Spec Check: Sprint Palm Treo 700wx

Written by Adam Gosling

Wednesday, 06 September 2006

Page 1 of 2 The new Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo 700 series has launched in the U.S. on the Sprint wireless network. The 700 series was previously launched on the Verizon network back in May. Powered by an Intel XScale 312MHz processor, the EvDO capable device will connect to Sprint's Power Vision Network and should be available now. The advertised US$499.99 is a price after available discounts and promotions, says the company statement. The big push with the Treo 700 is push email and Palm/Sprint teams with Good Technologies for the Direct Push Technology. The services available separately from Good also support native S/MIME, certificate-based authentication to all Exchange data, and remote and local device wipe. To make it easy to sign up for the service the Treo 700wx has a ‘Get Good' application icon, allowing easy over-the-air provisioning of real-time email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks. The Treo 700wx smartphone also supports Good Mobile Defense for robust security and fleet management, as well as Good Mobile Intranet, giving users access to web-enabled enterprise systems, including sales force automation (SFA), customer relationship management (CRM) and corporate intranets. The 700wx may be used as an EvDO (1xRTT) modem for your laptop delivering pretty fast wireless "broadbandlike" speeds. Yes they say "broadbandlike" - we didn't even think that was a real word till now. The phone connects to your laptop via USB so should be pretty easy to get set up and using. Sprint says its Power Vision service is the nation's largest mobile broadband network offering "broadbandlike" data downloads averaging somewhere in the region of 400-700 Kbps. The Treo 700wx is Sprints first Windows Mobile Treo which some will be pleased to hear. The built-in viewer/editors for Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as support for PDF files and the access to a large catalogue of Windows Mobile third party applications will certainly please some Sprint customers. With Windows on the device, ActiveSync will connect you to your laptop or PC to synchronise files and folders. The music player is Windows Media Player Mobile which integrates with Media Player 10 on the PC. Media Player 10 is supplied on CD. << Start < Prev 1 2 Next > End >>