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Archive for December, 2006

Happy Holidays from Treo Today

Monday, December 25th, 2006

To quote Neil Gaiman :

“Have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukkah, a Delightful Kwanzaa, a Cool Yule, a Slinky Saturnalia, a Funky Midwinterfeast, a Late Solstice, and any other holiday you fancy.”

Treo 680 smartphone now in Singapore

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Palm is continuing with its aggresive schedule to have the Treo 680 smartphone available with 20 worldwide operators. The next destination on the Treo 680 world tour is Singapore. Treo lovers in Singapore can get the Treo 680 for SGD$788 from Singtel. Singtel customers will also get access to exclusive mobile content on their Treo 680 through SingTel IDEAS Mobile Portal.
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Use 8GB SDHC cards with Treo 680

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Transcend - Flash memory card - 8 GB - Class 6 - SDHC

Here’s another reason to buy the new Palm Treo 680 smartphone : it supports the new SDHC format. SDHC (SD High Capacity) cards are the next evolution of the popular SD (Secure Digital) format expansion cards that we have seen being used in Palm handhelds and smartphones since the Palm m505 days. Some folks at the Treocentral discussion forums have reported success using the higher capacity, 4GB and 8GB SDHC cards on their Treo 680 smartphones.
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Palm ship 617,000 Treo smartphones last quarter

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Palm Inc has released their latest quarterly financial results. As mentioned before, Palm’s financial year is very different from the actual calendar year, so don’t worry if the dates don’t seem to make sense. Skipping over the finance parts, here are some interesting highlights :
- Palm sold 617,000 Treo smartphones in the past 3 months, a company record high
- the 3G Windows Mobile Treo 750v smartphone is now available in 14 European and Asian countries (but not in the US … yet)
- the Treo 680 smartphone is manufactured through a China-based partner, enabling Palm to deliver that product to more regions faster.
- Palm plans to offer the Treo 680 on 20 carrier networks around the globe by the company’s fiscal year 2007 end (that’s around June 2007 in real time).
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