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Re: New Treo 650 Is Better Than Ever, But Rivals Offer Alternatives

Owen P. Epstein (owen.epstein@3gsoftphone.com)
30 Nov 2004 07:08:53 -0800

Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote in message
news:<telecom23.520.2@telecom-digest.org>:

> New Treo 650 Is Better Than Ever, But Rivals Offer Some Alternatives

> By WALTER S. MOSSBERG

> PalmOne's Treo smart phone has been the best combination of phone, PDA
> and e-mail device on the market. It had a few key flaws, though, so
> the company has now released a new, improved model, the Treo 650, to
> be sold by Sprint starting next month.

> But the rest of the industry is catching on to the idea of making a
> phone that, like the Treo, actually has a full keyboard for banging
> out e-mails. So the competition will be tougher for the new Treo than
> it was for its predecessor.

> Over the last week, I've been testing the new Treo 650, and comparing
> it with two other PDA phones that have now morphed into models with
> keyboards. One is the Microsoft-based Pocket PC phone. The other is
> the Sony Ericsson P910 smart phone, based on the Symbian operating
> system. I concentrated on the new keyboards in these two competitors
> because that's their main new feature. I have already reviewed another
> major Treo competitor, the new BlackBerry 7100t, sold by T-Mobile.

> My verdict: The Treo is better than ever, but the two newest keyboard
> phones, like the new BlackBerry, will give some new options to mobile
> e-mail users who prefer different designs and different software.

> http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20041028.html

Well you ust may be on to something but the market for Palm Treo is
really hopping. What other PDA gives the same brilliance as the Treo?

Thx,

Owen Epstein

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