Palm Treo 700p Live Photos

Remember that VR sequence in the movie Lawnmower Man (the Pierce Brosnan one)? "Access Denied, Access Denied, Access Denied, Access Granted!"

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"You realize, Dr. Angelo, that I have surpassed your intelligence."

Great movie. I remember when I first got a broadband connection, I felt like the Lawnmower Man when he starts buzzing through and soaking up all that data at crazy speeds.

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Take a basic Treo formfactor, make the screen a tad larger and 320*480, drop the QWERTY keyboard in favor of the standard four row, twelve button keyboard and you're set.

OR...take a TX/TE formfactor, make the screen a tad SMALLER but retain 320*480, beef up the battery and do whatever it takes to shoehorn a GSM radio into it. Heck, go with MicroSD if that helps.

Or simply keep the existing TX and replace Wi-fi and Bluetooth with a cellular radio and give it a beefier non-removable battery in the process.

The T|C design could even be used for such a purpose.

I think what a lot of people are looking for is a "connectivity anywhere" cellular DATA only device that omits voice functionality entirely. The T|W was on the right track but Palm crippled it with OS 4.2, a Dragonball CPU and the lame halfarsed voice functionality.

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Windows Mobile Smartphone-based devices are probably smaller, but WM Pocket PC-based devices are certainly not. Ever seen a HTC Universal?

Hahahahahahaha... you cannot be serious? You are baseing the size of a Windows Mobile Pocket PC device on the Universal? The device that has a clamshell-landscape formfactor, a 6 (Yes, six!) row keyboard with 62 keys, a 1.3megapixel still camera, a separate video/web cam facing the user, a 640X480 VGA color screen, a full sized 3.5mm headphone jack, two ports for an external GSM and WCDMA antenna, stereo speakers (which brings the total speakers to 3 when you include the ear piece speaker, a swivel hinge allowing you to go from clamshell/laptop mode to PDA mode, etc.

That is what you base your size on? Give me a break. Ever seen an HTC Wizard? An Apache? Both will give the Treo a run for the money and both have bigger keyboards and bigger screens. Your comparison is as ridiculious as if someone said a PalmOS device is large, sluggish and heavy because the LifeDrive exists. (insert rolling eye emoticon here)

And it also has a landscape mode...drool.

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