Palm Treo 800w caught with its keys showing

by Chris Ziegler posted May 15th 2008 at 10:37PM

This little bundle of plain-vanilla familiarity is seemingly the first live picture of Palm's upcoming Treo 800w for CDMA networks, known internally as the Zeppelin -- you know, the obsolete airships that had a tendency to spontaneously combust. Specs on this one are starting to shore up, with Windows Mobile 6.1, EV-DO Rev. A, GPS, a 320 x 320 touchscreen (still novel by classic WinMo standards) and a typical Treo look and feel that doesn't diverge terribly much from Palm's tried, true, and well-worn formula. Sprint's looking solid to pick it up come late July, but with those HTCs around the corner, just how much love at the register is this thing gonna get?

[Via PHONE Magazine]

Update: Looks like this thing might also have WiFi. And some serious girth.

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: 800w, breaking news, BreakingNews, palm, treo, windows mobile, WindowsMobile, winmo, zeppelin

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Birdfeather @ May 16th 2008 8:53AM

Awesome!!!

I bet way more than you'd think.

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cowabungaCarl @ May 15th 2008 11:05PM

I hope its at least alot thinner then current treos. I think just making that change alone, can do a world of good for palm.

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rpa @ May 16th 2008 12:00AM

I was thinking the same thing....thinner is long overdue at Palm.

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mYke @ May 16th 2008 12:31AM

It's not really thinner. A little smaller (a little more narrow and shorter). Think somewhere between a Centro and a 755P.

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Chris Littmann @ May 16th 2008 1:18AM

Thanks for the pictures. I'll probably hold out on the Instinct (unless I'm totally blown away) to at least give this device a chance. If it's thin enough, I might be a fuddy duddy and get the tactile keyboard over haptic feedback. Hopefully the Sprint one isn't that color.

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derF @ May 16th 2008 8:14AM

And this is the result of 2+ years of R&D since the 700wx? Pathetic.

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Tucker @ May 16th 2008 8:18AM

Someone at Palm seriously needs to fire their design team. Other than some movement of keys and the removal of the antennae, the Palm smartphone has pretty much looked the same since it's original release. It's a shame that a company doing as poorly as Palm is a) putting out a snooze inducing device like this and b) starting it out with a company that is losing customers by the boatload. This is a Centro....with a little more under the hood. You don't see Chevy putting the Corvette engine under the hood of a Cobalt so why is Palm doing this? If I was a Palm employee I would dust off my resume because they are heading downwards fast!

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TareX @ May 16th 2008 9:09AM

It's very nice, 3 years ago. The buttons looks beautiful.

Phones like that should be as thin as paper. It's not like it needs a monster battery to power its VGA-less screen. Or a monster processor to make it's formidable UI-not run smoothly.

There are no longer any reasons for Palm phones to be thick.

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OziD @ May 16th 2008 9:22PM

except to feel like your actually carrying something. and there is such a thing as "too thin". my centro could use slimming down, though.

and it does need to be somewhat thick because the battery isn't good enough still.

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Birdiestyle @ May 16th 2008 9:11AM

@derF and Tucker: So to you brilliant phone designers, What do you want this to look like? Keyboard on top? Maybe if the phone was a sphere...

Nobody that actually uses one wants them to change the button configuration or keyboard(its one of the best out there). So making it a little smaller and hopefully thinner and no external antenna and packing the goods inside this one: evdo, gps, wifi,320x320,more memory and processing and probably better battery life with 6.1 and hopefully the chipset and then a good camera and a memory slot and a brighter screen and you finally have the ultimate Treo...This could be converged heaven.

Palm, if you want to jump into the new 'cool phone' game with the xperia and Diamond, go for it.. But not with the Treo line!!! Please!

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derF @ May 16th 2008 10:10AM

How about slimming it down a bit (

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Tucker @ May 16th 2008 12:04PM

Your display must be hazy as no where in my comment did I mention being a phone designer......but I am even more important to Palm than that. I am a CONSUMER. There is a reason that Palm is tanking and most of it is the fact that they have not made significant changes to the design OR the UI. HTC, Samsung, Nokia....all of them have a great design and UI and are crushing the Treo lately so you would think that a company that USED to be as revolutionary and tech savvy as Palm would take notice. Enjoy your Treo now ( I dumped mine because it crashed, was heavy, email stank and the UI was lame) and based on revenue and profit, others are doing the same.

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SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ May 18th 2008 1:00AM

i gotta agree with Tucker to an extent. the Palm UI looks like its straight out of '94. i dont mind the ascetics of the actual phone but the UI needs to be updated. i just bought a Q9 in December and the only reason i bought that was for WinMo 6 and the keyboard. i had decided i wanted a Treo 750wx but Verizon didnt have it yet and i wasnt changing carriers. i love the Treo (one of my friends bought 1 on Sprint after i said i wanted 1, he's a copy cat) and im definitely buying one next time i get a new phone.

this one is certainly on my radar since the only thing i dont like about Treo's are the UI and i would want WinMo anyway so the UI isnt a problem.

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