Hello, colin.fletcher. On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:53:36 -0400 you said:
> Came as a news alert from Google as 800p > Garbage/Hoax ??? Photoshop?? > http://mobiunity.com/?p=413 Hoax is my guess. Reason one: Image quality. The image quality varies between elements in the "photo". The image of the "treo" that is the supposed focus of the image is poor quality compared to the laptop and items in the background. Reason two: The buttons, etc, on the bottom edge are too close to the bottom edge. > PalmOne treo 900p Specifications: > Operating System > Palm OSR Gretta 5.5 Reason three: No such animal. PalmOS5.4 is almost certainly the last version in the "classic" PalmOS line. The next OS version to be released/used by Palm is Linux based with a PalmOS compatibility layer, and OS5 is called "Garnet", not "Gretta". > Memory > 4GB Reason four: I don't think PalmOS can support 4G of prime storage. I never looked that hard at a LifeDrive, but I think its hard drive was logically split into a primary storage area of some megabytes and an extended storage areas of the remainder. > Screen > 320 x 480 transflective TFT touchscreen display > Support for over 65,000 colors > Landscape and portrait orientation modes That would be nice... but not at the expense of losing the keyboard. > Wireless > Wi-Fi 802.11b/g wireless technology Reason five: I doubt that... I have no real knowledge of this as fact or fiction, but my gut feeling is that PalmOS5.x cannot handle cellular, BT AND WiFi. Note that while some PalmOS devices have BT and WiFi and some have BT and cellular, none have all three. And while some cellular providers (*cough* VZW) may stipulate "No WiFi", others do not. Specifically, Cingular/AT&T and T-Mobile do not, nor do, I hope, providers in other countries. Meaning in this case that if Palm wanted to and it was technically possible, they could have put WiFi in the Treo 680 which is not compatible with the more restrictive providers anyway. > BluetoothR 2.0 wireless technology Would be nice. > Audio > Speaker > Standard 3.5mm stereo headhphone jack Two headset jacks, then? From what I've seen of Palm so far, I doubt it. > Battery > Long-life rechargeable lithium ion Reason six: How long is "long life"? Real specs would provide at least an estimate. > Power / Sync > Multi-connector on device > USB sync cable > AC adapter (108-32 VAC/60Hz) Reason seven: That's a bogus spec. It's either 110/120 or it's 110/220 switching for a "press release" or "leaked" specs readout. The actual, full power requirements like that are put in the back of the manual only. > Size > 58.2mm W x 100.9mm H x 10.5mm D > Weight > 105.33 grams Reason eight: My Treo 680 is 59x113x21 and weighs 157. To squeeze a third radio in there, with a full-size SD card slot AND trim 50 grams of weight, the battery would have to be shrunk even further than what I have which is already too small. There's no way it'd go a full day without a mid-day recharge, so that means no "long life" battery. Note that Seidio can't even make a battery with significantly more life fit in the same size as the stock battery in the 680. And note that the 755, which is actually bigger than the 680 doesn't have room for a full size SD slot, it has a MiniSD slot, and a bigger battery. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "If I am ever the Hero top 100 list: #75. No robots serving with me will be permitted to have emotion chips.
