Want a Treo 650? Better Sprint | CNET News.com: “Asked why the Treo 650 does not include support for Wi-Fi, PalmOne President Ed Colligan said the company will eventually make its add-on Wi-Fi card work with the Treo 650. However, he said the company still has to write drivers to make that possible, meaning Wi-Fi support won’t be there when the device launches. ‘We do plan on bringing that out,’ Colligan said.”
Here’s the problem with that. The Treo 650 only has 20MB (!) of usable memory internally. For most people, it wouldn’t be too big a deal to just slap a 1GB SD card (as low as $72 at NewEgg) in and run most stuff from the card with ZLauncher. But the game changes if you have to remove that card every time you want to use WiFi.
Sprint has an exclusive on the Treo 650 this year, so there is hope. If Sprint finishes upgrading their data network from 2.5G 1xRTT to 3G evDO, then you won’t need WiFi with the Treo 650. You’ll have 2.5 megabit anywhere.
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That’s exactly the point and I can’t understand why every other pda manufacturer manages to integrate wifi into their devices and palmOne doesn’t. :-/ A major bummer in my eyes, but there is still hope for a future T6 or Treo.
Regards from Germany,
Steffen
Is the Treo 650 compatible with EV-DO? I was under the assumption that EV-DO required specific device support.
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