Palm releases update for Treo 680

Palm released a software update for the Treo 680 Thursday to fix a problem in which the embedded camera drains the smart phone's battery.

(Credit: Palm)

"Palm has identified that the Treo 680 device can experience reduced battery life when the camera is used. The camera may continue to draw power from the battery when the device is in standby mode," a posting on the Palm Web site said. All Treo 680 users should install the Camera Update, the company said. Find the update here.

Treo users had been complaining on user forums that the handset's battery was draining too quickly.

Palm manufacturers discovered the problem while the devices were still on the assembly line, but the update was not ready until today, a Palm representative said Thursday.

[matt02429]

But the ? is..

The question is, who developed the update? Because if I remember that palm just licensed the right to develop the palm os more or less, so i's palm committing again to 5.9.x or are they trying to just keep it alive long enough for Access Linux? It seems that between this and the sling player coming out with a palm client that garnet is not completely dead yet, although it probably should be...