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iPhone vs. Treo: Bum-fight!

5:55 am PDT • July 5, 2007

Palm’s Multi-touch Interface: Place Hand On Keyboard, Press PalmInfoCenter (new motto: “Hey, Guys, Over Here, Treos. Who Wants a Treo? Guys?”) ran a detailed review comparing the Treo to the…

It may surprise some of you to read this, especially from me, but I must say it: Not everyone is going to need an iPhone. Sure, I’m stoked as anyone…

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Palm Gandolf Specs Revealed

9:34 am PDT • June 18, 2007

The leaked specs on the Palm Gandolf reveal that some rumors are actually true. The Gandolf will be available in two versions; one running WinMo 6, while the other will…

, we receive another tid-bit from the Palm rumor bin. It seems that the company is phasing out touchscreens for all but their highest-end Treos. This means the Gandolf and…

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Details Leaked On Palm Treo 800w

9:29 pm PDT • June 10, 2007

Palm Treo lovers are in for a treat with details emerging about the 800w. Sprint subscribers will be seeing the latest Treo this Q4 and it kicks the 700wx out…

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Helio Ocean Quick Look

12:05 pm PDT • May 10, 2007

I’m not feeling very well today but I wanted to slap together this video of the Ocean as compared to other smartphones I had around the house. Take a gander.

The Palm Treo 755p “drops” this week and CNET already reviewed the damn thing (a nice complement to this video review), giving it the reviewer’s crutch of “very good,” which…

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Treo 755p Officialized

9:02 am PDT • May 9, 2007

http://vid.adbrite.com/video/abplayer.swf It’s official, Palm freaks, the Treo 755p has landed. A quick rundown on the specs are as follows: 320 x 320 display, 321MHz XScale processor, miniSD memory card slot…

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Sprint Launching Treo 755p Next Monday

6:10 pm PDT • May 7, 2007

The boys over at Giz have got a hot tip for Sprint subscribers and Treo fanboys. Launching next Monday, May 14th, is the Treo 755p(finally) as well as the Motorola…

Cell phones — everybody’s got them. Even your 12-year-old nephew whose parents keep tabs on him via the inboard GPS carries a RAZR. So what’s next in this omnipresent device?…

. But today Palm has dropped a bomb many have been hoping for but not many expected to actually fall; that it has abandoned the ACCESS Linux Platform and will…

Mark this down in the “Obvious” bin: more and more cell phones are using real names in recent years. It was only a few years ago that virtually every cell…

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Meet the Treo 755p

9:05 am PDT • April 3, 2007

The 755p is the model number for a forthcoming Treo smartphone, and it’s bound for Sprint. The 755p is styled after the Treos 750w and 680, meaning a smaller form…

, and a couple of private equity firms have entered the fray, and the rumors are that things will finish up this week. Nokia wants the Treo name recognition, and…

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Treo 750 Running WinMo6

11:34 am PDT • March 20, 2007

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7772038415366662699&hl=en I’m really feeling diminishing returns on all the the WinMo6 coverage — I want a smartphone OS that works, damn it, and nothing seems to be on the horizon.…

As Windows Mobile 6 (aka “Crossbow”) makes its way around the mobile marketplace, the question on my Windows-based smartphone owners is “will it work on my phone?” The answer is…

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Sign Up for Sling on PalmOS

8:36 am PST • February 5, 2007

Sling Media now is accepting beta applications for the PalmOS. The requirements are that you have a Treo 700p (or in some cases, a Treo 680, Palm TX, or Treo…

If any of you are business users on the fence about a Palm OS-based smartphone (read: Treo) vs. a Blackberry because of Palm’s lack of push-email support can finally make…

A tipster sent in this video of a Treo 680 attacking an iPod’s volume control. Now it’s going nuts!

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Palm Pulls the Plug on Treo 650

7:06 pm PST • December 7, 2006

The long-in-the-tooth (but still our personal favorite) Treo 650 is now listed as “no longer available” on Palm’s website. If you try to select it, you’re prompted to have a…

With the exception of the Zune, few devices this holiday season have had as many rumors, conjecture, spy shots, leaked stats and hyperbole than the Palm Treo 680. What started…

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Palm Treo 680 Video Unboxing

9:02 am PST • November 22, 2006

A cavalcade of video reviews of the Treo 680, available now on Cingular for $199. If I were blowhard, I’d name this phone the must have smartphone of the year.…

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Treo 680 Video Love

12:14 am PST • November 22, 2006

If Blake’s mega Treo 680 rundown wasn’t enough good times for you, the Mobility Today people popped up a couple hands-on videos overviewing the new every-person’s Treo. Warning though, this…

So earlier we told you how Amazon yanked the Palm Treo 680 off their website. Now we know why thanks to a reliable source – Apparently 144,000 Treo 680s were…

Palm Treo 680 available for pre-order on Amazon for $413, with a shipment time of 1-2 weeks. Before we could finish getting this post up, however, the item switched to…

, we don’t really need one, do we? No. Leaked rebate forms and FCC filings are all we need. Look for this high-end Treo, running Windows Mobile 5: Phone Edition,…

Cash back bonanza holy moly! We’ve got two scoops in one, all based on a flickr screen grab. Sometimes Cingular auto-tragically publishes stuff it don’t mean to. Oops, Cingular! We…

, we notice that Cingular’s website (at least the business end) keeps going down. Then up. Is this a ripple-effect of the imminent Treo Launch? Or something else altogether? We…

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Smartphones Now: Palm OS

8:45 am PST • November 3, 2006

Though it sits behind RIM and its BlackBerries in market share in the US, the Palm OS is still a powerful operating system that is favored by many users who…