One undeniably positive thing that the iPhone has done for the smartphone industry, is to raise the bar in terms of feature integration, ease of use, and now price. As a result, we now have a choice of better, lower cost phones which are frequently compared to the iPhone. Since Apple has not produced a CDMA/EVDO version of the iPhone, many other phone makers are rushing to fill up the void. One of the most talked about “iPhone killer” for EVDO is the Samsung Instinct.
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Just a few days ago we saw photos of the Treo 800, Palm’s upcoming Windows Mobile phone. It turns out that the 800 has a brother, the Treo 850. The Treo 800 runs on EVDO (Sprint and Verizon in the US), while the 850 is for GSM networks (i.e. just about everyone else, the rest of the world). Boy Genius Report has the exclusive first photo of the Treo 850.
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Will we ever see new PDAs from Palm? It seems unlikely now, since they are firmly on the smartphone track. All Palm smartphones are also PDAs, so I guess Palm wants everyone to transition to Centro and Treo devices. Palm’s last PDAs, the Palm TX and E2 are quite good in their own right, albeit two years behind in terms of features now.
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That was interesting. I thought that my Treo 680 had a problem with the battery callibration (since I spent two days at 99% battery capacity). Well, it died again upon a reset today. On a hunch, I put my Treo 650 battery in there. It started up with no problems.
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