HTC to Make Next Treo 600?

This may come as a shock to the Palm oriented folks, but there is a report from DigiTimes in Taiwan that Smartphone and Pocket PC maker High Tech Computer (HTC) may be manufacturing updated Treo 600's later this year. DigiTimes identifies the Chinese-language Commercial Times as their source. The report indicates that shipments of the updated models would begin during the third quarter of 2004.

For those unfamiliar with HTC, they have been the manufacturer of many of the iPAQ PDAs for Compaq, and now HP. They also produce many of the Pocket PC and Smartphone OS based pdaPhones used today and sold under a variety of brands - O2 XDA and XDA II, T-Mobile Pocket PC and MDA, iMate, Siemens SX-56, QTek 1010 and 2020, etc.

In a related story in the Washinton Post on Friday, PalmOne has launched its first branded retail store in Philadelphia Airport. The goal of the stores is to help the consumer with brand awareness and get them out of the distracting environments that they typically shop in such as Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. In this setting a PalmOne employee could educate them and answer their questions without the draw of a plasma television sale looming in the next isle.

Read the full story at Digitimes.