We'd been hearing rumors about the Treo 800w for what seemed like ages. Between the clatter of "Zeppelin" talk, glimpses of a new model during Gates' last CES keynote, and the ever-persistent idea that a fresh new Palm phone is just around the corner,

TamsPalm: On the history of PalmSource installer Former PalmSource employee Chris Dunphy worked on the program that we all know as PalmSource installer. A few of you will also know that PalmSource originally planned something similar to the recently-launched Apple Application Store. Dave’s article begins with the following bold statements: … I had two consistent recommendations on what to focus on to maximize the success and competitive differentiation of Palm hardware and the Palm

Sprint's Palm Centro received a little update. It adds My Location feature to Google Maps, as well as improves Bluetooth performance and Gmail IMAP and SprintTV.To upgrade your device please visit Palm's support site</a...

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Palm recently released an update to its popular Palm Centro touchscreen smartphone for Sprint. The update includes enhanced Gmail IMAP support and setup wizard, as well as other small changes.
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Copyright © 2008 Sue. Visit the original article at http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2008/07/22/review-nuance-mobile-voice-control-for-palm-units/. Ok, so I may be a little overenthusiastic here, but I am in lurve! Over here in California, they just brought out a new law regarding mobile phone use in cars. You now have to be “hands free,” which means some kind of Bluetooth hookup. Now, [...]

http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2008/07/21/review-ringo-for-palm-os-is-no-dead-ringer/. I get a kick out of messing around with ringtones. Like pairing your boarding kennel with “Hound Dog” and your investment manager with “Gold Digger”. Or setting the ringer for your younger brother to be a blaring alarm noise. My Centro lets me work out my evil ringtone tendencies better than any phone I’ve ever had, but it still has a few limitations. The biggest is that the built-in ringto

If you are going to upgrade or buy the new Palm Treo 800w, members in Treocentral forum is working on a software compatibility list for the new smartphone. Comes with 320 x 320 resolution display screen, software like Skype, Opera mobile, Tom Tom 6 and a few more are not compatible with it. So be sure you take a look before you made your decision.

Check the list here

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The much awaited Palm Treo 800w has finally been unveiled. The phone will be available at the Sprint stores this week. It is the first major new model from Palm Inc since The Centro, a smaller version of its flagship Treo, was introduced last year. With its new features such as high-speed connectivity, GPS capabilities, WiFi and EV-DO Rev. support, it might help Palm in regaining there leading position in smart phones market. Palm Treo 800w measures 0.7 inches thickness and features 320 b

Sprint welcomed another cool smartphone in its line of products available in the market. This time, Palm joined one of the biggest wireless service carriers in the United States to bring the Treo 800W to its subscribers. This handset is set to make a good rival against the big-time gadget, the iPhone. The Treo [...]

A new look for the Treo but some work ahead… The Treo 800w is Palm’s newest Windows Mobile Phone announced today.The Treo 800w operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and comes out of the box with support for EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi for data and GPS capabilities along with Sprint TV and Sprint Radio.

■[WM6.1][SmartPhone]Palm Treo 800wのレビュー2本 09:26 If you’re searching for a phone with some serious rumor history, look no further; the Treo 800w has been knocking around the internet for months now, promising Palm’s fabled usability together with CDMA 3G connectivity. Now conjecture no more, the touchscreen smartphone has been confirmed as part of Sprint’s new line-up, and we’ve had the 800w in for testing. Read on for the full review. Treo 800w Review for Sprint - SlashGear SlashGearにPalm T

The Gadget: Palm's Treo 800w is the updated, Windows Mobile successor to the Palm 750w. In addition to adding WinMo 6.1, the 800w brings a higher resolution screen, EVDO rev.A, GPS and Wi-Fi. Price: $250 (after 2 year contract) The Verdict: As far as Windows Mobile phones go, the 800w is a pretty good one. It's no frills as far as smartphones go, but this is almost exclusively for the enterprise crowd. It's not the prettiest, nor is it the smallest, but is powerful enough to run Windows Mob

This on is for Sprint customers: if you were dying to get your hands on the Palm Treo 800w, now's your chance. Starting today you can buy the device at Sprint's online store for $249.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a 2-year contract.

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Palm and Sprint today introduced the Palm Treo 800w, the first built in WiFi smartphone from Palm with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The Palm Treo 800w operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and support EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi for data and GPS capabilities. Palm designed the Treo 800w for easy-to-use mobility with a full QWERTY keyboard, five-way navigation and one-touch buttons to the most-used applications.

With integrated GPS and Palm software enhancements, the Treo 800w smartphone offers maps, point-to-point directions and point-of-interest (POI) searches for locations such as restaurants or stores. POI search is available directly from the Today Screen and is integrated with contacts. Treo 800w also supports Sprint Navigation for turn-by-turn directions as well as other popular third-party location-based services applications.

Specifications:

• Display Screen: 320 x 320 pixelTFT touchscreen with 65K colors
• Qualcomm MSM6800A chipset supporting EvDO Rev A
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• Built-in GPS
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition
• Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate
• Memory: 256MB user memory (approximately 170MB available user memory), 128MB program memory
• Camera: 2.0 megapixels
• Battery: Removable 1150 mAh lithium-ion; up to 4.5 hours talk time or up to 200 hours standby time
• microSD/microSDHC cards (up to 8GB supported)
• Connector MicroUSB 2.0
• Dimensions Length: 4.41″, Width: 2.28″, Depth: 0.73″, ...
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AT&T has dropped the price of the Palm Centro touchscreen smartphone, and also added a new 'electric blue' color option.
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Sprint today introduced the Palm Treo 800w, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone with high-speed EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, Wi-Fi for data and GPS capabilities.

The Treo 800w includes 802.11b/g WiFi and built-in Internet Explorer Mobile. The one-touch Wi-Fi button gets users connected at home, in the office or in Wi-Fi hotspots. With EV-DO Rev. A, the Treo 800w can quickly browse the web and send and receive emails at broadband speeds - peak download data rates of 3.1 Mbps and upload rates of 1.8 Mbps. Average download speeds are 600 kbps to 1.4 Mbps and uplink speeds are 350-500 kbps.

With integrated GPS, the Treo 800w offers maps, point-to-point directions and point-of-interest (POI) searches for locations such as restaurants or stores. POI search is integrated with contacts, giving customers access to the places they want to go. The Treo 800w also has Sprint Navigation for turn-by-turn directions.

The Treo 800w comes equipped with professional email. Microsoft Direct Push Technology connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server for ...

The world may still be all abuzz with iPhone 3G talk, but believe it or not, there are other smartphones out there, and Sprint just happened to land a pretty good one.

The carrier and Palm ...

We've had a few days to get acquainted with Palm's latest and greatest Treo, the new Treo 800w for Sprint. The 800w sports a Centro look, but is larger in order to provide better ergonomics. It also runs the 6.1 version of Windows Mobile Professional. Read on for some initial impressions.
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Sprint has placed the new Palm Treo 800w on its website after reports began surfacing of sprint phone operators and retail locations selling the new Windows Mobile smartphone ahead of schedule.
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Wmexperts reports that the new Palm Treo 800w can be ordered today by calling to Sprint Telesales at 877-639-8351. The device is marked with a product ID PTR800HK and is available for $599 before a $100 mail-in-rebate and $75 off (1 year contract) or $150 off (2 year contract)....

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Available on the same day as iPhone 3G, some users in wmexperts forum has actually able to buy a Treo 800w from the Sprint retail store now.

According to a member skfny, you will get about 72MB RAM free after a system fresh boot and a total of 150 - 160MB ROM. GPS, body size and keyboard design is great, except the 320 x 320 resolution display screen might not be compatible with all the applications. Check out the discussion thread below and more photos at next page.

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According to wmexperts, you can call Sprint Telesales at 877-639-8351 to order the Palm Treo 800w now. The Treo 800w has a product ID PTR800HK and it is available for $599 before a $100 mail-in-rebate and $75 off (1 year contract) or $150 off (2 year contract). Other than the availability, a copy of the Treo 800w pocket sales guide has been scanned with detail specification table too.

Together with the detail specification, here is the list of the short cut designs you can expect with the Palm Treo 800w

• Access GPS from home screen
• One-touch shortcut to WiFi
• Dialing by typing contact name on the today screen
• One-touch shortcut to calendar and email
• Ignore or end the call with one-touch

Check out the official specification next page.

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You can run, but you can't hide, Palm. It appears that some enterprising individual unearthed the user guide for the yet-to-be-announced Palm Treo 800w on Sprint's Web site yesterday. This news actually isn't a complete surprise as these rumors have been circulating the Web ...

According to the announcement on Palm’s blog, AT&T’s Centro will be available in electric blue color, the third color after the glacier white and obsidian black. This color scheme will be exclusive available starting this Friday in AT&T and www.palm.com/centro.

Palm has also hinted a possible price cut on the Palm Centro and will be more affordable than ever for back-to-schoolers from July 11 to September 20, 2008.

 

The AT&T Palm Centro is coming in electric blue! The new AT&T Palm Centro electric blue will be here Friday. Not only will you have a new color to choose from, but they are also lowering the price. No word on what the new price will be though ($50?). The CDMA version of the cell phone will not be getting the new blue color, nor are they lowering their prices, yet anyway. Although, you are getting 3G data with the CDMA version, which are missing with AT&T’s version.

The new AT&T Palm Centro Electric Blue won’t change feature-wise, but here’s a refresher of the specs anyway: Push-to-talk support, Palm’s OS and will have touch-display, nice QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3-megapixel camera and support EV-DO. So, be sure to check out your local dealer this Friday, if you’re at all interested in the AT&T Palm Centro electric blue phone.

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Just a quick update for you: apparently, Palm Centro will be coming to AT&T in electric blue on July 11th, and will cost cheaper.

We don't know how much it will actually cost, but we expect t...

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Palm Centro in electric blue

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Perhaps wanting to steal a little thunder from the iPhone 3G (uhh, good luck with that), today Palm announced a new electric blue version of the Palm Centro for AT&T, with nationwide availability starting Friday. So there's a new color; big ...

Palm Treo 755p from Verizon has got a firmware update. Unfortunately, there's no info about it, only a phrase on the support page saying that this build "improves the phone application, stability and device usability...

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Palm has just released the first ROM software update for Treo 755p users. The Treo 755p is available on Verizon Wireless in US. The software update will upgrade the software version to v1.08.

Accordingn to Palm, the software update is a tune-up that improves the phone application, stability and device usability. Check out more detail here

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RIM and Palm reported quarterly earnings this week, and both stocks took a beating afterwards. Verizon CEO says he would like to buy Vodafone out of Verizon Wireless. HTC Touch for Sprint gets Windows Mobile 6.1 update.
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Following the Palm Treo 800w launch date rumor this week, wmexperts has got another set of leaked photos, although there isn’t any new info together with it.

See below for another two photo shots, you can access to all 800w news here

http://www.slashphone.com/tags/800w

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Palm unveils an unlocked GSM Centro for $299. Virgin Mobile adds an unlimited voice plan for $79.99 that requires no contract of any sort. AOL has made a new beta of AIM for Windows Mobile available.
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Palm Centro smartphone is now available unlocked for U.S. customers. Palm also announced that Google Maps for mobile with My Location on Centro is available for Centro starting tomorrow, giving customers faster access to local maps and driving directions.

The unlocked Palm Centro retains the smartphone’s compact, modern design and is dressed in a new white color with grey accents. Centro offers customers more choices to stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers by using voice, text messaging, email or the web.

Google Maps for mobile with My Location makes it easier and faster for Centro customers to get mapping and direction information by approximating the user’s current location on the map. This saves time and keystrokes for people trying to find where they are, what’s around them, and how to get there.

In addition to My Location, Google Maps offers:

• Comprehensive information on traffic conditions in more than 30 U.S. major metropolitan areas, and partial information in many others;
• Detailed driving directions with traffic estimates to avoid congestions;
• One-touch recall of favorite locations and routes;
• Integrated search results for business locations, including directions and contact information;
• Ability to scan and drag maps using Centro’s ...
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Palm Centro, unlocked

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Heretofore only available via carrier (namely Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon), Palm has just made its consumer-level Palm Centro completely carrier-independent by offering an unlocked version. It'll have quad-band GSM support (850/900/1800/900 Mhz) but no 3G (up to EDGE only). It ...

Today Palm announced that it will begin making an unlocked version of the Centro available for $299. The unlocked version will be similar to the quad-band GSM/EDGE version that is available through AT&T. It will be white and can ...
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Palm announced it will start producing the unlocked version of its Centro smartphone. The device will cost $299 and will sport the same characteristics as the quad-band GSM/EDGE version from AT&T. It can ...

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The first Palm smartphone that comes with built in WiFi and GPS is finally available soon, although it will be available for Sprint network in US first. The CDMA Treo 800w has a launch date of July 13th, according to a leaked table in howard forums and this is same as the mid-July date appear in previous rumor.

Check out this post for the detail specification of Treo 800w.

http://www.slashphone.com/rumor-full-palm-treo-800w-specification-list-12663

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Thanks to an inventory sheet posted on HowardForums we now know the exact launch date of the anticipated Palm Treo 800w on Sprint. The device will be available to busine...

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We're not sure about this, but it looks like Treo 700wx is getting an official Windows Mobile 6 upgrade courtesy of Verizon. There was no mention of WM 6.1 update and whether Spri...

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Palm and Rogers Wireless have recently announced the Canadian launch of the popular Palm Centro smartphone.The handset will be available for $199 CAD for existing customers and $299 CAD for new subscribe...

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The Rogers Palm Centro is now available. The Rogers Palm Centro is the exact same model selling south of the border, in the USA. It’s had tremendous success with Sprint & AT&T, so no wonder the Canadian carrier decided to pick this one up. The Rogers Palm Centro is actually quite a gem of a phone - it’s small, has decent features & won’t break the bank.

The Rogers Palm Centro will feature: Push-to-talk support, Palm’s OS and will have touch-display. Its QWERTY is reported to be as good as those of Treos. The handset will also feature a 1.3-megapixel camera. You can get the Rogers Palm Centro for $199.99 on a 3 year contract.

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The Palm Treo 700wx is getting a Windows Mobile 6 update in the near future, it appears. An update for the Palm Treo 700wx would be a little strange, since it’s an older device. But, if this rumor turns out to be true, all you old-school Treo owners have something to cheer about.

The Palm Treo 700wx Windows Mobile 6 Professional update would include: improved calendar, enhanced email, Office 2007 support, Windows Vista compatibility, better security, email hot keys & email search, voice command via Bluetooth & even an audio patch. No word on when this nice Palm Treo 700wx Windows Mobile 6 update would be available, but hopefully soon.

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Cnet reviews the Verizon Palm Centro: “The Verizon Palm Centro offers the same easy-to-use experience and solid set of productivity and communication features as the Sprint and AT&T models. Plus, the Verizon Palm Centro has EV-DO support and good call quality, making it an exceptional value at $99.99

The good: The Verizon Palm Centro offers ease of use, a compact design, and a solid feature set at an affordable price. The smartphone is also EV-DO capable and offers good call quality.

The bad: The handset’s keyboard is small and cramped. There’s no support for stereo Bluetooth headsets.

The bottom line: Despite some minor shortcomings, the Verizon Palm Centro offers customers an easy-to-use, affordable, and solid performing smartphone that’s perfect for the first-time buyer or anyone on a budget.”

Read more from the Verizon Palm Centro review.

With all the talk of the Apple iPhone 3G coming out, it’s easy to miss any other cell phone news. But word on the street is that Rogers is about to announce the availability of the Palm Centro 685. The popular Centro, available for a bit now on AT&T in the US, is said to be hitting Rogers in cobalt blue.

Measuring 10.7cm x 5.4 x 1.7 and weighing 124g, the Centro boasts a fairly impressive spec sheet for the price. A 320 x 320 pixel screen, full QWERTY keyboard, quadband GSM with high-speed EDGE (but no HSDPA), Bluetooth and 64MB of RAM on board expandable to 4GB.

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Palm and Rogers Wireless today announced the Canadian launch of the Palm Centro smartphone available at Rogers Wireless. The Centro is Palm’s smallest and lightest smartphone and has sold more than one million units worldwide.

“Traditional cell phone users are stepping up the Palm Centro in droves because of its cool design, full keyboard and ease of use,” said Brodie Keast, senior vice president of marketing for Palm, Inc. “More and more people need voice, text, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities all wrapped in one compact device so they can stay connected with everyone who is important to them. Centro delivers all that and more.”

Centro has a modern, stylish look that feels comfortable in the hand, and discreetly fits in a pocket or clutch. Centro helps users manage email and text messaging, keep track of their schedules, stay up-to-date on the latest news, capture and share pictures, and get maps and directions with Google Maps. Its full keyboard also makes it easy to quickly type text messages and emails with complete thoughts and ideas.

Palm Centro Smartphone Offers Touch Screen and Keyboard to Traditional Mobile Phone Users
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Palm Treo 755p is reviewed by jeffedwards at Amazon on Mon, June 16, 2008

Average rating: 8/10.

I've owned a rather extensive collection of Palm OS-based products, and while I believe that the 755p really IS a great smartphone, it COULD be better. Let me explain: This is my 3rd Treo (previously I've owned ...

The Sprint Palm Centro in Pink is the smallest and lightest Palm phone to date, offering a modern, stylish look. The Palm Centro allows users to connect with friends, family and co-workers by voice, email or text...

The Verizon Palm Centro is now for sale. The Verizon Palm Centro is a brand new smartphone available to customers, and is already a mega-seller at AT&T and Sprint. The new phone will only set you back $99 with a 2 year contract, which is part of the reason it’s such a success.

The Verizon Palm Centro is available in a blue color and features: Push-to-talk support, Palm’s OS and will have touch-display. Its QWERTY is reported to be as good as those of Treos. The handset will also feature a 1.3-megapixel camera and support EV-DO. Also, it will ship with a brand new Facebook app. Overall, the Verizon Palm Centro is a super phone for the money.

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With all the talk of the Apple iPhone 3G coming out, it’s easy to miss any other cell phone news. But word on the street is that Rogers is about to announce the availability of the Palm Centro 685. The popular Centro, available for a bit now on AT&T in the US, is said to be hitting Rogers in cobalt blue.

Measuring 10.7cm x 5.4 x 1.7 and weighing 124g, the Centro boasts a fairly impressive spec sheet for the price. A 320 x 320 pixel screen, full QWERTY keyboard, quadband GSM with high-speed EDGE (but no HSDPA), Bluetooth and 64MB of RAM on board expandable to 4GB.

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