After the dropout of Kyocera and Samsung, Palm’s Treo/Centro lines are the only Palm OS powered smartphones widely available. A small manufacturer called Group Sense(GSPDA for short) has offered Palm OS phones with moderate success(partly due to their extremely poor press support) for quite some time; and their top-of-the-line model M70 has just received a small update called M70s:
Specs
- 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
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When comparing the M70S’s stats to the classic M70, the only difference is the black case(M70′s have a silver case) and the included security software. Indeed, TamsPalm commenter John managed to confirm that the phones are indeed the same(except for added security software that seems to do little according to the user manual):
have you seen the new M70 “S” – I phoned the GSPDA folks in Hong Kong and they insist it is a new phone – although all I can see from the new manual posted on their site is a new chapter on the “Security” system. Looks like the same phone body with additional (and rather cool) security software. The lady I spoke with in HK kept insisting that the “phone” was new – but when I asked if it was the same as the M70, she said yes. But then I asked what the difference was and she couldn’t tell me.
Hmmmmmmm
There is one for sale on Ebay for about USD216
This delay could of course explain the delay experienced in getting a hold of our sample…
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