Palm briefly confesses to Treo 680, 750 for Cingular
Why is it that you have such a devil of a time keeping a lid on your product pipeline? It seems like in those precious few moments when your carriers aren't leaking documents describing unreleased Treos, you're doing it yourself. No bother; we already knew darned well Cingular would be getting a pair of new handsets from you, freshly freed of their pesky external antennas, in Palm OS and Windows Mobile flavors -- we just wish you'd make it a little more challenging to scoop the deets sometimes. Anyway, you've got a crowd of Palm fanatics anxiously awaiting your 680 and 750 here in the US, so let's get this show on the road, shall we?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jamie @ Sep 22nd 2006 9:07PM
Finally, the treos for Cingular are announced! I can't wait for the release!
Reagan @ Sep 22nd 2006 10:01PM
C'mon low end CDMA Treo... I don't want high speed data services (well, I do, but I sure don't want to pay for ), and I sure don't want to pay $600, I just want a phone that's also a PDA and does a reasonable job of both.
Digital Dude @ Sep 22nd 2006 10:24PM
I would definitely buy the 750, if in fact; they offer it with the Palm OS. It’s a far site better chance to sync with a Mac without using that other bolt-on hack. The build quality is head and shoulders above the competition and the elimination of the external antenna places it over the top!
JeShUa @ Sep 23rd 2006 2:00AM
fishy. They offer their product with their OS at a lower tech than with WM. I personally love wm and hate palm os,, but I do think that the silver is much more sleek ;),, the silver is BASICALLY 650 no antenna plus 100 more mhz and 750 is the 'upgrade'.
Codelicious @ Sep 23rd 2006 10:05AM
Had my hands on 750 since last week, beautiful Treo with WM 5.0... but I'd prefer it come with wi-fi.
Also for 680, it does have bluetooth. I had the 680 for about 3 weeks now, it looks pretty much identical layout/form-factor as to 750, the keyboard feels really nice.
Matt T. @ Sep 23rd 2006 10:19PM
I am happy, I was waiting for a new Cingular Smartphone before Christmas. I am happy with the 750,though I wanted Wi-FI, I guess Cingular wouldn't let people not pay for high speed data. Now to decided between this and the HP phone.
WHYYY??? @ Sep 24th 2006 12:22AM
Does anybody else notice the significant size difference in the expansion slot cover on the 680? Could it be that the "lower-end" model has superior SD technology (full-sized, that is). Also, it looks slightly thinner overall? WTF?!?!, no wifi, miniSD and putting Fullsized SD on a thinner "low-end" palmOS version is insulting. I imagine that the lack of infared port on the 680 allows for this change but who uses the infared port anyways???? give me a full-sized SDIO slot and i will choose the peripherals i want at my own convenience!!!! And for everyones sake, put a freaking 320x320 screen and a 2mp camera on this thing.
WHYYY??? @ Sep 24th 2006 12:24AM
Sorry for the long rant. I've been dreaming about this phone since it was called hollywood. Everytime some news comes out about it, the phone gets worse. I just needed to vent.
Renderbox @ Sep 25th 2006 3:55AM
If I am not mistaken this is the breakdown:
680 = "Lowider"
750 = "Lennon"
XXX = "Hollywood"
Please correct me if I am wrong.
AT&T tech @ Sep 28th 2006 1:58AM
Palm Treo 750....NO WIFI? The Cingular 8125 has it. Why are they punishing us. Question: can't I put in a wifi sd card in it? Palm sells them for $100. Maybe, Palm is keeping holding back the wifi to dig in our pockets NOT cingular....any thoughts?
Sotckoperator @ Oct 19th 2006 4:05PM
MiniSD slots are much more popular in Europe, where the 750v is primarily targetted at.