Soon to be offered by Sprint and Verizon Wireless, the Treo 700p combines the award-winning hardware design of the Treo 700w smartphone with Palm OS software to stream mobile content such as live TV, movie clips, and audio from radio stations, as well as training videos or company communications.
Treo 700p smartphone users can take advantage of EV-DO broadband download speeds on their laptops by using it as a wireless modem via USB or Bluetooth wireless technology, eliminating the need to purchase Wi-Fi or other connectivity services at coffee shops, airports and hotels.
In addition, the Treo 700p smartphone also includes a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, offering four times the resolution of a VGA camera. To help users organize and share their photos, the new product makes it significantly easier to create and manage photo and video albums. Once albums are created, customers can use the slideshow application to add music, audio captions and transitions.
The Treo 700p includes Pocket Tunes for playing music files. The new application, with an easy-to-use Palm-customized user interface, offers customers more options for sorting music and making play lists. With an upgrade to Pocket Tunes Deluxe, Treo 700p customers can play content from all music stores that use Microsoft's PlaysForSure/Janus technology.
Based on the Palm OS, the Treo 700p includes 128 MB of memory (60 MB user available). By using SD memory cards, currently available with 2 GB of storage (sold separately), users have plenty of room to download and carry important documents and multimedia content.
Other Treo 700p features and benefits include:
- Personalized ringtones for various categories of callers and the ability to ignore a call with text messaging
- New voice-memo application, which can be used to create custom ringtones, add voice annotations to photos or simply record a memo
- Enhanced email and messaging, including better Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 ActiveSync support, which now includes contact sync in addition to email and calendar, as well as threaded SMS/MMS messages in a single chat view and out-of-the-box support for Yahoo!, AOL, and Gmail
- Smarter, faster web browsing using a new and improved version of the award-winning Blazer browser
- Full PDF support using DataViz Documents To Go Version 8.0, which also offers native support for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- The fast, friendly and familiar Palm OS platform, Version 5.4.9.
A CD in the Treo 700p smartphone box includes extra applications - some free, others for a fee - such as VoiceSignal, for users who want voice dialing, and Avvenu, for those who want access to their home- or work-computer files while on the go. A secure VPN software client is provided by anthaVPN. Anyone with downtime could appreciate games from Handmark (Solitaire) and Astraware (Bejeweled), while those with a commute may find Palm Traffic to be a useful application. For book-lovers, the CD also includes Palm eReader as well as software from Audible Inc. for listening to audio books.
Looks like it'll cost upwards of $400 with a plan. Ouch.
Looks like I'll be waiting for a few months until the price drops to a more reasonable level...
2. Posted by Pogo
Mon May 22, 2006 2:54 am
geez this phone is a beast. any idea when its planning to come out on verizon?
3. Posted by SlimJim
Mon May 22, 2006 4:06 am
Verizon's pricing is now out at the same $400 tag as Sprint. A bit steep in IMHO. And it doesn't even have Wi-Fi. I'll go with the Sammy I830 thank you very much.
4. Posted by GSMDude
Mon May 22, 2006 4:26 am
Verizon's calling plans with unlimited data start at $80 a month, and if you want to use your Treo as an EV-DO modem with your laptop, you'll have to add another $15 a month on top! Outrageous!
5. Posted by Allen
Mon May 22, 2006 6:48 am
Verizon just released the Treo 700p today at a whopping $500.
6. Posted by krypton
Mon May 22, 2006 6:55 am
Verizon just released the Treo 700p today at a whopping $500.
... $500? i just dropped a deuce.
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... $500? i just dropped a deuce. 
