Verizon Wireless Announces Four New Toys
Only a couple of weeks after its last announcement of new phones, verizon Wireless today announced four new PDAs and smartphones – the Samsung SCH-i760, the Verizon Wireless XV6800, the Palm Treo 755p and the SMT5800 smartphone.
The SCH-i760, XV6800 and SMT5800 all run Windows Mobile 6 Professional and include a slide-out QWERTY keypad. The Treo 755p runs the Palm OS, and eliminates the traditional Treo antenna to make for a sleeker phone.
Any customer with smartphone data plan or a voice-and-email plan of $79.99 or higher gets $100 off the price of any of these devices – and since they're designed for data, it's likely that most customer will get that discount. Which is nice.
Still, InformationWeek's Eric Zeman is unimpressed – and I agree completely. "Truth to tell, these smartphone are a bit boring," he writes. "Why? Because they're not new. They've all been around in other incarnations for the better part of a year…"
More here from ZDNet … more here from Electronista … more here from Mobile Magazine … and the press release is here.
CellularPronto said:
Oct 22, 07 at 1:33 pmHaving played with HTC Mogul, I believe the XV6800 is the best device among these 4 new toys. Bigger screen, more RAM, and better keyboard.