Palm announces 800w for Sprint
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Palm, Inc. and Sprint have introduced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 800w, Sprint’s newest smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The phone is designed for business users and operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and comes out of the box with support for EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi for data and GPS capabilities.
Revision A of the EV-DO spec is an improvement to Revision 0 while keeping backwards compatibility. The changes include the several new forward link data rates that increase the maximum burst rate from 2.45 Mbit/s to 3.1 Mbit/s. With EV-DO Rev A, upload data rates increase to 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds improve from 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps and average uplink speeds increase to 350-500 kbps.
The Treo 800w supports direct connection to Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving users up-to-date email, contacts, calendars and access to other productivity applications, has a full QWERTY keyboard, five-way navigation and one-touch buttons to the most-used applications. Other key features include EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi ( 802.11b/g ) for Data and integrated GPS.
With the Sprint network and EV-DO Rev A speeds, Treo 800w customers get additional bonus applications:
- Sprint TV(R) - Users can watch live TV or video-on-demand with full-motion video or catch the latest news, sports, weather, entertainment and movie trailers on the go. Choice of more than 50 live television channels and watch programs such as CNN mobile, FOX sports and E! Entertainment; access NFL Network and special programming via Sprint Exclusive Entertainment.
- Sprint Navigation delivers turn-by-turn voice-guided and on-screen driving directions, 3-D moving maps similar to an in-car navigation system or personal navigation device, as well as local search, intelligent traffic alerts and one-click rerouting.
- Pocket Express to retrieve customized, up-to-date web content such as sports, weather, news, money and movie information.
- Sprint IM for access to Yahoo! Messenger, AOL’s AIM(R) service and MSN Messenger.
