Palm Treo 700w

Palm is a very innovative hardware manufacturer that really came to the forefront of the technology boom when they invented the various Palm Pilots in the late 1990's, and ever since they have been blazing a technological trail of creation, that has left the consumer with a great product in the Palm Treo 700. The Palm Treo 700w should not be thought of as a phone with computer capabilities, but should instead be thought of as a very compact computer with the ability to communicate with others via the phone and various other methods of contained communication. The Palm Treo 700w will be thoroughly discussed in more detail in the following paragraphs.

Functions

The Palm Treo 700w is a very compact model of formerly larger models and has a very cool black and silver color scheme, with an LCD screen that would make all other handheld computer brands salivate. The model weighs 180 grams, which may seem kind of heavy in this era of very light mobile phones, but is light when considering that the Treo 700w is basically a computer in the palm of the user's hand. The height and width dimensions of the Treo are 113 X 58 mm, which is also pretty modest in size when boasting the high technological functions of a new edition computer. The LCD screen is the Treo's focal point and really boasts the best in graphics and style available to the user. The screen measures out to a pixel size of 320 X 320 in 16-bit color, but that is not all that is so great when it comes to the Treo's wonderful screen. The screen is also a touch screen, which is very popular in a lot of products by Palm, and really eliminates quite a few of the space issues that are met when other brands try to fit whole keyboards onto their handheld computer units.

The Treo 700w comes with a great memory 128 MB, of which 60 MB are accessible to the user. The processor is very important when considering handheld units and the Palm Treo 700w does not disappoint with an Intel X-Scale 312 MHz processor, which really does help the Treo process information to the best of its ability, and is really needed when considering all of the different functions the Palm Treo 700w can perform. The Treo has the best in wireless capabilities and carries the latest in Bluetooth 1.2 support, which does go very well with the Treo's other 1xRTT technology, both of which lend to a great wireless internet-capable experience. The Palm Treo 700w can support many different types of external memory containers like the various SD, SDIO, and Multimedia memory cards that are available out on the market.

The Palm Treo should be treated as tool that can perform both the best in phone and computer functions, and that is why the next area to be discussed will contain all the pertinent information about the different tasks the Treo 700w can tackle when being used as a regular phone and for other phone-related communications. The Treo 700w has its own speaker phone, which comes in very handy, because most of the people owning a Palm Treo 700w usually have a lot on their minds, and it is better to have reliable ways of multitasking, of which the speaker phone is one. It also has the latest in TTD/TTY capabilities for the hard of hearing, which really should be considered a necessity on all phones, and is usually found on all phones, so there are no discrimination issues. The phone also has a hands-free headphone jack, which again is perfect for the person who always on the go and out multi-tasking. The Treo is also capable of completing three-way calling, which is essential for various conference and business calls and is really hard to find on many other manufacturer's handheld units. The Treo also features the camera function, which is really growing in popularity among the various different mobile phone and handheld compuer model brands, but most of them do not offer what the Treo has to offer with its digital camera. This camera has video capture, a great way to take self-portraits, automatic light balance, a 2x zoom, and also contains 1.3 mega-pixels in resolution, which is very commendable for a digital camera on a phone/handheld unit. It also has the best to offer in ring tones and speaker phone functions, while also having a fully QWERTY keyboard for personal use, along with the number pad, that does not have to move anywhere in order to be functional for the phone operations of the Treo 700.

Operations

The Treo 700w operates on a rechargeable lithium ion battery that gives a great talk-time rating of up to 4.5 hours, while having a standby time of 300 hours, which is very respectable for a unit that could take up a lot of energy performing the various tasks available. It is compatible with the different Windows and MAC program functions and is really quite flexible when it comes to working with other machines via USB sync ports.

Palm offers many different kinds of accessories for its various types of handheld models and their hard work is just as obvious on the various accessories available to the Treo 700. The Treo 700w has many, different carrying case compatibilities, while also having the ability to come with the best kind of headset and music accessories that Palm has made in order to fully extend the pleasure of the user's Palm Treo 700w experience. There are also various keyboard and number pad grips and accessories to make the work functions of the Palm Treo 700w more accessible as well.

Palm is a very high-tech company that has grown very consistently over the past decade and has never really seemed to worry when it comes to other brand names' inventions and electronic innovations. The Palm Treo 700w is evidence that Palm is keeping up with the other electronics giants who may never catch up to this one.