Guest squall Posted August 6, 2005 Report Posted August 6, 2005 There have been rumours circulating for a long time that the Treo 670 would be running a windows OS. The device, which looks similar to the popular Treo 650 has been pictured before, but these pictures posted at phonemag.com show that this is a windows operating system: I doubt we will be seeing the Treo 670 in a shop near you anytime soon, but its nice to know there is potential to see a Treo device powered by windows mobile, be it in the smartphone or ppc variant. Click HERE to read more
Guest Jakob Posted August 6, 2005 Report Posted August 6, 2005 Some more pics.. Found at Engadget /J There have been rumours circulating for a long time that the Treo 670 would be running a windows OS. The device, which looks similar to the popular Treo 650 has been pictured before, but these pictures posted at phonemag.com show that this is a windows operating system: I doubt we will be seeing the Treo 670 in a shop near you anytime soon, but its nice to know there is potential to see a Treo device powered by windows mobile, be it in the smartphone or ppc variant. Click HERE to read more <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Guest Pondrew Posted August 6, 2005 Report Posted August 6, 2005 Nice. Definately prefer this over the Motorola Q. Will this be touch screen like the previous Treos...? A Pocket PC or a new style of Smartphone? Guess time will tell.
Guest Pondrew Posted August 6, 2005 Report Posted August 6, 2005 Found this pic on www.PalmInfocenter.com. A Palm running Windows. Not surprised so many peeps are having to take a second look before believing this! Unsurprisingly the manufacturer is non other then HTC. Out of curiousity, anyone know who used to produce the Treo's for Palm?
Guest amo Posted August 8, 2005 Report Posted August 8, 2005 (edited) Palm no longer own [edit]handspring[/edit] Treo... so makes sence I guess Edited August 8, 2005 by amo
Guest dazultra2000 Posted August 8, 2005 Report Posted August 8, 2005 (edited) This all smells like a rat dropped in a bucket of fish to me. I don't know the politics of what happened with handspring - all I know is that they're now called PalmOne, and have access to the Palm trademark. As for the phone itself - the keylock looks dubiously similar to the Palm one seen on the Treo 600/650. If you ask me - this is like what happened ages ago with the sonyericsson P800 that apparently was hacked to run P900 operating system. Turned out just to be a video running in fullscreen mode. If it were windows mobile, I get the feeling they'd choose a different method of displaying it, rather than ripping palm off... this also brings forth a further question. Rumours are that HTC is building and producing this...so what does PalmOne have to do with it whatsoever? or palm for that matter? I notice the keypad still has the Palm/Treo specific "black button" used for options. What possible use could this have in windows mobile? Why the external antenna? HTC haven't used them since the Wallaby! Why is it a Verizon device? Have they already purchased these to sell? As far as things go, this is just another HTC device - why would they even be allowed to use the Treo name? Edited August 8, 2005 by dazultra2000
Guest xerxes Posted August 9, 2005 Report Posted August 9, 2005 This all smells like a rat dropped in a bucket of fish to me. I don't know the politics of what happened with handspring - all I know is that they're now called PalmOne, and have access to the Palm trademark. As for the phone itself - the keylock looks dubiously similar to the Palm one seen on the Treo 600/650. If you ask me - this is like what happened ages ago with the sonyericsson P800 that apparently was hacked to run P900 operating system. Turned out just to be a video running in fullscreen mode. If it were windows mobile, I get the feeling they'd choose a different method of displaying it, rather than ripping palm off... this also brings forth a further question. Rumours are that HTC is building and producing this...so what does PalmOne have to do with it whatsoever? or palm for that matter? I notice the keypad still has the Palm/Treo specific "black button" used for options. What possible use could this have in windows mobile? Why the external antenna? HTC haven't used them since the Wallaby! Why is it a Verizon device? Have they already purchased these to sell? As far as things go, this is just another HTC device - why would they even be allowed to use the Treo name? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HTC builds the current Treo 650 so it's not suprising that the 670 might be built by them too. You can see some videos of the Treo 670 hereAt Engaget
Guest dazultra2000 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Posted August 9, 2005 HTC builds the current Treo 650 so it's not suprising that the 670 might be built by them too. You can see some videos of the Treo 670 hereAt Engaget <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So if HTC make the 650 - then what do palmone/handspring have to do with it? Palm produce the OS HTC apparently produce the device, so what do PalmOne do?
Guest musicvan Posted August 10, 2005 Report Posted August 10, 2005 So if HTC make the 650 - then what do palmone/handspring have to do with it? Palm produce the OS HTC apparently produce the device, so what do PalmOne do? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Like most major electronics companies these days the actual manufacturing of the products are done by an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) of which HTC is, I think, the biggest in the world for Windows Mobile products. I also think they manufacture products for HP, Dell & Motorola. The front companies that have the badges stuck on the products such as imate, mot, dell, palm etc come up with the concept and design (although a lot of r&d is now done by OEMs) and hand it over for manufacturing. Its all down to cost, which is why all the manufacturing jobs have moved east over the last few years. Palm split into 2 companies about 2 years ago, PalmSource who own and develop the OS and PalmOne who own and develop the hardware. PalmOne have now aquired the rights to use the Palm name again so most likely looking at ways to increase market share by using WinMob on the Treo, these days its the network operators who call the shots! They are now only a licensee of the Palm OS so can license other OS's for their products.
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