Inventec Lands Treo 500v Orders

Digitimes has just posted a report claiming that Inventec Appliances is producing Palm’s latest smartphone, the Treo 500v. The Treo 500v is notable for a slew of "firsts" for Palm: first Treo to ship with Windows Mobile 6 standard, first with Bluetooth 2.0 and a 2.0 megapixel camera and Palm's first device released without a touchscreen LCD. An earlier report this week also indicted that Inventec also got the contract to product the upcoming Palm Centro.

Digitimes also comments that Palm is shifting its focus away from HTC who has become quite a competitor to Palm with a strong line of HTC-branded handsets running on a variety of networks and carriers. Inventec's previous order with Palm was for last fall's Garnet-based Treo 680, which by being references only in the past tense in the article, may indicate that particular model is facing EOL sometime in the near future.

In the article’s final and arguably most interesting tidbit, Digitimes' source claims that Palm may “suspend” its efforts to release a new generation smartphone OS based on Linux, based on the earlier decision to cancel the Foleo. The article unfortunately does not go into any additional details and given Digitimes less than stellar rumor accuracy in the past, it seems like quite a bit of questionable speculation.

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