Palm’s line of Treo Smartphones has been widely praised since the first model was introduced, and while the Treo’s popularity has only grown with the passage of time, the same cannot be said for the Treo’s operating system, the Palm OS. During the Treo’s rise to popularity, Microsoft’s competing handheld OS, Windows Mobile, has become more favored and more widely used than ever before, a development that has pushed many away from Palm brand products and toward manufacturers willing to produce Windows Mobile devices.
Now, for the first time, and in a move that shocked many onlookers, Palm has put Windows Mobile on one of its handhelds. That handheld is the Treo 700w, the first Palm device to run any operating system other than Palm OS. It was Palm’s hope that a marriage of their popular and recognizable Treo with the increasingly favored Windows Mobile OS would make for an attractive mixture. They were right.
It’s hard to read a story about the Treo 700w without a few paragraphs concerning its running of Windows Mobile 5, and for good reason. What makes the 700w so desirable to so many consumers is the Windows Mobile platform, offering the first chance for fans of both the Treo and the Windows Mobile platform to find the two in one place. While Mac users will certainly be left out in the cold (as they have often been with other Palm products), the availability of a Windows Mobile Treo is a very welcome sight.
Because of the Treo’s history and its newfangled Windows Mobile workings, it’s difficult to know whether the 700w should be called a Pocket PC Phone or a smartphone. In the continuum between smartphone and PDA phone, the Treo 700w falls somewhere in the middle, and while arguments can be made that the unit is more PDA than smartphone or vice versa, everyone involved with the product considers it a smartphone, so we’ll acquiesce (although it is technically a Pocket PC Phone).
The 700w “smartphone” is powered by a 312MHz Intel XScale processor and contains a 128MB flash memory chip, of which approximately 66MB is free to the end user. Other features include a 240x240 color display, a full QWERTY thumb keyboard, onboard Bluetooth wireless, an SDIO-ready Secure Digital card slot, EV-DO high-speed wireless compatibility, an Infrared data port and a rechargeable, replaceable Lithium-Ion battery
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Now, for the first time, and in a move that shocked many onlookers, Palm has put Windows Mobile on one of its handhelds. That handheld is the Treo 700w, the first Palm device to run any operating system other than Palm OS. It was Palm’s hope that a marriage of their popular and recognizable Treo with the increasingly favored Windows Mobile OS would make for an attractive mixture. They were right.
It’s hard to read a story about the Treo 700w without a few paragraphs concerning its running of Windows Mobile 5, and for good reason. What makes the 700w so desirable to so many consumers is the Windows Mobile platform, offering the first chance for fans of both the Treo and the Windows Mobile platform to find the two in one place. While Mac users will certainly be left out in the cold (as they have often been with other Palm products), the availability of a Windows Mobile Treo is a very welcome sight.Because of the Treo’s history and its newfangled Windows Mobile workings, it’s difficult to know whether the 700w should be called a Pocket PC Phone or a smartphone. In the continuum between smartphone and PDA phone, the Treo 700w falls somewhere in the middle, and while arguments can be made that the unit is more PDA than smartphone or vice versa, everyone involved with the product considers it a smartphone, so we’ll acquiesce (although it is technically a Pocket PC Phone).
The 700w “smartphone” is powered by a 312MHz Intel XScale processor and contains a 128MB flash memory chip, of which approximately 66MB is free to the end user. Other features include a 240x240 color display, a full QWERTY thumb keyboard, onboard Bluetooth wireless, an SDIO-ready Secure Digital card slot, EV-DO high-speed wireless compatibility, an Infrared data port and a rechargeable, replaceable Lithium-Ion battery
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