Palm Treo 500 gets dressed for September 12 announcement

Okay, we suppose it might not be as silly looking as we'd originally thought, but let's be honest: would this be your first choice for a Windows Mobile 6 Standard device? Yep, that's right, we said "Standard," meaning there's no touchscreen in the cards for Palm's latest and greatest device, a distinct departure from Treos of yore. So yeah, anyway, if this document turns out to be legit, the long-rumored Gandolf is going to end up christened as the Treo 500 when it's announced for Vodafone on the 12th. 3G data will thankfully be in tow, too, though there's no word on whether it'll be HSDPA or plain ol' UMTS. Not bad, but seriously, there are plenty of solid WM6 Standard handsets in the pipeline from manufacturers big and small. Best of luck, Palm.

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[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 5:55PM]

No touch would be super LAME! that's always been a major selling point for me. Plus why would they go from 750 to 500?

[kookoobirdz Posted Sep 10th 2007 7:37PM]

Boring plain-Jane calculator look. If it's another fattie (can't tell), they lose any credit killing the Fooleo got them.

The one thing I like about the new design is that the directional button ring is slim, and the center button recaptures that extra space. On my 680, trying to hit that small horizontal center button with my big thumbs from the side often gets me an accidental directional button-press instead. So yay for that at least.

Boo WM Standard, but surely a Palm equivalent will follow.

[derX Posted Sep 10th 2007 9:22PM]

Some people are never satisfied. People kept complaining that Palm kept doing the same thing: making basically the same phone with some minor changes. Now, Palm has really decided to listen to our complaints and went in an entirely new direction. Hell, THEY STARTED A NEW LINE. For the first time ever, they made a phone without a touch screen and tried to make the phone relatively thin. They even tried to make the phone aesthetically pleasing. I mean, a smart phone with 3G, QWERTY keyboard, and WM6 sounds like a winner to me. I'd love to have one.

Dude, blast companies when they screw up, Palm is at least trying. Kudos.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 11:48PM]

Why did someone kill all the comments to this story? There were more than a dozen comments less than two hours ago? What happened to the comments? Big brother??

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2007 1:46AM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2007 1:46AM]

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[teradome Posted Sep 16th 2007 11:49PM]

Guess the touchscreen isn't such a "Palm thing" after all....