| Palm One has introduced latest design cell phone | | | | aren't stunning for a file encoded at a fairly low |
| Palm One Treo 700w. It is a loudmouth. Alarms, | | | | bitrate but it manages just fine with videos under |
| ringtones and general audio out through the large | | | | 550 kbps. The 700w runs on a 312 MHz Intel |
| rear-firing speaker will get your attention. The | | | | XScale processor with ~25 megs of available |
| speaker is located on the back so you're not | | | | RAM to run programs and 128 megs of flash |
| accidentally deafened when an alarm goes off | | | | ROM where the OS lives and where you can |
| while you're holding the phone to your head in | | | | install programs and data. |
| conversation. The speakerphone is very loud and | | | | There are 62 megs of storage memory free on |
| clear as well. The phone supports MIDI, MP3, | | | | the Treo 700w, which is a generous helping of |
| WMA and WAV ringtones (just drag new ones | | | | space. Since it's a Windows Mobile 5.0 device it |
| into the Rings folder inside the Windows folder on | | | | features persistent storage which means your |
| the Treo). Like all Windows Mobile phones, the | | | | data will survive a complete battery drain. The |
| Treo can play MP3s using the included Windows | | | | Palm One Treo 700w uses Microsoft's no-frills |
| Media Player 10 Mobile, even DRM protected Play | | | | Bluetooth stack which lacks Wizards or any other |
| For Sure content. | | | | user-friendly way of walking you through the |
| Windows Media Player also handles WMA, ASF | | | | connection process. Though spartan, it gets the |
| and WMV videos for movie playback. If you want | | | | job done and you can use it to pair with any |
| to watch AVI, DIVX and various other MPEG | | | | supported device (since there's no wizard listing |
| formats or listen to OGG music, download The | | | | devices you might connect to, guessing at |
| Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP), an excellent | | | | supported devices and Bluetooth profiles is par for |
| free open source player which works fine on the | | | | the course). The Treo supports headset, |
| Treo. We use TCPMP to run our video playback | | | | handsfree, serial port (used for GPS) and HID |
| benchmark test, and threw our usual test file at it: | | | | (keyboards and mice) profiles. We tested the |
| "The Chosen" (a neat BMW flick with Clive Owen) | | | | Treo with Think Outside's Wireless Bluetooth |
| which is a 4:26 minute long, 10 meg MPEG1 file | | | | Keyboard using only the built-in drivers from the |
| recorded at 320 x 240, 308 kb/s. The results | | | | OS and it worked fine. |