Comments on: Pics of Palm Treo 850 surface: Not too shabby

Pictures of a new Windows-based Palm Treo 850 smartphone appear on the Web.

[plbyrd]

Not too shabby? Bleh, it needs a normal PDA screen. I just got rid of my Treo 700w in favor of a Samsung device with the norm 240x320 display and a slide out keyboard. This is the form factor that people want and need. If the iPhone had a real keyboard it'd be useful as a real PDA. The keys on a Palm 7x0 are simply too small to type on the go (ie. walking through an airport) and thus nowhere near as useful as the phones with a slideout keyboard.

[plbyrd]

Not too shabby? Bleh, it needs a normal PDA screen. I just got rid of my Treo 700w in favor of a Samsung device with the norm 240x320 display and a slide out keyboard. This is the form factor that people want and need. If the iPhone had a real keyboard it'd be useful as a real PDA. The keys on a Palm 7x0 are simply too small to type on the go (ie. walking through an airport) and thus nowhere near as useful as the phones with a slideout keyboard.

[plbyrd]

Not too shabby? I needs a normal PDA screen. I just got rid of my Treo 700w in favor of a Samsung device with the norm 240x320 display and a slide out keyboard. This is the form factor that people want and need. If the iPhone had a real keyboard it'd be useful as a real PDA. The keys on a Palm 7x0 are simply too small to type on the go (walking through an airport) and thus nowhere near as useful as the phones with a slide-out keyboard.

[the2ndfloodofgod]

Your kidding right? So Palm is going to release the 800, which is just barely updated. Then release the 850, with a few, pathetic updates? And this impresses you? $599 Treo's with updated features that Moto, Samsung, HTC, ect have had for the past several years? 100MB's or RAM impresses you? A 400Mhz Processor impresses you? Have you seen what other PDA vendors have on the market today? Wow, it's thin..........And outdated... And costly... And is just a very, very, VERY minor update over the Treo 650. So I guess if the iPhone doesn't change in 5 years, then comes out with a larger screen or something, you will be impressed? Palm is dead.

[stew03]

This is a big jump over the 650 which was already awesome. GPS, Wifi, streaming video... For smartphones, the only legitimate contender against a treo is a blackberry, but when you look at the blackberry, there's definitely no reason to switch. That said, I would probably say the same thing if I were a Blackberry user.

[MaxLaw]

My goodness? Palm is dead? Then how do you explain 2 MILLION Palm Centros have been sold with the Palm OS. Now that it is a few months since the last comment here, why not go on over to http://www.intomobile.com/category/manufacturers/palm/ and see what they are calling the Palm Pro. Only one thing wrong with it: It does not have a Palm OS, but rather Windows. If it had a Palm operating system, then there would be something else wrong with it: It is not sitting on my hip....I am wanting to trade up from my Palm Treo 680, which would be my second upgrade. My wife switched from a Blackberry to a Palm Treo 755p, saying it was "so intuitive" an operating system. Long live Palm!