Thursday, January 24, 2008
Rumoured Treo 800w Specifications Leaked
Posted by Jason Dunn in "HARDWARE" @ 06:32 PM
"Some interesting additional information about the possible specifications of the forthcoming Treo 800w have come out. Apparently...The Treo 800w (from Sprint) will have a mini-USB plug on the bottom of the device for syncing and charging. It's about as thin as a Centro, and actually feels quite nice in the hand. It will ship with WinMo 6.0 and will be compatible with WinMo 6.1 once an update is released. Not a whole lot of feature upgrades, but does make it compatible with Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008."
The list of rumoured features includes a hardware on/off button for the WiFi (which is now 802.11g), EvDO Rev. A radio, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, a microSD slot, 256 MB of memory (presumably that's Flash storage), and no headphone jack (the miniUSB jack has to be used for headphones). There's no mention of the CPU. The lack of a headphone jack is disappointing for anyone that wants to use their own 3.5mm jack headphones, unless they also want to have to carry around an adaptor to get it to work. No real details on the thickness of the Treo 800w, which is perhaps the biggest flaw with the 750w (in my opinion). I also don't see much in the way of unique or compelling features - who's going to be the first Windows Mobile OEM to offer 2 GB (or more) of Flash storage? Or a camera with a decent sensor to capture good-quality images?
The list of rumoured features includes a hardware on/off button for the WiFi (which is now 802.11g), EvDO Rev. A radio, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, a microSD slot, 256 MB of memory (presumably that's Flash storage), and no headphone jack (the miniUSB jack has to be used for headphones). There's no mention of the CPU. The lack of a headphone jack is disappointing for anyone that wants to use their own 3.5mm jack headphones, unless they also want to have to carry around an adaptor to get it to work. No real details on the thickness of the Treo 800w, which is perhaps the biggest flaw with the 750w (in my opinion). I also don't see much in the way of unique or compelling features - who's going to be the first Windows Mobile OEM to offer 2 GB (or more) of Flash storage? Or a camera with a decent sensor to capture good-quality images?
