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It is going to be interesting to see what “low end” really means. Cingular is getting 2 new phones, the Treo 750v (a top end windows mobile device) and the Treo 680, a low end (budget) phone that runs Runs Palm OS 5.49106 (Garnet) and has a now standard 64 mb of ram. This isnt to say that PalmOS has fallen to “budget smartphone” status (you’d think that I’d say something like that though) but rather the treo 680 was designed from the ground up to be a cheap and flexible platform at a much lower price to bring in more casual consumers. This “no frills” phone looks like a treo 750v, even with the SD slot on the side, but lacks an IR port. Granted nobody really uses the IR port anymore but this is a first for palm since they first introduced the IR port as a great way to wirelessly transfer data. A 1.3 MP camera rounds out the package, leaving me wondering what seperates the top end treo 700p from the bottom end treo 680. As more details emerge the details of the pdaphone food chain will become more clear, but as it stands the treo 680 kicks the crap out of the GSM treo 650 and probably sits even with the treo 700p. There were a lot of online sources of data, but only this one had any real information.

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