Treo 680 Rogers Wireless Released

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Palm Canada announced the availability of the Palm Treo 680 smartphone, a quad-band world phone exclusively available on Rogers Wireless, Canada's largest and clearest integrated wireless voice and data network. With the introduction of the Palm OS(R) based Treo 680 smartphone, Palm is targeting new users in the rapidly growing smartphone and feature-phone markets. Market research firm In-Stat, estimates that 25 per cent of all wireless handsets worldwide will be smartphones by 2011. Research conducted by Palm suggests a substantial population of feature-phone users have not purchased smartphones, fearing they were too expensive and too difficult to use. The Treo 680 will offer an affordable, simple and fun way to get started and stay connected.

The Treo 680 smartphone has an internal antenna and slim form factor, making the device smaller and sleeker than its Treo predecessors in Canada. It has a full, easy-type keyboard, perfect for writing SMS messages and emails, and an optimal 320x320 vibrant colour screen for viewing web pages, photos, media and more.

The 680 smartphone has a unique user interface that furthersimplifies Treo innovations, such as the ability to respond to calls with a preset text message and add new phone numbers to existing contact information, and three-way calling. The Treo 680 also has integrated email and web capabilities, so users can stay in touch with colleagues and friends. The messaging application on the Treo 680 displays text-messaging conversations as "threaded chats," similar to IM, so users can see their entire conversation with a particular person. The Treo 680 smartphone also can be used as an MP3 player and has an integrated digital camera, camcorder and video player.

Additional Features

The Treo 680 smartphone offers many additional features, including the following:

- Added memory: The Treo 680 smartphone includes 64MB of user-available
storage, nearly three times the available memory of the Treo 650
smartphone. Customers can add up to 2GB of storage with expansion
cards for those large music or video files (sold separately);
- Improved web browser: The Blazer 4.5 browser is superfast due to its
smarter caching rules and includes alternate modes for viewing web
pages optimized for the device or as a regular web page;
- Enhanced multimedia: Customers can use the Treo 680 smartphone to
play MP3s and manage and share photo albums;
- Built-in dial-up networking capabilities: Customers can use the
new smartphone as a wireless modem via Bluetooth
technology to connect to a compatible Bluetooth enabled laptop;
- Documents To Go: Customers can view, edit and share Microsoft(R)
Word and Excel(R) documents on their Treo 680 smartphones in
addition to viewing full-featured Adobe PDF files and Microsoft
PowerPoint(R) presentations; and
- Bluetooth 1.2: Customers can connect wirelessly to other Bluetooth
enabled devices. The Treo 680 has improved car-kit and headset
support, and support for multiple simultaneous Bluetooth connections.
- Enhanced Email and Messaging: The Treo 680 allows users to sync
contacts wirelessly, and offers new ways to easily sort and address
email.