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Handspring Treo Now Available

Posted by michael on from the toys-for-grownups dept.

miradu2000 writes: "Handspring's Treo, the revolutionary new communicator is now shipping. This has been anticipated since October. See the scoop here! This could change the world..." My guess is no, it won't change the world. But it could reduce by one the number of gadgets a lot of people carry around.

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  1. I'd love it...if I could afford it... by Amigori · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This looks to be very promising, but I wonder if the current marketplace can afford its price. $400 (or $550 if you already have a GSM provider) isn't too much considering your getting a wireless Palm and a cell phone, but considering I was layed-off last month, this won't be replacing my Palm m105 and Motorola v120c. Oh well...one can still dream...

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  2. Kyocera?? by alta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A friend of mine has a Kyocera that does most of the same things (sans optional keyboard.)

    What does the Treo offer over that?

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  3. Just too big for me by D_Nice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a big fan of combining technologies and making life easier as much as possible, but in this case I don't think this product would work for me. I've always had palms in the past and have always kept them in my briefcase or outside compartment of my laptop case. I've gotten to accustomed to carrying a small phone now (the motorolo v8160) to carry something as large and bulky as the treo. Bottom line, I don't wish to carry something the size of a palm in my pocket.

    Great phone for those that wear cargo pants.

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  4. You must walk before you can fly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This, like many innovations, is just another step. Handsprings are slightly more modular than other forms of PDAs, while still having the minimal power consumption associated with palm pilots.

    Many people, including myself, believe that the next frontier of technology is small, portable devices that communicate with each other wirelessly, though each device has a specialized function.

    In order to make that happen, we need to start with devices such as handhelds - which can be easily specialized through software, and which have readily available wireless capability.

    Its true that its "Just another handheld," similar to all of the other handhelds, but its more functional. Its not like another model car, which is exactly like the previous model, except that its "new and improved" (i.e. new and the current fashion); this is another piece of the puzzle.

    And it does matter that its slightly more functional. The advent of the 386 chipset allowed a whole new class of problems to be solvable that where previously too slow to do research - I know that this is the case for my field, which is computer vision. As time progresses, even more problems are being researched.

    I'm looking forward to using technology such as this -perhaps even this model - in the near future (when it becomes pretty inexpensive - perhaps two or three years from now) as a module for home automation - it would be just about perfect for the purpose.

  5. Re:Too bad... by rbeattie · · Score: 3, Insightful


    It's called a headset. It comes with it for free. ALSO, the Treo seems to have some sort of "personal speaker phone" capabilities which means that as you're using the phone you can hear your caller and continue talking to them.

    How about READING the freakin' article? It's not like I knew this before or had to search for it, it's in the second paragraph down.

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