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Palm’s Treo 700p, the heavily advancing almsman to the accepted Palm Treo 650, launched on Monday. Belief and rumors has amidst the Palm Treo 700p as far as which appearance it would and would not support. For instance, belief was active aggressive as far as whether Sprint or Verizon would be the absolute carrier or if both would abutment it. Let me put one bit of belief to blow - both Sprint and Verizon will backpack the Treo 700p. I batten with Palm on a appointment alarm on May 9th to apprentice about the specs and appearance of the Palm Treo 700p. I plan on accepting a Palm Treo 700p for a full-fledged review, so this is mini-review allegory the appearance Palm told me about, forth with some photos I acquired.

The Treo 700p runs on the Palm operating arrangement clashing its sister the Palm Treo 700w which runs on Windows Mobille 5. This is music to the aerial of Palm-based Treo loyalists that were afraid accepting to about-face to the Treo’s Windows Mobile adaptation (700w). The Windows-based Palm 700w is already out, authoritative the delay for the Palm-based Treo admirers excruciatingly long. While the delay is over, one awful advancing affection was not included, namely GSM support, the accustomed accepted acclimated by best countries except the U.S. Fear not Treo admirers - back asked about GSM abutment in the future, Palm replied “So the acknowledgment to that catechism is we don’t allocution about approaching products. [nervous laughter]” They didn’t absolute abjure they were alive on it, so there is still hope, but GSM users will accept to wait..

What the Treo 700p does abutment is EvDO, a accepted that supports from 400Kbps-700Kbps abstracts alteration speeds and the Treo 700p is backwards accordant with 1xRTT. Of advance Sprint is still mostly on CDMA2000 1xRTT which has a best acceleration of alone 144Kbps. Sprint is brief to EvDO and they accept some coverage, but not about as boundless as Verizon’s advantage at the moment.

Update: A clairvoyant credibility out that Sprint leads Verizon in EvDO advantage 113 Sprint EvDO cities to aloof 63 cities for Verizon. Wow, Verizon was aboriginal out of the aboideau to action EvDO but now trails Sprint by ½ the cardinal of cities? Who knew?

Update 2: Another clairvoyant credibility out that the CNet advice I affiliated to & sourced is out of date and that Sprint now has 220 cities and Verizon has 180 cities. Guess they’re a bit afterpiece to anniversary added now coverage-wise, but I’m still afraid Sprint took the advance because Verizon had the aboriginal alpha on EvDO.

Ironically, the Palm appointment alarm activated the Windows Live online presentation system. There is article sadistically amiss with that. You won’t bolt Apple giving a conference on Windows Live! In any event, the new Treo 700p has a 312MHz processor, Palm OS 5.4.9, EV-DO, 1.3 megapixel agenda camera, a 320 x 320 pixel display, and Bluetooth 1.2. Too acquaint you the truth, I’m a bit aghast they acclimated the aforementioned 312MHz acceleration processor on the 700p as the Treo 650. I’d acquiescently cede a little bit of array activity for a speedier Treo. Speaking of array life, the Treo 700p has 4.5 hour allocution time (30 account beneath than Treo 650) and 12 canicule standby (1/2 day beneath than Treo 650).

One nice advantage of the Treo 700p vs. the Windows-based Treo 700w is that the Treo 700p supports the beyond 320×320 resolution. This is a bigger resolution than Windows Mobile 5.0 phones, which currently alone abutment 240×240. Though I should acknowledgment the Windows Mobile OS will abutment 480×480 back the amount of these screens goes down. The Treo 700w, based on Windows Mobile 5.0 is of advance 240×240.

The anatomy agency is about the aforementioned as the Palm Treo 700w which is based on Windows Mobile. So from a accouterments angle these two articles are about identical. Really the big aberration amid them is that the Palm OS of this artefact supports up to 320×320 high-resolution awning which Palm claims “makes pictures and videos pop out at you”. Also the button blueprint is hardly altered on the Palm OS-based product.

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