Palm Treo 850 spy shots leak out
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The Centro is already black.
Moron.
Gen an iPhone and funk Palm!
iPhone Rules, Palm, Rim, Nintendo, MS suck!!!!!!!!
iPhone is better
Looks mighty fine to me.
Get the new Palm OS running on that puppy with WiFi and GPS and I'm sold!
That's actually a pretty sexy Palm phone... too bad Palm phones still run only Windows Mobile or the antiquated Palm OS. Come out with something that trumps the iPhone and maybe the company will rise from the depths... doubtful though.
With the amount of skins and customizing programs available now for WinMo, you can pretty much have any user experience you want.
Not everyone likes the iPhone UI, just like lots of people don't care about Macs and their OS's.
There's plenty of room for all types of devices in the market. Personally, the front facing keyboard (non slide out) works best for my needs so this device looks good to me.
Would be nice if it were PalmOS, or Linux that Palm's been promising for a long time... At least it's kind of sex looking, imo.
Eww. I was hoping that the keyboard would be larger/of different material than the Centro, but the gloss on the buttons makes it seem like they're made of the same squishy plastic that made me throw down the first Centro I touched in disgust. I'm hoping the keys are bigger or else I'll be _really_ sad. The 650 I'm holding right now is just about the perfect size.
Not the worse looking device but I think Palm has become one of those brands that you just don't want to be seen with.
Why do you care what people think?
I use the phone that suits my needs best and I couldn't give a hoot whether some phone-obsessed fashionista thinks it's a hip brand or not.
I guess the IPhone goes really well with your matching purse and pumps.
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@Mal who erroneously stated: "The patent by RIM is on “..a hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs.” That is their claim."
You, clearly do not understand the first thing about patents. Firstly, what you state is the Title of RIM's patent application which carries zero legal weight, and is _not_ part of any of their patent claims. Secondly, all Palm has to do to not infringe on RIM's patented radius (which forms either the "smile" or "inverted smile") is to change the radius by a single degree in order to make it useful and unique.
Get a f'ing clue before you give the internet a bad name.
backbeat...didn't we ban your troll a** at TC? (and your infamous and witty "Backbeat-II" nom de plume?)
Thought so.
lol, what a loser.
That would assume I lowered myself to using a Treo. Wrong on both counts. Getting your insider info from James comes at the steep price of reality, kid. The first thing "losers" do, when they are left with nothing but the emptiness of their bs fabrications, is fling their excrement. You throw like a little girl.
So much for holding out hope that your blind ass could get a f'ing clue.
You all know this thing is going to be three inches thick and weigh half a pound, right?
Sad, really. Palm was once an innovator. Now even their rumored products look dated.
Maybe it will be as thick as your head
Must have touched a nerve, eh Dirk?
Still waiting for the Foleo are you?
Wow, can you read my mind!
America is a CONTINENT, not a country.
United States of America is a country, a republic, etc.
America is a whole continent: North, Central and South America are part of it. Not 3 separated continents.
Keep in mind this is just an update to the 750 and windows mobile ... it's really just to keep people thinking about Palm until we have their new device and o/s in April 09.
Looks like a step forward, but if only they have used a different keyboard and made the screen larger with a better resolution. Oh, and I forgot it would have been better if they didn't use that terrible windows mobile OS and instead used their linux OS.
Been using a Treo 700p for a while now--and can't wait to get ahold of a Samsung SGH-i900. HA!
yay, a new windows mobile device! Im so excited! NOT!!!!!!!
Palm's OS is what every phone needs... but with better multitasking which could possibly be an easy software fix. maybe not for the 650's but definitely for the 700's and up because they have more ram.
Another POS from Palm. Square screen, unusable keyboard.
@Victor
Bad news. Those pills... are Tic-Tacs.
if you look closely the keyboard IS curved... alas it's a sad face instead of a smiley...does not bode well....
treo755p looking to change for anything that works!
Perhaps I will show my ignorance or lack of geekyness here, but I just don't understand why phone manufacturers can't integrate a full touchscreen AND a slide out tactile KB. I like the screen and UI of the iPhone, but hate it's lack of usefulness when conducting business. I want to see a full size touchscreen AND tactile KB NOW!
I'm actually really shocked (and interested) by many of these comments- I am actually really interested in what so many people find appealing about the iPhone.
yes - it has many "wow features" - but I'd love to hear from someone who has had one for a while (like a year, so I may have to wait for this) and see if they would buy another-one, especially if they came previously from a legitimate smartphone
I'm not bagging the iPhone, but I do see it as a play-thing phone - buts thats just me, as someone in this set of comments says, if you don't like it, don't buy it... well said.
the other thing that interests me, is how many people complaining about the screen size and the buttons in the middle of the phone have used a treo (or centro) for an extended period of time? The buttons you use most are those ones in the middle, they do not take up too much room, they are best that way, most people want to be able to answer their PHONE without looking just by feel. Also, what real (not just "wow" factor) benifit would a larger screen actually give, the current one isn't that small?
and again for the people who haven't actually used either device, if you use the keyboard regularly, you KNOW that tactile buttons are crucial especially if this is to be your everyday phone, and on screen keyboards are clever toys, but not useful.
anyway - this is all just my opinion - I really think that Palm (handspring) nailed this whole market years ago when they first landed the treo600 - especially the form (screen size, function button, full "big enough" keybourd in a candy bar from) it's just a real pity that palm hasn't really improved it since then. (I don't consider adding windows to be an improvement!)
Personally, I think the iPhone is not a replacement for the Treo - and neither does Popular Mechanics.....
For further evidence that Jobs and co. haven't changed their stripes, consider which oft-requested and rumor-mongered features didn't actually end up in the new product. If Apple had truly become a listening company that responded to all reasonable requests from users, these features would not be missing. Again, all of these—save shooting video—are issues of software, not hardware. Any of them could have come pre-loaded in the first-gen iPhone, but they won't even make the second one:
1. MMS: It's still impossible to send photos taken on your iPhone to non-iPhone users without attaching them to an e-mail.
2. Cut, copy and paste: You literally cannot move text and pictures freely from one application to another, despite upgrades in iPhone 2.0 to programs like Microsoft Office and PowerPoint.
3. Landscape keyboard support outside of Safari: Don't like typing vertically? Apple doesn't particularly care.
4. iPhone tethering as 3G modem for laptops: You can either surf the Web or use your laptop with the iPhone. No connectivity along the lines of the long-standing Treo feature.
5. No bluetooth keyboard support: It's great that this iPhone has full iWork compatibility. Why not make it possible to use the iPhone as an actual mobile working platform?
6. Videocamera support: iMovie for iPhone could be the best application that Apple ever puts on a mobile platform. Unfortunately, they still haven't turned on video capture for the iPhone's camera.
7. Flash support: A huge swath of the Web remains inaccessible via the world's premiere mobile platform.
8. Bluetooth headphone support: Don't want to listen to music over cables? Tough luck.
All of this functionality comes completely standard on other smartphones—and plain old cellphones—so there's simply no reason that Apple should leave them out. People really do want them, and Apple is the only company that can deliver these features on iPhone, no matter how open third-party development becomes. As always, if Steve Jobs wants a feature, it gets built immediately. If anyone else does? It's not getting in there without a major fight.