The Palm

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

 Treo 680 is a combination hybrid PDA

Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...

/cellphone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

, or smartphone

Smartphone

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

 as the successor to the company's Treo 650

Treo 650

The Palm Treo 650 is a Palm OS based smartphone that was officially announced on October 24, 2004 as the successor to Palm's Treo 600. It began shipping in November 2004, but has since been discontinued...

.

It is the first Treo based on the Palm OS to have the external antenna removed.

Specifications

• Mobile phone, Broadcom
  Broadcom
  Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los...
  
   BCM2133 M-Stream chipset providing GSM
  Global System for Mobile Communications
  GSM , is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe technologies for second generation digital cellular networks...
  
  /GPRS
  General Packet Radio Service
  General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode...
  
  /EDGE
  Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
  Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...
  
   Class 10 model with 850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands.
• Built-In Bluetooth
  Bluetooth
  Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
  
   1.2 Compliance - Broadcom BCM2045 "Blutonium" Bluetooth Chipset
• XScale
  XScale
  The XScale, a microprocessor core, is Intel's and Marvell's implementation of the ARMv5 architecture, and consists of several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP, PXA and CE . Intel sold the PXA family to Marvell Technology Group in June 2006....
  
   PXA270 (Bulverde) 312 MHz processor
  Central processing unit
  The central processing unit is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer. The term has been in...
  
  
• 64 MB onboard NAND storage as user-available stored non-volatile memory
• 64 MB onboard NOR StrataFlash
  StrataFlash
  StrataFlash is a NOR flash memory technology first developed by Intel.It stores two or more bits of information per cell rather than just one, in an architecture called Multi-Level Cell . This is accomplished by storing intermediate voltage levels instead of using only the two levels of...
  
   (part of the PXA CPU)
• 32 MB onboard SDRAM split between system memory, dynamic memory and cache
• Removable rechargeable lithium ion battery
• Palm OS
  Palm OS
  Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...
  
   Garnet version 5.4.9
• 111.8mm H x 58.4mm W x 20.3mm D (4.4 inches H x 2.3 inches W x 0.8 inches D)
• 158 grams (5.5 oz.)
• 16-bit Color LCD 320 x 320 TFT
  TFT LCD
  Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...
  
   touch-screen display
• IrDA
  Infrared Data Association
  The Infrared Data Association defines physical specifications communications protocol standards for the short-range exchange of data over infrared light, for uses such as personal area networks ....
  
   transceiver
• Supports SD
  Secure Digital card
  Secure Digital is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association for use in portable devices. The SD technology is used by more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and more than 8,000 models, and is considered the de-facto industry standard.Secure Digital...
  
  , SD I/O, SDHC and MultiMediaCards - 4 GB to 32 GB cards supported through SDHC
• Dial-Up Networking (via USB
  Universal Serial Bus
  USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices....
  
   cable or Bluetooth)
• Battery 1200 mAh
• 0.3 megapixel (640x480) VGA digital camera with 2x digital zoom and video camera capability
• Palm Desktop
  Palm Desktop
  Palm Desktop is a personal information manager computer program for Microsoft Windows or Mac OS/Mac OS X and can be used alone or in combination with a Palm OS personal digital assistant.-Features:...
  
   version 4.1.4 for Windows and version 4.2 for Mac OS

Carriers

AT&T

AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

 and Rogers are currently the only carriers to offer the Treo 680 in North America; however for a more expensive price, you can get an unlocked GSM Treo that works with any GSM/GPRS/EDGE network worldwide.
The Treo 680 is also available from many carriers worldwide including Singtel, Vodafone in NZ & Aus, Globe, Orange France, Swisscom, Telcel MX, Cable & Wireless (Caribbean) and Claro in Brazil.

Colors

It comes in four colors: Arctic, Copper, Crimson, and Graphite. Initially, Graphite was the only colour available to wireless carriers, with the Arctic, Copper and Crimson models available unlocked exclusively through Palm.com and Palm's retail stores. This policy was reversed in the US, with Graphite the only color available unlocked and AT&T along with Rogers are selling the colored models. In other countries, unlocked color models are still available.

External links

• Treo 680 Review (PalmInfocenter)
• Hands on With the Treo 680 (Engadget)