Posted on April 22, 2010.
Communication by Palm One Treo 700w Communicator Palm One has introduced the latest design of mobile phone Palm One Treo 700w. It is a loudmouth. Alarms, ringtones and general audio output through the large speaker Rear-firing will attract your attention. The loudspeaker is located at the back if you're not accidentally deafened when an alarm is triggered when you hold the phone to your head in conversation. The speakerphone is very loud and clear as well. The phone supports MIDI, MP3, WMA and WAV ringtones (just drag the folder into new rings in the Windows folder on the Treo). Like all Windows Mobile phones, the Treo can play MP3s using the included Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, even DRM protected Play For Sure content.
Windows Media Player also handles WMA, ASF and WMV for playback of movies. If you want to watch AVI, DIVX and MPEG formats or listen to OGG music, download The Core Media Player Pocket (TCPMP), an excellent free open source player which works fine on the Treo. We use to run our TCPMP video benchmark tests in reading, and threw our usual test file at it: "The Chosen" (a neat BMW movie with Clive Owen) who one minute is 4:26 long, 10 meg MPEG1 file recorded at 320 x 240, 308 kb / s. The results are not surprising for a file encoded at a relatively low rate, but he manages very well with video at 550 kbps. The 700w runs on a 312MHz Intel XScale processor with ~ 25MB of RAM available to run programs and 128 MB of flash ROM where the OS lives and where you can install programs and data.
There are 62 MB of free storage memory on the Treo 700w, which is a generous helping of space. As a Windows Mobile 5.0 it has a persistent storage which means your data will survive a complete battery drain. The Palm One Treo 700w uses Microsoft Bluetooth stack unadorned missing Wizards or any other easy way for you to walk through the connection process. Though spartan, it did its job and you can use to link with any supported device (since there is no wizard listing devices you can connect to, guessing and devices that support Bluetooth profiles is par for the course). The Treo supports headset, handsfree, serial port (used for GPS) and HID (keyboards and mice) profiles. We tested the Treo with Think Outside Bluetooth keyboard using only the built-in drivers for the OS and it worked fine.
The camera can take pictures up to 1280 x 1024 resolution and supports lower resolutions such as QVGA and 160 x 140. The application offers 7 brightness settings (normal and up to + / - 3 EV) with 2x digital zoom. You can save pictures in internal memory or SD card in one of three quality settings and set the prefix of the image you want. The Treo 700w can shoot video with audio (you can turn off audio if you wish) and you can set a 15 seconds, 30 seconds or no limit on duration. The phone saves videos in .3 g2 format in 176 x 144 or 352 x 288 resolution and also offers brightness levels of recording 7. Like still shots, video is lacking in color and is of average quality compared to other camera phones in the United States with fewer saccades than most. The sound is recorded at 8kHz and our samples reported video at 26 frames per second. You can view videos on the Treo 700w Using the Windows Media Player on your desktop using QuickTime or other applications. Please purchase online www.phoneandbeyond.com
