Sprint Treo 650 Updater v1.08

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palmOne has released a v1.08 update for the Sprint Treo 650 smartphone. The new update features improvements to voice quality and improves the memory management of the NVFS file storage.

The update provides a number of performance and reliability enhancements including:

• Overall voice quality improvements, including fix for voice "choppiness" some Sprint PCS customers experienced
• Internal setting modification to allow correct access to Sprint Affiliate roaming partner networks (previously released as Sprint PCS Treo 650 Roaming Patch)
• Non-Volatile File System improvements that optimize memory handling and free up more memory
• TTY optimizations and improvements
• Optimizations for data calls
• Includes VersaMail 3.0c which provides greater stability and improvements
• Bluetooth Carkit drivers are now included in ROM (previously released as Carkit Update for Treo 650)

Improved NVFS
The improved memory management includes non-volatile file system (NVFS) improvements that optimize memory handling and free up more memory. palmOne implemented a NVFS system in the new Treo 650 because of the strong benefits it provides: preserving data and applications if the battery runs down, and the ability to change the battery on the fly. In the original implementation, NVFS stored each record in 512 byte blocks.
This software update reduces the overhead of storing database records in the file system. It does so by compacting more than one record into a single 512 byte block. In effect, each 512 block is divided into 16 32 byte subblocks, which allows small and large records to be stored more efficiently.

Bluetooth DUN
The update does not include a feature many users have been waiting for, speciacally Bluetooth Dial Up Networking. Bluetooth DUN is not addressed in the current software update, we will be delivering this capability in a future update later this year. With the current software release, we are immediately able to address two important user issues while continuing to test our DUN implementation.

Click here if to find out if you need the update.