CDMA Treo 300 To Be Available Thursday (Updated)

True SMS doesn't require making a web connection, and Verizon does support this with CDMA. Though I don't know if they'll be getting the Treo 300. I'm pretty sure they will get the Kyocera 7135 Smartphone in the 4th quarter of this year, which will support SMS natively in the phone.

Are you kidding? They both have (Voicestream and AT&T) for many months. GPRS BlackBerries are available from their websites.

I've been using GPRS on my Clie via IR to my GSM cellular phone since January.

Much better solution than the Treo would've been. Their "E-Mail" capability that seems to have impressed my friends is merely SMS messaging, using an sms-email gateway.

Heck, my Nokia 5165 did that 3 years ago.

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Hmm, who's bashing randomly out of ignorance? In fact, I barely remember anyone bashing in this thread. The closest statement to a bash was probably "Handspring has really screwed GSM users"

If Handspring promised a GPRS patch in a certain period of time, and didn't deliver, it's Handspring's fault. It doesn't matter if the carrier is delaying the process. People bought Treos based on Handspring's promises.

So what if you happen to understand the process? Most Treo owners don't care about the process, nor should they care. This delay isn't some random act of God that Handspring could never have had a chance to avoid without sacrificing the life of the CEO's firstborn child.

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They rushed a product to market to get a little market share before finished products started showing up. I posted last night in an O2 XDA thread on treocentral or pdabuzz (or was it smartphonesource) that treo users are probably pissed to see Voicestream (now T-mobile) release a GPRS ready pocketpc phone edition smartphone. The XDA looks like a contender (as opposed to the Thera). If Verizon carried it, I'd be examining it more closely.

"Unfortunetely there is really no other option for a GSM Palm phone. That is until Sony puts out one. "

Sony-Ericsson is going the Symbian route. The only reason they chose PalmOS over PocketPC for their handhelds is that they are a competitor with MSFT in many arenas.

"Handspring did not "promise" an upgrade in a certain amount of time. They said that if there was sufficient demand and their carriers were willing, they would roll with the upgrade."

They did too promise an upgrade by the end of the year. So they have until 11:59PM December 31st to release it.

Re: naming issue 300/370

They're trying to complete the circle: 90, 180, 270.. the next in this progression should have been 360, however the numbers are getting too big too fast. GSM devices should have been named with a "g" suffix and CDMA devices a "c" suffix with no suffix meaning it's not wireless. This naming method would have allowed for further progress, however it would have limited them to providing similar features in a ###(g)(c) devices of the same ###.

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David

It's the same thing with AT&T.....at least in Michigan. You can buy a GSM (with GPRS)Sony-Erricson phone, log onto the internet, and pipe it to your Palm via Bluetooth. Or simply surf the web with the phone.

Or, if you want to go with their TDMA towers, which have considerably more coverage (for now), then you buy a TDMA phone.

I'd like to help you, but your post is a little confusing.

The source doesn't know anything about Sprint so they're no help there.

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You can read more about this here:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3881

The Treo 300 is supposed to use the same screen as the 270 and 90. If so, it possibly suffers from the same backlight problem. Handspring may still be in the process of fixing these models, which may account for the Treo 300 not being released soon. That's just speculation, though.

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I called my local Sprint store & spoke with the manager. He claims he has 3 Treo 300 in stock but is unable to sell them til Thursday. He stated that Thursday is Definitely the day the Treo 300 would go on sale. Is there any chance you can call a local Sprint store in your area to see if this can be validated. Also... another person at Treocentral.com who works at Best Buy stated that Best Buy would be selling the phone starting Sunday (Aug 11).

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has laid down some indicative minimum requirements for the data speeds that the IMT-2000 standards must support. These requirements are defined according to the degree of mobility involved when the 3G call is being made. As such, the data rate that will available over 3G will depend upon the environment the call is being made in:

High Mobility

144 kbps for rural outdoor mobile use. This data rate is available for environments in which the 3G user is traveling more than 120 kilometers per hour in outdoor environments. Let us hope that the 3G user is in a train and not driving along and trying to use their 3G terminal at such speeds.

Full Mobility

384 kbps for pedestrian users traveling less than 120 kilometers per hour in urban outdoor environments.

Limited Mobility

At least 2 Mbps with low mobility (less than 10 kilometers per hour) in stationary indoor and short range outdoor environments These kinds of maximum data rates that are often talked about when illustrating the potential for 3G technology will only therefore be available in stationary indoor environments.