More Palm Treo 800w specs leak out, no change in ugliness

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packetsniffer @ Jan 24th 2008 11:07AM

Yeah, not exactly any "breakthroughs" going on here.

But even still, you have to admit that the specs *are* looking pretty good on this device. A 320x320 screen is certainly impressive, and what other CDMA phone is available in this small of a form factor with Windows Mobile Professional, WiFi, and GPS?

The switch to mini-USB will possibly (and finally) make hacking a CDMA Windows Mobile Treo a reality, allow access to ubiquitous USB chargers and sync cables, and improve transfer speeds that the old Athena connector limited.

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Patrick Horne @ Jan 24th 2008 11:49AM

Palm, if you do it, then I promise to quit. You've tortured the masses with the idiotic 2.5mm headset jack on BT enabled Treos since the dawn of time. If you have enough eeeejots over there to force music / movie audio to go through USB, then I'm done with you.
Every Treo board imaginable has been bashing you forever about not including a standard 3.5mm jack. Many Treo audio jacks are failing, probably due to the rediculous converter that must go on the 2.5mm.
It's one thing to not listen to your customers. It's entirely another matter to actively try and make them angry.

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Ed Hardy @ Jan 24th 2008 8:00PM

Anyone planning to switch from Palm to another Windows Mobile smartphone because of the audio running through a mini-USB port, you might be in for a shock: many other devices have the same set-up. Every model made by HTC does it this way, for example.

The reason is simple. Most people use Bluetooth headsets, not wired ones.

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