Cingular Treo 680

Tuesday, January 2nd 2007 - 09:59 CET - Comments: 0

C ingular Wireless and Palm introduced the new Palm Treo 680 smart phone, whose brand-new look, broad range of features and economical price will appeal to both consumers and business customers. The Treo 680 quad-band world phone on the Palm OS platform - which is available beginning November 2006, for as low as $199.99 - boasts Palm's hallmark ease of use to keep any user productive, all with a slim and compact feel. Cingular business and consumer customers will be able to better balance their personal and business lives, as the all-in-one Treo 680 seamlessly combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with so much more, all at a competitive price.

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Palm Treo 680

Users can do even more with their phone, from accessing email and editing documents at the airport to organizing photos and music while waiting for a friend at the coffee shop. Market research firm In-Stat estimates that 25 percent of all wireless handsets worldwide will be PDAs and smartphones by 2011, which makes the Treo 680 the ideal phone both for feature-phone upgraders and new users.

 

Next-generation Treo phones

"The Palm Treo 680 will open up the popular Palm experience to a much wider audience of Cingular customers," said Jeff Bradley, vice president, business data services, for Cingular Wireless. "This next-generation Treo comes with all of the outstanding business features that Palm devotees have come to expect plus rich entertainment capabilities, and all at a very attractive price that will appeal both to businesses and individual users."

 

Cingular's nationwide EDGE network

The Palm Treo 680 operates on Cingular's nationwide EDGE network, the largest national high-speed wireless data network in the United States with availability in more than 13,000 cities and towns, and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. Treo 680 users also can take their device with them abroad to make calls on six continents and over 190 countries, with wireless data roaming in more than 115 countries. EDGE's widespread coverage makes the Treo 680 an ideal platform for business customers and consumers who want an easy-to-use way to check their email, send SMS, browse the Web and more.

 

Palm Treo smartphones

"Palm remains focused on introducing Treo smartphones that are user-friendly and affordable for any audience - from single users to wide-scale business deployments," said Tara Griffin, Palm vice president and general manager. "The Treo 680 from Cingular Wireless is an excellent proof point. We have a tremendous opportunity to serve customers the world over by helping them stay more connected to important people and information, whether it's through contacts and calendar, email, messaging, documents, web browsing, photos or music. This mobile phone enhances work and leisure time."

 

On-device memory

"The Palm Treo 680 smartphone is a natural and affordable choice for our business," said Robert DeLille, chief executive officer of Creative Office Environments. "With more on-device memory and the availability of intuitive applications, such as Google Maps for Mobile, on the Cingular Wireless network, our workforce can be more productive and stay in touch with customers and colleagues."