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Treo, Combination Cellphone and PDA

Posted by michael on from the itty-bitty-fingers dept.

-homb- writes: "Finally, Handspring has done it before everyone else: The Treo, a combination cellphone, wireless POP3 email, and PalmOS PDA. Plus, the first version comes with or without a keyboard. I love my Blackberry, and it looks like the keyboard is the way to go for email. And the next version coming later on next year will have color." We mentioned these earlier.

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  1. Mitsubishi by mckinlay · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hasn't the Mitsubishi Trium Mondo (a CE-based PDA/Phone) been available for a while?

    As a side note - I recently picked up a Sony CMD-J5 to find it also does SMTP/POP3 in addition to the normal WAP services - and the WAP browser (Microsoft Mobile Explorer) can cope with 'simple HTML' - it's good enough to browse Slashdot in 'light' mode, at least :)

  2. Handspring first? by kristan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Great product, nice to see more Smartphones, but first? You could have bought (months ago in some cases):

    Ericsson R320 (Symbian)
    Nokia 9210 (Symbian)
    Mitsubishi Trium Mondon (PocketPC)
    Sagem WA 3050 (PocketPC)
    Kyocera QCP 6035 (Palm)
    Qualcomm PDQ phones (Palm)

    I'm probably leaving some out. So, great idea yes, first, no.

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  3. kyocera Beat them to it. by Malcontent · · Score: 5, Informative

    This device has been around for a while. As a bonus it's cellular therefore is available where GSM is not.

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  4. FAQs by brigmar · · Score: 4, Informative

    The FAQs for the Treos are here.

    Quick sum-up:
    Treo 180 = Keyboard, 180g = Graffiti.
    No Springboard functionality.
    Colour due mid 2002 (extra $200!!).
    North America providers = Cingular, VoiceStream, Rogers AT&T, Microcell.
    Trade in available for VisorPhone customers.
    CDMA version in the works.

  5. Re:It's the *keyboard*... by Troed · · Score: 5, Informative
    Nokia 9210, running the Symbian operating system.


    here


    Been out for a while, quite popular. Yes, it will appear in the US too, called Nokia 9290.

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