Palm Treo 750v gets official

Thanks to countless leaks over the last several months, one of the most anticlimactic smartphone releases in history has finally gone official. Palm has issued all the juicy details on their UK site, and... well, it's pretty much exactly what we expected: internal antenna, quadband GSM with triband UMTS (lending itself to a Cingular release), and a superbly average 1.3-megapixel cam sitting atop Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition. The phone is still apparently in the pre-order phase, though Vodafone's site is showing a price "From Free to £127.66" (about $240) depending on contract -- not bad considering what you get, but whether similar pricing will carry over to Cingular is another question entirely.

[Thanks, Wolwol and Camp]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 12th 2006 2:39PM]

If the price is reasonable I may have to replace my SE P910a with this instead of the P990 which is just too expensive.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 12th 2006 4:55PM]

Note this is the first WM version with threaded SMS. The 700w and 700wx do not have that feature.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 12th 2006 4:54PM]

When do you think this new treo will be in the USA for purchase?

[xbit Posted Sep 12th 2006 5:37PM]

240x240 pixel screen? No WiFi? No 3G?

Sorry Palm, your celebrity status doesn't extend to Europe and your specs are way behind the Nokia, Sony Ericsson and HTC competition. This device will bomb.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2006 2:05AM]

Man...Palm is like a good 1.5 generations behind the competition in terms of specs....that's about a 12-15 month delay before they get around to adding HSDPA or WIFI. What the hell?!? I'm betting 4G will start rolling out the door when the Treo finally has WIFI. Their marketing dept is the only thing keeping them afloat as they ride atop the crest of that wave which is seriously about to crash.