New Palm Smartphone Embraces Windows

Palm has unveiled the Treo 500 – a 3G smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6, features a full QWERTY keyboard, large screen, and offers a ‘comprehensive multimessaging’ functionality.

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Palm’s Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand, Olivier Rozay said, “Today, people are looking not only for devices that give them access to their email and business documents on the go but also for compact devices that offer high-speed access to the Internet and multimessaging capabilities. Palm is confident the Treo 500 smartphone will appeal to business customers as well as the growing group of consumers looking for the functionality and ease of use that the Treo 500 smartphone offers.”

According to Palm, customers can manage documents using mobile versions of familiar Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Office, and Windows Live for Windows Mobile. Users can also share the Treo 500 smartphone’s data access with a laptop, so they can stay connected anywhere within the wireless coverage.

Treo 500 Features:

• Access to Gmail, Hotmail/MSN and Yahoo! email
• Full keyboard for fast and easy typing
• Large, high-resolution screen
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Mobile web browser
• Windows Live online services, including MSN Messenger
• Up to 3G speeds
• Organiser with address book, calendar, to-do lists, and notes
• 2.0-megapixel camera
• Windows Media Player Mobile
• Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system
• Microsoft Office Mobile for viewing and editing Microsoft Word and Excel compatible documents and viewing PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files
• 150MB of user-available memory, expandable with microSD expansion card
• Microsoft Direct Push technology for delivery of Outlook email
• Bluetooth wireless technology

Pricing and Availability

The Treo 500 smartphone is available for $649 from select retail stores, including Harris Technology and is approved on the Optus network.

See: http://www.palm.com/au/treo500