Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Palm Treo 650

Just before I bought my Palm TX, Palm offered a cell phone and a personal digital assistant combined into one communication device, the Palm Treo 650. Now you could have both the function of a cell phone and the personal organization of an electronic organizer in one device. This arrangement offered the convenience of using the contact phone numbers already stored in the personal digital assistant to make the calls and send emails. Now instead of having two devices, one in your shirt pocket and one on your belt, it is just one device.

The Palm Treo 650 offers a 320 X 320 touch screen display as well as a QWERTY keypad for input. The CPU is an Intel 312 MHz processor with XScale technology. The 650 has 32 MB of memory and an MMC expansion card slot for additional memory, with a .3 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, email, multimedia and all of the usual Palm OS standards – calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. It also maintained the ability to sync it’s data with the PC and software like the Palm Desktop and through third party software, Microsoft Office products.

The world of electronic organizers, personal digital assistants and communication devices has now come together to strengthen personal organization and has a new name – it is now called the smartphone. 

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