Analyst report details new Treos
You can't always trust everything that comes out of an industry analyst's mouth, but a Caris & Co analyst just published a research report with some juicy details about what the future may hold for the Treo. There are a few things we more or less already knew, like that Verizon Wireless would be getting the new Windows Mobile-powered Treo by the end of February, but the real niblet is that Palm is planning a followup to the Treo 650. (You mean, besides the Treo 700w?! Looks like it!) Not too many specifics, but this new Treo will supposedly have EV-DO and hit Verizon in May. Sprint will probably also be getting the phone around the same time, but Cingular customers won't see a UMTS version of this new Treo sometime around the end of 2006. They don't come right out and say what operating system this new Treo will be sporting, but the report does seem to imply that it will be some version of the Palm OS since they say that the Cingular release will be delayed in order to give Palm more time to focus on the launch of the new Windows Mobile Treo. Either way, the rock doesn't stop there: the report also claims that Palm will launch a new line of mid-range Treos sometime next year that are expected to retail for around two hundred bucks.
[Thanks, Brian]
