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Today Palm introduced its Treo 680 smartphone with the intention of expanding the market for smartphones out of vertical markets like enterprise, business, and government and out into the mainstream mobile phone-using population. And to back it up, the Treo 680 comes in hip colors, is slimmer than its older Treo brethren, and will be backed by a $25 million marketing campaign from Palm.

Palm today introduced its first Palm OS CDMA-based Treo smartphone which can make use of wireless EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) broadband networks. The new Palm Treo 700p will be available later this year from Sprint and Verizon Wireless for yet as unspecified prices.

Besides being able to near broadbandlike speeds over various wireless carriers’ EvDO networks, said Palm, the Treo 700p also ships with Palm’s first built-in streaming media application. Other features of the Treo 700p include wireless modem connectivity for laptops via USB or integrated Bluetooth, 128MB of memory, support for SD memory cards, a 1.3-megapixel digital camera and camcorder, personalized ringtones, a voice memo application and a wide variety of other applications pre-installed which include a music player and PDF reader.  Read more...

From palmOne’s press release:

The Treo 600 — which combines a world-class phone, a Palm OS 5-based handheld computer, messaging, email, and web-browsing capabilities in a compact device with a phone-like look and feel – may be ordered immediately online from www.palmOne.com, and through direct T-Mobile business sales channels and select value-added resellers. The Treo 600 smartphone will be available to new T-Mobile customers at an estimated U.S. street price of $499 when purchased with a service contract.

Through March 2, 2004, palmOne is offering all Treo 180, 270 and 300 owners the ability to upgrade to a Treo 600 smartphone for only $399, exclusively at www.palmOne.com.  Read more...