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Windows Mobile powered Treo smartphone from palmOne is real - not a fantasy ! April 06, 2005 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. By now all reports about palmOne producing Treo smartphone (or rather PDA phone) powered by Windows Mobile (for Pocket PC Phone Edition) seemed unreliable and rather more wishful thinking than facts. But it looks like Orange UK already got Windows Mobile 2005 powered Treo for testing! the embarrassing scenes in the Landmark Hotel, London, where a Very Senior Orange Person produced his Treo 650, and switched it on, and carelessly allowed all others at the table to see that it was not running PalmOs, but Windows Mobile 2005? Several people eagerly produced camera-phones to record this, and the phone was hastily tucked away where the sun can't shine. A Microsoft Treo from PalmOne? Should we tell David Nagel at PalmSource, do you think? To read more click here. Conclusions: if this information will be confirmed then it means major victory for Microsoft! PalmOS is the number one platform for smartphones in USA, mainly thanks to smartphones made by palmOne. If Windows Mobile smartphones will be produced by palmOne then it will mean that excellent hardware from palmOne will be combined by excellent software from Microsoft. Particularly the Qwerty keyboard in Treo smartphones is sculptured, not membrane based: 
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