Palm Treo 700p smartphone now in Canada

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Palm Canada announced the availability of the Palm Treo 700p smartphone, which includes hardware and software innovations centered around usability, connectivity, multimedia and compatibility. The Treo 700p, which runs on the Palm OS platform, is the latest addition to the Canadian Treo family, offering the broadbandlike speed(1)of the EvDO network.

The Treo 700p smartphone helps customers better balance their personal and professional lives by combining an easy-to-use mobile phone with high-speed wireless data access to web, email, and business and multimedia applications. The Palm OS platform offers email, messaging and large attachment downloads, and dramatically enhances the web browsing experience. The speed of EvDO also allows for an enjoyable experience when streaming multimedia content, and the Treo 700p smartphone ships with Palm Canada's first built-in streaming application to showcase mobile content such as movie clips and audio from radio stations, as well as training videos or company communications.

Treo 700p smartphone users can take advantage of EvDO download speeds on their laptop computers by using the new smartphone as a wireless modem via USB or Bluetooth(R) wireless technology. This functionality may eliminate the need to purchase Wi-Fi or other connectivity services at coffee shops, airports and hotels. For the first time on any Canadian Treo product, this capability is available out of the box. The Treo 700p smartphone now includes a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, offering four times the resolution of a VGA camera. To help users organize and share their photos, the new product makes it significantly easier to create and manage photo and video albums. Once albums are created, Treo 700p smartphone customers can use the slideshow application to add music, audio captions and transitions. The Palm OS based Treo 700p smartphone includes 128MB of memory (60MB user available). By using SD memory cards, currently available with 2GB of storage (sold separately), in addition to the 60MB of dedicated user storage, users have plenty of room to download and carry important documents and multimedia content.

Other Treo 700p Features and Benefits

- Phone functionality, including personalized ring tones for
various categories of callers and the ability to ignore a call with
text messaging;

- New voice-memo application, which can be used to create custom ring
tones, add voice annotations to photos or simply record a memo;

- Enhanced email and messaging with access to business and personal
email accounts (Microsoft Exchange, POP3 or IMAP4)

- Smarter, faster web browsing using a new and improved version of the
award-winning Blazer browser;

- Full PDF support using DataViz Documents To Go(R) Version 8.0,
which also offers native support for Microsoft Word, Excel and
PowerPoint; and

- The fast, friendly and familiar Palm OS platform, Version 5.4.9.
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