Palm Issues the Palm Treo 700wx Smartphone

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Palm makes now the Palm Treo 700wx smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition available. The Palm Treo 700wx combines a mobile phone, comprising functionality and ease of use, with the power and security of Windows Mobile favored by many businesses. The Palm's announcement marks the availability of Sprint's first Windows Mobile Treo smartphone on the Sprint Power Vision Network and gives its customer base more choices and complementing the Palm Treo 700p smartphone running on the Palm OS platform.

The Palm Treo 700wx provides the same great world-class Palm Treo experience and ease of use that customers expect, as well as the following key features:
- Access to Email on the Go: Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP), which includes Direct Push Technology, native S/MIME support, certificate-based authentication to all Exchange data, and remote and local device wipe, is available out-of-the-box giving smartphone users fast, automatic wireless updates of their email, calendar items, contacts and tasks. The Palm Treo 700wx smartphone offers mobile professionals streamlined access to Good Mobile Messaging through an intuitive Get Good application icon, allowing easy over-the-air provisioning. The solution delivers real-time access to push-based email, calendar items, contacts, notes and tasks. The Palm Treo 700wx smartphone also supports Good Mobile Defense for robust security and fleet management, as well as Good Mobile Intranet, giving users access to web-enabled enterprise systems, including sales force automation, customer relationship management and corporate intranets.
- Built-in Dial-up Networking Capabilities: Palm Treo 700wx smartphone users can take advantage of broadbandlike EvDO download speeds on their laptop computers by using the new smartphone as a wireless modem via USB technology. This out-of-the-box functionality offers an alternative to Wi-Fi, enabling users to access a high-speed connection in coffee shops, airports or hotels.
- Sprint Mobile Broadband Support: Sprint customers using the Palm Treo 700wx have the benefit of Sprint Power Vision services on the nation's largest mobile broadband network. The Sprint Power Vision Network offers broadbandlike download data speeds averaging up to 400-700 kbps.

Palm's Windows Mobile based Treo smartphones provide customers with a compelling combination of powerful software, an award-winning form factor, and the ease of use long associated with the Palm experience. Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition provides many user advantages when compared with other smartphones:
- Touch screen: Makes surfing websites, gathering data and navigating forms and applications much easier;
- Copy and paste: Additional functionality provides added productivity;
- Built-in viewers and editors: Ability to view and edit Microsoft Word Mobile and Excel Mobile files, and view PowerPoint Mobile and PDF files;
- Software applications: Large number available for Pocket PC Phone Edition;
- Saving: Ability to save images and sounds from a website.

Some more Palm Treo 700wx Features and Benefits:
- Support for On Demand - users can retrieve personalized information for local news, sports, weather, movies and more;
- Device User's Guide - customers can view the full User's Guide (located in the Quick Tour and My Treo sections) right from their device, providing convenient access to tips, troubleshooting techniques and how-to instructions;
- 1.3-megapixel camera to shoot crisp, clear digital images and videos;
- 64MB RAM for program execution;
- Integrated Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology for communicating with compatible headsets, car kits, computers and printers equipped with Bluetooth technology;
- Removable battery and non-volatile memory;
- Expansion-card slot (SD, SDIO, and MultiMediaCard compatible);
- 240x240 transflective screen.

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