Treo 700w turns up on Verizon's website

Look, we all knew that the first Windows Mobile-powered Treo was going to be called the Treo 700w, but for some reason no one at Palm, Microsoft, or Verizon would actually go on record and admit that that was the name. Why? We're not really sure, maybe they wanted to have some flexibility to change the name at the last second or something, but either way, the new smartphone has just made a cameo appearance on Verizon's website and it's officially listed as the "Treo 700w". No other details available, other than that it's "Coming Soon!" (there's also a link to a teaser page that doesn't work yet), but as a far as we know this one's still set to drop early next year.

[Thanks, Sammy at Palm Addict]

[ET @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Meh. I shall wait on the 700p to hit Sprint in early 2006!

[Jim L. @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Doesn't appear to be the same page anymore - just the standard VZW page that you get when you type in any misc. characters in the URL.

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

ugh, too bad Verizon has Palm by the balls with this one and last I heard no other carrier will have the Treo 700 for six months after Verizon gets it. I'd go with Verizon if they hadn't forgotten about 1/8th of Connecticut.. so I wouldn't be able to use my phone when home on break. I'd love to wait for Sprint or Cingular (I'm still a big fan of SIM cards) to get this phone, but I don't know if I can tolerate my Nokia 7610 any longer.

[supersocialist @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Hang on, Chris... or just go with the 650 if you prefer Palm anyway. My 600 (I'm waiting on the new models to upgrade, personally) gets great reception everywhere I've gone in Connecticut ... except for, you know, my house.

[TrikinCurt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

What?? So Verizon gets the Motorola Q and the Treo 700w? Nothing for us Cingular folks? And the beast of a phone from HTC doesn't count.

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

#4. I like the Palm OS, I still use my Handspring Visor Edge all the time. I just wish the Palm OS did multitasking.

I guess you don't venture off of the highway in Litchfield county then, outside of Route 8 between Thomaston and Torrington there is no Verizon coverage in the county.

[krudl3r @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Sprint should get the 700p (Palm OS) soon.

[Chris McDowell @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

my 7610 is working great.

[TxdoHawk @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Cingular customers complaining about phones Verizon gets first...has the world gone mad? Or is Verizon finally getting a clue? (Eagerly waiting to pick up a Razr v3c here, myself.)

[Paul J. @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Yeah really, this is payback to all those Cingular customers who laughed at our blocky plastic phones with your Razr's last year :p

[Orneta @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

It would realy be nice to see a Treo 700w on Cingular though.

[ckeegan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Since it's clear I'm not the only who doesn't care about the 700w, I wish Verizon would just get their act together and release the XV6700 already.

[Odin @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

A friend of a friend works for a company called Convergys (oursourced customer service for places like Dell, Palm, Sumbeam, etc..) over in Lake Mary, FL and showed me the other night the new Palm Treo 700w (The one running MS PocketPC). I think it was a Verison phone, it was pretty neat. Using an SDIO WiFi card I was able to use terminal services to my PC. He said they get to keep them for a little while for training purposes. I like the screen on the 650 better though, higher resolution it seemed. It was like the Treo 700 uses about the same screen as the Treo 600.

[Joe @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

The Treo 700's screen is between the Treo 600 and the Treo 650's resolutions. (240x240 for the 700, as opposed to 160x160 for the 600 and 320x320 for the 650).

Its a nonstandard resolution for the Windows Mobile OS I believe.

Anyway, I still see no major reason to upgrade from my Treo 600.

[blackjake @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Palm has been forced to cripple BT on this 700w. VZW won't allow DUN which sucks a$$

[Eject @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Right now I have Treo 600 Not bad at all just the resolution suck, 650 is much better and it have good display - but no way in hell I will buy phone with windows OS

[L'Emmerdeur @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

700w = teh suxxorz.

Crappy rez, small screen - what's the point of broadband with these specs? And if i wanted to use the phone as a modem for a PDA, I wouldn't buy a PDA phone (and I wouldn't buy a phone with crippled BT, as well).

If VZW wants my $50 a month for broadband, they will sell me a V3C with BT DUN so I can use an iPaq HX4700 to browse the internets. Until then, they get nothing and like it.

[Mark @ Dec 21st 2005 8:44PM]

You guys may be able to help me--I have a Treo 600 and am trying to use MSN's new "Outlook Connector" so that my assistant's Hotmail Calendar (I'm a doc) synchs (via her email address) with my Outlook on both my office Outlook and my home Outlook (and so I can synch it with my Treo 600. I can synch my Treo with my computers to her email but not simultaneously to my hotmail account (at least it doesn't consistantly work. So, long story short, my fantasy is that the Treo 700w will allow the MSN Hotmail connection I need to access my hotmail account while the Outlook Connector thing continues to synch my software to her email. Does this make any sense. And what's BT DUN? I may be a doc and I'm actually pretty good with technology but not good enough to follow everyone's thoughts above. Is the HP iPaq PDA better?

[Manuel @ Dec 29th 2005 7:11PM]

Palm Treo on windows!!?? Why?? Palm OS much nicer than anything Windows has to offer. Nobady buy this thing or you will soon wish you had just gotten the Treo 650.