Treo 180 for $99 w/ T-Mobile Activation

Handspring today announced a new offer for its Treo for the price of $99 after mail in rebate. For a limited time, and only while supplies last, customers who purchase a Treo 180 or 180g with a GPRS service contract from T-Mobile will be eligible to receive $150 through a mail-in rebate.

The rebate incentive is exclusively available at handspring.com. A GSM service contract from T-Mobile that includes a 10MB or higher GPRS data plan (recommended for Treo customers) is required to qualify for the rebate.

“With this promotion, Handspring is delivering one of the most powerful communications products available for less than the price of a basic PDA,” said Joe Sipher, vice president of marketing for Handspring, Inc. “At $99, the ability to combine a mobile phone with a Palm OS organizer is more compelling than ever. And with full web browsing and messaging, no other product comes close to delivering this much value today.”

Hand Spring Treo communicators combine a mobile phone, Palm OS organizer, email, and web browsing into one device. In addition to providing always-on, high-speed connections to wireless networks, Handspring’s new GPRS software includes a number of significant improvements to the phone, messaging, web browsing and email applications on Treo. In the SMS application for example, web pages can be launched, phone numbers dialed, and emails addressed by simply tapping the corresponding information (URL, phone number or email address) that arrives in a text message. There is also a new Mute button as well as helpful keyboard hints built into the phone application. And with the GPRS upgrade, Treo is automatically configured for data access – there is no need for manual configurations or an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

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Nobody's interested?

ardee @ 12/9/2002 2:15:51 PM #
The complete absense of postings here in the first 4.5+ hours may say something about the interest level (and about the future of Handspring).


RE: Nobody's interested?
markgm @ 12/9/2002 2:21:11 PM #
I kinda thought the same thing when I first read it this morning. I was about to post, then closed the window. The reason for my post was looking at the Handspring site and seeing that they are giving a DVD player away with the purchase of select Treos. When I clicked on the Treo 90, the said more about the free DVD player than the handheld. Having owned a Visor Deluxe, I know they are capable of great products. Owning a few Sony products since then, I am waiting for Handspring to come out with a product to really knock my socks off. I'm not sure why, but with the PalmOS, I have no brand loyalty amoung Sony, Palm, or Handspring, and would buy from whichever company has the best product out at the time.

RE: Nobody's interested?
hoodoo @ 12/9/2002 3:44:17 PM #
I'm interested at this price that's for sure; I would much rather have the 180 than a Kyocera 6035!. But Rogers in Canada here still wants $599 for the 180 and $699 for the 270 for 2-year plans. Plus their unlimited data plan costs a fortune plus you need to get air time also.

T-mobile in Europe goes for Win Ce

cyman777 @ 12/9/2002 4:27:30 PM #
Unfortunately in Europe (at least in Austria) T-Mobile does not sell treos. They only push their crappy MDA, a Windows CE powered smart(?)phone.

This is really bad, as Palm is talked to death in Europe - everybody thinks they won't survive against M$ in the near future.

T Mobile GPRS Cost

bsmith @ 12/13/2002 2:52:07 AM #
The T-Mobile GRPS/Internet Cost is still too high. Sprint's offer is still much better with UNLIMITED access!
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