New Treo 500 pics surface showing off color schemes, back and side views

by Joshua Topolsky posted Sep 11th 2007 at 6:38PM

Sure, we know the actual event is only a few hours away, but can you ever really see too many pre-release photos of a new mobile phone... especially when it's this much of a let-down? That's right folks, feast your sparkling eye-socket-fillers on these new Treo 500 pictures, featuring both variations of the monochromatic, totally mediocre color-schemes that Palm has cooked up. We don't know where our friends in the Netherlands got these pics, or why the white version's keyboard is blurred out like a still from a Paris Hilton "video," but we do know some things, namely: the camera and speaker placement on the backs have changed ever-so-slightly; these phones are thinner, but not that thin; and... these designs look straight out of 1999. Look, we know you're trying guys, but you're going to have to do better than a BlackJack-aping, Windows Mobile almost-ran to win our hardened hearts back.

[Thanks, Lenny]

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Vodafone, Windows Mobile

Tags: 500, palm, treo, treo 500, Treo500, vodafone, windows mobile, windows mobile 6, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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iPhoneResidentObssesive @ Sep 11th 2007 7:06PM

i dunno, the color is like an ipod white.
not gon happen, but i can dream that thats a multitocuch keybord

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Adam Z Lein @ Sep 11th 2007 8:25PM

I kinda like it. I hope Windows Mobile 5 being on the screen is a mistake though.

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matthew @ Sep 11th 2007 9:16PM

Yeah, I was actually thinking it looked pretty good for a Palm device too.

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bearxor @ Sep 11th 2007 9:41PM

Oh god, I hope this isn't it...

If it is... I hope they offer a Windows Mo Professional device as well. Smartphone is bleh.

Screen looks like a 320x240 which is a big depature for Palm.

That blog entry that it wasn't Centro looks partially right. It's not the same screen as the Centro for sure, here's hoping Palm has realized Windows Mobile was made with entirely different screens in mind than PalmOS. If this is the new Treo, I hope its very feature packed - it better have Wifi and 256MB/128MB. And WinMo Professional (did I mention that already?)

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Randy @ Sep 11th 2007 10:40PM

looks pretty clean to me, too. if everyone wasn't so wishful that palm would drop something revolutionary they'd be cool with this device. at least from a cosmetic point of view, since we dont know what the software is rockin'.