Monday, April 10, 2006
Palm's Treo 700w Reviewed: Part 1 (Intro, Background, Hardware)
Posted by Janak Parekh in "HARDWARE" @ 12:30 PM
Treo 700w Size Comparisons
I had two other modern Pocket PC phones on me when working on the 700w shots: the i-mate JasJar/HTC Universal, and my colleague Phil Gross's Verizon XV6700/HTC Apache. That, plus a Nikon D70, means pictures. :) Of course, the other two devices are designed to work both portrait and landscape (the 700w can theoretically do landscape, but why would you?), so we took the pictures in a number of different arrangements.
Figure 4: The 700w side-by-side with the XV6700. They're similarly sized, although the Treo is more curved at the bottom.
Figure 5: The 700w side-by-side with the XV6700. Again, the Treo is more curved at the bottom. In fact, the Treo does feel thinner than the XV6700, although they're both spec'ed at 0.9" thick.
Figure 6: The 700w stacked on top of the XV6700. Did I mention they're close in size? ;)
Figure 7: The 700w side-by-side with the XV6700 in landscape.
Figure 8: The 700w side-by-side with the JasJar. No size comparison this time.
Figure 9: The Treo 700w side-by-side with an open JasJar. Note the slight size difference between their respective thumbboards. ;)
Figure 10: The Treo 700w side-by-side with an open JasJar in portrait mode. Oops, I forgot to turn off the devices for this shot. I guess that means you get to drool over the JasJar's VGA screen, which is truly one of the best out there.
Figure 11: The Treo 700w side-by-side with a JasJar. The JasJar is surprisingly not that thick; it's a bit thicker than the 700w, at .98", but the main size difference is in the other two dimensions.
Figure 12: The Treo 700w stacked on top of a JasJar. Again, no comparison: the JasJar is significantly larger.
I had two other modern Pocket PC phones on me when working on the 700w shots: the i-mate JasJar/HTC Universal, and my colleague Phil Gross's Verizon XV6700/HTC Apache. That, plus a Nikon D70, means pictures. :) Of course, the other two devices are designed to work both portrait and landscape (the 700w can theoretically do landscape, but why would you?), so we took the pictures in a number of different arrangements.
Figure 4: The 700w side-by-side with the XV6700. They're similarly sized, although the Treo is more curved at the bottom.
Figure 5: The 700w side-by-side with the XV6700. Again, the Treo is more curved at the bottom. In fact, the Treo does feel thinner than the XV6700, although they're both spec'ed at 0.9" thick.
Figure 6: The 700w stacked on top of the XV6700. Did I mention they're close in size? ;)
Figure 7: The 700w side-by-side with the XV6700 in landscape.
Figure 8: The 700w side-by-side with the JasJar. No size comparison this time.
Figure 9: The Treo 700w side-by-side with an open JasJar. Note the slight size difference between their respective thumbboards. ;)
Figure 10: The Treo 700w side-by-side with an open JasJar in portrait mode. Oops, I forgot to turn off the devices for this shot. I guess that means you get to drool over the JasJar's VGA screen, which is truly one of the best out there.
Figure 11: The Treo 700w side-by-side with a JasJar. The JasJar is surprisingly not that thick; it's a bit thicker than the 700w, at .98", but the main size difference is in the other two dimensions.
Figure 12: The Treo 700w stacked on top of a JasJar. Again, no comparison: the JasJar is significantly larger.
