Treo 650 Gets Price Cuts

If Palm SOMEHOW (unlikely) manages to pull off selling an unlocked GSM Treo for $250-$300ish it'll be a huge home run.

Imagine buying a Treo 680 that beats the T|E2 in all specs other than screen size for just $100 or so more. That might be the catalyst to get some PDA diehards to upgrade.

It'd never fly with the big CDMA carriers but in the GSM world Palm could still pull off such a feat.

If Palm simply takes the 650, fixes/tweaks FrankenGarnet some more, adds some usable RAM and improves the form factor slightly and can still sell it for a low price...that in some ways makes it the best of the whole lot of Treos.

Since all Treos have the same inherent basic compromises/limitations so I'd be more likely to live with bad battery life, poor voice quality & reception etc in a $250 680 than in a $600 700P

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

Contracts are bollocks and not a fair representation of an item's actual MSRP or selling price in the marketplace.

No one is selling unlocked, contract-free smartphones (yet) for $100, even in Europe. That's why $250 would still be a good price point for Palm. If the T|E2 "unconnected" PDA is $200 then a Treo with better specs for a few bucks would make more sense for some even if the user doesn't carry a data plan with it!

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P