Palm Treo 680 Simplifies Treo Innovations Smart Phone

Palm aims warned prices who want a more competitive mobile computing device at a more competitive prices. With the introduction of this new device Palm plans to reach new users in the growing smart phone and feature phone markets with the Treo 680.

Palm’s US stores will be offering a new GSM version 4 colors – scarlet, copper, the Arctic and graphite. For a limited time, they are accompanied by music from Yahoo bundle with a 30-day free trial to its music service. The new 680 has 64 MB of available memory, which is nearly three times the memory of the Treo 650. Customers can add up to 2 gigabytes of storage with expansion cards.

The Treo 680 comes with a new design, including an internal antenna and thin frame, which makes the device smaller than its predecessors Treo in the United States. It has a full qwerty keyboard for writing messages and e-mails, and a 320 × 320 color screen for viewing Web pages, photos, applications and other media.

The Treo 680 has a unique user interface that further simplifies Treo innovations, such as the ability to answer calls with a preset text message and three avenues of appeal. The email application on the Treo 680 displays text messages conversations as “threaded cats,” which is pretty cool in itself, similar to instant messaging, so that users can see their entire flow of conversation with a individual. The Treo 680 also plays MP3 and has a built in digital camera, camcorder and video player.

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