No GPS in Treo 700wx smartphone, more photos of Treo 750v surfaced
August 31, 2006 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R.
Contrary to the information included in a leaked specification of Treo 700wx, this phone will not have built-in GPS...
... but just a 911 tracking so that in case of emergency calls the phone can be located remotely. However no built-in GPS for GPS based car navigation. Still with much bigger memory, than Treo 700w and with CDMA EVDO support, the Treo 700wx smartphone clearly is one of the best, if not the-best, Windows Mobile phones currently on sale in USA. Availability of cheap unlimited flat rate mobile Internet tariffs in combination with CDMA EVDO means that built-in Wi-Fi is not needed in Treo 700wx, and for people who prefer QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage (very important for some!) the HTC Hermes Pocket PC phone constitutes no competition because it requires (thumbs of) 2 hands.
Furthermore Treo 750v or in other words Treo for GSM/UMTS has been sighted in Malaysia (what is strange, because there is no Vodafone operation in this country) and even more photos of this phone are available here. Nothing especially new can be found in these photos, apart from the fact that this Treo is powered by Samsung processor, not by Intel as in the case of Treo 700w and Treo 700wx. However the processor speed is 300 MHz, what indicates that HSDPA and Wi-Fi are becoming dubious. Video calling is missing for sure because there is no camera in the front of the phone. While lack of HSDPA could be forgiven - after all not everybody wants to use mobile phone as UMTS or HSDPA wireless modem, the lack of Wi-Fi in Treo 750v practically would disqualify it. The only justification for these poor specifications of Treo 750v could be, that it will be a cheap, low-end smartphone...
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