Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Sep 2005 16:29 UTC
As expected, Palm has announced the Treo 700w, a Windows Mobile powered smartphone with a square 240x240 resolution. Top brass from Palm, Microsoft (including Bill Gates) and Verizon Wireless gathered in San Fransisco this morning to launch the device. Palm noted that this project has been in the works for, "a couple of years" and that it was one of the worst kept secrets in the industry. In addition, here (.pdf) are some Windows Mobile UI design tips and tricks. Update: Here is the official press release.
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Anonymous, please don't talk without knowing the facts. Windows Mobile 5 in particular does not live in RAM anymore (it turns it off on standby), and usually WM5 PDAs and phones now have about 20% better battery life than PPC2003 even when compared on the SAME hardware/batteries. So while the square resolution IS a problem, I don't expect the battery life to be one. As for the keyboard being too small, well, you can't make it infinitely big when you have a size restrain, now can you?
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240x240 is a bit low of a resolution to do anything useful and the "keyboard" is very tiny but the real concern that immediately becomes apparent is that Windows Mobile is a power hog in comparison to Symbian, Linux, Palm OS, etc. which explains why Palm doesn't want to comment on the battery life of this phone.