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Palm and Verizon formally released the long-awaited Treo 700w handheld today, which marks several firsts for Palm – their first Windows Mobile device and first handheld using Verizon's high-speed EV-DO network.
Windows Mobile is notorious for demanding that you pull out your stylus. Palm attacks the problem with a new home screen that lets you get at all of your contacts instantly by typing their initials, enabling 26 speed dialing slots activated by pressing buttons on the QWERTY keyboard, pumping up keyboard equivalents for Windows Mobile menu commands, and integrating a Google search box into the home screen.
"Ignore with SMS" is another cool new feature: when Treo 700w owners get calls they can't answer, they can immediately send an SMS to the caller explaining why.
The Treo 700w comes with Microsoft's standard application set for Windows Mobile 5, including readers and editors for Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, a pocket version of Outlook and Pocket Internet Explorer. The built-in Windows Media Player 10 syncs music and video with PCs, including protected WMA content bought from online stores like Napster and Yahoo!. Palm has enhanced Pocket Outlook with support for MMS picture messaging and added the well-regarded Picsel PDF viewer. Verizon, meanwhile, adds support for their Intellisync Wireless Sync quasi-push email and over-the-air syncing of calendar and contact information from desktop PCs.
Read the entire PC Magaznie report:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1907978,00.asp
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