Comments Palm Treo 500

  Palm just recently launched its latest Windows Mobile Professional smartphone, the Palm Treo Pro and thanks to Palm Germany and Vodafone Germany, I got my hands on Palm's Treo 750 follower, which went available across Europe exclusively from Vodafone. Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and powered by a Qualcomm MSM7201 CPU at 400 MHz, the Treo Pro features quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and triband UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and GPS capabilities. The inbuilt 256 MB ROM and 128 MB RAM can be expanded with microSDHC memory cards up to 32 GB and while the device lacks a front facing camera for video telephony, it features a 2.0 megapixel main camera on the back. Quite nice is the flush transflective color touchscreen which features Palm's typical 320 x 320 pixel screen resolutions and which allows Palm to leave the two hardware soft-keys in favor of using the touchscreen instead. The overall design looks pretty elegant since the housing features a kind of glossy piano-black design:

  On the Internet has just appeared the first "live" photo of the Communicator Palm Treo 800w (Zeppelin), which is now prepared to be presented. Accordingly to the preliminary information on this device, is already known quite a lot about it. The Palm Treo 800w’s release is for long time waited. Of the model’s technical characteristics at the moment is known the following: networks CDMA EV-DO Rev. A support, the operating system Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the touch screen with a resolution of 320x320 pixels, processor’s frequency of 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, 2 - Mp digital camera and support for Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP profile. In addition, the novelty will probably be the first Palm device with GPS-receiver and Wi-Fi module.  

Communicator Palm Pre achieved good indicator of the level of sales, both fell in love as many users of mobile communications. However, since many of the owners of Palm Pre were upset to find the defects of their devices.   According to analyst company Jesup & Lamont Kevin Dede (Kevin Dede) percentage return Communicator Palm Pre reaches 40%, significantly higher than average rates. Almost half of the users complained about the factory defects Communicator Palm Pre, mainly problems with the speakers and on, but the manufacturer has no comment on the situation. Analyst Kevin Dede advised to sell shares of Palm.   Source: GSMPress ®  

  Palm company is getting through hard times. A decline in revenue is expected to last through the Q3 2009. Moreover, the demand for Centro and Treo devices has reduced probably because the new Palm Pre has already been announced and is highly anticipated by consumers. These circumstances only aggravate the situation and Palm cannot start shipping its new smartphone as the company hasn’t got enough cash means for that. Palm CEO says that the company “got a difficult transition period to work through” and the new smartphone is slated to start shipping in the first half of 2009.  

  CrunchGear says that Palm is presenting its new slider smartphone with a large touchscreen display and full QWERTY keyboard, running under Nova operating system. As expected, the new phone functionally resembles iPhone and as for the capabilities of the operating system and supported software, there will be a great speech about them at CES this Thursday.  

  Palm’s upcoming OS, named Nova is right on track to get to completion before the end of 2008. However, the sad news is that Palm might not have a finished device base to run the new OS until several months into 2009. Palm has hinted the release could come as late as June of 2009. What a crime… OS is ready to go, but no devices! This could be it for Palm in my opinion. If they don’t get Nova right, it could spell bad, bad, bad things. Losses have been mounting high on the company. They achieved some success with the Centro, but that has been the only somewhat bright spot for the company for quite some time. Good luck to Palm, I hope they polish up Nova and get that new device lineup ready as soon as they can.