Treo 750 with HSDPA Will Soon be Widely Available in Europe

Early last fall, Palm introduced the Treo 750v. Initially, this device was available exclusively from Europe's Vodafone. A few weeks ago, though, a version of this smartphone was introduced by Cingular Wireless in the United States. However, buying it from Vodafone was still the only way to get it in Europe... until now.

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Palm has just announced that, starting tomorrow, the Treo 750 will be made generally available across Europe from Palm's online store and also from other retail outlets in the coming month.

HSDPA Inside

Adding to the significance of today's announcement is the revelation that the upcoming European version of this smartphone will definitely support the 3G cellular-wireless networking standard HSDPA.

The earlier versions only offered UMTS, though Palm has said that an HSDPA software upgrade will be available for them at some point.

More About the Palm Treo 750

This model is the first Windows Mobile-based Treo to use the GSM cellular-wireless standard.

The 750 greatly resembles previous smartphones from Palm, but, unlike its predecessors, does not need an external antenna. It has a tablet design, with a 240-by-240-pixel touchscreen above an alphanumeric keyboard.

It runs Window Mobile 5.2 for Pocket PC on a 300 MHz processor from Samsung. This device has 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of ROM, about 60 MB of which is available to uses as non-volatile internal storage. A miniSD card slot provides additional storage capacity.

This quad-band GSM phone also supports GPRS, EDGE, and -- as mentioned earlier -- UMTS.  The new version for Europe will add HSDPA support.

In addition, it includes Bluetooth 1.2, and give users the ability to use wireless stereo headsets.

This Treo has a 1.3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom. It is able to take both still images and video.

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