Officially Announcing the Treo 500v Smartphone in EMEA

As you have read yesterday (or the day before that or even the day before that), Palm is announcing the Treo 500 smartphone, which is initially available to Vodafone customers throughout EMEA (officially official). Here is a link that contains product details and a list of countries the Treo 500v will be available in.

Product specs and benfits include:

·       Windows Mobile® 6 Standard software

·       Full qwerty keyboard

·       3G/UMTS network

·       Automatic delivery of Hotmail/MSN, Yahoo!, and Gmail, email as it arrives

·       Microsoft® Direct Push technology for delivery of Outlook® email

·       Access to Google Maps and eBay

·       Vodafone live! for news, sports, and entertainment on the go

·       Windows Media® Player Mobile for music and videos

·       2.0 megapixel camera captures video too

·      150MB of memory, expandable with microSD expansion card

Below is another image of the Treo 500v - notice the colors (our personal favorite is the "charcoal grey").

Also, Andrew Carton of Treonauts has wrriten an overview of the announcement in Europe.

-Treo 500v Team

Comments

[Jerem]

I'm a current treo 755p user. I got to play with the iPhone over the weekend for about 10 minutes and all I can say is wow! Palm is nowhere close to "getting it". This new Palm device is just really pathetic. I'm not sending this message to you, Palm. This message is for those users who haven't played with an iPhone yet. Don't be faithful to Palm just because they took a few landmark steps early in the smartphone industry. As soon as it's available for Sprint, see ya Palm!

[Paul Rogers]

Hi "Palm", I've read a lot of the comments here, and I think you might have a problem!! I've spread the good word about Palm products since my first M515. After using my TX almost to death, I find it hard to see a viable update in your range! Unless you innovate, or at the very least give us a new palm PDA thats smaller and THINNER, but maintains screen size, you might be the next company to be killed off by Microsoft and Apple
I hope not, but time is running out... FAST

[ozkan]

lowe it very nice

[zippy]

As far as I can see.. nothing new is coming out. Palm has stop coming out with anyting new or surprising.

I live in Singapore and the 'new' thing they intro was a red color treo 680. They would have sell more units if they had the white version.

I'm still using zire72 and I must say is a fantastic device but palm seriously need to listen and improve their products instead of coming out some new 'sub par' products.

If Sony was still in the palm business, Palmone would have been gone by now.

Totally disappointing.

[sean]

If Blackberry puts together a good contact manager in their phones. Palm is jelly on toast! Been a Palm fan for 10 years, but the treo 700P is as good as a rusty fish hook

[once_Palm_lover]

I went thru each and every comment on the page. Not a single one praising palm. So sad. Palm, why do you think that is. Even a moron reading this website can get what the market is waiting for. Palm has a die-hard fan base and near-ready system (TX),extensive business/PIM apps experience... all you need to add is phone(treo), which you already have. Still a new brand company(apple) comes out (with no prior phone/application experience or know-how) and takes away the from you what you invented (touchscreen) and creates a market and wow for its own (iphone)... So sad. Now that's what I call a tech company. The best word to describe Palm would be ... an soon-tobe-Extinct Company. If you were blind (and not able to read the what users want) then at least i would have sympathized with you..but sadly i can't even do that...its still not too late if u give (atleast) what the users want (more is better). Best part is u already have a consumers ready to buy...all u have to do is make it..no marketing no product research or extensive-development cost...nothing...just mix-n-make a new product. if can't even deliver that then all i have to say is ....may your soul rest in peace...bring on iPhone (and any others REAL-tech cos who can use this forum for consumer research)...ur days have come. Palm is history...

[John Lee]

Looks like very interesting, actually now i`m using the T-Mobile Dash with same Os like this Treo 500v(WM6 Standard).

I hope this Treo 500v will give more easy way to use like Treo 650 last time i use before.

exp: 1 hand control, Treo select text, co-launcher...

Hope to see it soon, :)

[Wiryanto]

When will the Palm OS released??I have waited for almost 2 years..I am still using treo 650 and it is almost perfect.but hoping to use better n more hi tech one..dont forget the 3G,Wifi,class design.I will be waiting..

[Nikki Labyrinthos]

ho hum, i wish a Palm with touchscreen & all the innovation of Handspring would come out soon. Come on guys, stop selling out to Window OS. Palm is great, you really need to get Garnet updated & use it to the fullest.

[Joel O.]

Well... I still don't get it... mmm... a palm device without palm O.S.... it just does not have any sense to me... no touch screen... it's as bad as a whopper made with MacDonald's burger patties... something is wrong (stinks) in here, I have like 2 years with my loyal 650, and I still have not found yet anything that can replace it... 680? no kidding... Win devices; just stink, I have bought almost every palm made since the affordable palm 105 (I still have on my wallet a B&W Rocket PCMCIA PDA device) I had the hope that the palms with winbugs were only a terrifying test… but now there are new palms that only have a win version… what’s next? Removing touchscreen?... OMFG¡¡¡... they’ve already done that¡¡¡… Ô_o mmm… I think palm is gonna transform into a poor copy of blackberry

[Md. Aktar Hossain]

I am using Palm Treo 500 in bangladesh. I need to know how can I backup sms to pc. Please provide support.