14 DAY TRIAL // Palm has finally published the release of the 750v Treo and its specifications on their UK website. The handheld has an innovative design compared to other Palm products, having no exterior antenna and a Blackberry-like rounded shape, which makes it more attractive. It uses GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UTMS 850/1900/2100 frequencies, thus being the first Palm device that uses the UMTS Technology. It will also combine Palm's Treo smartphone technology with Blackberry's push e-mail solution.
The Treo 750v will be manufactured by HTC, even though they produce their own high quality products and are in direct competition with Palm and their products.
It has a Windows Mobile 5.2 operating system, running on a non-conventional Samsung 300 Mhz CPU/UMTS baseband processor, that uses separate memory chips and has a much smaller battery power consumption, not like the Intel Xscale previously used processors by Palm, which consumes more power in stand-by and uses a stacked CPU/baseband memory chip. It also features a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 240x240 pixels resolution touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, 128 MB of flash memory, a miniSD memory card expansion slot and support for Bluetooth stereo headsets, through the Bluetooth 1.2 technology.
The handset will be available in Vodafone's stores across Europe in the list of countries Palm has published on their website: Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom, beginning with the second of October. Even if Vodafone is showing on its site a price ranging from free to 240 $, depending on the service agreement, till now, there is no official word about the pricing of the Treo 750v.