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We saw the spy shot of the new Palm Gandolf and I suspected that they wouldn't call it a Treo since it wouldn't have a touchscreen. Shows what I know. Now specs for the device have been leaked and they look pretty darn plausible to me:

  • Naming convention will be Treo 5XX
  • One version with Windows Mobile 6 Standard, the other is a new non-touchscreen edition of the Palm OS
  • Multiple colors
  • 135 grams; 117 x 65 x 13.8 mm
  • 2.4 inch QVGA screen with 65k colors
  • 2 megapixel camera
  • Bluetooth 2.0 w/ A2DP support
  • 3G + HSDPA
  • 256 MB onboard memory with 64 MB of RAM

Palm still has a little usability "secret sauce" left in 'em - their Treo 750 really is nicer to use that your average WM5 phone. Apply that to Standard edition and give me those specs above and I'll drop my Blackjack like a bad habit - even with my hacked Windows Mobile 6 ROM on it.

Read: Exclusive: Palm Gandolf specifications - IntoMobile

(Oh, and nobody will believe me, but I totally called the non-touchscreen version of the PalmOS at least two years ago. I'm expecting Gandolf won't have their Linux-based OS Yet, but still be stuck with Garnet. Windows Mobile connection to this aside? Simple: < Neslon > Ha Ha! < / Nelson > )


Comments (2)

If palm does come out with a non-touchscreen device, then it will be their death yell. I won't use anything that can't have stylus interaction - I can write using MobileWrite (TM) faster than I could ever type on any palm-sized device. The Foleo looks good to me, but I am unwilling to pay $400 for a less than notebook device. I would pay only $100 to add a keyboard that does what the Foleo is supposed to do.

Besides the fact that I am an art geek and that a treo that I can't draw on would be practically useless... Killing off all the added interaction capability that a touch screen provides seems hard to believe. Especially when their main competition will likely be the iphone. Sounds like bs to me.

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