With Palm’s fortunes having been boosted with their popular Palm Centro handsets aimed at the decidedly dressed-down consumer market, Palm fans have been waiting on the ailing manufacturer to release their next-generation business-oriented smartphone. The Palm Treo 800w has been pictured in the wild, in all its Centro-esque keyboarding glory. Boy Genius managed to score…
Telstra brings Palm Centro to Australia
Telstra is bringing the hugely popular Centro smartphone to Australia. Already sold in one million units, the Centro is bringing all the power of a smartphone in a small, yet somewhat stylish packing — all with the full QWERTY keyboard. It packs a camera, Bluetooth connectivity, memory expansion slot, and users can further expand Centro’s…
Palm Treo 800w caught in wild
Here’s how the upcoming Palm Treo 800w looks like. As you can see from the image above, it combines the Treo’s keyboard with Centro-like main controls. The screen is 320×320 pixels, and there’s also WiFi, EV-DO Rev. A, GPS, Bluetooth, and microUSB plug on board. Windows Mobile 6.1 will apparently be running the show. Now,…
Sprint Palm Treo 800w to sport Internet Explorer 7.11?
Details on unreleased handsets sometimes pop up in some unlikely places. The Sprint Palm Treo 800w is slated to release in a couple months, but that apparently has stopped a user from testing their own Palm Treo 800w on DSL Reports‘ website. The user-agent data shows that the bandwidth tester was using a Palm Treo…
Palm Skywriter/Drucker in the works as another Windows Mobile device from Palm?
With the Palm Treo 800w getting prepped to be released as the latest Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device from flagging handset manufacturer Palm, there’s not much else that Palm Treo fans are looking forward to. But, that might all change with this latest report from TamsPPC that Palm has opened up Windows Mobile development access to…
Sprint Treo 800w launch date and details
So, with the HTC Touch Diamond and Raphael set to complement the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 in the high-end smartphone market (not to mention the 3G iPhone’s impending launch later this year), Palm’s planning to throw their Palm Treo 800w into the mix. Palm’s efforts to revive their tired product lineup started with the popular…
Palm Foleo to resurrect with WiMAX connectivity?
There’s a chance Palm will revive its “mobile companion” Foleo. According to The Register, the Treo maker could release the discontinued device with WiMAX radio to make it work with Sprint’s XOHM network. Apparently, Palm has recently invited beta testers which are at the same time existing smartphone owners to test an “innovative new product.”…
O2 picks up Windows Mobile powered Palm Treo 500
While it might look familiar to fans of the Palm Centro, the newest Palm handset to hit O2’s UK network isn’t your fluffy, consumer-oriented device. The Palm Treo 500 goes back to Palm’s roots in enterprise devices and brings Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard along to hammer home its business prowess. Vodafone previously had an exclusive…
Nokia to pass Motorola as top AAC customer
AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings (not to be confused with the AAC that is Advanced Audio Codec) has announced that it expects Nokia to overtake Motorola as it’s largest customer this year: “Revenue from Nokia would account for more than 25 per cent of AAC’s total sales this year….compared with 10 per cent last year, while…
Palm and Sprint to start beta testing Palm Treo 800w?
According to some emails sent out to some lucky Palm fans, PalmInfoCenter has found that Palm is planning to start beta testing “an innovative new product.” Beta testers are required to be heavy email and data users with access to WiFi and a current Sprint customer. The next Palm Treo slated to go to bat…