Treo 680

Features: Palm Inc. has launched Treo 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band phone, in India.

"The Treo 680 smartphone is reaching new customers and markets, exemplifying Palm's dedication to expanding both geographically and demographically," said Sharon Ee, head of business, South Asia, for Palm, Inc. "The Treo 680 together with a world-class Palm experience will attract a broader range of users who want an easy-to-use solution to manage and balance their work and personal lives while on the go."

The Palm OS based Treo 680 is targeting users in the smartphone and feature-phone markets. Market research firm In-Stat estimates that 25 per cent of all wireless handsets worldwide will be smartphones by 2011, Palm said in a statement.

The Treo 680 smartphone has an internal antenna, an optimal 320x320 vibrant color screen for viewing web pages, photos, media and more. Its phone user interface has the ability to respond to calls with a preset text message and add new phone numbers to existing contact information, and three-way calling. It also has integrated email and web capabilities, so users can stay in touch with colleagues and friends, Palm statement said.

The Treo 680 can also be used as an MP3 player and has an integrated digital camera with video-capture support and video player. It is provides for 64MB storage and customers can add up to 2GB of storage with expansion cards for large music or video files. It also provides for an improved web browser- Blazer 4.5 browser, which is superfast due to its caching rules and includes alternate modes for viewing web pages.

It has built-in dial-up networking capabilities which enable customers to use the new smartphone as a wireless modem via Bluetooth wireless technology to connect to a compatible Bluetooth enabled laptop.

Price: The Treo 680 is available at a retail price of Rs 25,500/- in all major retail outlets in India.