Sure, it isn’t as exciting as that “other phone” released today, but it’s still a decent release for Sprint. The Treo 800w is a Windows Mobile powered EVDO Rev.A (=fast) device with GPS.

It comes with the usual Sprint applications (TV, music store and navigation) and has a list price of $349; but reports from people who actually purchased one say that Sprint is quite aware of the iPhone and is matching the price.

Oh, and ignore the screen shot if the 800w with PalmOS; the new owner thought it would be funny to use Styletap and see how well it runs Palm applications!

Source: Treocentral.com

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StyleTap have announced that they are working hard on bringing Palm application compatibility to the iPhone.

That means that the entire library of 20,000 crappy Palm applications will be available on your sleek, powerful iPhone.

Benchmarks show that these apps run almost twice as fast as the fastest Palm. Which can only mean one thing; Palm might as well stop developing new devices, and just tell everyone to get an iPhone.

Source: StyleTap

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It was only a matter of time before the Boy Genius Report got their hands on a real photo of the Palm Treo 850. It looks pretty sleek, but still has that 2001 look that made the Treo popular. Sadly, to me it looks more like a Windows Powered Palm Centro than anything else.

The 320×320 screen means some applications will look a little out of place, especially when others (SonyEricsson, HTC, Apple) are all releasing phones with a VGA screen (or higher).

Head on over to BGR for more photos of this new device.

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This picture is supposed to be of the upcoming Palm Treo 800.

According to the source behind the leaked image, it is a Windows Mobile 6.1 powered device. It’ll come with a 320×320 display, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 2 megapixel camera, EVDO Rev.A (=made for Sprint and/or Verizon) and Bluetooth.

In other words, it’s got the same specifications as the year old HTC Titan (Sprint Mogul).

The words "too little too late" come to mind when I read these specifications.

By the time it finally gets released, we’ll have a 3G iPhone and the HTC Diamond.

Source: Palminfocenter (via Gizmodo)

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Quite a "hot deal" today if you ask me… The Palm Treo 750 is on sale at the Dell Small Business site for just $299. That is at least $100 cheaper than any other site. This unlocked 3G Windows Mobile phone is perfect for the global traveler, thanks to its quad-band GSM (and tri-band 3G) cellular radio. Since it has support "WCDMA 2100", you can even use it in Japan and South Korea.

It comes with Bluetooth, voice dialing, a 1.3MP camera and a MiniSD memory expansion slot. Like all other Treo’s, you won’t get WiFi…

Purchase link: Dell Small Business (via Fatwallet)

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I know I’ve been pretty harsh on Palm in the past weeks, it’s hard not to be disappointed by them. But apparently by July all their troubles could be over when they release the Treo 800W.

Last week a Sprint summer lineup roadmap was leaked and subsequently removed because of legal threats, which is usually a sign that it is real.

The Treo 800W is supposedly a Windows Mobile 6.1 device, with a 320×320 screen (a first on a Windows device), real GPS, WiFi (a first on a Palm Treo), options for camera or no camera and Rev.A EVDO (another first on a Treo). As always with a new Treo, Sprint seems to be getting the sole rights on it for a couple of months

All in all it looks only moderately impressive. But when you look what the competition has to offer, then it’s clear that Palm is still a few years behind the rest. I had hoped for something truly revolutionary from Palm, or at least something that would be a departure from the 5 year old Treo form factor.

In a world where the Blackberry still rules the corporate world and newcomers like Apple and HTC are eating away market share from everyone, I had expected more from Palm.

Source: Palminfocenter

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Poor Palm just doesn’t seem able to shake off the bad news. First they reported dismal Q3 2007 numbers, and now their CEO has confirmed that the long awaited "Über Palm" won’t be here till the end of Summer.

The device they are placing all their bets on is supposedly an EVDO Rev.A device with a 2MP camera and MicroSD. Of course, nobody told them that those are the same specifications as the HTC Mogul which has been out on Sprint and Verizon for over a year.

They’ll need to at least add GPS and WiFi if they want to impress anyone. But personally I feel it’s over for them. When I read comments on other blogs I never read anything positive about Palm, they seem to have extremely little support from users and most people are quite aware that innovation has come to a standstill.

When I think back to my very first Palm Pilot, and how awesome it was, I can’t help but feel sad for them. I really want them to succeed, but in a year where we’ll be seeing Google Android phones and possible a 3G iPhone, they are up against some very tough competition.

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Things just can’t get any worse for Palm. The once mighty Palm has been struggling for years to get the attention of smartphone buyers. But people just don’t care anymore. Their products are outdated, lack features and the competition has much cooler products.

Q3 2007 was a disaster; A loss of $31.5 million, lackluster worldwide sales of their Centro (a little under 850 thousand units shipped) and STILL no new killer product on the shelves.

For the past year I’ve been hearing how they’ll "soon have that new phone ready", and what a challenge it will be to sell them, but I’d say they have 6 months at most to show us what they are doing before someone calls shenanigans.

A Palm(pilot) was my second PDA (after the Psion LZ64) so I still have a warm spot in my heart for them. But it hurts to see how they’ve taken a company that used to have so much potential, and driven it into the ground. When you are up against not one, but at least five companies that DO know how to get great products into the market, then you’d better come up with something really, really good.

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