Palm Treo 680 launched for $199

Posted on Wednesday, November 22 2006 @ 15:39 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Palm Treo 680 was just released in the U.S. today for $199.99 if you purchase it with a two-year Cingular Wireless contract. The unlocked version of this smartphone is priced at $399.

The phone features Palm OS 5.4.9 and uses the Intel PXA270 312MHz processor. It has a 320 x 320 pixels display that supports more than 65,000 colors and has 64MB flash memory that users can use to save files. There's also support for removable MMC, SD and SD I/O memory cards.

There's GSM/GPRS/EDGE, quad-band and Bluetooth 1.2 wireless support but no Wi-Fi. The phone features a sample VGA camera with 2x digital zoom and sports a full QWERTY keyboard with backlighting.

According to Palm the li-ion battery will have a talk time of up to 4 hours and a standby time of 300 hours. The phone weighs 5.5 ounces (157g) and measures 4.4" H x 2.3" W x 0.8" D (113mm x 59mm x 21mm).

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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