Treo 700wx launches on Sprint

No shocker here: Sprint officially launched the Treo 700wx today. The specs haven't been a secret for a while, but we'll run 'em down for you anyway:

• Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC (duh)
• XScale 312MHz CPU
• SDIO slot
• 128MB NVRAM (60MB user)
• dual-band EV-DO / 1xRTT
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• Bluetooth 1.2, IR
• 240 x 240 touchscreen
• QWERTY keyboard
  

Apart from the extra RAM, the 700wx is about the same as its predecessor, the Treo 700w (which Verizon has had exclusively since January). Retail price is $499.99 after "available discounts and promotions," and $649.99 without.


TreoCentral has a first look, CNET, Laptop, and MobileTechReview have reviews.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 3rd 2006 4:13PM]

240 x 240 touchscreen?


LMMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2006 12:24AM]

Quite right. 240x240 only. However, given the small screen size, a higher resolution may render the text a bit too small to read.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2006 11:19AM]

Phone really not so has liked me...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2006 1:05PM]

The reason why the screen is 240 x 240 is more a limitation of Windows Mobile 5.0 than anything else. The Treo 600, 650, and 700p all have 320 x 320 screens, but that is because the Palm OS supported that resolution natively.

Windows Mobile 5.0 supports only 2 square screen resolutions : 240 by 240 (which you can think of as QVGA 240 x 320 with the bottom chopped off) and 480 by 480 ( VGA 480 by 640 with the bottom chopped off).

Palm could have led the way by jumping to 480 by 480, but I think that that resolution display is hard to come by right now.

Back to this phone, hopefully with double the RAM and Flash on the 700wx, that the performance of Windows on this phone will be greatly improved.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2006 1:28PM]

240 x 240 screen? mega mobile. like cold-weapon... but the prise for beauty is very much.