The Treo 700p Confirmed

Tam Hanna writes "People have been rumoring about the Treo 700p for quite some time, Now, HandMark has "officially" confirmed the Treo 700p's existance on their home page. While developers have had access to the machine for quite some time; this is the first "real" sighting""

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What is this, digg?

[Kortec]

Since when have top line slashdot articles been links to 3 line blog posts? Perhaps in the future, we'd like to see someone who, you know, has something to say about the issue, rather than just announcing the thing.

Re:What is this, digg?

[madstork2000]

I saw this during the "subscriber preview", it looks to be slashdotted now, so I will inform people DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME on this link. It just goes to a blog which basically pointed to a game "War Incorporated". The "confirmation" was a supported devices list on the game page that included the 700p. The blog had a screenshot of the list, not the device, by the time I viewed the actual game page the 700p had been removed from the devices list.

There was no information on the 700p, no photos of the 700p, nothing really at all about the 700p other than a reference to it in a devices list, big whoop. A very misleading slashdot story... Since it really is nothing we have not seen in regards to the 700p many times before...

This was a waste of a slashdot story....

-MS2K

Re:What is this, digg?

[Kortec]

In the words of Questionable Content: Bomb The Blogosphere!

Heh

[shadowknot]

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Go to TreoCentral for Better Information

[WebHostingGuy]

If you want to see screenshots, fuzzy pictures, possible faked and/or original literature and a lot more information go to the discussion boards here: 700p Discussion on TreoCentral.com

According to the information there May 28, 2006 is the release date.

Re:Go to TreoCentral for Better Information

[mctk]

From the forum:

"So, basically you link us to Slashdot, who in turn gives a broken link to some blogger in Germany, who says he saw the 700p listed under compatible devices on a game from Handmark, which has since been removed..."

"This represents a new low in our desperation to hear about the Treo 700(p)."

Still no existence of a spell-checker...

[russsell]

It's existence, not "existance"

Re:Still no existence of a spell-checker...

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"It's existence, not "existance""

Thanks for the spelling tip, Mr. Russsell with three S's.

Re:Still no existence of a spell-checker...

[kondrag]

Definately!

picture

[AnonymousCowheart]

Well, since this has become a thread of rumors, I may as well post the following pics:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8358/rumor-poss ible-images-of-the-treo-700p/
Again, not confirmed.

The link says..

[saboola]

Diese Webseite befindet sich derzeit im Urlaub. Dies kann verschiedene Ursachen haben.
Solltest Du der Inhaber dieser Seite sein, so wende Dich bitte per E-Mail an support@hostloco.com.

This Website is on vacation for now. If you are the owner of this domain please contact support@hostloco.com.

Wish I could go on a vacation...

Re:Go to TreoCentral or Treonauts

[mj01nir]

Or Treonauts 700p page which now has what they claim is a pulled TechWorld article with crunchy info.

Wow, that was worth it.

[Thumper_SVX]

Earlier on it was a link to nothing even resembling confirmation, 10 minutes later it's Slashdotted. Lovely.

Sorry, I'm not terribly excited about this to be honest, the Palm OS has become as bloated and annoying an operating system as earlier versions of Windows CE. I run a SmartPhone device (MPX220) and despite its flaws I find it superior to recent versions of Palm. I'm not a Microsoft apologist... I just have used Palms since my old PalmPilot Pro, but lost interest when they went to color without the proper CPU support to make it usable. Recent versions just seem to have become "feature rich" without really fixing its problems.

Wake me up when there's a GSM version of the 700w, now THAT I'll be interested in to replace my MPx220 and Ipaq.

Re:Yeah but will it run...

[Pulse_Instance]

are you actually serious with that question? Of course it will be Palm OS running on it, the w on 700w is indicative of windows and the p is indicative of 700 palm. The only dissappointment is that it will not be Palm OS 6 which to all rumors will never come out now, as the next OS released for Palm devices is going to be Palm ACCESS Linux.

Windows Based Treo for Cingular

[MikeWin10]

I have the treo 650, third one actually, the last 2 were lemmons. So far this one hasn't let me down too much. But I really want one like the new 700w that Verizon has, but I don't want to switch to Verizon. It would be great if that had a 700c for cingular...

Re:Windows Based Treo for Cingular

[James McP]

It's Cingular, not palm. Each of the carriers rewrites the stock Palm firmware to add/remove features. You'll note that each of the carriers has a different firmware version.

Three executives where I work have Cingular 650s. Two executives, myself, and another IT guy have Sprint 650s. The Cingulars have had to be replaced due to problems with audio vanishing, dropped calls, horrible data transfer rates, and frequent crashes on completely stock devices.

The biggest problem we have with the Sprint Treos is getting the right email username & passwords. I'm probably the harshest abuser of my 650 and it's pretty much rock solid. I've been a palm user for years and some of my favorite apps are abandonware that don't get along well with OS5 which did cause some crashing for the first month or so as I figured out what was 650-friendly and what was a valid replacement.

The last reboot I had occurred when I hit the "web browser" button at the exact same moment someone called me. Other than such freakish incidents, the device is wonderful.

If you want a 650 or even a 700w for Cingular, see if you can find one of the GSM-unlocked Treos on Ebay.

Re:f that noise

[Jeff DeMaagd]

The Palm-based PDAs I have used were pretty good. The only problem I had with my current unit, a Tapwave Zodiac, was a bad sync/charging cable. I think it multitasks, at least it allows playing music while doing other things. I've never had the need to run SSH or web browsing on such a tiny device.

Wake me when

[ScottCooperDotNet]

Wake me when there is a new version of VAX announced. You damn kids, in my day phones were for calls and not television shows. What is this world coming to?

* Walks away in disgust. *

Re:Wake me when

[tomstdenis]

I really question if people are fundamentally more efficient as people with all their extra doo-dahs and thingy-ma-jobs. I may have the worlds coolest phone but I still need to be at [the very least] a terminal to code properly. Nothing says impractical as typing C source code on a 3x4 numpad!

I think most business types just carry that shit around for status. I mean in all my travels I see people having conference calls and shit on them but it's like, if the meeting was that important you wouldn't be sitting in an airport gate waiting to board...

Also hates ringtones. I swear to god if I hear that stupid Razr flipfone default tone one more time I'll start killing people...

Tom

Re:f that noise

[mjh]

I too have had great success with my Palm based units... until I got my 650. I previously had two Palm IIIs and three Palm Vx's. I only replaced them when I dropped one and had the screen crack. I loved my Palm PDAs and loved the idea of marrying my PDA and my phone.

But I've had trouble with my 650. The first one that I had, had some serious hardware problems - it would just randomly reboot during a phone calls I couldn't keep the thing running for more than 20 mins. The second one that I had, the headset got jammed somehow and I could no longer use the phone without the headset plugged in. And almost all of the bluetooth headsets seem to have volume problems except the one that Palm sells!

The third one has been better on the hardware side (but still not perfect), but the sync conduits for Outlook that ship on the CD completely suck! I had appointments that would migrate one hour earlier every time I synced. They also changed the owner of appointments, so that if someone sent me a meeting invite, it would suddenly change to being owned by me. I solved these problems by purchasing third party sync software.

I still wouldn't switch to a windows mobile based phone. The guy in the next cubicle down has one and my problems seem tiny in comparison to his. But the reputation that Palm had built up for their devices is tarnished in my opinion by these problems. I hope that the 700p is better.

Re:f that noise

[puto]

Actually, second time you made this comment in the thread.

As a former escalation manager at Cingular,as of two weeks ago, I transferred over to a parent company.

Palm screwed the pooch on the Cingular Treos. The cellphone companies do not rewrite the firmware. Palm does to the specifications of each carrier.

Palm flubbed the firmware and issued a silent recall. I know I have replaced many and only until recently has Palmone released any decent ones. The only diffrence between unlocked palm ones is branding and a few other bells and whistles you can activate on them.

The only thing the carrier provides to palm is the algos for the unlock codes, and palm supplies each carrier with a keygen.

I can count three horrible batches from Palm of the top of my head.

Cingular support does leave a bit wanting, but call and ask for the PMC data group, front line CSRs do not know to much about the Palm.

Palm does not do GSM well at all. We test bacthed unlocked ones straight from the factory, and same issues.

Currently Sprint does have a better data network. Cingular is somewhat lacking, and hopefully they will get it together. I have seen some pretty neat stuff in a few test markets that was damned impressive. And that is me not showing company loyalty.

And what most people do not realize. Cingulars main tech center is located in Gulfport Missipi, another in Mobile, another in Miami, they got whacked pretty hard by the hurricanes in the middle of the network integration.

I have my own issues with Cingular. But I know a Cingular GSM phone will get your more coverage than a sprint one across the nation, I own a Sprint phone as well. Girlfriend is on sprint.

Curious what areas does Cingular not service?

Puto