Treo 700P soon Treo 700W later this year
Version of the Samsung i830 (with wm2005) later this year
and thats all I have seen any information on. I am a little dissapointed, I was hoping for a new 'flagship' PDA phone this year. The i830 is just a nitch phone and doesnt bring anything really new to the table.
Unfortunately, for me the Treo 700P isn't enough of an upgrade from the 650. While the EVDO/EDGE will be a big improvement, the hardware (other than the camera and differently shaped keys) and software are essentially identical. As a gadget addict, I need something really new. Thinking about the Moto Q, but that won't be coming to Sprint for about 1000 years...
1000 years is a long time to wait but what you said makes sense. I just want a new phone as I get sick of thim fast and did not like the other sprint pda's. Will the 700p have a new operating system?
I've had my Treo 650 for nearly two years, which is like an alcoholic sipping from the same bottle of wine for two days...
I bought a PPC-6700 on eBay and had it activated with Sprint. I'm "enjoying" (well, not really), tinkering and playing with it. It's reconfirmed for me how much I hate the Windows Mobile OS. Everything is seemingly buried in multiplely nested menus. I want a button that says "get new mail" or "Send new SMS", but those commands are almost always several button presses away.
Ah well, my Sprint contract is up in November. Perhaps by then Sprint will have something totally novel, or I might jump ship to Verizon and get the Q and V's expensive data plan.
Sigh...these are very tough times to be a gadget-phone addict...
you should try the Q out in person before you make any decisions. I had a chance to try one a few weeks ago and I was quite unimpressed. the OS runs slow and the physical layout is odd. It has a big awkward 'chin' under the keyboard and an off center screen.
A phone like the samsung i320 ( http://www.mobileburn.com/gallery.jsp?Id=2049 ) looks much more intersesting to me. You would have EDGE vs EVDO but on a more limited smartphone platform I dont see that as a huge drawback.
Yeah it seems like for some reason there is a serious lull in the PDA phone market in the US. They seem to be chugging along overseas. I really want a VGA phone im tempted to get the HTC universal but no hi speed data is available for that in the US.
pcsintel is reporting that in addition to the Treo 700WTreo 700P and samsung i830 sprint is considering the samsung i770 PPC phone and 'several unknown models'.
sounds nice, but there is still no word of a VGA screen equiped phone with a full keyboard and EVDO! All I want is a universal with evdo, give me that and I will be set.
They both have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, a 240x320 LCD touchscreen, and an SD expansion card slot, but the i830 adds support for both CDMA and GSM cellular networks (which means you can use it overseas) while subtracting the i730's built-in WiFi, digital camera, and EV-DO compatiblity (yeah, we know…). There's always a compromise.
I have not kept up on the i730/i830 since they launched so I dont know if verizon has updated them to WM2005 yet... but the sprint version will run WM2005.
Why? The i830 was never ment to be the do it all Flagship PDA phone... that is still going to be the ppc-6700.
The i830 is a specialized tool for people who must always be reachable at the same phone number when traveling internationally no matter the cost per minute in roaming charges. (See also: IP-A790) In this case newer wont equal better in all ways.
i830 will have a faster processor, stereo speakers and a CIR port (long range IR, great for use as a remote). But it has no wifi, an inferior keyboard and worse battery life than even the 6700.
Why? The i830 was never ment to be the do it all Flagship PDA phone... that is still going to be the ppc-6700.
The i830 is a specialized tool for people who must always be reachable at the same phone number when traveling internationally no matter the cost per minute in roaming charges. (See also: IP-A790) In this case newer wont equal better in all ways.
i830 will have a faster processor, stereo speakers and a CIR port (long range IR, great for use as a remote). But it has no wifi, an inferior keyboard and worse battery life than even the 6700.
My point is why remove features that where there already?
When one adds a GSM radio into that same space that was once filled by a CDMA and a wifi radio something must give.
I can see their reasoning, in the US they would prefer to have you paying for EVDO data than using wifi and internationally they would prefer to have you pay roaming rates using GSM than use VOIP over wifi. Removing the wifi radio is a no brainer for sprint and verizon here. While it will annoy power users here in the US, they arnt really the market for the i830. Its market is new and existing business customers who are willing to pay any price in roaming rate to be reachable at the same number worldwide.
If you really need wifi this phone has a full SD card slot and can use an external wifi card.
Im so gonna dump sprint
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