Granted, the
FCC has tugged on our heartstrings
at times in the past, but shaking someone up this severely is edging on criminal. According to a slew of FCC submissions dated this month, there was actually a pair of GSM Reports ran on none other than Palm's
755p. No need to wipe the sleep from your eyes again, it says GSM -- as in, not
CDMA. Of course, upon seeing such a bizarre treasure tucked away in the depths of the FCC, we feverishly clicked away and awaited as the PDF loaded, only to find a plethora of boring paperwork showing how successful this thing was at passing CDMA2000 850 / 1900 tests (presumably for Sprint). Not satisfied with the inconclusive results, we continued on to hit up every last piece of paperwork attached to the filing, only to read those four dreaded letters over and over without seeing a single mention of GSM. So, what's going on here Palm? Is there
really a
GSM-based 755p up your sleeve somewhere, or were there not one, but two cases of blatant mislabeling going on in this filing? After the jump, take a peek at the device associated with the listing.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jesse S @ May 19th 2007 11:43AM
Who cares? CDMA is king in the USA, and Engadget isn't exactly a European site.
But we *do* need dual-mode world phones...
Marshall Roch @ May 19th 2007 11:58AM
Treo's Palm 755p? :)
OK @ May 19th 2007 2:03PM
Umm, the unit in the photo looks like CDMA to me. There is no SIM card slot and last I heard only Sprint units have ESN numbers. In fact, the label looks almost the same as the one in my Sprint Treo 650.
Dmitry Malayev @ May 19th 2007 3:11PM
Well it doesn't matter, like stated earlier, CDMA is better. Anyways it can't really be called 755 if it don't have EVDO.
I can't wait to get my Treo 755P, just ordered it and arriving on Monday, May 21st. I'm going to be like a little kid with his new toy! Finally can upgrade my Treo 650 to an EVDO phone. :)
Eleventeen @ May 21st 2007 10:38AM
Good thing I did't get the 680 then...