Treo 700wx Arrives in New Zealand

Posted By: Ryan Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:40:08 AM

Palm today announced the availability of the Palm Treo 700wx smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0, adding a Palm EvDO product to Telecom New Zealand's product offerings.

The Treo 700wx combines a great mobile phone, comprising all the functionality and ease of use for which Treo smartphones are known, with the power and security of Windows Mobile favoured by many businesses. Today's announcement marks the availability of Telecom New Zealand's first Windows Mobile Treo smartphone.

"Treo smartphones continue to provide customers with innovation, ease of use and functionality in a stylish form factor," said Martin Butler, general manager, Product - Business, for Telecom New Zealand. "For customers who prefer to have Microsoft's Windows operating system applied across all their corporate computing assets, the new Treo 700wx gives users a convenient way to access their business-critical and Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents at broadband speeds using the Telecom EvDO Mobile Broadband network, making just about anyplace a work place."

Treo 700wx Features:

312 MHz Intel XScale processor
240x240 pixel TFT screen
128MB of memory and 60MB of dedicated user storage
1.3-megapixel digital camera for images and videos
Integrated Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology Expansion card slot (SD, SDIO, and MultiMediaCard compatible)
Size/weight: 4.4" x 2.3" x 0.9" (111 mm x 58 mm x 22.5 mm) / 6.4 ounces (180 g)
Removable 1800 mAh battery and non-volatile memory
Voice Command for voice dialing
Ability to send and receive email from multiple corporate and personal email accounts, with built-in support for Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile, Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and other POP3 and IMAP accounts
On-device access to Microsoft Office Word Mobile, Office Excel Mobile and Office PowerPoint Mobile for viewing, editing and creating Word and Excel Mobile documents, as well as viewing PowerPoint Mobile presentations. In addition, with Picsel PDF viewer
Unified messaging application, including email, SMS and MMS

In addition the Treo 700wx includes support for Email on the Go: Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP), which includes Direct Push Technology, native S/MIME support, certificate-based authentication to all Exchange data, and remote and local device wipe, is available out-of-the-box giving smartphone users fast, automatic wireless updates of their email, calendar items, contacts and tasks.

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LOTR was shot in New Zealand

legodude522 @ 10/19/2006 2:14:24 PM #

So I guess Frodo uses Palm Treo 650 and the evil lord of Mordor, Sauron uses The new Palm Treo 700wx.

Yet they lose to this little hobbit in the end.

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RE: LOTR was shot in New Zealand

Docta G @ 10/19/2006 6:40:30 PM #

True, but the real question is what does King Kong use?

I'm betting on a Crismon 680.

He doesn't strike me as a antenna kind of guy...

Treo incrementalism

drw @ 10/23/2006 1:09:14 AM #

I miss the days when I would surf to PIC and frequently read of new licencees, new models by various licencees, etc.

Is there any chance of palm producing a non-cellphone treo (like the treo 90)? I like my Tungsten C, but wish it had bluetooth and WPA wifi security compatibility.

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David

RE: Treo incrementalism

hkklife @ 10/23/2006 11:18:19 AM #

There's no chance of anything in the forseeable future other than for Palm to continue to produce mostly WinMob Treos with essentially the same formfactor.

Sorry to sound like such a doubting Thomas but Palm's given us ZERO hope of even a single PDA line refresh. They also seem incredibly content to continue to push 320*320 & 240*240 Treos, falling back on gimmicks like various colors and mini-SD slots instead of pushing th design envelope with a flip design, or a 320*480 screen Treo.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

A Sad Day for Aus

sungod @ 10/23/2006 3:59:56 AM #

How the hell has NZ gotten the treo 700 befor us. Telstra u need 2 lift ur game.

on a long enough timeline the survival rate of everyone drops to zero

RE: A Sad Day for Aus

freakout @ 10/23/2006 4:58:21 AM #

Telstra u need 2 lift ur game

Ha! Understatement Of The Year. ;)

It's extremely doubtful we'll see any of the new CDMA Treos in Oz, mainly 'cause Teltra are looking to rid themselves of their CDMA network by 2008 (http://tinyurl.com/y9okax). Nevermind that over 400 million of our tax dollars went into it only in 2000...

Tim
I apologise for any and all emoticons that appear in my posts. You may shoot them on sight.
Treo 270 ---> Treo 650

RE: A Sad Day for Aus

Docta G @ 10/23/2006 6:35:03 AM #

Well, we may have won the 700 battle, but I'm more interested in the 680 battle...

Still that's interesting about your CDMA network. I wonder if NZ Telecom is planning to ditch its CDMA network...

I doubt it though, more's the pity. I don't why a country as small as NZ needs two different mobile phone technologies...

RE: A Sad Day for Aus

sungod @ 10/24/2006 3:44:54 PM #

But now that telstra has finaly caught up with everyone else and started a 3g network they could bring in a 3g treo, but then telstra hasnt been the leader of the pack for quite some time.

on a long enough timeline the survival rate of everyone drops to zero

RE: A Sad Day for Aus

freakout @ 10/25/2006 5:26:07 AM #

Well, the 750v is a Vodafone exclusive (in Europe, anyway) so I'd hazard a guess that they're going to be the first ones to get a 3G Treo over here. I'm betting we'll see both the 680 and the 750 here early next year.

Tim
I apologise for any and all emoticons that appear in my posts. You may shoot them on sight.
Treo 270 ---> Treo 650