with the information, the reader says to expect the launch of an EVDO-capable Treo 700p in May or June, running Palm OS Garnet 5.4.9. That confirms, if true, what most people have been expecting to hear about the upgrade from the Treo 650 to the 700p: besides the welcome addition of the EVDO modem and a 1.3-megapixel camera, there will be hardly any difference between the two models.

Treo 700p Spotted, Likely May/June Release [Palm Infocenter via MGN]

Sprint Treo EV-DO Rumors: 650 Software Radio Upgrade, Q1 Release?

Travis Hudson — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:46:51 EST

An unidentified source high up at ~~Palm~~ Sprint has disclosed some information about the future of EV-DO, specifically on the Palm Treo. First, EV-DO is a software solution, he's reported to claim—not hardware—so with some clever hacking it is possible for everyone's favorite Treo 650 to do EV-DO. We find that highly spurious.

Secondly, the source claims that by Q4 we'll begin seeing EV-DO run at 1.2 to 4.5Mbit download speeds. Upgrades have been on the carrier's roadmaps from the beginning, so that's certainly possible.

He also claims that by early 2007 will see the release of WiMax, the high-speed flavor of 802.16 that could be used on cellular towers—should the carriers choose to implement WiMax despite the potential for obviating their own cellular networks.

And lastly, the Sprint source would not confirm a release date for the anticipated Treo 700p, but he did say to "wait a little bit" if you are planning a phone upgrade in the future. We expect the next Sprint Treo with EV-DO soon, as well.

Treo News [Science Project]