Palm's Treo 800w being received, hands-on pics to prove it

by Darren Murph, posted Jul 11th 2008 at 5:46PM

Last we knew, a 436-page Treo 800w manual popped up from deep within the confines of Sprint. Fast forward a few days, and a few diehards are already trumpeting the receipt of their precious new Palm. Yep, that handset you see above is indeed the 800w, and if you care to ask some early adopters how things are going, feel free to hit the read link and surf on over to the forums.

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Sprint, Palm OS, EV-DO, CDMA

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PeterF @ Jul 11th 2008 5:52PM

I dont get it. Why does the screen show Palm OS if there are Windows Mobile buttons?

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Razor1973 @ Jul 11th 2008 6:11PM

I was just about to say the same. PhotoShop?

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Malatesta @ Jul 11th 2008 6:33PM

It is Wm6.1 but that is running "StyleTap", the PalmOS emulator, which is now running at 320x320--works very well and is good for those switching.

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ChadM @ Jul 11th 2008 7:04PM

Got mine this morning - one sales guy a the store said he'd get fired if he sold it to me... the other guy called his manager - a few minutes later I left with my 800w. So far so good. Switching from a Treo 650 (palm OS).

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SneezyPorcupine @ Jul 11th 2008 7:11PM

Yah thats messed up. first thing I thought of when I saw the picture was the same thing.

Besides, I thought that the "w" in 800w stood for Windows. Just as my current 755p has the letter that signifies Palm OS. Also, you see those two smaller buttons on the bottom of the display, those are action buttons that can only be used in Windows Mobile devices as far as I understand... I call BS.

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Malatesta @ Jul 11th 2008 8:40PM

@SneezyPorcupine

Good lord man, just click the link in the article as there are dozens of pictures of this thing.

For the last time...it's a PalmOS emulator running on WM.

So many geniuses in the world.

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Charles Han @ Jul 12th 2008 7:34AM

@sneezyporcupine

u sir are an idiot

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Jerry Marcus @ Jul 12th 2008 3:37PM

Got mine last night and palyed with it until 2 this morning. I love this thing and it works GREAT! All the loud noise for the iphone and here I was just waiting on the 800.I walked into the store and the manager who is a great person guy and family man by the way told me that I could have one. Windows Mobile works great the sms chat style is super. Very powerful little device. I LOVE IT AND LOVE SPRINT! I

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