Palm OO Garnet isnt dead yet – at least not for GSPDA. Today, they announced the new M70 smartphone on their web site:
Ther machine is advertised to be supporting push email – one of the thingy why the austrian carrier T-Mobile refused to carry the Treo 600(met the product manager in the tram once). Further important stats are:
# Tri band: GSM 900/ 1800/ 1900MHz
# Palm OS® 5.4 Garnet
# Display: 260K Color, 2.2” TFT 176 x 220 pixels, touch screen
# Push Email
# One touch Email function
# Bluetooth communication and synchronization
# SMS Alarm
# Video Caller Display
# Full screen Chinese and English handwriting input
# 1.3 mega pixels CMOS camera, with digital zoom function
# Video recording and playback (support MPEG 4 and 3GPP format)
# MP3 ringtone and playback
# 40 poly ringtone, support MIDI and MP3 format
# Email support (POP3, SMTP) with viewing and editing attachment function (in conjunction with application software)
# Support GPRS Class 10/ xHTML/ WAP 2.0/ MMS/ SMS
# External SD card expansion slot
# Bluetooth, Infrared and USB connectivity
# Exciting Palm games
Looks as if we have a Treo 680 alternative now. The Palm OS blogger Theo Poon guessed that the price of the machine would be below 400$ by far…he goes to say 359$, but this will obviously change should retailers kick in.
The official web site is here:
http://www.xplore.com.hk/m70_en.jsp
A big thank you goes to Theo Poon for the hint and the price guess.
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nice! i wonder if it will be possible to buy it in europe, and how compatible are builtin application compared to ones in treo. and i am sorry that today they put these cameras everywhere, price could be lower without them and they are almost useless anyway…quality of pictures is always bad from them
pity that marketing pushes such useless things…
and i wonder how compatible it will be with palm applications when it has so non-standart resolution
For the issue on compatibility, I suggest the focus will not be the non-standard resolution, but the phone APIs used on GSL smart phones.
Most Treo’s only phone utilities like call filter etc do not work on GSL.
Just my 2 cents.
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